Featured Film:

It’s a Wonderful Life at the Grand Illusion

This Christmas a venerable Seattle tradition continues as the Grand Illusion plays, on 35 millimeter film and for the next three weeks, Frank Capra’s greatest film, the grim, bleak, heart-warming holiday classic from 1946. James Stewart plays a suicidal banker reliving the agonies of his small town, small-time life of thwarted dreams with the help of a bumbling guardian angel. Donna Reed plays the gorgeous girl next door for whom he lassos not the moon but a mortgage and a passel of toothless moochers. As densely-packed with post-war anxiety and shadowy fears as any film noir, it’s desperately cheerful.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Befikre (Aditya Chopra) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1989) Fri-Tues
Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

Dhruva (Surender Reddy) Fri-Thurs
The Bounce Back (Youssef Delara) Fri-Thurs
Man Down (Dito Montiel) Fri-Thurs
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman, 1953) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs
Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Sun, Mon, Weds & Thurs Only Sing-along
Seed: The Untold Story (Jon Betz, Taggart Siegel) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs Tues Show is Free
The Passions of Carol (Shaun Costello, 1975) Sat Only
Dead West (Jeff Ferrell)  Sun Only Director Q & A

Landmark Guild 45th:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Befikre (Aditya Chopra) Fri-Thurs
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Fri-Thurs
Kahaani 2 (Sujoy Ghosh) Fri-Thurs
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
Dhruva (Surender Reddy) Fri-Thurs
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman, 1953) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Befikre (Aditya Chopra) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi) Fri-Sun
Movement Material (Jeremy Moss & Pamela Vail) Sun Only Artists in Attendance
Peter and the Farm (Tony Stone) Tues & Weds Only
The Eyes of My Mother (Nicolas Pesce) Weds-Sun
Oyster Factory (Kazuhiro Soda) Thurs-Sat

AMC Pacific Place:

Sword Master (Derek Yee) Fri-Thurs Our Review
I am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Befikre (Aditya Chopra) Fri-Thurs
The Bounce Back (Youssef Delara) Fri-Thurs
The Super Parental Guardians (Joyce E. Bernal) Fri-Thurs
Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur  (Harry Baweja) Fri-Tues
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs

Seven Gables:

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-along
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun In Smell-O-Vision

AMC Southcenter:

The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Burn Country (Ian Olds) Fri-Thurs
From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinneman, 1953) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)  Our Review
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Coming Soon:

La La Land (Damien Chazelle)  Our Review

Featured Film:

Michael Snow at the Northwest Film Forum

With seemingly every theatre in town inundated with awards-hopefuls and/or Christmas movies, I for one am thankful the Northwest Film Forum is presenting, on one night only, 16mm prints of two films from Canadian experimental filmmaker Michael Snow. Wavelength is his best known work, one of the most famous avant garde films ever made. From 1967, it consists essentially of one 45 minute zoom across a room (albeit with some slight edits and angle changes), while people come and go and one man, filmmaker Hollis Frampton, drops dead. We talked about it on The George Sanders Show back in 2014. Paired with that is Snow’s 1991 film To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror which I haven’t seen, but Fred Camper called it a masterpiece, and that’s good enough for me.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Christmas Evil (aka You Better Watch Out) (Lewis Jackson, 1980) Thurs Only

Central Cinema:

Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 199o) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Man Down (Dito Montiel) Fri-Thurs
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun  Only English Language Version
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs
Before the Sun Explodes (Debra Eisenstadt) Sat Only
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Old Stone (Johnny Ma) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Smart Studios Story (Wendy Schneider) Fri & Sat Only
EXcinema: Group Show Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs
Kahaani 2 (Sujoy Ghosh) Fri-Thurs
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
Bethaludu/Saithan (Prathi Krishnamurthy) Fri-Thurs Telugu/Tamil
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun  Only English Language Version
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Sky on Fire (Ringo Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Brothers (Aslaug Holm) Fri & Sat Only
Miss Sharon Jones (Barbara Kopple) Fri Only
Wavelength (Michael Snow, 1967) Thurs Only 16mm Our Podcast
To Lavoisier, Who Died in the Reign of Terror (Michael Snow, 1991) Thurs Only 16mm
Fire at Sea (Gianfranco Rosi) Thurs-Sun

AMC Pacific Place:

I am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur  (Harry Baweja) Fri-Tues
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
The Unmarried Wife (Maryo J. de los Reyes) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Nightcrawler (Dan Gilroy, 2014) Thurs Only

Seven Gables:

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-along

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Manchester By The Sea (Kenneth Lonergan) Fri-Thurs
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (Fisher Stevens & Alexis Bloom) Weds Only Free Screening, RSVP

Varsity Theatre:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Burn Country (Ian Olds) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)  Our Review
Arrival (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

The Love Witch at the Grand Cinema and the SIFF Film Center

Samantha Robinson is just a simple, pretty young witch looking for a man to love her the right way in Anna Biller’s hilarious new film, playing this week only at Tacoma’s Grand Cinema and the SIFF Film Center. As one does, Biller has chosen a painstaking recreation of the underground cinema of the 1960s and 70s (sexploitation, Italian horror, and more) as the ideal form for her intricate, deeply subversive feminist tract, recreating the vibrant textures and colors of Technicolor and going so far as to shoot on actual 35mm film. And as she did in her last feature, 2007’s Viva, she not only directed, but also served as writer, producer, composer, costume designer and art director.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Vanishing Time: A Boy Who Returned (Um Tae-hwa) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Fri, Sat, & Mon Our Review
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) Fri-Mon
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Tues & Weds Only

SIFF Egyptian:

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Love Witch (Anna Biller) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse) Fri-Thurs
Equal Means Equal (Kamala Lopez) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Landmark Guild 45th:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Fri-Thurs
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada (Vi Anand) Fri-Mon Telugu
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Boatman (Gianfranco Rosi, 1993) Fri Only
The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman, 1979) Fri-Weds
Below Sea Level (Gianfranco Rosi, 2009) Sat Only
For the Plasma (Bingham Bryant & Kyle Molzan, 2014) Sat Only
Sacro GRA (Gianfranco Rosi, 2013) Sun Only
Zona Intangible (Ann Hedreen & Rustin Thompson) Weds Only
Rainbow Time (Linas Phillips) Thurs Only Director in Attendance
Brothers (Aslaug Holm) Thurs-Sat

AMC Pacific Place:

I am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur  (Harry Baweja) Fri-Tues
Dear Zindagi (Gauri Shinde) Fri-Thurs
The Unmarried Wife (Maryo J. de los Reyes) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) Thurs Only Our Podcast 35mm
Sweet Smell of Success (Alexander Mackendrick, 1957) Thurs Only

Seven Gables:

The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The Love Witch (Anna Biller) Fri-Thurs 35mm Our Review
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun In Smell-O-Vision

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Mon
One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Harry & Snowman (Ron Davis) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins)  Our Review

Featured Film:

Pockets of Resistance

I don’t know about you, but I’m not yet ready to shift back into the normal movie year, just as the awards season hype train is taking off (see this week’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, the expansion of Moonlight and the slow rollout of Loving, to be followed by more big names once we pass Thanksgiving). Fortunately, there are a few films in small, brief runs that might help us cope with the coming age of devolution. The Northwest Film Forum has on Friday and Saturday Mauro Herce’s experimental documentary Dead Slow Ahead, about a container ship making its way from port to port and the men who work on it, dwarfed as they are by the size and sounds of machinery. The SIFF Uptown has two shows only of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Creepy, wherein the odd but seemingly nice enough guy next door turns out to be a totally unhinged nightmare of toxic patriarchy. The Sundance Cinemas continues its exclusive run of Kleber Mendonça Filho’s Aquarius, in which Sonia Braga obstinantly stands in the way of the destructive forces of real estate development. And in I Am Not Madame Bovary, at the Pacific Place, Fan Bingbing carries on a ten year war against the irrational laws and corrupt bureaucracy of the Chinese state, a system in which appearances are more important than truth.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Jones & Terry Gilliam, 1975) Fri-Mon Quote-along
Delicatessen (Jean-Pierre Jeunet & Marc Caro, 1991) Fri-Tues
Lion Ark (Tim Phillips, 2013) Tues Only

SIFF Egyptian:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Tues Our Review 
Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford) Starts Weds

Grand Cinema:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Tues
The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse) Fri-Tues
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Tues
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, 1982) Sat Only Free, Free Donuts
Tower (Keith Maitland) Tues Only
Loving (Jeff Nichols) Starts Weds

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante) Fri-Weds Our Review
Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present (Tyler Hubby) Sat Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Loving (Jeff Nichols) Fri-Thurs
Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch) Fri-Thurs
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Loving (Jeff Nichols) Fri-Thurs
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada (Gautham Menon) Fri-Mon Tamil
Ekkadiki Pothavu Chinnavada (Vi Anand) Fri-Mon Telugu

Regal Meridian:

Loving (Jeff Nichols) Fri-Thurs
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce) Fri & Sat Only
Crumbs (Miguel Llansó) Fri Only
IRL: Craigslist Fri & Sat Only
Homo Sapiens (Nikolaus Geyrhalter) Fri & Sat Only
Babe: Pig in the City (George Miller, 1998) Sun-Weds Only
Puget Soundtrack: Chris Brokaw Presents the Films of Peter Hutton Sun Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Take (James Watkins) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

I am Not Madame Bovary (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur  (Harry Baweja) Fri-Tues
Bakit Lahat Ng Gwapo May Boyfriend (Jun Robles Lana) Fri-Tues
Loving (Jeff Nichols) Starts Weds

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
The Eagle Huntress (Otto Bell) Starts Weds

SIFF Film Center:

2016 Seattle Turkish Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

AMC Southcenter:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Sundance Cinemas:

Aquarius (Kleber Mendonça Filho) Fri-Mon Our Review 
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Mon Our Review

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Romanian Film Festival in Seattle Fri-Sun Full Program
Creepy (Kiyoshi Kurosawa) Sat & Sun Only
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982) Mon & Tues Only
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Weds-Thurs Our Review

Varsity Theatre:

Harry & Snowman (Ron Davis) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Three Wisemans at the Grand Illusion and the Northwest Film Forum

The Grand Illusion and the Northwest Film Forum have once again joined forces to present a mini-series of masterpieces on 35mm. Arguably the greatest living American filmmaker, Frederick Wiseman has been churning out documentaries for almost 50 years now, not-quite-verité studies of institutions at work. His 1967 Titicut Follies, his directorial debut, about the patients at a Massachusetts institute for the criminally insane, plays at the Film Forum over the weekend, while Hospital, from 1970, and High School, from 1968, play Saturday and Thursday at the Grand Illusion. While it’s extremely tempting to crawl into the comforting space of the Central Cinema’s My Neighbor Totoro, the absurd nostalgia of Cinemark’s Space Jam, or worse, the numbing repetition of Marvel’s Doctor Strange this week, Wiseman’s observational defiance is what we need.

Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki, 1988) Fri-Tues In Japanese Tues Only
Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974) Fri-Tues

Cinerama:

Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition (George Miller) Fri-Sun

SIFF Egyptian:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Century Federal Way:

Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur (Harry Baweja) Fri-Thurs
Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Harry & Snowman (Ron Davis) Fri-Thurs
The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse) Fri-Thurs
Chicken People (Nicole Lucas Haimes) Tues Only
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971) Weds Only
Lincoln Film Festival Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Who: The Kids are Alright (Jeff Stein, 1979) Fri Only
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979) Fri Only 35mm
High School (Frederick Wiseman, 1968) Sat & Thurs Only 35mm
Hospital (Frederick Wiseman, 1970) Sat & Thurs Only 35mm
Borbetomagus: A Pollock of Sound (Jef Mertens) Sat Only
Barbara Broadcast (Bradley Metzger, 1977) Mon Only
Erasures and Spaces: the revisionist films of Salise Hughes Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Gimme Danger (Jim Jarmusch) Fri-Thurs
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada (Gautham Menon) Fri-Thurs Tamil
Sahasam Swasaga Sagipo (Gautham Menon) Fri-Thurs Telugu
Rock On 2 (Shujaat Saudagar) Fri-Thurs
Space Jam (Joe Pytka, 1996) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Sun

Northwest Film Forum:

Titicut Follies (Frederick Wiseman, 1967) Fri-Sun 35mm
We Are X (Stephen Kijak) Fri-Sun
My King (Maïwenn) Fri-Sun
The Seventh Fire (Jack Pettibone Riccobono) Sat Only
A Thousand Cuts: Film Collector Book Release and Archival Screening Sat Only
Theo Who Lived (David Schisgall) Weds Only Subject in Attendance
If There’s a Hell Below (Nathan Williams) Weds & Thurs Only Director in Attendance Thursday
A Rendering Thurs Only
Dead Slow Ahead (Mauro Herce) Thurs-Sat

AMC Pacific Place:

Mr. Donkey (Lu Liu & Shen Zhou) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Chaar Sahibzaade: Rise of Banda Singh Bahadur  (Harry Baweja) Fri-Thurs
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Rock On 2 (Shujaat Saudagar) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
Bakit Lahat Ng Gwapo May Boyfriend (Jun Robles Lana) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

The Prowler (Joseph Losey, 1951) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

2016 Seattle Shorts Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

Aquarius (Kleber Menonça Filho) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Christine (Antonio Campos) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Cinema Italian Style Fri-Thurs Full Program
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Coming through the Rye (James Steven Sadwith) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Look Down (Daniel Gordon) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Jean Cocteau at the Seattle Art Museum

A number of high-profile awards season art house movies are now playing on Seattle Screens: Certain Women, The Handmaiden and this week’s opener Moonlight. Additionally, smaller well-recieved movies are out as well, including a pair of films about suicidal newscaster Christine Chubbuck (Robert Greene’s documentary Kate Plays Christine and Antonio Campos’s biopic Christine) and under-the-radar favorites Uncle Kent 2 and Ae Dil Hai Mushkil. There’s even a fine array of older movies: from Chaplin’s The Great Dictator to and pair of films starring The Who to the black and white version of last year’s Best Film Mad Max: Fury Road. But my pick for the best of the week is SAM’s 35mm presentation of Jean Cocteau’s mysterious, romantic, inimitable 1948 adaptation of Beauty and the Beast. If you missed it when the Grand Illusion played it this past April, you have another chance this Wednesday only.

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Voiceless (Pat Necerato) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

The Great Dictator (Charles Chaplin, 1940) Fri-Sun
The Birdcage (Mike Nichols, 1996) Fri-Mon

Cinerama:

Mad Max: Fury Road Black & Chrome Edition (George Miller) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Egyptian:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Phantasm: Ravager (David Hartman) Fri & Sat Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
From Dusk Til Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996) Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) Fri-Thurs Our Review
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Harry & Snowman (Ron Davis) Fri-Thurs
Michael Moore in Trumpland (Michael Moore) Fri-Mon Only
The Dressmaker (Jocelyn Moorhouse) Fri-Thurs
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Alchemist Cookbook (Joel Potroykus) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Who: The Kids are Alright (Jeff Stein, 1979) Weds & Fri Only
Quadrophenia (Franc Roddam, 1979) Thurs & Fri Only 35mm
Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (Akiyuki Shinbo & Tatsuya Oishi) Fri-Tues

Landmark Guild 45th:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
American Pastoral (Ewan McGregor) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Ventilator (Rajesh Mapuskar) Fri-Thurs
Naruda Donoruda (Mallik Ram) Fri-Thurs
Kaashmora (Gokul) Fri-Thurs
Shivaay (Ajay Devgan) Fri-Thurs
From Dusk Til Dawn (Robert Rodriguez, 1996) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Crosscurrent (Yang Chao) Tues Only Director Q & A Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Tower (Keith Maitland) Fri-Sun
Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene) Fri-Sun
Saturday Morning Cartoons with Brian Edwards Sat Only 16mm
Uncle Kent 2 (Todd Rohal) Weds Only
We Are X (Stephen Kijak) Weds-Sun

AMC Pacific Place:

Someone to Talk To (Liu Yulin) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Donkey (Lu Liu & Shen Zhou) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Miss Hokusai (Keiichi Hara) Fri-Thurs
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
Bakit Lahat Ng Gwapo May Boyfriend (Jun Robles Lana) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1948) Weds Only 35mm
Flaxy Martin (Richard L. Bare, 1949) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) Fri, Mon-Thurs Our Review 
Seattle Turkish Film Festival Fri-Sun Only Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

Christine (Antonio Campos) Fri-Thurs
King Cobra (Justin Kelly) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Army of One (Larry Charles) Fri-Thurs
The Charnel House (Craig Moss) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Christine (Antonio Campos) Fri-Thurs
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Miss Hokusai (Keiichi Hara) Fri-Thurs
Cruel Intentions (Roger Kumble, 1999) Mon Only “Interactive Event”
Molière (Laruent Tirard, 2007) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Vampires on Film at the Grand Illusion

The month of October belongs to the Grand Illusion, as the city’s greatest little theatre specializes in the kind of weirdo genre cinema and camp oddities that the Halloween season perennially inspires. The second week of their seasonal festivities presents two more classics on 35mm. In Tony Scott’s 1983 The Hunger, David Bowie and Catherine Deneuve turn Susan Sarandon into a vampire to the pulse of Bauhaus’s lament for Bela Lugosi, while in Jim Jarmusch’s 2013 Only Lovers Left Alive, Tilda Swinton and Tom Hiddleston wander Detroit and Tangiers, listening to cool music, hanging out with Christopher Marlowe and Mia Wasikowska, embodying the yin and yang of immortality.

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
Luck-Key (Lee Gye-Byeok) Fri-Thurs
Voiceless (Pat Necerato) Fri-Thurs
Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) Sat-Tues
Hocus Pocus (Kenny Ortega, 1993) Sat-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Closet Monster (Stephen Dunn) Fri-Thurs
The Pit (Lew Lehman) Fri Midnight Only
Collide-O-Scope Halloween Night Spook Show Mon Only

Century Federal Way:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) Sat Only
The Godfather I & II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 & 1974) Sun & Weds Only Double Feature

Grand Cinema:

Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari) Fri & Sat Only
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Harry & Snowman (Ron Davis) Fri-Thurs
Michael Moore in Trumpland (Michael Moore) Sun, Mon & Weds Only
The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume) Tues Only
The Curious World of Hieronymus Bosch Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) Fri, Sat & Mon Only 35mm
Only Lovers Left Alive (Jim Jarmusch, 2013) Fri-Mon Only 35mm Our Review
Suddenly In The Dark (Ko Young-nam, 1981) Sat Only
Heavy Metal Horror 35mm Triple Feature Pizza Party Sun Only 35mm
VHS for President: Redux Tues Only VHS
Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (Akiyuki Shinbo & Tatsuya Oishi) Tues Only
Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu (Akiyuki Shinbo & Tatsuya Oishi) Weds-Sun

Landmark Guild 45th:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Kaashmora (Gokul) Fri-Thurs Tamil and Telugu Shows
Shivaay (Ajay Devgan) Fri-Thurs
Halloween (John Carpenter, 1978) Sat Only
The Godfather I & II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972 & 1974) Sun & Weds Only Double Feature

Regal Meridian:

Operation Mekong (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton, 1993) Fri-Mon
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
Shivaay (Ajay Devgan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Tower (Keith Maitland) Fri-Thurs
We the Voters Tues Only
Cool Cats (Janus Køster-Rasmussen) Thurs Only
Kate Plays Christine (Robert Greene) Thurs-Sun

AMC Oak Tree:

Recovery (Darrell Wheat) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Mr. Donkey (Lu Liu & Shen Zhou) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Miss Hokusai (Keiichi Hara) Fri-Thurs
Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Thurs
La Leyenda del Chupacabras (Alberto Rodriguez) Fri-Thurs
Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
Bakit Lahat Ng Gwapo May Boyfriend (Jun Robles Lana) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

The Red House (Delmer Daves, 1947) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Sun

Sundance Cinemas:

Oasis: Supersonic (Mat Whitecross) Fri-Thurs
In a Valley of Violence (Ti West) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Dancer (Steven Cantor) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton, 1993) Fri-Mon

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs
Miss Hokusai (Keiichi Hara) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Japanese Horror at the Grand Illusion

The month of October belongs to the Grand Illusion, as the city’s greatest little theatre specializes in the kind of weirdo genre cinema and camp oddities that the Halloween season perennially inspires. Mixed in with obscure VHS movies and mystery double and triple features, this week they’re playing, on 35mm, two classics of mid-century Japanese cinema. Masaki Kobayashi’s Kwaidan is an anthology inspired by the ghost stories of Lafcadio Hearn, featuring an experimental sound design by the great composer Toru Takemistsu and gorgeous color cinematography by Yoshio Miyajima (Harakiri, The Human Condition). Kuroneko, directed by Kaneto Shindo (Onibaba, The Naked Island) is about a pair of ghosts, a woman and her daughter-in-law, who vow to kill samurai after they are brutally murdered in the midst of a civil war.

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Asura: The City of Madness (Kim Sung-su) Fri-Thurs
Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
Luck-Key (Lee Gye-Byeok) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (Greg Palast) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Sat-Mon
The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996) Sat-Mon
Blacula (William Crain, 1972) Tues Only

SIFF Egyptian:

Certain Women (Kelly Reichardt) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Multiple Maniacs (John Waters, 1970) Fri & Sat Midnight Only
Oasis: Supersonic (Mat Whitecross) Weds Only

Century Federal Way:

Luck-Key (Lee Gye-Byeok) Fri-Thurs
Desi Munde (Inderjit Bansel) Fri-Thurs
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Sun & Weds Only
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sat Only

Grand Cinema:

American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Equity (Meera Menon) Tues Only
Generation Startup (Cheryl Miller Houser & Cynthia Wade) Thurs Only Free Screening

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968) Fri, Sat & Thurs Only 35mm
Kwaidan (Masaki Koayashi, 1964) Sat & Mon Only 35mm
Teen Vamp (Samuel Bradford, 1988) Fri Only VHS
Phobe: The Xenophobic Experiments (Erica Benedikty, 1995) Sat Only
Scarecrow Video Weirdo Horror Triple Feature Sun Only VHS & Digital
Thundercrack! (Curt McDowell, 1975) Tues Only
50s Drive-In Monster Double Feature Weds Only 16mm
Love in the Time of Monsters (Matt Jackson, 2014) Thurs Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sat Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Ism (Puri Jagannadh) Fri-Thurs
Premam (Alphonse Puthren) Fri-Thurs
Neer Dose (Vijaya Prasad) Fri-Thurs
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Sun & Weds Only
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sat Only

Regal Meridian:

Operation Mekong (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Do Not Resist (Craig Atkinson) Fri-Thurs
Nemo Hadeest’ii (Navajo Finding Nemo) (Andrew Stanton & Lee Unkrich, 2003) Sat Only In Diné
Ski Troop Attack and Monster from the Ocean Floor (Roger Corman, 1960 & 1954) Sat Only 16mm Double Feature
The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith (Sara Fishko) Weds Only
Election Cavalcade: Democracy on 16mm, 1932-1977 Thurs Only 16mm

AMC Oak Tree:

31 (Rob Zombie) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

La Leyenda del Chupacabras (Alberto Rodriguez) Fri-Thurs
Desierto (Jonás Cuarón) Fri-Thurs
I’m Not Ashamed (Brian Baugh) Fri-Thurs
The Third Party (Jason Paul Laxamana) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Children of Paradise (Marcel Carne, 1945) Weds Only 35mm Our Review
The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, 1947) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Tanna (Martin Butler & Bentley Dean) Fri-Sun
Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann) Fri-Sun, Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) Fri-Thurs
In a Valley of Violence (Ti West) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
The Free World (Jason Lew) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Weds
Seattle Polish Film Festival Full Program 
Blue Jay (Alex Lehmann) Mon-Weds
SEED: The Untold Story (Jon Betz & Taggart Siegel) Tues Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Weds Only

Featured Film:

In the Mouth of Madness at the Grand Illusion

The Grand Illusion kicks off Halloween movie season in style with a 35mm print of John Carpenter’s 1994 classic, the director’s last indisputably great film. Sam Neill plays an investigator sent to find a missing horror author and recover his latest manuscript, which apparently causes insanity, suicide and the destruction of the universe as we think we know it. “Reality’s not what it used to be.”

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Asura: The City of Madness (Kim Sung-su) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Spellbound (Alfred Hitchcock, 1945) Fri-Mon
Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

TWIST 2016 Full Program

Century Federal Way:

Asura: The City of Madness (Kim Sung-su) Fri-Thurs
Lock (Smeep Kang) Fri-Thurs
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Sun & Weds Only
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974) Tues Only

Grand Cinema:

Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Sat Only
Our Little Sister (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Tues Only Our Review
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Greasy Strangler (Jim Hosking) Fri-Thurs
In the Mouth of Madness (John Carpenter, 1994) Sat & Tues Only 35mm
Blonde Death (James Robert Baker, 1984) Thurs Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sun & Mon Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

M.S. Dhoni (Neeraj Pandey) Fri-Thurs
Premam (Alphonse Puthren) Fri-Thurs
Neer Dose (Vijaya Prasad) Fri-Thurs
Harry Potter Movies Fri-Thurs
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Operation Mekong (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review
M.S. Dhoni (Neeraj Pandey) Fri-Thurs
L.O.R.D. – Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 3D (Guo Jingming) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

TWIST 2016 Full Program
Ghosts, Spirits and Miracles on a Summer Night: Short Animated films of Joanna Polak  Tues Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Better Off Single (Benjamin Cox) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

I Belonged to You (Zhang Yibai) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

Voyage of Time (IMAX) (Terrence Malick) Mon-Thurs
Harry Potter Movies Fri-Sun

Regal Parkway Plaza:

La Leyenda del Chupacabras (Alberto Rodriguez) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

The Unsuspected (Michael Curtiz, 1947) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Seattle South Asian Film Festival Full Program 

Sundance Cinemas:

American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
London Town (Derrick Borte) Fri-Thurs
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari) Fri-Thurs
Demon (Marcin Wrona) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Harry Potter Movies Fri-Thurs
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Sun & Weds Only
Young Frankenstein (Mel Brooks, 1974) Tues Only

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Weds
Seattle Polish Film Festival Full Program 
The Decalogue (Krzysztof Kieślowski, 1988) Mon-Thurs
Solitary (Kristi Jacobson and Julie Goldman) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Ordinary World (Lee Kirk) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival

Our coverage of the VIFF 2016 continues this week, with more reviews coming of films we saw last week and films we’re going to see this week. So far we’ve covered: The Unknown Girl, The Lockpicker, Beautiful 2016, The Intestine, Toni Erdmann, Never Eat Alone and Last Poems, Maudite Poutine and Pop Song, Crosscurrent, Werewolf, A Quiet Passion, and Yellowing. There’s more to come, including the runaway hit of the festival: Rat Film!

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Mirzya (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock, 1954) Fri-Weds
The ‘Burbs (Joe Dante, 1989) Fri-Weds

SIFF Egyptian:

The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Mon, Weds
The 18th Annual Animation Show of Shows Fri-Mon, Weds

Century Federal Way:

Nikka Zaildar (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs
American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

Tacoma Film Festival Fri-Thurs Full Program
Top Gun (Tony Scott, 1986) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Phantasm: Remasterd (Don Coscarelli, 1979) Fri-Thurs
Phantasm: Ravager (David Hartman) Sat Only
Ben Popp: Juxtaposed Aesthetix Tues Only Video

Landmark Guild 45th:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs
Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Tues Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

M.S. Dhoni (Neeraj Pandey) Fri-Thurs
Mirzya (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra) Fri-Thurs
Premam (Alphonse Puthren) Fri-Thurs
Remo (Bakkiyaraj Kannan) Fri-Thurs
American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Soulmate (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Operation Mekong (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review
M.S. Dhoni (Neeraj Pandey) Fri-Thurs
L.O.R.D. – Legend of Ravaging Dynasties 3D (Guo Jingming) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

KINOFEST Seattle 2016  Fri-Sun Full Program
Chatty Catties (Pablo Valencia) Sat Only
Mr. Blot’s Academy (Krzysztof Gradowski, 1983) Weds Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Better Off Single (Benjamin Cox) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

I Belonged to You (Zhang Yibai) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Mirzya (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs
M.S. Dhoni (Neeraj Pandey) Fri-Thurs
Barcelona: A Love Untold (Olivia Lamasan) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

T-Men (Anthony Mann, 1947) Thurs Only 35mm

Seven Gables:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Irish Reels Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
London Road (Rufus Norris) Fri-Thurs
Under the Shadow (Babak Anvari) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

American Honey (Andrea Arnold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Weds
Seattle 48 Hour Horror Film Project Tues Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Ebb and Flow  Sun Only