Featured Film:
A Hidden Life at the Egyptian, the Grand, and the Lincoln Square
A certain blockbuster has sucked up most of the screens around town, but while you’re waiting for Christmas morning to open up to two of the finest movies of the year (Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Josh & Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems), you can catch Terrence Malick’s latest at three strategically placed locations around the Puget Sound area. An epic of sorts about a man, since sainted, who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler and the Nazi party and was executed for it, it’s one of Malick’s most fascinating films from a shockingly productive and idiosyncratic decade. No mainstream Hollywood filmmaker more challenges his audience, and Malick’s 2010s will likely be remembered more fondly by history than they have been in his own time. A Hidden Life isn’t a perfect film, though I’m admittedly more ambivalent on it than some of my colleagues, but it’s certainly among the most thought-provoking movies of the year. Catch it on a big screen while you can.
Playing This Week:
Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015) Fri, Sat & Tues Only
A Very Beacon Christmas (??? ?????, ????) Fri & Tues Only
Carol for Another Christmas (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1964) Sat Only
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Aleksander Rou, 1961) Sat & Mon Only
The Dybbuk (Michal Waszynski, 1937) Sat & Mon Only
The Beacon Holiday Party and Mystery Movie Sat Only
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon, 2003) Sun Only
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983) Sun Only Full-Length Version
Ghost Stories for Christmas (Jonathan Miller, 1968/Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1976) Sun & Tues Only
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974) Mon Only
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Mon
The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Mon Our Podcast
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Mon Only
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Tues Only
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Sat Only
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sat Only
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Sat Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Mon Only
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Tues Our Podcast
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues
Hero (P.S. Mithran) Fri-Mon
Prati Roju Pandage (Maruthi) Fri-Tues
Ruler (K. S. Ravikumar) Fri-Tues
Thambi (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Sun
Venky Mama (K. S. Ravindra) Fri-Tues
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Tues Only
Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Mon
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues
Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent (Olivier Meyrou) Fri Sun
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sun Only
Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Starts Weds
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues
Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) Starts Weds
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Fri-Tues Sing-along
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Sun
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Tues-Thurs Our Podcast
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971) Weds Only Sing-along
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
The Report (Scott Z. Burns) Fri Only
In Wide Release:
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