Featured Film:

Our Time Will Come at the Pacific Place

The only World War II film by a major director you need to see this summer opens this week, on a single screen at the Pacific Place. Ann Hui’s film about a small network of agents working against the Japanese Occupation of Hong Kong stars Eddie Peng, Zhou Xun, Wallace Huo, Jessie Li, Deanie Ip and The Other Tony Leung. With crisp, tense suspense and action sequences and a subtly expansive view of the demographics of heroism, it’s as accomplished and assured a work of popular filmmaking as we’ve seen in Seattle this year. Don’t miss it.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988) Fri-Tues
Mission: Impossible (Brian De Palma, 1996) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 1980) Sun & Weds Only
Planet of the Apes Triple Feature (Various) Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
Xanadu (Robert Greenwald, 1980) Sat Only
TWIST Tops presents Best Short Films Tues Only
Check It (Dana Flor and Toby Oppenheimer) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Night School (Andrew Cohn) Fri-Thurs
Lake Street Detective (Erik Hammen) Thurs Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs
Mom (Ravi Udyawar) Fri-Thurs
Ninnu Kori (Shiva Nirvana) Fri-Thurs
9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 1980) Sun & Weds Only
Planet of the Apes Triple Feature (Various) Weds Only
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

The Big Sick (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Sacred (Thomas Lennon) Sun-Thurs
Stone Cold (Craig R. Baxley, 1991) Weds Only Live Commentary

AMC Oak Tree:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Our Time Will Come (Ann Hui) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
The Journey (Nick Hamm) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Mr. Lucky (HC Potter, 1943) Thurs Only

SIFF Film Center:

Czech That Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program
Ridicule (Patrice Leconte, 1996) Weds Only

SIFF Uptown:

The Little Hours (Jeff Baena) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Maudie (Aisling Walsh) Fri-Thurs
The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Weds
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Weds
The Big Lebowski/Fast Times at Ridgemont High (The Coen Brothers, 1998/Amy Heckerling, 1982) Thurs Only 35mm Double Feature
Bottom Dollars (Jordan Melograna) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Beguiled (Sophia Coppola) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review

Featured Film:

Hong Kong Cinema at the SIFF Uptown

SIFF’s got some cool stuff this week, with 35mm prints of Reservoir Dogs and Jaws (and Jaws 3D too, I guess) and DA Pennebaker’s Monterey Pop, but it would be off-brand for me to select anything but their Hong Kong miniseries as our Featured Film for this week. SIFF’s selected three newish films and two oldish classics to mark the 20th anniversary of the Handover: Infernal Affairs and Shaolin Soccer were two of the biggest hits of the immediate post-Handover period, a time of steep decline in Hong Kong cinema, and they’re playing them on 35mm (I can’t confirm which cut of Shaolin Soccer they’re playing, but they’re advertising it as in Cantonese so hopefully it isn’t the terrible Miramax cut). Less essential are the new films in the series. We have reviews up for all three of them: Cook Up a Storm, Weeds on Fire and Mad World.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Men in Black (Barry Sonnenfeld, 1997) Fri-Sun, Weds
An American Tail (Don Bluth, 1986) Fri-Sun, Weds

Century Federal Way:

Great Sardaar (Ranjeet Bal) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith) Sat Only
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Greg Palast & David Ambrose) Weds Only Free Screening

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Happy New Year (Pannaga Bharana) Fri-Thurs
Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
DJ Duvvada Jagannadham (Harish Shankar) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (Frank Capra, 1939) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs

AMC Oak Tree:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Reset (Chang) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
Can We Still Be Friends? (Prime Cruz) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Moka (Frédéric Mermoud) Fri-Sun

SIFF Uptown:

I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Band Aid (Zoe Lister-Jones) Fri-Thurs
The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
Monterey Pop (DA Pennebaker, 1968) Fri, Sun-Thurs Our Review
Reservoir Dogs (Quentin Tarantino, 1992) Fri-Thurs 35mm
Weeds on Fire (Stevefat) Fri Only Our Review
Cook Up a Storm (Raymond Yip) Sat Only Our Review
Shaolin Soccer (Stephen Chow, 2001) Sat Only 35mm
Infernal Affairs (Andrew Lau & Alan Mak, 2002) Sat Only 35mm
Jaws/Jaws 3D (Steven Spielberg, 1975/Joe Alves, 1983) Thurs Only 35mm

Varsity Theatre:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Beguiled (Sophia Coppola) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review

Featured Film:

After the Storm at the SIFF Uptown

Japanese director Kore-eda Hirokazu’s latest, hot off a run at SIFF, opens this week at the Uptown. It’s another of Kore-eda’s quiet examinations of family life, with a run-down father attempting to win back his ex-wife, connect with his son, cope with his mom and sister’s disapproval and avoid writing his second novel while working as a private detective to fuel his gambling addiction. Hiroshi Abe is excellent as the dad, as is Koreeda regular Kirin Kiki as the mother. We reviewed it at VIFF last fall.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Fri-Weds
Drop Dead Fred (Ate de Jong, 1991) Fri-Weds

SIFF Egyptian:

The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

DJ Duvvada Jagannadham (Harish Shankar) Fri-Thurs
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) Sun & Mon Only Dubbed Sun, Subtitled Mon
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Exception (David Leveaux) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Zardoz (John Boorman, 1974) Sat Only
Truman (Cesc Gay) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Bad Batch (Ana Lily Amirpour) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
DJ Duvvada Jagannadham (Harish Shankar) Fri-Thurs
My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) Sun & Mon Only Dubbed Sun, Subtitled Mon
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Robert Aldrich, 1962) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

I’m Not Fascinating: The Movie! (Danny Plotnick, 1996) Fri Only Drummer in Attendance
Icaros: A Vision (Leonor Caraballo & Matteo Norzi) Fri-Sun Only
On the Banks of the Tigris: The Hidden Story of Iraqi Music (Marsha Emerman, 2015) Sat & Sun Only
YIPS Fest 2017 Sun Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Tubelight (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
Can We Still Be Friends? (Prime Cruz) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Dean (Demetri Martin) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Manifesto (Julian Rosefeldt, 2015) Fri-Sun Our Review

Regal Thornton Place:

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) Sun & Mon Only Dubbed Sun, Subtitled Mon

SIFF Uptown:

After the Storm (Koreeda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein) Fri-Thurs
Dean (Demetri Martin) Fri-Thurs
The Hero (Brett Haley) Fri-Thurs
Mad World (Wong Chun) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Letters from Baghdad (Sabine Krayenbühl & Zeva Oelbaum) Fri-Sun
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Ripped (Brad Epstein) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review

Featured Film:

Funeral Parade of Roses at the Northwest Film Forum

In addition to a program of eight of his short films (playing Sunday only) the Northwest Film Forum this weekend presents the restoration of the late Toshio Matsumoto’s 1969 Japanese New Wave classic Funeral Parade of Roses, which I haven’t seen, but which they describe as a “shattering, kaleidoscopic masterpiece . . . one of the most subversive and intoxicating films of the late 1960s: a headlong dive into a dazzling, unseen Tokyo night-world of drag queen bars and fabulous divas, fueled by booze, drugs, fuzz guitars, performance art and black mascara.” Sold.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Dean (Demetri Martin) Fri-Thurs
Warriors of the Dawn (Jeong Yoon-cheol) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The House on Coco Road (Damani Baker) Thurs Only

Central Cinema:

But I’m a Cheerleader (Jamie Babbit, 2000) Fri-Mon
Ma vie en rose (Alain Berliner, 1997) Fri-Mon

SIFF Egyptian:

Collide-O-Scope Best of the Worst World Tour Kick-Off Party Weds Only

Century Federal Way:

Warriors of the Dawn (Jeong Yoon-cheol) Fri-Thurs
Resident Evil: Vendetta (Takanori Tsujimoto) Thurs Only
El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1967) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

I, Daniel Blake (Ken Loach) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Water Horse (Jay Russell, 2007) Fri-Thurs
Logan’s Run (Michael Anderson, 1976) Sat Only Our Podcast
Semi-Iconic: The Ballad of Dick Rossetti (Isaac Olsen) Sun & Tues Only
Nise: The Heart of Madness (Roberto Berliner) Tues Only
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (William Dieterle, 1939) Weds Only
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Greg Palast & David Ambrose) Thurs Only Free Screening

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Stefan Zweig: Farewell to Europe (Maria Schrader) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs
Resident Evil: Vendetta (Takanori Tsujimoto) Thurs Only
El Dorado (Howard Hawks, 1967) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Didi’s Dreams (Kevin Tsai) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Funeral Parade of Roses (Toshio Matsumoto, 1969) Fri-Sun Only
The Short Films of Toshio Matsumoto Sun Only
Last Men in Aleppo (Feras Fayyad) Weds & Thurs Only
Awake, A Dream from Standing Rock (Josh Fox, James Spione & Myron Dewey) Sun Only
Moving History Strikes Back: Battling the Magnetic Media Crisis Thurs Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Beatriz at Dinner (Miguel Arteta) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Hindi Medium (Saket Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Dean (Demetri Martin) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Deconstructung the Beatles: Rubber Soul (Scott Freiman) Fri-Sun

SIFF Uptown:

Dean (Demetri Martin) Fri-Thurs
The Wedding Plan (Rama Burshtein) Fri-Thurs
Best of SIFF 2017 (Various) Fri-Thurs
Roosevelt Film Club’s Summer Screening Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

Letters from Baghdad (Sabine Krayenbühl & Zeva Oelbaum) Fri-Sun

In Wide Release:

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review

Featured Film:

The Seattle International Film Festival, Part Three

The never-ending film festival continues to not end as SIFF moves into its third week.  Last week, we had reviews of Person to Person, God of War, Vampire Cleanup Department, and Beach Rats. We also talked about the first half of the festival on Episode 12 of The Frances Farmer Show. Films we’re looking forward to in the week ahead include: Soul on a String, Gook, I Daniel Blake, The Reagan Show, Mr. Long, The Dumb Girl of Portici, Landline, My Journey Through French Cinema, Brainstorm, Ma’ Rosa, Wind River, Love and Duty, Columbus, The Door and Nocturama.

Playing This Week:

Admiral Theatre:

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Weds Only

AMC Alderwood:

3 Idiotas (Carlos Bolado) Fri-Thurs
Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) Fri-Tues
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) Fri-Weds Our Podcast

SIFF Egyptian:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Century Federal Way:

The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Obit (Vanessa Gould) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Neither Wolf nor Dog (Steven Lewis Simpson) Fri-Thurs
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky) Fri-Thurs
Fury Road: Black and Chrome Edition (George Miller, 2015) Sat Only
Alive and Kicking (Susan Glatzer) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs
The War Show (Andreas Dalsgaard & Obaidah Zytoon) Fri-Thurs
Resist, Rebel, Survive (Various) Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings Our Review
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Sachin: A Billion Dreams (James Erskine) Fri-Thurs
Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (Kalyan Krishna) Fri-Thurs
Dobaara: See Your Evil (Prawaal Raman) Fri-Thurs
Fashion Designer (Vamsy) Fri-Thurs Telugu with No Subtitles
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

God of War (Gordon Chan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Didi’s Dreams (Kevin Tsai) Fri-Thurs
Sachin: A Billion Dreams (James Erskine) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Fri-Sun
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971) Sat Only Our Podcast 
The Last Shaman (Raz Degan) Weds Only
Golden Silence: The Score Feels Thurs Only Live Score

AMC Oak Tree:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Beautiful Accident (Wi Ding Ho) Fri-Thurs
Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Churchill (Jonathan Teplitzky) Fri-Thurs
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Hindi Medium (Saket Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
3 Idiotas (Carlos Bolado) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Paris Can Wait (Eleanor Coppola) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Angkor Awakens (Robert H. Lieberman) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

SIFF Uptown:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Varsity Theatre:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray) Our Review

Featured Film:

The Seattle International Film Festival, Part Two

SIFF continues rolling along this week. Last week we had reviews of Bad Black, Finding Kukan, Chronicles of Hari, Sami Blood, Knife in the Clear Water, and Cook Up a Storm, and capsules on Dawson City: Frozen Time, My Journey through French Cinema, The Unknown Girl, By the Time it Gets Dark, and Manifesto. Films we’re looking forward to in the next week include: God of War, Girl Without Hands, The Little Hours, Godspeed, Pendular, Person to Person, Napping Princess, and two films I saw and liked at Vancouver last fall: Ken Loach’s I, Daniel Blake, and João Pedro Rodrigues’s The Ornithologist, 

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) Fri-Sun, Tues
The Lost Boys (Joel Schumacher, 1987) Fri-Sun, Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Century Federal Way:

Saab Bahadar (Amrit Raj Chadha) Fri-Thurs
Lahoriye (Amberdeep Singh) Fri-Thurs
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Citizen Jane (Matt Tyrnauer) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Neither Wolf nor Dog (Steven Lewis Simpson) Fri-Thurs
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Sat Only
Le Chef (Daniel Cohen, 2012) Mon Only
The Salesman (Asghar Farhadi) Tues Only
Deconstructing the Beatles: Rubber Soul (Scott Freiman) Weds Only
Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing (David Bickerstaff) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Commune (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs
Harold & Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (Daniel Raim) Sat & Sun Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings Our Review
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Sachin: A Billion Dreams (James Erskine) Fri-Thurs
Rarandoi Veduka Chudham (Kalyan Krishna) Fri-Thurs
Keshava (Sudheer Varma) Fri-Thurs
Hindi Medium (Saket Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Regal Meridian:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review
Sachin: A Billion Dreams (James Erskine) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Obit. (Vanessa Gould) Fri-Sun
Thollem’s Hot Pursuit of Happiness Fri Only Live Music & Video
Sarah Jacobson: Queen of the Underground (Sarah Jacobson, 1992-97) Sat Only
Solaris (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1971) Sun Only Our Podcast 
Disasters of Peace vol. 3 Sun Only Filmmakers in Attendance
The Earth is a Hollow Shell: Films + Videos by Georg Koszulinski Weds Only Filmmaker in Attendance
Stalker (Andrei Tarkovsky, 1979) Thurs-Sun

AMC Oak Tree:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

29+1 (Kearen Pang) Fri-Thurs
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Battle of Memories (Leste Chen) Fri-Thurs
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Hindi Medium (Saket Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Buena Vista Social Club: Adios (Lucy Walker) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Angkor Awakens (Robert H. Lieberman) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

SIFF Uptown:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Varsity Theatre:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast

In Wide Release:

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) Our Review
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray) Our Review

Featured Film:

The Seattle International Film Festival, Part One

SIFF begins its three and a half week odyssey this week and we’ll have full coverage of the festival. Ryan’s got a preview of the festival as a whole up, and I’ve got one for just this first week. We’ll have more reviews to come throughout the week, but as of  now we have ones up for After the Storm, The Unknown Girl (both of which we saw at the Vancouver Film Festival last fall), Yourself and Yours (two of them), and Cook Up a Storm. If you’re only going to see one SIFF movie this week, make it Yourself and Yours.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Dubbed and Subtitled, Check Listings

Central Cinema:

The Life Aquatic (Wes Anderson, 2004) Fri-Tues
Total Recall (Paul Verhoeven, 1990) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Century Federal Way:

Lahoriye (Amberdeep Singh) Fri-Thurs
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Neither Wolf nor Dog (Steven Lewis Simpson) Fri-Thurs
Cezanne and I (Daniele Thompson) Fri-Thurs
The Black Stallion (Carroll Ballard, 1979) Sat Only Our Podcast Free Screening
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) Sat Only
Beyond the Years (Im Kwontaek, 2007) Mon Only
SOTA Screening 2017 (Various) Mon Only
Mission Control (David Fairhead) Tues Only
Deconstructing the Beatles: Rubber Soul (Scott Freiman) Weds Only
Vincent van Gogh: A New Way of Seeing (David Bickerstaff) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Harold & Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (Daniel Raim) Fri-Thurs
Red May: Red Planets: The Left Turn in Science Fiction Sun Only Panel Discussion
5-25-77 (Patrick Read Johnson) Thurs Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Long Strange Trip (Amir Bar-Lev) Thurs Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings Our Review
The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Half Girlfriend (Mohit Suri) Fri-Thurs
Keshava (Sudheer Varma) Fri-Thurs
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Burden (Tim Marrinan & Richard Dewey) Fri-Sun
Idaho Transfer (Peter Fonda, 1973) Weds Only
A Stray (Musa Syeed) Thurs Only Free Event
Sarah Jacobson: Queen of the Underground (Sarah Jacobson, 1992-97) Thurs Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

The Lovers (Azazel Jacobs) Fri-Thurs
What a Wonderful Family (Huang Lei) Fri-Thurs
Battle of Memories (Leste Chen) Fri-Thurs
The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast

SIFF Film Center:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

AMC Southcenter:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977) Sun & Weds Only

SIFF Uptown:

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival Full Program Our Coverage

Varsity Theatre:

Fight for Space (Paul J. Hildebrandt) Fri-Thurs
Tracktown (Alexi Pappas & Jeremy Teicher) Fri-Thurs
Smokey and the Bandit (Hal Needham, 1977) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Alien Covenant (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) Our Review
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray) Our Review

Featured Film:

An Autumn Afternoon at the Seattle Art Museum

With the Seattle International Film Festival only one week away, two big spring retrospectives come to an end this week with two of the best movies of the past 60 years or so, both playing on 35mm film. SIFF wraps up its David Lynch series with his masterpiece, the 2001 dream/nightmare Mulholland Dr. It plays Friday through Sunday only at the Film Center. But while Lynch is frequently revived on Seattle Screens (though not, as SIFF has mostly done, on 35mm), the conclusion of SAM’s Yasujiro Ozu series is the must-see film of the week. Ozu is no stranger here either, of course, but this week they’ve got his final film, and what I think is his very best, 1962’s An Autumn Afternoon, which is more rarely revived. It captures more of the things that made Ozu great, the funny, the bittersweet, the devastating, than any other film, along with his sublimely idiosyncratic approach to framing and cutting and his most expressive use of color.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review
Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Dubbed and Subtitled, Check Listings
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) Thurs Only

Central Cinema:

Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Fri-Tues
Mamma Mia! (Phyllida Lloyd, 2008) Fri-Sun, Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld) Fri-Sun

AMC Factoria:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review

Century Federal Way:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Telugu Our Review
Lahoriye (Amberdeep Singh) Fri-Thurs
Meri Pyaari Bindu (Akshay Roy) Fri-Thurs
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

Grand Cinema:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast
Frantz (François Ozon) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) Sat Only Our Podcast
Transit (Hannah Espia, 2013) Mon Only
I Am the Blues (Daniel Cross) Tues Only
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith) Fri-Mon, Weds & Thurs
Two Women (Vera Glagoleva) Fri-Thurs
Red May: The Eco-Suicidal Contradictions of Capitalism: Is Capitalism Nuts, or is it Me? Sun Only Panel Discussion

Landmark Guild 45th:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi, Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings Our Review
Radha (Chandra Mohan Chintada) Fri-Thurs
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Sarkar 3 (Ram Gopal Varma) Fri-Thurs
The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

Regal Meridian:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast
Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
Chuck (Philippe Falardeau) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

BANG! The Bert Berns Story (Brett Berns & Bob Sarles) Fri-Thurs
Short Films From and About the Middle East for Young Audiences Sun Only
Ice (Robert Kramer, 1969) Weds Only 16mm
Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei) Thurs Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

This Is Not What I Expected (Derek Hui) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Love Off the Cuff (Pang Ho-cheung) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Battle of Memories (Leste Chen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Baahubali: The Conclusion (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi Our Review
Lowriders (Ricardo de Montreuil) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar) Fri-Thurs

AMC Seattle:

Norman: The Moderate Rise And Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer (Joseph Cedar) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962) Thurs Only 35mm Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast

SIFF Film Center:

David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm & Rick Barnes) Fri & Sun Only
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) Fri-Sun 35mm
Yemeniettes (Shawn Thompson and Leon Shahabian) Sun Only

Regal Thornton Place:

The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

SIFF Uptown:

Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Sun
Risk (Laura Poitras) Fri-Sun

Varsity Theatre:

3 Generations (Gaby Dellal) Fri-Thurs
Folk Hero and Funny Guy (Jeff Grace) Fri-Thurs
Tracktown (Alexi Pappas & Jeremy Teicher) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) Our Review
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray) Our Review

Featured Film:

A Quiet Passion at the Seven Gables, the Meridian and the Grand

One of our favorite movies of 2016, which Evan wrote about last fall at the Vancouver Film Festival and which we also discussed on the latest episode of The Frances Farmer Show, finally opens here at the Seven Gables and the Meridian and in Tacoma at the Grand. It’s an Emily Dickinson biopic starring Cynthia Nixon and directed by Terence Davies that is simultaneously a classical literary biography and a distinctly Davies kind of film, and somewhat surprisingly, is as bitingly funny as any film released last year. There are a couple of fine Chinese romantic comedies at the Pacific Place in Love Off the Cuff and This Is Not What I Expected, and we haven’t yet made it out to Herman Yau’s Shock Wave or Baahubali 2 (although everyone else seems to have seen it), but I doubt there’s anything better to do in town this week than see A Quiet Passion.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi
The Mayor (Park Inje) Fri-Thurs
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Kedi (Ceyda Torun) Fri-Thurs
Near Dark (Kathryn Bigelow, 1987) Thurs Only

Central Cinema:

Harold and Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) Fri-Mon
Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle (Danny Leiner, 2004) Fri-Mon
Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) Weds Only Our Podcast

SIFF Egyptian:

Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld) Tues Only

AMC Factoria:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi

Century Federal Way:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings
Manje Bistre (Baljit Singh Deo) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
The Devil’s Candy (Sean Byrne) Sat Only
The Kind Words (Shemi Zarhin) Mon Only
Chasing Trane (John Scheinfeld) Tues Only Live Music & Discussion

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Buster’s Mal Heart (Sarah Adina Smith) Fri-Thurs
Red May: Capitalism, Technology, Subjectivity Sun Only Panel Discussion

Landmark Guild 45th:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (Juho Kuosmanen) Fri-Thurs
Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi, Tamil & Telgu, Check Listings
Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review Subtitled
Babu Baaga Busy (Naveen Medaram) Fri & Sat Only

Regal Meridian:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi
A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast
Shock Wave (Herman Yau) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Citizen Jane: Battle for the City (Matt Tyrnauer) Fri-Thurs
Starless Dreams (Mehrdad Oskouei) Sun Only
Searching Skies and other Shorts Weds Only Filmmaker in Attendance
Glen and Randa (Jim McBride, 1971) Weds Only 35mm
Rhythm Assemblies: Films by Reed O’Beirne (Reed O’Beirne) Thurs Only Director in Attendance

AMC Oak Tree:

Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

This Is Not What I Expected (Derek Hui) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Love Off the Cuff (Pang Ho-cheung) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Battle of Memories (Leste Chen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Baahubali 2 (SS Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Hindi
Trainspotting 2 (Danny Boyle) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs
Can’t Help Falling in Love (Mae Czarina Cruz-Alviar) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Late Autumn (Yasujiro Ozu, 1960) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

A Quiet Passion (Terence Davies) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Podcast

SIFF Film Center:

David Lynch: The Art Life (Jon Nguyen, Olivia Neergaard-Holm & Rick Barnes) Fri-Sun
Iraqi Odyssey (Samir) Thurs Only

Sundance Cinemas:

Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent (Lydia Tenaglia) Fri-Thurs
Their Finest (Lone Scherfig) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Your Name. (Makoto Shinkai) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Uptown:

Colossal (Nacho Vigalondo) Fri-Thurs
Risk (Laura Poitras) Fri-Thurs
September Storm (3D) (Byron Haskin, 1960) Tues Only 
Ape (3D) (Paul Ledar, 1976) Tues Only
One More Time With Feeling (Andrew Dominik) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

Queen of the Desert (Werner Herzog, 2015) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Below Her Mouth (April Mullen) Fri-Thurs
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Guardians of the Galaxy 2 (James Gunn) Our Review
The Lost City of Z (James Gray) Our Review
The Fate of the Furious (F. Gary Gray) Our Review