Featured Film:

Dawson City: Frozen Time at the Northwest Film Forum

Two of my favorite films from this past SIFF open this week, and while I really loved Kogonada’s ode to Ozu and modern architecture, Columbus (playing at the SIFF Uptown), our Featured Film this week has to be Bill Morrison’s sprawling documentary Dawson City: Frozen Time. Springing from the discovery of a horde of silent films buried under an old swimming pool to the concurrent histories of a Klondike Gold Rush town, the North American West and early cinema, and constructed to a large degree out of images from the discovered and decaying nitrate trove, it’s a movie about a specific time and place and about the ghostly interconnectedness that links us inescapably to our past.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
A Taxi Driver (Jang Hoon) Fri-Thurs
Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 (Soundarya Rajinikanth) Fri-Thurs
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Central Cinema:

The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985) Fri-Weds
City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, 1995) Fri-Weds

SIFF Egyptian:

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Century Federal Way:

A Taxi Driver (Jang Hoon) Fri-Thurs
Battleship Island (Ryoo Seung-wan) Fri-Thurs
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
13 Minutes (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2015) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Sat Only Our Review
This is Spinal Tap (Marty DiBergi, 1984) Mon Only Our Review
Score: A Film Music Documentary (Matt Schrader) Tues Only
National Velvet (Clarence Brown, 1945) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Pop Aye (Kirsten Tan) Fri-Thurs
Endless Poetry (Alejandro Jodorowsky) Sun-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Step (Amanda Lipitz) Fri-Thurs
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Nene Raju Nene Mantri (Teja) Fri-Thurs
Velaiilla Pattadhari 2 (Soundarya Rajinikanth) Fri-Thurs
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Shree Narayan Singh) Fri-Thurs
LIE (Hanu Raghavapudi) Fri-Thurs
Jaya Janaki Nayaka (Boyapati Srinu) Fri-Thurs In Telgu with No Subtitles
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Toilet: Ek Prem Katha (Shree Narayan Singh) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Dawson City: Frozen Time (Bill Morrison) Fri-Sun Our Review
Tango Negro (Dom Pedro, 2013) Fri Only
Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry, 1984) Sat Only
A Life in Waves/Snakes (Brett Whitcomb, 2017/Art Names 1974) Weds Only Digital/35mm
Turn It Around: The Story Of East Bay Punk (Corbett Reford) Thurs Only
Killer of Sheep (Charles Burnett, 1977) Starts Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Once Upon a Time (Zhao Xiaoding) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wolf Warrior 2 (Wu Jing) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Jab Harry Met Sejal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Finally Found Someone (Theodore Boborol) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Seattle Art Museum:

To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Thurs Only

SIFF Film Center:

I Am the Blues (Daniel Cross) Fri-Sun
Landline (Gillian Robespierre) Tues & Thurs Only Our Review
Les cowboys (Thomas Bidegain, 2015) Weds Only

Regal Thornton Place:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Uptown:

Columbus (Kogonada) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Step (Amanda Lipitz) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

13 Minutes (Oliver Hirschbiegel, 2015) Fri-Thurs
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Baby Driver (Edgar Wrighht) Our Review