Featured Film:
The Night is Short, Walk on Girl in Wide Release (Sort Of)
The usual suspects have a pair of excellent repertory options this week. The Northwest Film Forum presenting the restoration of Dennis Hopper’s legendary film maudit The Last Movie, a movie so crazy that it inspired at least two other masterpieces, The American Dreamer, a documentary of sorts about its production, and La última película. The Grand Illusion has another restoration of a 70s classic, Agnès Varda’s One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, which I haven’t seen but it’s apparently a musical and anything Varda directs is worth seeing. But my pick as Featured Film this week is Masaaki Yuasa’s The Night is Short, Walk on Girl, which is playing one show only on Tuesday and Wednesday nights each at most every multiplex in the area. It’s a great film (I reviewed it a few weeks ago), and Yuasa’s one of the most important directors of animation of the last 15 years, so it’s inexplicable that it’s getting this limited of a release. His Lu Over the Wall got a bigger release earlier this year, and while that film was fine, Night is Short is remarkable, a film of rare vibrancy and originality and almost definitely the best Asian romantic comedy that will be playing on Seattle Screens this week.
Playing This Week:
Gold (Reema Kagti) Fri-Thurs
The Spy Gone North (Yoon Jong-bin) Fri-Thurs
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987) Fri-Tues
Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) Fri-Tues Hecklevision Monday
The Spy Gone North (Yoon Jong-bin) Fri-Thurs
Mr. & Mrs. 420 Returns (Ksshitij Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
Sound and Vision Film Festival Full Program
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan) Fri-Thurs
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) Sat Only Free Screening
The Dark Side of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939 and Pink Floyd) Sat Only
The King (Eugene Jarecki) Tues Only
The Age of Consequences (Jared P. Scott) Thurs Only Free Screening
One Sings, The Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda, 1977) Fri-Thurs
Summer of ’84 (François Simard, Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell) Fri-Sun Only
Talking Pictures: The Origins of Sound Cinema (Various) Tues Only
Smithereens (Susan Seidelman, 1982) Thurs Only Free, For Members Only
Gold (Reema Kagti) Fri-Thurs
Vishwaroopam 2 (Kamal Haasan) Fri-Thurs
Geetha Govindam (Parasuram) Fri-Thurs
Satyameva Jayate (Milap Zaveri) Fri-Thurs
Kolamavu Kokila (Nelson Dilipkumar) Fri-Thurs
The Island (Huang Bo) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Last Movie (Dennis Hopper, 1971) Fri-Thurs
Half the Picture (Amy Adrion) Fri-Sun Director in Attendance Friday
Vietnam and Modes of Resistance Sat Only
Milford Graves Full Mantis (Jake Meginsky) Weds & Thurs Only
The Island (Huang Bo) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Europe Raiders (Jingle Ma) Fri-Thurs
McQueen (Ian Bonhôte & Peter Ettedgui) Fri-Thurs
Buybust (Erik Matti) Fri-Thurs
Gold (Reema Kagti) Fri-Thurs
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan) Fri-Thurs
Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda (Stephen Nomura Schible) Fri-Sun
Puzzle (Marc Turtletaub) Fri-Thurs
The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Desiree Akhavan) Fri-Thurs
Far From the Tree (Rachel Dretzin) Fri-Thurs Q&A Fri & Sat
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 