Featured Film:
Asako I & II at the Northwest Film Forum
One of the year’s best films opens this week at the NWFF, with the latest from Ryûsuke Hamaguchi. After breaking out with his five+ hour 2015 film Happy Hour, it’s a bit of a surprise to see Hamaguchi working within the confines of high-concept mainstream romance, but what marks him as one of the finest directors working today is his attention to the smallest details of character and performance (check out Evan’s look at his early films over at Mubi). In his hands, a plot that might have been a run of the mill slice of life anime turns into something special, a sincere look at the confusions and exhilarations of being a young person in love, and the compromises we make to stay that way in adulthood.
Playing This Week:
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (Lee Wontae) Fri-Thurs
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984) Fri, Sat, Mon & Tues
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Fri-Mon
The Matrix Reloaded (Lilly & Lana Wachowski, 2003) Weds Only
The 2019 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program
Laiye Je Yarrian (Sukh Sanghera) Fri-Thurs
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg) Fri-Thurs
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
Red Joan (Trevor Nunn) Fri-Thurs
The Wind Rises (Hayao Miyazaki, 2013) Sat Only Subtitled
Run Lola Run (Tom Tykwer, 1999) Sat Only
Stockholm (Robert Budreau) Tues Only
Wasted! The Story of Food Waste (Anna Chai & Nari Kye) Weds Only
General Magic (Sarah Kerruish & Matt Maude) Fri-Thurs Filmmaker in attendance on Thurs
Made in Abyss: Journey’s Dawn (Masayuki Kojima) Sat & Sun Only
Virus (Aashiq Abu) Fri-Thurs
The Gangster, the Cop, the Devil (Lee Wontae) Fri-Thurs
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Hippi (Krishna) Fri-Thurs
Kolaigaran (Andrew Louis) Fri-Thurs
The Mosquito Philosophy (Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan) Sun Only
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
The Tomorrow Man (Noble Lincoln Jones) Fri-Thurs
Asako I & II (Ryûsuke Hamaguchi) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Walking on Water (Andrey Paounov) Fri-Thurs
The Tomorrow Man (Noble Lincoln Jones) Fri-Thurs
Chasing the Dragon 2: Wild Wild Bunch (Jason Kwan & Wong Jing) Fri-Thurs
My Best Summer (Zhang Disha) Fri-Thurs
De De Pyaar De (Akiv Ali) Fri-Thurs
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Loopers: The Caddie’s Long Walk (Jason Baffa) Fri-Thurs
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg) Fri-Thurs
The Tomorrow Man (Noble Lincoln Jones) Fri-Thurs
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
The 2019 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
Seattle Screen Scene 