Featured Film:
Holiday Movies All Over Town
The convergence of Lunar New Year and Valentine’s Day had blessed us with an embarrassment of cinematic riches this week on Seattle Screens. On the former front, we have new releases The Wandering Earth, Pegasus and Integrity, along with the continuing run of Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year and revivals of one of Sammo Hung’s best movies (Pedicab Driver, on 35mm at the Grand Illusion) and Jackie Chan’s best (the restoration of Police Story and Police Story 2 at the Uptown). Valentine’s gives us some inspired programming: Takashi Miike’s Audition at the Northwest Film Forum, Cries and Whispers at SAM, Natural Born Killers at the Central Cinema, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas at the Cinemark theatres (albeit dubbed, apparently), Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die at the Grand Illusion, alongside more traditional fare like Before Sunrise at the Grand, and Dirty Dancing, Wings of Desire and Cold War at various other theatres. Here’s hoping the snow passes us by, or at least melts quickly, so we can actually get out to some of these great movies.
Playing This Week:
Extreme Job (Lee Byung-heon) Fri-Thurs
The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo) Fri-Thurs
Hit and Run Squad (Han Jun-hee) Fri-Thurs
2019 Oscar Animated Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
2019 Oscar Live Action Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) Fri-Weds
Natural Born Killers (Oliver Stone, 1993) Fri-Weds
Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
Shoplifters (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs
Cold War (Pawel Pawlikowski) Fri-Thurs
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year (Zhang Dapeng) Fri-Tues
Integrity (Alan Mak) Fri-Tues
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) Sun & Weds Only
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Shin’ichirô Ushijima) Sun Only English Dub
Hale County This Morning, This Evening (RaMell Ross) Tues Only Our Review
Before Sunrise (Richard Linklater, 1995) Thurs Only
Pedicab Driver (Sammo Hung, 1989) Fri, Sun & Thurs Only Our Review Our Podcast
Mirai (Mamoru Hosada) Fri-Weds Our Review Our Other Review Dubbed or Subtitled, Check Listings
Saturday Secret Matinee Sat Only 16mm
Funny Fellows: Laurel & Hardy Comedy Shorts, 1924-1930 (Various) Tues Only 16mm
Dick and Jane Drop Acid and Die (Matt Mitler, 1991) Thurs Only VHS
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Manikarnika: The Queen of Jhansi (Kangana Ranaut & Krish) Fri-Thurs
Yatra (Mahi V. Raghav) Fri-Thurs In Malayalam or Telugu, Check Listings
URI (Aditya Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Bhai – Vyakti Valli Uttarardh (Mahesh Manjrekar) Sat-Tues
Joseph (M. Padmakumar) Sat & Sun Only
Natasaarvabhowma (Pawan Wadeyar) Sat & Sun Only
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) Sun & Weds Only
I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (Shin’ichirô Ushijima) Sun Only English Dub
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year (Zhang Dapeng) Fri-Weds
The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo) Fri-Weds
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) Fri, Sun & Weds Only
2018 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Fri Only
Capturing Cascadia’s Cassettes Sun Only
To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett, 1990) Starts Weds
Audition (Takashi Miike, 1999) Starts Thurs
2019 Oscar Animated Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
2019 Oscar Live Action Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
The Wandering Earth (Frant Gwo) Fri-Thurs
Pegasus (Han Han) Fri-Thurs
Integrity (Alan Mak) Fri-Thurs
A Man There Was (Victor Sjöström, 1917) Mon Only
Ek Ladki Ko Dekha Toh Aisa Laga (Shelly Chopra Dhar) Fri-Thurs
Peppa Celebrates Chinese New Year (Zhang Dapeng) Fri-Thurs
Cries and Whispers (Ingmar Bergman, 1972) Thurs Only
2019 Oscar Documentary Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
2019 Oscar Animated Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
2019 Oscar Live Action Shorts (Various) Fri-Thurs
Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985) Fri-Sun Our Review
Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988) Fri-Sun
The Women on the 6th Floor (Philippe Le Guay) Thurs Only
Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino) Sun & Weds Only
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