Featured Film:
Long Day’s Journey Into Night at the SIFF Uptown
It’s another very strong week on Seattle Screens, with runs of An Elephant Sitting Still and The Fate of Lee Khan continuing at the Northwest Film Forum, Yuen Woo-ping’s solid fight film Master Z: Ip Man Legacy opening at the Meridian and a couple of suburban theatres, and Mark Cousins’s very good doc The Eyes of Orson Welles beginning its sporadic run at the NWFF. There are also a bunch of solid rep options: Clue and Clueless at the Central Cinema, The Matrix and The General at the Grand, Life of Brian at the Uptown, and a whole bunch of films from 1999 at the Cinerama. But the must-see films of the week are Claire Denis’s Robert Pattinson-starring sci-fi movie High Life, opening at the Lincoln Square and the Uptown, and Bi Gan’s Long Day’s Journey Into Night, playing exclusively at the Uptown. I’m giving the edge here to Bi Gan, because I’ve actually seen his movie and it’s terrific. The hour-long continuous 3D take will get the headlines, but it’s the movie’s mood that will stick with you: film noir mystery and Wong Kar-wai romanticism condensed into a meandering labyrinth of memory and loss.
Playing This Week:
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) Fri-Tues
Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985) Fri-Weds
Candyman (Bernard Rose, 1992) Weds Only
1999 Film Series Fri-Thurs Full Program
Amazing Grace (Sydney Pollack) Fri-Thurs
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Manje Bistre 2 (Baljit Singh Deo) Fri-Thurs
Penguin Highway (Hiroyasu Ishida) Sun Only English Dubbed
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959) Sun & Weds Only
The Aftermath (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Woman at War (Benedikt Erlingsson) Fri-Thurs
The Matrix (Lilly and Lana Wachowski, 1999) Sat Only
Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World (Catherine Bainbridge & Alfonso Maiorana) Sun Only
Sharkwater Extinction (Rob Stewart) Tues Only
The General (Buster Keaton, 1926) Weds Only
Colour Me (Sherien Barsoum) Weds Only
The Way He Looks (Daniel Ribeiro) Thurs Only
Ruben Brandt, The Collector (Milorad Krstic) Fri–Thurs
Vampire Raiders Ninja Queen (Godfrey Ho, 1988) Sat Only VHS
High Life (Claire Denis) Fri-Thurs
Amazing Grace (Sydney Pollack) Fri-Thurs
Majili (Shiva Nirvana) Fri-Thurs
Manje Bistre 2 (Baljit Singh Deo) Fri-Thurs
Chitralahari (Kishore Tirumala) Fri-Thurs
The Tashkent Files (Vivek Agnihotri) Fri-Thurs
Vellaipookal (Vivek Elangovan) Fri-Thurs
Wedding Cha Shinema (Saleel Kulkarni) Sat & Sun Only
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Fate of Lee Khan (King Hu, 1973) Fri Only Our Review
The Competition (Claire Simon) Fri-Sun
Race (RAZA): A Cuban Documentary (Eric Corvalán, 2009) Sat Only
An Elephant Sitting Still (Hu Bo) Sun & Weds Only
The Eyes of Orson Welles (Mark Cousins) Weds Only
Slumber Party Massacre II (Deborah Brock, 1987) Thurs Only
Cadence Video Poetry Festival Thurs Only
The Brink (Alison Klayman) Fri-Thurs
The Man in the White Suit (Alexander Mackendrick, 1951) Thurs Only
In Search of Greatness (Gabe Polsky) Fri-Sun
Master Z: Ip Man Legacy (Yuen Woo-ping) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Storm Boy (Shawn Seet) Fri-Thurs
Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Bi Gan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
High Life (Claire Denis) Fri-Thurs
BoneBat “Comedy of Horrors” Film Fest 2019 Sat Only
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) Thurs Only
Mary Magdalene (Garth Davis) Fri-Thurs
Ben-Hur (William Wyler, 1959) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
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