Featured Film:
Burning at the Northwest Film Forum
There are a lot of films of interest out this week, including award-hopefuls The Favorite and At Eternity’s Gate, both of which aren’t bad at all, and Peter Bogdanovich’s fine Buster Keaton doc The Great Buster, which continues into a second week at the Grand Illusion. And Roma, of course, Alfonso Cuarón’s Netflix movie has a decent shot at being the first true foreign language film to win the Best Picture Oscar, and it’s playing at the Cinerama and, of all places, the Crest. I haven’t seen Roma yet (it’s planned for later tonight), so if I had to pick one essential movie to see on Seattle Screens this week (and I do, that’s what this space is for), it’d be Lee Changdong’s Burning, playing exclusively at the Northwest Film Forum.
I’m not even sure if Burning is a very good movie. It’s made with exceptional craft though, a slow-ahem-burning psychological thriller about a disaffected young man who comes to believe that a rich guy (Steven Yeun, in a performance sure to get plenty of deserved award recognition in coming weeks) is both an arsonist and has done something to the woman the young man loves. Based on a Haruki Murakami short story, with lots of added Murakami in-jokes and shades of William Faulkner, it’s the most diabolically engrossing film of the year.
Playing This Week:
AMC Alderwood:
2.0 (S. Shankar) Fri-Thurs
The Wife (Björn Runge) Fri-Thurs
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Thurs
Kedarnath (Abhishek Kapoor) Fri-Thurs
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Fri-Thurs
Default (Choi Kook-hee) Fri-Thurs
Ark Lodge Cinemas:
Roll with Me (Lisa France) Weds Only
Central Cinema:
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Henry Sellick, 1993) Sat-Tues
Krampus (Michael Dougherty, 2015) Sat-Tues
Cinerama:
Crest Cinema Centre:
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
Mowgli (Andy Serkis) Fri-Thurs
SIFF Egyptian:
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Century Federal Way:
Banjara (Mushtaq Pasha) Fri-Thurs
2.0 (S. Shankar) Fri-Thurs
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Sun & Weds Only
Grand Cinema:
Liyana (Aaron Kopp & Amanda Kopp) Fri-Thurs
Maria by Callas (Tom Volf) Fri-Thurs
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Sat Only
The Mercy (James Marsh) Tues Only
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Weds Only
Cat Video Fest 2018 Thurs Only
Grand Illusion Cinema:
The Great Buster (Peter Bogdanovich) Fri-Thurs
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs
Mikey (Dennis Dimster, 1992) Sat Only VHS
Dial Code Santa Claus (René Manzor, 1989) Tues, Next Fri & Thurs Only
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs
Cinemark Lincoln Square:
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
2.0 (S. Shankar) Fri-Thurs
Mirai (Mamoru Hosada) Sat Only Our Review Our Other Review Dubbed
Kedarnath (Abhishek Kapoor) Fri-Thurs
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Fri-Thurs
Subramanyapuram (santhossh jagarlaupdi) Fri-Tues In Telugu with No Subtitles
Johny Johny Yes Appa (Marthandan) Sat & Sun Only
Mumbai Pune Mumbai 3 (Satish Rajwade) Sat & Sun Only
Naal (Sudhakar Reddy Yakkanti) Sat & Sun Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Sun & Weds Only
Regal Meridian:
The Wife (Björn Runge) Fri-Thurs
2.0 (S. Shankar) Fri-Thurs
Anna and the Apocalypse (John McPhail) Fri Sun & Mon Only
Northwest Film Forum:
Burning (Lee Changdong) Fri-Thurs
In the Soup (Alexandre Rockwell, 1992) Fri & Next Sat Only
The Apology (Tiffany Hsiung) Sat Only Free Event
I am Evidence (Trish Adlesic & Geeta Gandbhir) Sun Only Free Event
From the West (Juliane Henrich) Tues Only Filmmaker in Attendance
Wobble Palace (Eugene Kotlyarenko) Weds Only
AMC Oak Tree:
The Favourite (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
AMC Pacific Place:
A Cool Fish (Rao Xiaozhi) Fri-Thurs
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Fri-Thurs
The Tag-Along: Devil Fish (David Chuang) Fri-Thurs
Regal Parkway Plaza:
2.0 (S. Shankar) Fri-Thurs
Kedarnath (Abhishek Kapoor) Fri-Thurs
The Wife (Björn Runge) Fri-Thurs
Three Words to Forever (Cathy Garcia-Molina) Fri-Thurs
AMC Seattle:
The Wife (Björn Runge) Fri-Thurs
SIFF Film Center:
Goon (Michael Dowse, 2011) Fri Only
The Cutting Edge (Paul Michael Glaser, 1992) Sat Only
Youngblood (Peter Markle, 1986) Sat Only
I, Tonya (Craig Gillespie) Sun Only
Mystery, Alaska (Jay Roach, 1999) Sun Only
AMC Southcenter:
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Thurs
Return to Seattle (Brock Mullins) Fri-Thurs
Schindler’s List (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Fri-Thurs
Regal Thornton Place:
SIFF Uptown:
At Eternity’s Gate (Julian Schnabel) Fri-Thurs
Border (Ali Abbasi) Fri-Thurs
Varsity Theatre:
Bathtubs Over Broadway (Dava Whisenant) Fri-Thurs
Maria by Callas (Tom Volf) Fri-Thurs
Moomins and The Winter Wonderland (Ira Carpelan & Jakub Wronski) Tues Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Weds Only
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