Featured Film:
Noir City at the SIFF Egyptian
Always a major highlight of the movie year is Eddie Muller’s Noir City Festival, the 2020 version of which plays all this week at the Egyptian. The theme this time is international noir, and Muller has brought with him a wide swath of films from around the world, none of which I’ve seen. Sunday’s all-Japanese program in particular looks amazing, with Suzuki Seijun’s Branded to Kill (starring the late Joe Shishido) along with A Colt is My Passport, Pale Flower and Rusty Knife. Elsewhere around town, the Beacon has a Seattle repertory rarity in that they’re playing Indian movies. Two of them: Mani Kaul’s 1973 Duvidha and Farah Khan’s Om Shanti Om, from 2007. Both look amazing. But if new Indian cinema is what you’re looking for, the Lincoln Square has Imtiaz Ali’s latest, Love Aaj Kal. It’s apparently neither a sequel to nor a remake of his 2009 film, also called Love Aaj Kal, but it does star the daughter of one of the stars of the first film. The 2009 version is pretty good, odds are this one will be too.
Playing This Week:
Matt Christman’s Guide to Springfield Fri Only
Burial Ground – The Nights of Terror (Andrea Bianchi, 1981) Fri Only
Duvidha (Mani Kaul, 1973) Sat & Tues Only
The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1947) Sat-Tues Only
Jupiter Ascending (Lilly & Lana Wachowski, 2015) Sat-Mon Only
Five Element Ninjas (Chang Cheh, 1982) Sat Only
Andromeda Stories (Sasaki Masamitsu, 1982) Sun Only
Song to the Siren: The Beacon Guide to 4AD Sun Only
Om Shanti Om (Farah Khan, 2007) Weds Only
Birth (Jonathan Glazer, 2004) Weds & Thurs Only
Female Prisoner Scorpion: Beast Stable (Itô Shunya, 1973) Thurs Only
Joe vs. the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1990) Fri-Tues
Sleepless in Seattle (Nora Ephron, 1993) Fri-Weds
Midsommar (Ari Aster) Weds & Thurs Only Director’s Cut
Noir City Festival Fri-Thurs Full Program
Sufna (Jagdeep Sidhu) Fri-Thurs
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Sat Only Free Screening
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) Sat Only
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) Tues Only Our Podcast
Downtown 81 (Edo Bertoglio, 2000) Weds Only
Buffaloed (Tanya Wexler) Fri-Thurs
Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Dark Romances: Bleeding Hearts Sat Only VHS
Paris Is Burning (Jennie Livingston, 1990) Mon Only
The Sensually Liberated Female (Matt Cimber, 1970) Weds Only
Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Oh My Kadavule (Ashwath Marimuthu) Fri-Thurs
World Famous Lover (Kranthi Madhav) Fri-Thurs
Jaanu (C. Prem Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Malang (Mohit Suri) Fri-Thurs
Varane Aavashyamundu (Anoop Sathyan) Sat & Sun Only
Ride Your Wave (Yuasa Masaaki) Weds Only
Eros + Massacre (Yoshida Yoshishige, 1969) Sat & Sun Only
Heroic Purgatory (Yoshida Yoshishige, 1970) Sat & Sun Only
Perfect Revolution (Matsumoto Junpei) Weds Only
Blood Quantum (Jeff Barnaby) Weds Only
The Great Communist Robbery (Alexandru Solomon, 2004) Thurs Only
The Assistant (Kitty Green) Fri-Thurs
The Invisible Life of Euridice Gusmao (Karim Aïnouz) Fri-Thurs
Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (Eric Rohmer, 1987) Thurs Only
After Midnight (Jeremy Gardner & Christian Stella) Fri-Tues
Matewan (John Sayles, 1987) Weds Only Our Podcast
Ride Your Wave (Yuasa Masaaki) Weds Only
2020 Oscar Shorts Fri-Weds Animated
Beanpole (Kantemir Balagov) Fri-Thurs
And Then We Danced (Levan Akin) Fri-Thurs
Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988) Thurs Only
Weathering with You (Shinkai Makoto) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Spy Intervention (Drew Mylrea) Fri-Thurs
Camp Cold Brook (Andy Palmer) Fri-Thurs
In Wide Release:
Seattle Screen Scene 