Featured Film:
The Beacon Cinema’s Grand Opening Week
I can’t recall the last time a new theatre opening in the Seattle area was as exciting as this week’s launch of the Beacon in Columbia City. Maybe when SIFF bought the Uptown? It seems like all the news over the past decade has been beloved movie houses closing. It’s a small venue (only 50 seats), but hopefully that will make it more viable in the long run. And if the programming retains the spirit of what they’ve put together for their inaugural week of shows, we have a new favorite Seattle Screen. This week all the shows are free: no tickets, first come first served, and they’ve got a wild mix of art house (Duelle, High and Low) and mainstream (Speed Racer, Magic Mike XXL), classic (City Lights, Gold Diggers of 1933, To Be or Not To Be) and cult films (Django, Buddha’s Palm, Starcrash). I’m planning on going to five of the first six shows, and I’m wondering if I can sneak out of the house to catch a couple more later in the week.
Playing This Week:
Super 30 (Vikas Bahl) Fri-Thurs
Bethany Hamilton: Unstoppable (Aaron Lieber) Fri-Thurs
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot) Fri-Thurs
Gold Diggers of 1933 (Mervyn LeRoy, 1933) Fri & Thurs Only Free Screening
Magic Mike XXL (Gregory Jacobs, 2015) Fri & Thurs Only Free Screening
City Lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931) Sat-Mon Only Free Screening
To Be or Not to Be (Ernst Lubitsch, 1942) Sat & Sun Only Free Screening
Speed Racer (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 2008) Sat & Mon Only Free Screening
Buddha’s Palm (Taylor Wong, 1982) Sat Only Free Screening
Duelle (Jacques Rivette, 1976) Sun Only Free Screening
Starcrash (Luigi Cozzi, 1978) Sun Only Free Screening
High and Low (Akira Kurosawa, 1963) Tues & Weds Only Free Screening
Django (Sergio Corbucci, 1966) Tues & Weds Only Free Screening
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Fri-Weds
Mandy (Panos Cosmatos) Fri-Weds
The Farewell (Lulu Wang) Fri-Tues, Thurs
Artifishal (Josh Murphy) Weds Only Director, etc Q&A
Ardaas Karaan (Gippy Grewal) Fri-Thurs
Echo in the Canyon (Andrew Slater) Fri-Thurs
All is True (Kenneth Branagh) Fri-Thurs
Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) Sat Only Free Screening
The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) Sat Only
To Dust (Shawn Snyder) Mon Only
Ask for Jane (Rachel Carey) Weds Only
Pulp Fiction (Qeuntin Tarantino, 1994) Fri-Thurs 35mm
In the Aisles (Thomas Stuber) Fri-Thurs
The Farewell (Lulu Wang) Fri-Thurs
Aadai (Rathna Kumar) Fri-Thurs
iSmart Shankar (Puri Jagannadh) Fri-Thurs
Kadaram Kondan (Rajesh M. Selva) Fri-Thurs
Super 30 (Vikas Bahl) Fri-Thurs
Oh Baby (B. V. Nandini Reddy) Fri-Thurs
Article 15 (Anubhav Sinha) Fri-Thurs
Maiden (Alex Holmes) Fri-Thurs
Super 30 (Vikas Bahl) Fri-Thurs
Wild Rose (Tom Harper) Fri-Thurs
Blowin’ Up (Stephanie Wang-Breal) Fri-Sun
Instant Dreams (Willem Baptist) Fri-Thurs
Parallel Love: The Story of a Band Called Luxury (Matt Hinton) Fri-Thurs
The White Storm 2 (Herman Yau) Fri-Thurs
Sea of Shadows (Richard Ladkani) Fri-Thurs
Looking Up (Deng Chao & Yu Baimei) Fri-Thurs
Super 30 (Vikas Bahl) Fri-Thurs
The Last Black Man in San Francisco (Joe Talbot) Fri-Thurs
Easy Living (Mitchell Leisen, 1937) Thurs Only
For All Mankind (Al Reinert, 1989) Fri-Sun
Glory (Edward Zwick, 1989) Sun & Weds Only
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