Featured Film:
A Brighter Summer Day at the Pickford Film Center
The SIFF Film Center’s Thursday night documentary triple feature of Los Sures, Stations fo the Elevated and Dark Days certainly looks cool, and the Canyon Cinema series being presented by the Grand Illusion and Northwest Film Forum looks to be one of the more exciting experimental film events of the year, but it’s been awhile since we looked at our neighbor to the far north, Bellingham, and their outstanding independent theatre, the Pickford Film Center. And this weekend they’re playing Edward Yang’s monumental A Brighter Summer Day, which we talked about way back on Episode Five of The Frances Farmer Show and which I reviewed at the sadly now-defunct Movie Mezzanine (you can read the review now at The Chinese Cinema. It’s a great movie, of course, and one of the neat things about it is that its running time is longer than the time it probably takes you to drive from Seattle to Bellingham and back again. The Pickford also has Nanook of the North on Sunday, and Yang’s Taipei Story next weekend.
Playing This Week:
Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
The Florida Project (Sean Baker) Fri-Weds Our Review Our Other Review
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) Fri-Thurs
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Fri-Thurs
The Violent Years (William Morgan, 1956) Thurs Only
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) Fri, Sat & Mon
The Grand Budapest Hotel (Wes Anderson, 2014) Fri-Tues Our Review
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) Sat Only
Django (Etienne Comar) Tues Only
Santa & Andres (Carlos Lechuga) Thurs Only
Vazante (Daniela Thomas) Fri-Thurs
Canyon Cinema 50: Associations (Various) Sat Only 16mm
Saturday Secret Matinee: Very Bad Deals Sat Only 16mm
Chalo (Venky Kudumula) Fri-Thurs
Humble Politician Nograj (Saad Khan) Fri-Thurs
Oru Nalla Naal Paathu Solren (Arumuga Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Touch Chesi Chudu (Vikram Sirikonda) Fri-Thurs
Bhaagamathie (G. Ashok) Fri-Thurs
Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Til the End of the World (Wu Youyin) Fri-Thurs
Mary and the Witch’s Flower (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
The Road Movie (Dmitrii Kalashnikov) Fri & Sun Only
Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2018 Fri-Sun
Infinity Baby (Bob Byington) Starts Weds Editor in Attendance
Canyon Cinema 50: Studies in Natural Magic (Various) Thurs Only 16mm
The Cage Fighter (Jeff Unay) Starts Thurs Director Q&A Thurs-Sat
Padmaavat (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Ang Dalawang Mrs. Reyes (Jun Lana) Fri-Thurs
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (Ayman Jamal & Khurram Alavi) Fri-Thurs
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991) Sat Only Our Podcast Our Review
Nanook of the North with In the Land of the War Canoes (Robert Flaherty, 1922 and Edward Curtis, 1913) Sun Only
In the Fade (Fatih Akin) Fri-Thurs
The Magician (Ingmar Bergman, 1958) Thurs Only
A Ciambra (Jonas Carpignano) Fri-Thurs
Song of the Sea (Tomm Moore) Sat Only
Los Sures, Stations of the Elevated and Dark Days (Diego Echeverria, 1984; Manfred Kirchheimer, 1981; and Marc Singer, 2000) Thurs Only Triple Feature
In Wide Release:
Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson) Our Review
Hostiles (Scott Cooper) Our Review
The Commuter (Jaume Collet-Serra) Our Review
The Post (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Last Jedi (Rian Johnson) Our Review Our Podcast
The Shape of Water (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Pitch Perfect 3 (Trish Sie) Our Review
Lady Bird (Greta Gerwig) Our Review
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (Martin McDonagh) Our Review
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