Featured Film:
The Vancouver International Film Festival
Most of us here at Seattle Screen Scene are making our way north to cover VIFF once again, but you can be sure that if we were in town, we’d be hanging out at the Grand Illusion this week. Not only do they have two of Abbas Kiarostami’s best films in Close-Up and Through the Olive Trees, they’re playing all three of Takashi Miike’s Black Society Trilogy (Shinjuku Triad Society, Rainy Dog, Ley Lines; it’s a thematic trilogy, unconnected by plot or character). But we’ll be in Vancouver, and this week we’re planning to catch: Young Ahmed (the Dardennes), Parasite (Bong Joonho), The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers), Joan of Arc (Bruno Dumont), Anne at 13,000 Ft. (Kazik Radwanski), Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda), A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick), The Shadow Play (Lou Ye), MS Slavic 7 (Sofia Bohdanowicz), Synonyms (Nadav Lapid), Bacurau (Kleber Mendonça Filho), and much more. Should be a good week.
Playing This Week:
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Cranes are Flying (Mikhail Kalatazov, 1957) Fri-Thurs
The King of Comedy (Martin Scorsese, 1982) Fri Only
John Wick Chapters 1-3 (Chad Stahelski, 2014, 2017, 2019) Sat Only
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise (Hiroyuki Yamaga, 1987) Sun Only
Monsieur Verdoux (Charles Chaplin, 1947) Sun Only Our Podcast
Flooding with Love for the Kid (Zachary Oberzan, 2010) Sun Only
House (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) Mon Only
The Peanut Butter Solution (Michael Rubbo, 1985) Tues & Weds Only
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Starts Thurs
When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner, 1989) Fri-Tues
Slither (James Gunn, 2006) Fri-Tues
70mm Film Series Fri-Weds
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool (Stanley Nelson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Doorbeen (Ishan Chopra) Fri-Thurs
Nikka Zaildar 3 (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Mon
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (Surender Reddy) Starts Tues
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (Sôichi Masui) Weds & Thurs Only
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) Fri-Thurs
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Fran Rubel Kuzui, 1992) Sat Only
The Nightingale (Jennifer Kent) Tues Only
The Infiltrators (Cristina Ibarra & Alex Rivera) Thurs Only Tacoma Film Festival Premiere
Close-Up (Abbas Kiarostami, 1990) Fri-Sun
Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami, 1994) Sat & Sun Only
Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls (Meredith Lucas, 1988) Fri Only VHS
Shinjuku Triad Society (Takashi Miike, 1995) Sat, Tues & Thurs
Rainy Dog (Takashi Miike, 1997) Sun, Mon & Weds
Ley Lines (Takashi Miike, 1999) Mon, Weds & Thurs
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Namma Veetu Pillai (Pandiraj) Fri-Thurs
Oththa Seruppu Size 7 (R. Parthiepan) Fri-Thurs
Dream Girl (Raaj Shaandilyaa) Fri-Thurs
Chhichhore (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Ne Zha (Jiaozi) Fri-Thurs
The Zoya Factor (Abhishek Sharma) Fri-Thurs
Valmiki (Harish Shankar) Fri-Thurs
Ganagandharvan (Ramesh Pisharody) Sat & Sun Only
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon
Snoopy Come Home (Bill Melendez, 1972) Sun Only
The Climbers (Daniel Lee) Starts Mon
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (Surender Reddy) Starts Tues
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?: Arrow of the Orion (Katsushi Sakurabi) Tues & Thurs Only Subtitled Thurs
War (Siddharth Anand) Starts Weds
The Matrix (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 1999) Fri-Thurs
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Fri-Thurs Subtitled
Villains (Robert Olsen, Dan Berk) Fri-Thurs
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) Fri-Thurs
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon
My People, My Country (Various) Tues & Weds Only
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (Sôichi Masui) Weds & Thurs Only
Local Sightings Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program
Becoming Nobody (Jamie Catto) Sat-Thurs
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Fri-Thurs
Ne Zha (Jiaozi) Fri-Thurs
Chhichhore (Nitesh Tiwari) Fri-Thurs
Tod@s Caen (Ariel Winograd) Fri-Thurs
Sye Raa Narasimha Reddy (Surender Reddy) Starts Tues
War (Siddharth Anand) Starts Weds
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) Fri-Thurs
Detour (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1945) Thurs Only
Videodrome (David Cronenberg, 1983) Weds Only Our Podcast
Judy (Rupert Goold) Fri-Thurs
Official Secrets (Gavin Hood) Fri-Thurs
Villains (Robert Olsen, Dan Berk) Fri-Thurs
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon
The Climbers (Daniel Lee) Mon-Weds
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Dreaming Girl (Sôichi Masui) Weds & Thurs Only
Raise Hell: The Life and Times of Molly Ivins (Janice Engel) Fri, Mon-Thurs
Monos (Alejandro Landes) Fri-Thurs
French Cinema Now Festival Fri-Thurs Full Program
Manhattan Short Film Festival Fri & Sun Only
Prey (Franck Khalfoun) Fri-Thurs
The Day Shall Come (Chris Morris) Fri-Thurs
The Secret World of Arrietty (Hiromasa Yonebayashi, 2010) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 