Featured Film:
Phantom Thread at the Egyptian
The final piece of the awards season puzzle finally opens in Seattle this week, exclusively at the Egyptian. Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is a departure from his recent sprawling epics of American history and psychosis (There Will be Blood, The Master, Inherent Vice) and a return to the oddball romance of Punch-Drunk Love, albeit in disguise as a tasteful costume drama. Literally, in this case, as Daniel Day-Lewis plays a mid-century British fashion designer with a fastidiously controlled life (monitored by his watchful sister (Lesley Manville) who falls for a young waitress (Vicky Krieps) and whisks her away to his life of luxury. Recalling both the Rebecca-style romances of the 1940s and moodier films like Peter Strickland’s The Duke of Burgundy, it also, for reasons I can’t quite articulate, reminded me of Erich von Stroheim. It’s resolutely pro-breakfast food message is I believe something we can all get behind in these troubled times.
Playing This Week:
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
Wolf Guy (Kazuhiko Yamaguchi, 1975) Thurs Only
Dr. Strangelove… (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Fri-Mon
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) Fri-Mon
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
1987: When the Day Comes (Jang Joonhwan) Fri-Thurs
Agnyaathavaasi – Prince in Exile (Trivikram Srinivas) Fri-Thurs
Along With The Gods: The Two Worlds (Kim Yong-hwa) Fri-Thurs
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Sun & Tues Only
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Sat & Weds Only
Bombshell – The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean) Tues Only Our Review
The Square (Ruben Östlund) Sat-Mon, Weds
Saturday Secret Matinee: Alien Invasion! Sat Only 16mm
Thelma (Joachim Trier) Fri-Sun, Tues & Thurs
Shortbus (John Cameron Mitchell, 2006) Thurs Only 35mm
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Agnyaathavaasi – Prince in Exile (Trivikram Srinivas) Fri-Thurs
Mukkabaaz (Anurag Kashyap) Fri-Thurs
Sketch (Vijay Chandar) Fri-Thurs
Thaanaa Serndha Koottam (Vignesh Shivan) Fri-Thurs
Rangula Ratnam (B. N. Reddy) Sat-Thurs
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Sun & Tues Only
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Aida’s Secrets (Alan Schwarz & Saul Schwarz) Fri-Sun
D.O.A.: A Rite of Passage (Lech Kowalski, 1980) Fri-Sun
The Future Perfect (Nele Wohlatz) Sat & Sun Only
Bombshell – The Hedy Lamarr Story (Alexandra Dean) Weds-Sun Our Review
Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski) Starts Weds
2017 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Thurs & Sat Only
Namiya (Han Jie) Fri-Thurs
Ex Files 3 (Tian Yusheng) Fri-Thurs
Agnyaathavaasi – Prince in Exile (Trivikram Srinivas) Fri-Thurs
Parchi (Azfar Jafri) Fri-Thurs
Call Me By Your Name (Luca Guadagnino) Fri-Thurs
Smiles of a Summer Night (Ingmar Bergman, 1955) Thurs Only
Nordic Lights Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program
Being 17 (André Téchiné) Tues Only
Condorito: La película (Eduardo Schuldt & Alex Orrelle) Fri-Thurs
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Sun & Tues Only
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Thurs Only
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Tues Only
In Wide Release:
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra) Our Review
The Post (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) Our Review Our Podcast
Downsizing (Alexander Payne) Our Review
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Pitch Perfect 3 (Trish Sie) Our Review
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Our Review
The Disaster Artist (James Franco) Our Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Our Review
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