Featured Film:
Ugetsu at the Northwest Film Forum
There are some fine new movies this week, led by João Pedro Rodrigues’s The Ornithologist at the Film Forum and the new Imtiaz Ali film, Jab Harry Met Sejal, playing at a handful of area theatres, along with some excellent repertory films: They Live at the Ark Lodge, Do the Right Thing (what a great choice for the hottest week of the year) at the Central Cinemas, the late George Romero’s Night of the Living Dead at the Grand, and Howard Hawks’s Monkey Business, the penultimate film in SAM’s Cary Grant series. But it’s been awhile since Kenji Mizoguchi’s Ugetsu played here, and the NWFF has it this weekend in a new restoration. It’s a ghost story about two doomed men and the women who ultimately pay the price for their ambition. It’s the best movie by one of the greatest filmmakers ever.
Playing This Week:
NY Dog Film Festival Sun Only
Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
They Live (John Carpenter, 1988) Thurs Only
Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989) Fri-Mon
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Fri-Mon
Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) Tues & Weds Only
Vekh Barataan Chaliyaan (Ksshitij Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
Toofan Singh (Baghal Singh) Fri-Thurs
Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) Sun & Weds Only
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968) Sat Only
Food Evolution (Scott Hamilton Kennedy) Tues Only
Deconstructing the Beatles: Revolver (Scott Freiman) Weds Only
The Untamed (Amat Escalante) Fri-Thurs
Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Mon-Thurs
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Fidaa (Sekhar Kammula) Fri-Thurs
Mubarakan (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Thurs
Vikram Vedha (Pushkar and Gayathri) Fri-Thurs
Nakshatram (Krishna Vamsi) Fri-Thurs
Darsakadu (Jakka Hariprasad) Fri-Thurs In Telgu with No Subtitles
Unforgiven (Clint Eastwood, 1992) Sun & Weds Only
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
The Ornithologist (João Pedro Rodrigues) Fri-Sun Our Review
Ugetsu (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953) Fri- Sun
The Woman Who Left (Lav Diaz) Weds & Thurs Only
Turn It Around: The Story of East Bay Punk (Corbett Reford) Weds Only
Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry, 1984) Thurs & Sat Only
Wolf Warrior 2 (Wu Jing) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri Only
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Finally Found Someone (Theodore Boborol) Fri-Thurs
Landline (Gillian Robespierre) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Some Freaks (Ian MacAllister McDonald) Fri-Thurs
Monkey Business (Howard Hawks, 1952) Thurs Only
The Skyjacker’s Tale (Jamie Kastner) Fri-Sun
Business in the Black (Anthony Brogdon) Thurs Only
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
The Lion King (Roger Allers & Rob Minkoff, 1994) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Landline (Gillian Robespierre) Starts Thurs Our Review
Lady Macbeth (William Oldroyd) Fri-Mon, Weds-Thurs
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Mon, Weds Our Review
An Inconvenient Sequel (Bonni Cohen & Jon Shenk) Fri-Thurs
Indiana Jones & the Last Crusade/Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1989/1993) Thurs Only 35mm(?) Double Feature
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
Fun Mom Dinner (Alethea Jones) Fri-Thurs
Brave New Jersey (Jody Lambert) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 