Featured Film:
Make Way for Tomorrow at the Beacon
The Awful Truth is one of the great screwballs of all time, the prototypical Comedy of Remarriage and among the finest work by stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. And it’s only the second-best movie Leo McCarey made in 1937. The best is Make Way for Tomorrow, a very sad comedy, or a very funny tragedy, about an elderly couple who’s children can’t afford to support them together, and so they’re split among their children’s homes. An avowed influence on Yasujiro Ozu, it’s one of the finest movies classical Hollywood ever made at it’s playing three days this week at the Beacon, just in time for holiday season familial guilt. The Beacon’s also got Mr. Arkadin, arguably Orson Welles’s weirdest movie, and Nagisa Oshima’s sublime Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, with David Bowie as a World War II prisoner of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takashi Kitano.
Playing This Week:
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs
Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) Fri, Tues & Weds Only
The Worst Friday the 13th Movie(??? ?????, ????) Fri Only
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955) Sat & Sun Only
The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952) Sat, Sun & Weds Only
American Matchmaker (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1940) Sat & Mon Only
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983) Sat & Mon Only
Silent Night, Deadly Night (Charles E. Seiler Jr, 1984) Sat & Thurs Only
Horus, Prince of the Sun (Isao Takahata, 1968) Sun Only
Dial Code Santa Claus (René Manzor, 1989) Sun & Tues Only
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998) Mon Only
A Smokey Mountain Christmas (Henry Winkler, 1986) Thurs Only
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Weds
Love, Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003) Fri-Weds
Jingle All the Way (Brian Levant, 1996) Thurs Only Hecklevision
Holiday Film Series Sat-Tues
The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, 2003) Sat Only
The Report (Scott Z. Burns) Tues Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Weds & Thurs Only
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
The Wicked/Outback Vampires Sat Only VHS
Venky Mama (K. S. Ravindra) Fri-Thurs
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs
Mamangam (M. Padmakumar) Fri-Thurs
The Body (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Thurs
Mardaani 2 (Gopi Puthran) Fri-Thurs
Babru (Sujay Ramaiah) Sat & Sun Only
Kettyyolanu Ente Malakha (Nissam Basheer) Sat & Sun Only
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds
Frankie (Ira Sachs) Tues Only
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Sat Only
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds
The Final Level: Escaping Rancala (Canyon Prince) Fri-Thurs
Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent (Olivier Meyrou) Sat-Next Sun
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sat Only
Mother (Bong Joonho, 2009) Sun & Weds Only
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs
Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs
The Body (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Thurs
Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs
Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus ( Jim Mallon, 1993) Fri-Sun
En Brazos De Un Asesino (Matías Moltrasio) Fri-Thurs
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Sat Only
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds
Mob Town (Danny A. Abeckaser) Fri & Sat Only
Daniel Isn’t Real (Adam Egypt Mortimer) Fri-Thurs
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan) Fri-Thurs
Line of Descent (Rohit Karn Batra) Fri-Thurs
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 