Friday October 27 – Thursday November 2

~ Sean Gilman

Featured Film:

Halloween Week at the Grand Illusion

No theatre in town has more fun come Halloween season than the Grand Illusion. Their second week of oddball grindhouse rarities and bona fide classics continues this week with an eclectic mix of cult favorites and obscurities, playing on everything from actual 35mm film (The Hidden and a mystery triple-feature program called “Nature Gone Amok” and Peter Jackson’s Bad Taste) to VHS (Terror on the Menu) to digital (Ganja & Hess, Effects, Otto; Or, Up With Dead People). The highlight is probably the new digital restoration of Mario Bava’s Kill Baby Kill, playing Saturday and Sunday, which if nothing else should whet your appetite for the Northwest Film Forum’s Giallo series, which also kicks off this week with Bava’s Blood and Black Lace on Wednesday). The week wraps up with another must-see, Takashi Miike’s Dead or Alive, leading-in to their opening of Miike’s latest film, Blade of the Immortal, next Friday.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Fortress (Hwang Dong-hyuk) Fri-Thurs
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1992) Fri-Tues
Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega, 1993) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Weds Our Review Our Other Review

Century Federal Way:

Bhalwan Singh (Param Shiv) Fri-Thurs
The Fortress (Hwang Dong-hyuk) Fri-Thurs
Secret Superstar (Advait Chandan) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun, Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Mon Only

Grand Cinema:

Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) Fri-Thurs
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis) Fri-Thurs
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) Sat Only
Garbage Warrior (Oliver Hodge, 2008) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Effects (Dusty Nelson, 1980) Fri Only
The Hidden (Jack Sholder, 1987) Fri Only 35mm
Kill Baby Kill (Mario Bava, 1966) Sat & Sun Only
Ganja & Hess (Bill Gunn, 1973) Sat & Mon Only
Terror on the Menu (Bud Townsend, 1972) Sat Only VHS
Nature Gone Amok 35mm Triple Feature Pizza Party Sun Only 35mm
Otto; Or, Up With Dead People (Bruce LaBruce, 2008) Mon Only
Bad Taste (Peter Jackson, 1987) Tues Only 35mm
Dead or Alive (Takashi Miike, 1999) Thurs Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
Golmaal Again!!! (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Secret Superstar (Advait Chandan) Fri-Thurs
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis) Fri-Thurs
Mersal (Atlee Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Vunnadi Okate Zindagi (Kishore Tirumala) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun, Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Mon Only
Little Shop of Horrors (Frank Oz, 1986) Sun & Tues Only

Regal Meridian:

Golmaal Again!!! (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993) Fri-Thurs
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun, Mon & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Rat Film (Theo Anthony) Fri-Sun
Suspiria (Dario Argento, 1977) Fri Only Live Soundtrack
Out of State (Ciara Lacy) Sat Only
Therapy for a Vampire (David Rühm, 2014) Sat Only
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (Carol Bash, 2015) Sun Only
Blood and Black Lace (Mario Bava, 1964) Weds Only
Vampir-Cuadecuc (Pere Portabella, 1971) Thurs Only
Mama Africa (Mika Kaurismäki, 2011) Thurs Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Golmaal Again!!! (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Wind River (Taylor Sheridan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Seven Sundays (Cathy Garcia-Molina) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Human Flow (Ai Weiwei) Fri-Thurs
The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards (Various) Fri-Thurs
Goodbye Christopher Robin (Simon Curtis) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

The Naked Alibi (Jerry Hopper, 1954) Thurs Only

SIFF Film Center:

25th Seattle Polish Film Festival Sat-Sun Full Program

Regal Thornton Place:

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Selick, 1993) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun, Mon & Weds Only

SIFF Uptown:

Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
Lucky (John Carroll Lynch) Fri-Thurs No Shows Tuesday
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The King’s Choice (Erik Poppe) Fri-Thurs
Kedi (Ceyda Torun) Sun Only National Cat Day

Varsity Theatre:

Leatherface (Alexandre Bustillo & Julien Maury) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Mon Only Subtitled

In Wide Release:

Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Published by Sean Gilman