Friday December 6 – Thursday December 12

~ Sean Gilman

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Featured Film:

Paranoid Data at the Northwest Film Forum

Despite the fact that Christmas films have already been sneaking on to Seattle Screens for the last week, it is still too early for that kind of thing. Thankfully, the Northwest Film Forum is headed in a different direction this weekend, with a bunch of sci-fi films from the 80s and 90s under the heading “Paranoid Data: Pre-Millennium Tension in Film“. Where else in town can you watch a Harun Farocki doc back-to-back with a 35m print of Johnny Mnemonic? The series also includes a 35 print of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 stealth classic Strange Days, David Cronenberg’s Scanners, and a movie I’ve loved since I was seven years old, John Badham’s WarGames. The Beacon has the best movie in town this week, with Night of the Hunter, which just might be the greatest movie ever, and shout out to the Grand, where on Saturday you can watch Marriage Story, The Irishman, Parasite, and Eyes Wide Shut all in a row.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967) Fri-Tues 
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974) Fri & Sat Only 
The Snow Queen (Päivi Hartzell, 1986) Fri, Sun & Weds Only 
Tevya (Maurice Schwartz, 1939) Sat & Mon Only 
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) Sun & Tues Only 
Comet in Moominland (Hiroshi Saitô, 1992) Sun Only 
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô, 1968) Mon Only 
Class of 1999 (Mark L. Lester, 1990) Weds Only 
Children Must Laugh (Alexander Ford, 1938) Thurs Only 
Last Action Hero (John McTiernan, 1993) Thurs Only 

Central Cinema:

Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues 
Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) Fri-Weds 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

Century Federal Way:

Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun & Tues Only Dubbed Tues
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

Grand Cinema:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) Sat Only 
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Janice Engel) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Light from Light (Paul Harrill) Fri-Thurs   
Tammy & the T-Rex (Stewart Raffill, 1994) Fri, Tues & Next Fri Only 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
Madhanam (Ajay Sai Manikandan) Fri-Sun Only  
Helen (Mathukutty Xavier) Sat & Sun Only 
Irandan Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu (Athiyan Athirai) Sat & Sun Only 
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun & Tues Only Dubbed Tues
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

Regal Meridian:

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Thurs  
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun, Tues & Weds Only Subtitled Sun

Northwest Film Forum:

Unlikely (Adam Fenderson & Jaye Fenderson) Fri Only  
And with Him Came the West (Mike Plante) Fri Only Director in Attendance
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sat Only 
WarGames (John Badham, 1983) Sat Only 
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujică, 1992) Sat Only 
Johnny Mnemonic (Robert Longo, 1995) Sat Only 35mm
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981) Sun Only 
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995) Sun Only 
Force of Nature Natalia (Gerald Fox) Sun Only 
Animation Next Weds & Thurs Only 
The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964) Thurs Only 

AMC Oak Tree:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Two Tigers (Fei Li) Fri-Thurs 
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  

AMC Seattle:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Film Center:

The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-along
No Dominion: The Ian Horvath Story (Margaret Mullin, Nel Shelby) Tues Only 

AMC Southcenter:

En Brazos De Un Asesino (Matías Moltrasio) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Thornton Place:

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Thurs  
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun, Tues & Weds Only Subtitled Sun
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

SIFF Uptown:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 

Varsity Theatre:

Knives and Skin (Jennifer Reeder) Fri & Sat Only 
The Aeronauts (Tom Harper) Fri-Thurs 
A Million Little Pieces (Sam Taylor-Johnson) Fri-Thurs 
I See You (Adam Randall) Fri-Thurs 
The Mandela Effect (David Guy Levy) Fri-Thurs 
A New Christmas (Daniel Tenenbaum) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Published by Sean Gilman