Friday January 24 – Thursday January 30

Featured Film:

Chinese Portraits and Ghosts at the Beacon

This weekend is Lunar New Year, but because of the coronavirus outbreak in China, two of the week’s biggest releases were cancelled at the last minute. We hope to see detective Chinatown 3 and Dante Lam’s The Rescue sometime soon, but in the meantime, the Beacon has got us covered for our Lunar New Year needs. Saturday night, they’re playing Ching Siu-tung and Tsui Hark’s seminal 1987 fantasy wuxia A Chinese Ghost Story, with Leslie Cheung and Joey Wong. It’s a story from Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, done in the style of Evil Dead 2. And Friday through Sunday, they have the local premiere of Wang Xiaoshuai’s fascinating experimental documentary Chinese Portrait. Also at the Beacon this week, our friends at the Suspense is Killing Us podcast are presenting Brian de Palma’s Blow Out Tuesday night.

Playing This Week:

The Beacon Cinema:

Chinese Portrait (Wang Xiaoshuai) Fri-Sun Our Review 
Xtro (Harry Bromley Davenport, 1982) Fri Only 
Dog Day Afternoon (Sidney Lumet, 1975) Sat, Mon & Weds Only 
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) Sat, Mon & Tues Only 
A Chinese Ghost Story (Ching Siu-tung, 1987) Sat Only 
Patlabor 2 The Movie (Mamoru Oshii, 1993) Sun Only 
Remains of the Day (James Ivory, 1993) Sun Only 
Blow Out (Brian De Palma, 1981) Tues Only 
The Driver (Walter Hill, 1978) Weds & Thurs Only 
Song to the Siren: The Beacon Guide to 4D Thurs Only 

Central Cinema:

The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Fri-Weds 
Troll 2 (Claudio Fragasso, 1990) Fri-Weds Hecklevision

SIFF Egyptian:

Color Out of Space (Richard Stanley) Fri-Thurs 

Century Federal Way:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled 

Grand Cinema:

Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989) Sat Only 
Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Cave (Feras Fayyad) Fri-Thurs 
VHYes (Jack Henry Robbins) Fri-Thurs  
Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Ala Vaikunthapurramullo (Trivikram Srinivas) Fri-Thurs 
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs 
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs 
Disco Raja (Vi Anand) Fri-Thurs
Panga (Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari) Fri-Thurs 
Street Dancer 3 (Remo D’Souza) Fri-Thurs 
Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss) Sat Only 
Anjaam Pathira (Midhun Manuel Thomas) Sat & Sun Only 

Regal Meridian:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings

Northwest Film Forum:

Redoubt (Matthew Barney) Fri & Sat Only  
Always in Season (Jacqueline Olive) Fri-Sun Filmmaker Q&A Fri
2019 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Tour Sat, Sun & Weds  
Murder on a Sunday Morning (Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, 2001) Sun Only  
The Swan (Ása Hjörleifsdóttir, 2017) Sun Only  
Visionaries: Pioneering Experimental Shorts Weds Only 16mm
Train of Life (Radu Mihăileanu, 1998) Thurs Only  
Botero (Don Millar) Thurs-Next Sun  

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Street Dancer 3 (Remo D’Souza) 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 

AMC Seattle:

Les misérables (Ladj Ly) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Claire’s Knee (Eric Rohmer, 1970) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

Little Joe (Jessica Hausner) Fri-Sun 

AMC Southcenter:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled

Regal Thornton Place:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings

SIFF Uptown:

White Snake (Amp Wong & Zhao Ji) Sat Only Our Review

Varsity Theatre:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
Les misérables (Ladj Ly) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Rise of Skywalker (JJ Abrams) Our Review 
Little Women (Greta Gerwig) Our Review
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast
Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (Quentin Tarantino) Our Review Our Other Review