Featured Film:
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year at the Meridian and Parkway Plaza
Tuesday marks the start of Lunar New Year, and this most holiest of seasons for Chinese film gets a robust start on Seattle Screens this week. The Pacific Place has the new Pang Ho-cheung romantic comedy, Missbehavior, which promises more of the same from the director of Love in a Puff and Women Who Know How to Flirt are the Luckiest. The Grand Illusion concludes the Hong Kong Kung Fu series they presented jointly with the NWFF with a couple of Sammo Hung movies, 1993’s Blade of Fury and 1989’s Pedicab Driver, one of his very best (it continues into next week as well). The Varsity and the Admiral have Chen Kaige’s Legend of the Demon Cat, which originally premiered in 2017 but was greeted quite positively at the Toronto Film Festival this past fall in a supposed “Director’s Cut.” I haven’t been able to find out which version is playing here. But the most exciting Lunar New Year film of the week has got to be Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year, a Chinese film in which the beloved animated pig learns all about the holiday. My kids love Peppa almost as much as my wife and I do, and we’re taking them to see it even though we’ll have to read the subtitles for them.
Playing This Week:
Legend of the Demon Cat (Chen Kaige) Tues Only
Extreme Job (Lee Byung-heon) Fri-Thurs
The Gandhi Murder (Karim Traïdia) Fri-Thurs
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (Kangana Ranaut & Krish) Fri-Thurs
URI (Aditya Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Afghan Cycles (Sarah Menzies) Tues Only
Groundhog Day (Harold Ramis, 1993) Fri, Sat, Mon, Tues
The Last Boy Scout (Tony Scott, 1991) Fri-Tues
The Fellowship of the Ring (Peter Jackson, 2001) Weds Only
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) Fri-Thurs
Kaake Da Viyah (Rai Yuvraj Bains) Fri-Thurs
Uda Aida (Ksshitij Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun, & Tues Only
Piercing (Nicolas Pesce) Sat Only
A Private War (Matthew Heineman) Tues Only
Genesis 2.0 (Christian Frei, Maxim Arbugaev) Fri-Thurs
Blade of Fury (Sammo Hung, 1993) Fri & Sun Only
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Sat-Tues & Thurs
Saturday Secret Matinee Sat Only 16mm
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989) Weds and Next Fri, Sun & Thurs Only Our Review Our Podcast
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (Kangana Ranaut & Krish) Fri-Thurs
Sarvam Thaala Mayam (Rajiv Menon) Fri-Thurs
The Gandhi Murder (Karim Traïdia) Fri-Thurs
F2-Fun and Frustration (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs
URI (Aditya Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Vandha Rajavathaan Varuven (Sundar C.) Fri-Thurs Tamil with No Subtitles
K.G.F. Chapter 1 (Prashanth Neel) Sat & Sun Only
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun & Tues Only
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year (Zhang Dapeng) Tues Only
Children’s Film Festival Fri-Sun
The Worlds of Ursula K. LeGuin (Arwen Curry) Fri Only
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) Starts Weds
Miss Behavior (Pang Ho-cheung) Fri-Thurs
The Gandhi Murder (Karim Traïdia) Fri-Thurs
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year (Zhang Dapeng) Starts Tues
The Passion of Anna (Ingmar Bergman, 1969) Thurs Only
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs
Destroyer (Karyn Kusama) Fri-Thurs
The Heiresses (Marcelo Martinessi) Fri-Thurs
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun, Tues & Weds Only
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