Featured Film:
Metropolis at the Ark Lodge
There’s a bunch of cool new stuff on Seattle Screens this week, including The Death of Stalin and Did You Winder Who Fired the Gun?, along with older movies like the launch of SAM’s new Hitchcock series focusing on his films set in Britain, and of course, at long last, the arrival of the restoration of Edward Yang’s masterpiece A Brighter Summer Day, which of course would have been our Featured Film this week if I hadn’t already expanded our reach a few months ago to highlight its screening in Bellingham. Instead, I’m going with the Ark Lodge, which has quietly been playing some interesting repertory as part of their Dark Lodge and Ark Lodge Rewind series. This week they’re playing Fritz Lang’s monumental, iconic Metropolis, a visionary sci-fi epic before such adjectives were debased by lazy critics to describe genre films that have shadows and/or lens flares. They’re playing what they’re calling “The Complete Version” which includes 25 minutes of new footage, probably those bits unearthed in Argentina several years ago. In any version, Lang’s film, about a mad scientist who builds a robot to co-opt a proletarian revolution and the bourgeois man who must stop her and save the people and the woman he loves, is a must-see.
Playing This Week:
Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927) Fri-Thurs
Iron Man (Jon Favreau, 2008) Fri-Mon
Step Brothers (Adam McKay, 2008) Fri-Tues
The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci) Fri-Weds Our Review
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Sun & Weds Only
Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool (Paul McGuigan) Fri-Thurs
A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio) Fri-Thurs
The Party (Sally Potter) Fri-Thurs
The Last Starfighter (Nick Castle, 1984) Sat Only Free
Liquid Sky (Slava Tsukerman, 1982) Sat Only
In Between (Maysaloun Hamoud) Tues Only
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) Weds Only
Never Give Up! MINORU YASUI and the Fight for Justice (Holly Yasui & Will Doolittle) Thurs Only Free
Atlantic. (Jan-Willem van Ewijk) Thurs Only
Before We Vanish (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Sat-Mon, Weds Our Review
November (Rainer Sarnet) Fri, Sun, Tues & Thurs
Pushing Dead (Tom E. Brown) Fri-Thurs Director in Attendance for the Weekend
Saturday Secret Matinee: Widescreen Thrills Sat Only 16mm
Sonu Ke Titu Ki Sweety (Luv Ranjan) Fri-Thurs
Kirrak Party (Sharan Koppisetty) Fri-Thurs
Raid (Raj Kumar Gupta) Fri-Thurs
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Sun & Weds Only
Did You Wonder Who Fired the Gun? (Travis Wilkerson) Fri-Sun Our Review
Leaning into the Wind: Andy Goldsworthy (Thomas Riedelsheimer) Fri-Thurs
A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991) Sun & Mon Only Our Review Our Podcast
12 Days (Raymond Depardon) Weds Only
Operation Red Sea (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934) Thurs Only
The Party (Sally Potter) Fri-Sun
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Sun & Weds Only
A Fantastic Woman (Sebastian Lelio) Fri-Thurs
Loveless (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Fri-Thurs
Oh, Lucy! (Atsuko Hirayanagi) Fri-Thurs
Tales from Earthsea (Gorô Miyazaki, 2006) Sun Only
The Forgiven (Roland Joffé) Fri-Thurs
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 