Featured Film:
120 Beats per Minute at the AMC Seattle and Faces Places at the SIFF Film Center
Two of the very best movies of 2017 open this week on single screens in Seattle. Robin Campillo’s 120 Beats per Minute (BPM) is the story of the Paris branch of ACT UP during the early 90s, an expert melding of suspenseful political filmmaking with personal romance and tragedy. Faces Places, by venerable New Wave icon Agnès Varda and ambiguous photographer JR is the year’s best best buddy comedy and probably the nicest movie of the year too, as the two travel around France making large pictures of the people they meet. It’s also the 2017 movie most likely to make you want to punch Jean-Luc Godard in the nose. Taken together, these two French films make a compelling argument that European Cinema is not, in fact, dead. On the other hand, Palme d’Or winner The Square opens too this week at the Uptown and the Lincoln Square.
Playing This Week:
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs Our Review
This is Spinal Tap (Marty DiBergi, 1984) Sat Only Our Review
Magnolia (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999) Fri, Sat & Mon
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Sardar Mohammad (Harry Bhatti) Fri-Thurs
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Sun & Weds Only Our Review
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
Jane (Brett Morgen) Fri-Thurs
78/52 (Alexandre O. Philippe) Sat Only
Boston (Jon Dunham) Tues Only
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) Weds Only
Demain (Cyril Dion & Melanie Laurent) Thurs Only
Blade of the Immortal (Takashi Miike) Fri-Mon, Weds-Thurs
Mansfield 66/67 (Todd Hughes & P. David Ebersole) Fri-Thurs
Alternative Views (John Behrens, 2014) Tues Only
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
The Square (Ruben Östlund) Fri-Thurs
Golmaal Again!!! (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Secret Superstar (Advait Chandan) Fri-Thurs
PSV Garuda Vega 126.18M (Praveen Sattaru) Fri-Thurs
Qarib Qarib Single (Tanuja Chandra) Fri-Thurs
C/O Surya (Suseenthiran) Fri-Thurs
Ittefaq (Abhay Chopra) Fri-Thurs
Dayavittu Gamanisi (Rohit Padaki) Sun Only
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Sun & Weds Only Our Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Wonderstruck (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
My Friend Dahmer (Marc Meyers) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Break Down: A Film about Jawbreaker (Keith Schieron & Tim Irwin) Fri Only Bassist in Attendance
Signature Move (Jennifer Reeder) Fri & Sat Only
Brimstone & Glory (Viktor Jakovleski) Sat & Thurs Only
Kékszakállú (Gastón Solnicki) Sun Only
Almost Sunrise (Michael Collins) Sun Only
Moving History – Sound & Color Sun Only
Time to Die (Arturo Ripstein, 1966) Weds & Thurs Only
Short Night of Glass Dolls (Aldo Lado, 1971) Weds Only
Qarib Qarib Single (Tanuja Chandra) Fri-Thurs
Seven Sundays (Cathy Garcia-Molina) Fri-Thurs
BPM (120 Beats per Minute) (Robin Campillo) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) Weds Only Our Podcast
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) Thurs Only
Faces Places (Agnès Varda & JR) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Sun & Weds Only Our Review
Loving Vincent (Dorota Kobiela & Hugh Welchman) Fri-Thurs
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
The Square (Ruben Östlund) Fri-Thurs
Cinema Italian Style 2017 Fri-Thurs Full Program
Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Weds Only Our Review
The Truth About Lies (Phil Allocco, 2015) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
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