Featured Film:
Perfect Blue at the Northwest Film Forum
It seems there’s a Miyazaki movie playing every other week here in Seattle (there are two next week: Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke), and it’s been the case for going on 20 years now that he and, to a lesser extent, the other Studio Ghibli filmmakers are about all we regularly get from Japanese animated film in regular theatrical release. That’s starting to change though, with great releases like Naoko Yamada’s Liz and the Blue Bird, Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name., and Mamoru Hosada’s Wolf Children in recent years. But in the late 90s and into the 2000s, the one director who could break Miyazaki’s stranglehold on the American market was Satoshi Kon. This week the Northwest Film Forum and the Grand Illusion begin a retrospective of his work with his 1997 Hitchcockian classic Perfect Blue. Next week, they’ll be playing Millennium Actress, and the Grand Illusion will have Paprika (on 35mm!). Elsewhere around town, SAM has one of Samuel Fuller’s greatest films, the nasty noir The Naked Kiss, while the Beacon has Joe vs. the Volcano, another one of those movies (like Ishtar) that for years I was convinced that only people in my immediate family loved, but it turns out that there are much more of us out there and the number is (happily) growing all the time. Oh and the Cinerama has a whole bunch of war movies for Veteran’s Day.
Playing This Week:
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs
Downtown 81 (Edo Bertoglio, 1981) Fri-Thurs
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) Fri, Sun, Mon & Weds
Kamikaze Hearts + The Prostitutes of Lyons Speak (Juliet Bashore, 1986/Carole Roussopoulos, 1975) Fri Only
Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) Sat & Thurs Only
Street Fight Radio Presents Undercover Business Tyrants Sat Only
Urusei Yatsura 2 – Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii, 1984) Sun Only
Joe vs. the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1990) Sun-Tues Only
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975) Mon Only
10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999) Fri-Weds
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) Fri-Weds
Military Film Series Fri-Mon Full Program
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun & Weds Only
Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994) Sat Only
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Janice Engel) Tues Only
Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili) Fri-Thurs
Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sounds (Midge Costin) Fri-Thurs
Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs
My Dear Liar (Ao Shen) Fri-Thurs
Thipparaa Meesam (Krishna Vijay) Fri-Thurs
Kaithi (Lokesh Kanagaraj) Fri-Thurs
Gantumoote (Roopa Rao) Sun Only
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun & Weds Only
Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977) Fri-Sun
For Sama (Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts) Sat & Sun
Sundance Indigenous Shorts Sat & Sun
Words from a Bear (Jeffrey Palmer) Sat Only
Nailed It (Adele Pham) Sat Only
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997) Sun & Weds Only
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Tues Only
Fast Color (Julia Hart) Weds, Thurs & Next Sun Only
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) Thurs Only
Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs
Unforgettable (Jun Lana & Percival Intalan) Fri-Thurs
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs
Housefull 4 (Farhad Samji) Fri-Thurs
The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) Thurs Only
Greener Grass (Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe) Fri-Sun
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun, Tues & Weds Only
Cinema Italian Style Fri-Thurs Full Program
Adopt a Highway (Logan Marshall-Green) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 