Featured Film:
Cold War at the SIFF Egyptian
It’s been four year since we launched Seattle Screen Scene, and if there’s one thing I hope we’ve established over that time, it’s that there are a great many more Asian films, specifically films from China, Korea, and India, playing around town than anyone ever seems to notice, and that quite a few of them are very good. If there’s one other thing, it would be that European cinema, at least for the last several decades, has been a vast wasteland of drab, dull, self-important, ugly, and overrated movies. European cinema has been, in my opinion of course and with notable exceptions, for lack of a better word, dead. So I was as surprised as anyone when I watched Pawel Pawlikowski’s follow-up to his Oscar-winning Ida at VIFF last fall and absolutely loved it. A vibrant, breathless, decadently romantic love story set against the sweep of mid-20th Century history, anchored by two fine performances, excellent music and lustrous black and white cinematography that ranks with the best Europe has ever produced (by which I mean Luchino Visconti’s White Nights), it was almost enough to make me rethink my sweeping condemnation of the cinema of an entire continent. Almost.
Playing This Week:
AMC Alderwood:
The Secret Mission (Eom Yu-na) Fri-Thurs
URI (Aditya Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Petta (Karthik Subbaraj G.) Fri-Thurs
Perfect Strangers (Manolo Caro) Fri-Thurs
Central Cinema:
The Warriors (Walter Hill, 1979) Fri-Weds
The Muppets Take Manhattan (Frank Oz, 1984) Fri-Tues
SIFF Egyptian:
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) Fri-Thurs
The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Thurs Only
Century Federal Way:
Kaka Ji (Mandeep Benipal) Fri-Thurs
Crest Cinema Centre:
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
Free Solo (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs
Grand Cinema:
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008) Sat Only Free Screening
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Sat Only
Border (Ali Abbasi) Tues Only
Grand Illusion Cinema:
Andrei Rublev (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1966) Fri-Mon, Weds
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1972) Sat-Sun & Thurs Only
Saturday Secret Matinee Sat Only 16mm
Cinemark Lincoln Square:
Petta (Karthik Subbaraj G.) Fri-Thurs
NTR: Kathanayakudu (Krish) Fri-Thurs
Accidental Prime Minister (Vijay Gutte) Fri-Thurs
F2-Fun and Frustration (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs
URI (Aditya Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Ente Ummante Peru (Jose Sebastian) Sat & Sun Only
Viswasam(Siva) Fri-Thurs
Regal Meridian:
Petta (Karthik Subbaraj G.) Fri-Thurs
Northwest Film Forum:
2018 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Fri-Sun
All that Passes by through a Window that Doesn’t Open (Martin Diciccio) Fri-Sun
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross) Sat & Sun Only Our Review
The Rattlesnake (Raúl Araiza, 1977) Sun Only
The Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin (Arwen Curry) Starts Tues
The One-Armed Swordsman (Chang Cheh, 1967) Weds Only Our Review
AMC Pacific Place:
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama) Fri-Thurs
Regal Parkway Plaza:
Aurora (Yam Laranas) Fri-Thurs
Simmba (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Seattle Art Museum:
Hour of the Wolf (Ingmar Bergman, 1968) Thurs Only
AMC Seattle:
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs
SIFF Film Center:
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) Fri-Sun
Elvis, Evergreens, and Umbrellas: 50 Years of Seattle on the Big Screen Sat Only
AMC Southcenter:
Perfect Strangers (Manolo Caro) Fri-Thurs
SIFF Uptown:
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs
The Bruce McMouse Show (Barry Chattington, 1977) Mon Only
Varsity Theatre:
Adult Life Skills (Rachel Tunnard, 2016) Fri-Thurs
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