Featured Film:
Ash is Purest White at the SIFF Uptown
My favorite film of 2018 opens this week at the Uptown. I’ve been writing and talking about Ash is Purest White director Jia Zhangke a lot this year, with a career overview at Mubi and a lecture about him in Vancouver along with an essay at VIFF’s blog about his use of music. And there should be even more coming in the near future. But this week is packed with other great films if, like me, you’ve seen Zhao Tao uphold the jianghu code four times already. The Uptown also has Christian Petzold’s tremendous Transit, a kind of variation on Casablanca starring Franz Rogowski, who is a kind of variation on Joaquin Phoenix. We talked about it on our VIFF podcast last fall. If opening two of the best movies of 2018 wasn’t enough, the Grand Illusion has one of the best movies ever, with The Godfather on 35mm. And just to make things super crazy, the Northwest Film Forum has both Khalik Allah’s acclaimed Black Mother and Hu Bo’s monumental An Elephant Sitting Still, and then late in the week they open the new restoration of King Hu’s classic The Fate of Lee Khan (review at Mubi). It’s a good week on Seattle Screens.
Playing This Week:
Romeo Akbar Walter (Robby Grewal) Fri-Thurs
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Fri-Weds Our Review
Super Troopers (Jay Chandrasekhar, 2001) Fri-Tues
Rabb Da Radio 2 (Sharan Art) Fri-Thurs
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Keanu (Peter Atencio, 2016) Sat Only
Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) Tues Only
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs 35mm
Starfish (A.T. White) Sat & Mon Only
Terror Nullius (Soda_Jerk) Sat Only
Saturday Secret Matinee Sat Only 16mm
The Future is Female (Various) Sun Only
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Romeo Akbar Walter (Robby Grewal) Fri-Thurs
Kesari (Anurag Singh) Fri-Thurs
Lakshmi’s NTR (Ram Gopal Varma & Agasthya Manju) Fri-Thurs
Lucifer (Prithviraj Sukumaran) Fri-Thurs
Super Deluxe (Thiagarajan Kumararaja) Fri-Thurs
Majili (Shiva Nirvana) Fri-Thurs
Mera Naam Shaji (Nadirsha) Fri-Thurs
Panchatantra (Yogaraj Bhat) Sat & Sun Only
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
The Public (Emilio Estevez) Fri-Thurs
Black Mother (Khalik Allah) Fri-Tues
Best of the 45th Northwest Filmmakers’ Festival 2019 Fri Only
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) Sat & Sun Only
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973) Weds, Thurs & Next Fri Only Our Review
Cadence Video Poetry Festival Thurs Only
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
P Storm (David Lam) Fri-Thurs
More than Blue (Gavin Lin) Fri-Thurs
Division 19 (Suzie Halewood) Fri-Thurs
Ulan (Irene Villamor) Fri-Thurs
Badla (Sujoy Ghosh) Fri-Thurs
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
The Lavender Hill Mob (Charles Crichton, 1951) Thurs Only
Loving Vincent: The Impossible Dream (Miki Wecel) Fri-Sun
The Public (Emilio Estevez) Fri-Thurs
Storm Boy (Shawn Seet) Fri-Thurs
Ash is Purest White (Jia Zhangke) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Transit (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast
Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson) Fri-Thurs
Giant Little Ones (Keith Behrman) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 