Featured Film:
Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain at the Beacon
The early evening showing of Death Race 2000 on Saturday is sold out, so unless you’ve already got a ticket, you’re not going to be able to make yourself a killer double feature of it and Tsui Hark’s fantasy wuxia masterpiece. If you are going to Death Race though, you owe it to yourself to stick around for the late show, because movies don’t get any wilder than Zu: Warriors from the Magic Mountain, which is about Yuen Biao being a human in a war between color-coded armies (he fights Sammo Hung, as usual) who gets lost in the middle of a war between the gods and somehow might end up saving everyone. It’s part of a Beacon miniseries on 80s fantasy wuxia, with Tsui and Ching Siu-tung’s A Chinese Ghost Story (another indisputable classic) to follow next week and Holy Flame of the Martial World the week after that. Elsewhere around town, Makoto Shinkai’s Weathering with You is a worthy follow-up to his excellent Your Name. and the Rohmer series continues at SAM with Claire’s Knee. Also at the Beacon: many versions of Alec Guiness get killed in Kind Hearts and Coronets.
Playing This Week:
Ashfall (Lee Hae-jun & Kim Byung-seo) Fri-Thurs
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
Kind Hearts and Coronets (Robert Hamer, 1949) Fri-Thurs
Lifeforce (Tobe Hooper, 1985) Fri Only
The Little Mermaid (Karel Kachyna, 1976) Sat-Mon & Weds Only
Death Race 2000 (Paul Bartel, 1975) Sat Only
Zu: Warriors of the Magic Mountain (Tsui Hark, 1983) Sat Only
Macross: Do You Remember Love? (Shōji Kawamori, Noboru Ishiguro, 1984) Sun Only
Property is No Longer a Theft (Elio Petri, 1973) Sun Only
Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985) Tues Only
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Fri-Weds
Freaks (Tod Browning, 1932) Fri-Weds
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley) Weds Only
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Ashfall (Lee Hae-jun & Kim Byung-seo) Fri-Thurs
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) Sun Only
March of the Penguins (Luc Jacquet, 2005) Sat Only Free Screening
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Sat Only
The Kingmaker (Lauren Greenfield) Tues Only
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley) Weds Only
Queen of Hearts (May el-Toukhy) Fri-Thurs
The Wave (Gille Klabin) Fri-Sun, Weds
Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Ala Vaikunthapurramullo (Trivikram Srinivas) Fri-Thurs
Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss) Fri-Thurs In Tamil or Telugu, Check Listings
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs
Chhapaak (Meghna Gulzar) Fri-Thurs
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs
Entha Manchivaadavuraa (Satish Vegesna) Fri-Thurs
Pattas (R.S. Durai Senthilkumar) Fri-Thurs
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) Sun & Weds Only
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Les misérables (Ladj Ly) Fri-Thurs
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley) Weds Only
2019 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Fri-Sun, Tues & Weds
Chulas Fronteras (Les Blank & Chris Strachwitz, 1976) Fri-Sun
Redoubt (Matthew Barney) Weds-Sat
Georgetown Super 8 Film Festival Encore & Kick-Off Thurs Only
The Song of Names (François Girard) Fri-Thurs
Miracle in Cell No. 7 (Lee Hwan-kyung) Fri-Thurs
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs
Pain & Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs
Les misérables (Ladj Ly) Fri-Thurs
My Night at Maud’s (Eric Rohmer, 1969) Thurs Only
The Hottest August (Brett Story) Fri-Sun
The Gleanors & I (Agnès Varda, 2000) Sat Only
Faces, Places (Agnès Varda & JR, 2017) Sun Only Our Review
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) Sun & Weds Only
Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley) Weds Only
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) Weds Only
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 