Featured Film:
Non-Fiction at the SIFF Uptown
I’m really tempted to name Jim Jarmusch’s new zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die as our Featured Film this week, even though I haven’t seen it and the reviews have been ranging from mixed to downright abysmal ever sense it opened Cannes a few weeks ago. That doesn’t bother me: some of Jarmusch’s best movies were dismissed initially (check out Roger Ebert’s 1 1/2 star review of Dead Man for example), but when there’s a new Olivier Assayas movie out as well, one that not only have I seen but one I liked quite a bit, I pretty much have to give it the nod. Evan reviewed it here last fall at VIFF. It’s a lot of fun: the best Woody Allen movie of the past 30 years. SIFF’s also playing their Best of the Festival series this week. Of that bunch, I recommend House of Hummingbird (which I wrote about here). You can check out our podcast about this year’s SIFF as well.
Playing This Week:
American Woman (Jake Scott) Fri-Thurs
5B (Paul Haggis & Dan Krauss) Fri-Thurs
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) Fri-Tues
Raising Arizona (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1987) Fri-Tues
The Matrix Revolutions (Lilly & Lana Wachowski, 2003) Weds Only
Faster than Light Film Series Full Program
Jind Jaan (Darshan Bagga) Fri-Thurs
Munda Faridkotia (Mandeep Singh Chahal) Fri-Thurs
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) Sun Only
The Souvenir (Joanna Hogg) Fri-Thurs
The Biggest Little Farm (John Chester) Fri-Thurs
Free Willy (Simon Wincer, 1993) Sat Only Free Screening
Office Space (Mike Judge, 1999) Sat Only
Walking on Water (Andrey Paounov) Tues Only
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) Weds Only Our Review
Leto (Kirill Serebrennikov) Fri-Thurs
Deep Murder (Nick Corirossi) Fri & Sat Only
Pavarotti (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
Game Over (Ashwin Saravanan) Fri-Thurs
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Field of Dreams (Phil Alden Robinson, 1989) Sun & Tues Only
American Woman (Jake Scott) Fri-Thurs
Walking on Water (Andrey Paounov) Fri Only
The Raft (Marcus Lindeen) Fri-Thurs
Police Story (Jackie Chan, 1985) Sun, Weds & Next Sun Only Our Review Our Other Review
Police Story 2 (Jackie Chan, 1988) Sun & Next Sun & Next Weds Only Our Review
The Tomorrow Man (Noble Lincoln Jones) Fri-Thurs
Pavarotti (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
Bharat (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
American Woman (Jake Scott) Fri-Thurs
Leaving Home, Coming Home: A Portrait of Robert Frank (Gerald Fox) Fri-Thurs
Seattle Screen Scene 