Featured Film:

Cameraperson at the SIFF Uptown

Documentary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson assembled a personal yet expansive memoir out of outtakes and unused footage from the many films she’s shot over the course of her twenty year career, traveling the world from Bosnia to Liberia, Alabama to Wyoming. It was one of our favorite films at SIFF this year, and it begins its theatrical run at the Uptown this week on Wednesday night, along with a Skype Q&A with Johnson herself. We’ll have more coverage of this very fine film later in the week.

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

The Age of Shadows (Kim Ji-woon) Fri-Thurs
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) Fri & Sat Only Quote-Along

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (John Hughes, 1986) Fri-Weds
Mean Girls (Mark Waters, 2004) Fri-Weds

SIFF Egyptian:

Peaches Christ’s Return To Grey Gardens Thurs Only

Century Federal Way:

The Age of Shadows (Kim Ji-woon) Fri-Thurs
Dharam Yudh Morcha (Naresh S. Garg) Fri-Thurs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) Sun & Weds Only Director’s Cut

Grand Cinema:

The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
The Hollars (John Krasinski) Fri-Thurs
Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979) Fri & Sat Only
A Town Called Panic (Stephane Aubier & Vincent Patar, 2009) Sat Only
Speed Sisters (Amber Fares) Sat Only
Zero Days (Alex Gibney) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Zoom (Pedro Morelli) Fri-Thurs
I Drink Your Blood (David E. Durston, 1970) Fri Only
Time Bandits (Terry Gilliam, 1981) Sat Only
solid objects: Films by Brian Short Tues Only
Private Vices, Public Virtues (Miklós Jancsó, 1975) Thurs Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Come What May (Christian Carion) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair) Fri-Thurs
Banjo (Ravi Jadhav) Fri-Thurs
Majnu (Virinchi Varma) Fri-Thurs
Thodari (Prabhu Solomon) Fri-Thurs
Jyo Achyutananda (Srinivas Avasarala) Fri-Thurs
Pink (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) Fri-Thurs
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) Sun & Weds Only Director’s Cut

Regal Meridian:

Soulmate (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

The 19th Local Sightings Film Festival Fri-Thurs Full Program

AMC Pacific Place:

Queen of Katwe (Mira Nair) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pink (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs
The Hollars (John Krasinski) Fri-Thurs
Barcelona: A Love Untold (Olivia Lamasan) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Nightmare Alley (Edmund Goulding) Thurs Only Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

The Hollars (John Krasinski) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Sun

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Southside with You (Richard Tanne) Fri-Thurs
Operation Avalanche (Matthew Johnson) Fri-Thurs
My Blind Brother (Sophie Goodhart) Fri-Thurs
Other People (Chris Kelly) Fri-Thurs
Three Days in Auschwitz (Philippe Mora) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Dying to Know: Ram Dass & Timothy Leary (Gay Dillingham) Fri-Thurs
The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
Phantasm (Don Coscarelli, 1979) Sat Only
Promised Land (The Salcedos) Tues Only
Cameraperson (Kirsten Johnson) Weds Only Skype Q & A

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance at the Grand Cinema

John Ford’s last great Western (assuming 7 Women doesn’t count), in many ways a repudiation of the genre, trading the vast expanses of Monument Valley for the claustrophobic interiors of a frontier town. Not an epic of revenge, but a psychological investigation forms the framework of one of his greatest studies of community-building. James Stewart plays a lawyer attempting to bring law and order to a remote village, where John Wayne is the gruff man of action. The two compete for the love of Vera Miles, and oppose the chaotic menace that is Lee Marvin. A film that becomes more inexplicable the closer you get to it, I guess it might as well be Ford’s Vertigo. It plays Wednesday only at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma, with a special discussion following the evening show.

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) Fri & Sat Only Quote-Along

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1999) Fri-Mon In Japanese Sun & Mon
Tremors (Ron Underwood, 1990) Fri-Tues
The Producers (Mel Brooks, 1967) Thurs Only

Cinerama:

70mm Film Festival Fri-Mon Full Program

Century Federal Way:

Dharam Yudh Morcha (Naresh S. Garg) Fri-Thurs
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston) Fri-Thurs
Charlotte’s Web (Charles A. Nichols & Iwao Takamoto) Sat Only Free Doughnuts!
The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Sun Only
Gleason (Clay Tweel) Tues Only
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (John Ford, 1962) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

In Order of Disappearance (Hans Petter Moland) Fri-Thurs
Attack of the Killer Refrigerator with Love Drugs & Violence Sat Only VHS

Landmark Guild 45th:

The Hollars (John Krasinski) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baar Baar Dekho (Nitya Mehra) Fri-Thurs
Jyo Achyutananda (Srinivas Avasarala) Fri-Thurs
Pink (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) Fri-Thurs
Nirmala Convent (G. Naga Koteswara Rao) Fri-Thurs
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Cock and Bull (Cao Baoping) Fri-Thurs
Jyo Achyutananda (Srinivas Avasarala) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Don’t Blink – Robert Frank (Laura Israel) Fri-Sun
Chatty Catties (Pablo Valencia) Sat Only
Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley: Heidi (Paul McCarthy & Mike Kelley, 1992) Sat Only
The 19th Local Sightings Film Festival Starts Thurs Full Program

AMC Pacific Place:

S Storm (David Lam) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pink (Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs
Camp Sawi (Irene Villamor) Fri-Thurs
Baar Baar Dekho (Nitya Mehra) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mia Madre (Nanni Moretti) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Department Q Trilogy (Mikkel Nørgaard) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs

AMC Southcenter:

Blazing Saddles (Mel Brooks, 1974) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Southside with You (Richard Tanne) Fri-Thurs
Max Rose (Daniel Noah, 2013) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig) Fri-Thurs
Other People (Chris Kelly) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Church (Bruce Beresford) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Author: The JT LeRoy Story (Jeff Feuerzeig) Fri-Thurs
The Beatles: 8 Days a Week (Ron Howard) Fri-Thurs
Hieronymus Bosch: Touched by the Devil (Pieter van Huystee) Fri-Thurs
/fterForever (Charlebois / Hostynek) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

Disorder (Alice Winocour) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Weds Only

Featured Film:

The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski at the Central Cinema

A classic double feature at the Central Cinema this week, with the pairing of Howard Hawks’s seminal Raymond Chandler adaptation The Big Sleep with The Coen Brothers’ riff on Chandler, Los Angeles and bowling, The Big Lebowski. We discussed The Big Sleep back on the inaugural episode of The Frances Farmer Show, and both films are part of our Seattle Screen Scene Top 100 Films of All-Time Project. We’ll be announcing the next twenty titles to join that illustrious list this week.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Tunnel (Kim Seonghoon) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1986) Fri-Tues Our Podcast
The Big Lebowski (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1998) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Alexandre Aja) Fri-Thurs
Janatha Garage (Koratala Siva) Fri-Thurs
The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Morris from America (Chad Hartigan) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky) Tues Only Our Review
Vanishing Sail (Alexis Andrews) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Klown Forever (Mikkel Nørgaard) Sat & Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Complete Unknown (Joshua Marston) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Naam Hai Akira (A.R. Murugadoss) Fri-Thurs
Janatha Garage (Koratala Siva) Fri-Thurs
The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Alexandre Aja) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Miss Sharon Jones! (Barbara Kopple) Fri-Thurs
Los Sures (Diego Echeverria, 1984) Fri-Sun
Branching Paths (Anne Ferrero) Sat Only
Cosmos (Andrzej Zulawski) Starts Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

A Tale of Love and Darkness (Natalie Portman) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
The 9th Life of Louis Drax (Alexandre Aja) Fri-Thurs
No Manches Frida (Nacho Garcia Velilla) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

The People vs. Fritz Bauer (Lars Kraume) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog) Weds & Thurs Only

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (Takeshi Nozue) Fri-Thurs
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog) Fri-Tues
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Yoga Hosers (Kevin Smith) Fri-Thurs
Trans List and Mariela Castro’s March (Timothy Greenfield-Sanders; Jon Alpert) Weds Only Free Screening
One More Time with Feeling (Andrew Dominik) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Lo & Behold at the SIFF Uptown

Werner Herzog and his inimitable style continues at the Uptown this week for a documentary rumination on the internet, with Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Taking a cue perhaps from the spacey disconnections of our hyperlinked present, the film is a series of stories about the internet and its impact on human lives. Some are more compelling than others, of course, but binding it all together is Herzog’s deadpan narration, always funny, sometimes insightful, occasionally baffling. It’s not one of the prolific director’s best works, or even as good as some of his recent documentaries like Cave of Forgotten Dreams  or Encounters at the End of the World, but it’s as good a film as one is like to find in these dark days of the end of summer.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Tunnel (Kim Seonghoon) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hola Mexico Film Festival Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Big Trouble in Little China (John Carpenter, 1986) Fri-Weds
The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson & Frank Oz, 1982) Fri-Weds

Century Federal Way:

The Tunnel (Kim Seonghoon) Fri-Thurs
The King and I (Walter Lang, 9156) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Science Fiction + Fantasy Short Film Festival Fri & Sat Only
Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams) Tues Only
The Land (Steven Caple Jr.) Weds Only with Panel Discussion

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) Sat & Tues Only 35mm
The Land (Steven Caple Jr.) Fri-Thurs
Score (Radley Metzger, 1972) Weds Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

100 Days of Love (Januse Mohammed Majeed) Fri-Thurs
A Flying Jatt (Remo D’Souza) Fri-Thurs
The King and I (Walter Lang, 9156) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Breaking a Monster (Luke Meyer) Fri-Sun
Holy Hell (Will Allen) Fri-Weds
A Quiet Place in the Country (Elio Petri, 1968) Sat & Sun Only 35mm
Made in Venice (Jonathan Pension) Thurs Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Time Raiders (Daniel Lee) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Our Little Sister (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
The Intervention (Clea DuVall) Fri-Thurs
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (Takeshi Nozue) Fri-Thurs
Morris from America (Chad Hartigan) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Superior (Edd Benda) Tues Only Filmmaker Q & A

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The King and I (Walter Lang, 9156) Weds Only

Featured Film:

Lo & Behold at the SIFF Uptown

Werner Herzog brings his inimitable style to the Uptown this week for a documentary rumination on the internet, with Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World. Taking a cue perhaps from the spacey disconnections of our hyperlinked present, the film is a series of stories about the internet and its impact on human lives. Some are more compelling than others, of course, but binding it all together is Herzog’s deadpan narration, always funny, sometimes insightful, occasionally baffling. It’s not one of the prolific director’s best works, or even as good as some of his recent documentaries like Cave of Forgotten Dreams  or Encounters at the End of the World, but it’s as good a film as one is like to find in these dark days of the end of summer.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs
Run-Off (Kim Jong-hyun) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Thor Freudenthal, 2010) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

The Goonies (Richard Donner, 1985) Fri-Tues
Hackers (Iain Softley, 1995) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985) Fri Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs
Main Teri Tu Mera (Ksshitij Chaudhary) Fri-Thurs
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Sandlot (David M. Evans, 1993) Sat Only
Michael Clayton (Tony Gilroy, 2007) Mon Only
Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Debacle Records Presents: Marielle Jakobsons & special guest Chuck Johnson Fri Only Live Music & Video
Fantastic Planet (René Laloux, 1973) Sat & Thurs Only 35mm
Voice of the Eagle: The Enigma of Robbie Basho (Liam Barker) Tues Only
Score (Radley Metzger, 1972) Weds Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Happy Bhag Jayegi (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing) Fri-Thurs
Wedding Doll (Nitzan Gilady) Weds Only

AMC Oak Tree:

Imperium (Daniel Ragussis) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Line Walker (Jazz Boon) Fri-Thurs
Sweet Sixteen (Jo Jin-kyu) Fri-Thurs
My Best Friend’s Wedding (Chen Feihong) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
How to Be Yours (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Our Little Sister (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Phantom Boy (Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Little Men (Ira Sachs) Fri-Thurs
Kingsglaive: Final Fantasy XV (Takeshi Nozue) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Lo & Behold: Reveries of the Connected World (Werner Herzog) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Cockfighter at the Grand Illusion

There’s a lot of worthwhile repertory picks this week on Seattle Screens, including Blue Velvet and Blood Simple at the Uptown, a trio of Patrick Swayze classics at the Central Cinema and the Joe Hisaishi score of Buster Keaton’s The General that didn’t quite make it to SIFF getting a make-up pair of shows at the Uptown. But the must-see movie of the week is the Grand Illusion’s 35mm presentation of Monte Hellman’s 1974 classic Cockfighter, featuring a career-best performance from the great Warren Oates. Overshadowed by his 1971 masterpiece Two-Lane Blacktop, not least because of its cruel subject matter, it’s no less a brilliant exploration of the weirdness and beauty to be found at the margins of America. It plays Saturday night only, paired with the Grand Illusion’s week-long run of a new restoration of the 1960 Oates film Private Property.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Harriet the Spy (Bronwen Hughes 1996) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

Dirty Dancing (Emile Ardolino, 1987) Fri-Tues
Road House (Rowdy Herrington, 1989) Fri-Tues
To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar (Beeban Kidron, 1995) Weds  Only

Century Federal Way:

Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Animal House (John Landis, 1978) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Kind Words (Shemi Zarhin) Tues Only
A Face in the Crowd (Elia Kazan, 1957) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Private Property (Leslie Stevens, 1960) Fri-Thurs
Lunch Meat (Kirk Alex, 1987) Fri Only VHS
Cockfighter (Monte Hellman, 1974) Sat Only 35mm

Landmark Guild 45th:

Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Babu Bangaram (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
Animal House (John Landis, 1978) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs
Indignation (James Schamus) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

‘Til Madness Do Us Part (Wang Bing) Starts Weds

AMC Oak Tree:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

My Best Friend’s Wedding (Chen Feihong) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Rustom (Tinu Suresh Desai) Fri-Thurs
Mohenjo Daro (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
How to Be Yours (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Seven Gables:

Our Little Sister (Kore-eda Hirokazu) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

My Love, Don’t Cross That River (Jin Mo-Young) Fri-Sun
Neither Heaven Nor Earth (Clément Cogitore) Fri-Sun

AMC Southcenter:

Operation Chromite (John H. Lee) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Amateur Night (Lisa Addario & Joe Syracuse) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Blue Velvet (David Lynch, 1986) Fri-Mon, Weds
Blood Simple (Joel & Ethan Coen, 1984) Fri-Mon, Weds-Thurs
The General (Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman, 1926) Sat & Sun Only Joe Hisaishi Score
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Tattoo Nation (Eric Schwartz, 2013) Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Animal House (John Landis, 1978) Weds Only

Featured Film:

Charade at the Seattle Art Museum

SAM’s summer Cary Grant series comes to an end this Thursday night with his 1963 comic thriller Charade, co-starring Audrey Hepburn and directed by Stanley Donen. Riffing on Grant’s persona from his Hitchcock films To Catch a Thief and North By Northwest, Charade is often claimed to be the best non-Hitchcock Hitchcock film ever made. That’s not really accurate, better to say its the best non-musical film Donen ever made. We talked about it way back on Episode Three of The George Sanders Show, along with Jonathan Demme’s maligned but really not that bad 2002 remake The Truth About Charlie.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Kit Kittridge: An American Girl (Patricia Rozema, 2008) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun
Pean’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro, 2006) Fri-Mon
Jurassic Park (Steven Spielberg, 1993) Tues and Weds  Only

Century Federal Way:

Bambukat (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs
Imagine You and Me (Mike Tuviera) Fri-Thurs
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Innocents (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs
The Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Fri-Thurs
Weiner (Josh Kriegcan & Elyse Steinberg) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Under the Sun (Vitaly Mansky) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Pulgasari (Shin Sang-ok, 1985) Sat Only VHS
Shot in the Dark: hand-crafted animated shorts from around the world Mon Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Manamantha (Chandra Sekhar Yeleti) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Srirasthu Subhamasthu (Parasuram) Fri-Thurs
Batman (Tim Burton, 1989) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Bazodee (Todd Kessler) Fri-Thurs

AMC Oak Tree:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
League of Gods (Koan Hui & Vernie Yeung) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Bazodee (Todd Kessler) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
How to Be Yours (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) Thurs Only Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Band of Outsiders (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) Fri-Sun
Kamikaze ’89 (Wolf Gremm, 1982) Fri-Sun
Le chèvre (Francis Veber, 1981) Weds Only
Weepah Way For Now (Stephen Ringer) Thurs Only

AMC Southcenter:

Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Roseanne for President (Eric Weinrib) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Innocents (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs
Don’t Think Twice (Mike Birbiglia) Fri-Thurs Director Q & A Friday Night
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs
48 Hour Film Project Mon Only

Featured Film:

Black Girl at the Grand Illusion

With the darkest days of summer upon us and seemingly every art house theatre in Seattle playing some combination of Captain Fantastic, Hunt for the Wilderpeople, Train to Busan or Café Society, the venerable Grand Illusion stands out with its presentation of Ousmane Sembène’s classic of African cinema, the 1966 film Black Girl. Playing in a new restoration to commemorate its 50th Anniversary, and paired with his 1963 debut film Borom Sarret, Black Girl is about a young Senegalese woman who works as a domestic servant in France.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs
Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Howl’s Moving Castle (Hayao Miyazaki, 2004) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (Stephen Spielberg, 1989) Fri-Mon
Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985) Fri-Tues
Black Dynamite (Scott Sanders, 2009) Tues Only

Century Federal Way:

Bambukat (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs
Imagine You and Me (Mike Tuviera) Fri-Thurs
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Innocents (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs
Lucha Mexico (Alex Hammond & Ian Markiewicz) Fri & Sat Only
Margarita with a Straw (Shonali Bose & Nilesh Maniyar) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Black Girl (Osemane Sembène, 1966) Fri-Thurs
Kamillions (Mikel B. Anderson, 1990) Fri Only VHS
Cinememory: Negotiating the Past Through Film Tues Only Video

Landmark Guild 45th:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Dishoom (Rohit Dhawan) Fri-Thurs
Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs
Kabali (Pa. Ranjith) Fri-Thurs In Tamil with subtitles & Telugu without subtitles, check showtimes
Gone with the Wind (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

LIGHTHOUSE: An Evening With Paul Clipson Fri Only Live Performance, 16mm
Dig! (Ondi Timoner, 2004) Fri-Sun Only 35mm
Chicagoland Shorts Vol. 2 Sat Only
Speculation Nation (Sabine Gruffat & Bill Brown, 2014) Sun Only Filmmakers in Attendance

AMC Pacific Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
League of Gods (Koan Hui & Vernie Yeung) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (HC Potter, 1948) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Last Cab to Darwin (Jeremy Sims) Fri-Sun
The Thanhouser Studio and the Birth of American Cinema (Ned Thanhouser) Sat Only

AMC Southcenter:

Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Eva Hesse (Marcie Dale) Fri-Thurs
Eat that Question (Thorsten Schütte) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Innocents (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs
Microbe and Gasoline (Michel Gondry) Fri-Thurs
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Jake Szymanski) Our Review