Featured Film:

Celine and Julie and Susan at the Beacon Cinema

The Beacon this week has Jacques Rivette’s masterpiece Celine and Julie Go Boating, about two French women who meet and become friends and with the help of a magic candy become witnesses to, and ultimately deconstructors of, a Henry James-ish melodrama. They’ve paired it with a film it inspired, Susan Seidelman’s classic Desperately Seeking Susan, along with another 80s film that has a similar screwball energy, Jonathan Demme’s Something Wild. But if a more classic screwball is your thing, check out the SIFF Film Center on Saturday, where our pal Kathy Fennessy is dissecting Howard Hawks’s His Girl Friday. Or if you want a wholly different Celine entirely, the Egyptian and the Lincoln Square have the long-awaited release of Céline Sciamma’s Portrait of a Lady on Fire.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Hitesh Kewalya) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974) Fri-Sun, Thurs 
Shock Waves (Ken Wiederhorn, 1977) Fri Only 
Journey Into a Burning Brain: A Tangerine Dream Mystery Triple Feature Sat Only 
Project A-Ko (Katsuhiko Nishijima, 1986) Sun Only 
Brokeback Mountain (Ang Lee, 2005) Sun Only 
Desperately Seeking Susan (Susan Seildelman, 1985) Mon, Tues & Thurs Only 
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986) Mon, Tues & Weds Only 
Gaza Fights for Freedom (Abby Martin) Weds Only 

Central Cinema:

Bring It On (Peyton Reed, 2000) Fri-Weds 
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) Fri-Weds 

SIFF Egyptian:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) Fri-Thurs 

Century Federal Way:

Sufna (Jagdeep Sidhu) Fri-Thurs 
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) Sun Only 

Grand Cinema:

The Assistant (Kitty Green) Fri-Thurs 
Night of the Living Dead (George Romero, 1968) Sat Only 
Daughters of the Dust (Julie Dash, 1991) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Goldie (Sam de Jong) Fri-Thurs  
Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only 
Olympic Dreams (Jeremy Teicher) Sat-Thurs 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (Céline Sciamma) Fri-Thurs 
Love Aaj Kal (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs 
Bheeshma (Venky Kudumula) Fri-Thurs 
Bhoot – Part One: The Haunted Ship (Bhanu Pratap Singh) Fri-Thurs 
Mafia – Chapter 1 (Karthick Naren) Fri-Thurs 
Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Hitesh Kewalya) Fri-Thurs 
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) Sun Only 

Northwest Film Forum:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter’s Earth (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) Sun Only  
We Believe in Dinosaurs (Monica Long Ross & Clayton Brown) Sun Only  
Heedless into Night (Nifemi Madarikan) Weds Only  
Children’s Film Festival 2020 Starts Thurs  Full Program

AMC Pacific Place:

The Assistant (Kitty Green) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Shubh Mangal Zyada Saavdhan (Hitesh Kewalya) Fri-Thurs 

Seattle Art Museum:

Boyfriends and Girlfriends (Eric Rohmer, 1987) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

The Cordillera of Dreams (Patricio Guzmán) Fri-Sun
His Girl Friday (Howard Hawks, 1940) Sat Only Dissection with Kathy Fennessy 

AMC Southcenter:

Las Pildoras de Mi Novio (Diego Kaplan) Fri-Thurs In Spanish with No Subtitles

Regal Thornton Place:

The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) Sun Only 

SIFF Uptown:

Corpus Christi (Jan Komasa) Fri-Thurs 
63 Up (Michael Apted) Fri-Thurs 
Cat Video Fest 2020 Sat & Sun Only

Varsity Theatre:

Weathering with You (Shinkai Makoto) Fri-Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed, Check Listings
Standing Up, Falling Down (Matt Ratner) Fri-Thurs 
Manou the Swift (Andrea Block & Christian Haas) Fri-Thurs 
The Color Purple (Steven Spielberg, 1985) Sun Only 

In Wide Release:

The Rise of Skywalker (JJ Abrams) Our Review 
Little Women (Greta Gerwig) Our Review
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast