Featured Film:

Eric Rohmer at the Seattle Art Museum

I somehow missed that the terrific Eric Rohmer series started at SAM last week, so apologies if you missed out on Pauline at the Beach because of me. But there’s still a lot more great Rohmer to come over the next several Thursday nights, starting with this week’s show of La collectionneuse. The series skips around the career of the greatest of all French New Wave directors, with four of his Moral Tales and three of his Comedies and Proverbs, and one of his Four Seasons and another miscellaneous one in the mix. The Green Ray, playing on February 13, is probably the best, but they’re all basically perfect so it’s kind of silly to rank them and you really should see them all. Elsewhere around town, SIFF’s Agnès Varda series continues with One Sings, the Other Doesn’t, and her last film, the lovely autobiography Varda by Agnès. And in what is sure to be one of the anime events of the year, the Beacon has all six episodes of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Shin Godzilla genius Hideaki Anno’s Gunbuster on Sunday afternoon. There’s just time enough to watch it before the Seahawks game.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs 
Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 

The Beacon Cinema:

My Twentieth Century (Ildikó Enyedi, 1989) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs 
Set It Off (F. Gary Gray, 1996) Sat-Mon 
Gunbuster (Hideaki Anno, 1988) Sun Only 

Central Cinema:

Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Fri-Tues 
American Psycho (Mary Harron, 2000) Fri-Weds 

Century Federal Way:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs
Forbidden Dream (Hur Jinho) Fri-Thurs
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Weds & Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed

Grand Cinema:

Freeway (Matthew Bright, 1996) Sat Only 
The Cave (Feras Fayyad) Tues Only 
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Weds Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

When Lambs Become Lions (Jon Kasbe) Fri-Thurs 
Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss) Fri-Thurs In Tamil or Telugu, Check Listings
Sarileru Neekevvaru (Anil Ravipudi) Fri-Thurs 
Chhapaak (Meghna Gulzar) Fri-Thurs
Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 
Mathu Vadalara (Ritesh Rana) Fri-Thurs 
Ala Vaikunthapurramullo (Trivikram Srinivas) Sat-Thurs   
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Weds & Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed

Regal Meridian:

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs 
Darbar (A.R. Murugadoss) Fri-Thurs In Hindi or Tamil, Check Listings
Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Weds & Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed

Northwest Film Forum:

Fuselage Dance Film Festival: Winter Program Fri Only 
Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag, 1969) Sat & Sun Only 
The Hottest August (Brett Story) Sat, Weds & Thurs Only 
At the Video Store (James Westby) Weds & Thurs Only 

AMC Oak Tree:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Adoring (Larry Yang) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Tanhaji: The Unsung Warrior (Om Raut) Fri-Thurs 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

Seattle Art Museum:

La collectionneuse (Eric Rohmer, 1967) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

Varda by Agnès (Agnès Varda) Fri-Sun 
One Sings, the Other Doesn’t (Agnès Varda, 1977) Sat Only 

Regal Thornton Place:

Weathering with You (Makoto Shinkai) Weds & Thurs Subtitled or Dubbed

Varsity Theatre:

Three Christs (Jon Avnet) Fri-Thurs 
The Assent (Pearry Reginald Teo) Fri-Thurs 
Reality Queen! (Steven Jay Bernheim) Fri-Thurs 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Agnès Varda at the SIFF Film Center

SIFF launches a mini-retrospective on the late, great French director Agnès Varda this week. Emphasis on the “mini-” unfortunately, as her masterpieces Cléo from 5 to 7 and Vagabond get only one show each, on Saturday and Sunday afternoons, respectively. There’s more Varda at SIFF in the coming weeks though. And later in the week the Film Center also has single shows of Pedro Almodóvar’s classic screwball Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (you can catch his latest, Pain and Glory, which like Women also stars Antonio Banderas, at the Parkway Plaza in Tukwila), and Terrence Malick’s 1978 Days of Heaven (his latest, A Hidden Life, is still at the Oak Tree and the Uptown).

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 
Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Good Time (Josh & Benny Safdie, 2017) Fri & Sat Only 

Central Cinema:

Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) Fri-Weds 
The Hunger (Tony Scott, 1983) Fri-Tues 
Tammy and the T-Rex (Stewart Raffill, 1994) Thurs Only Hecklevision

Century Federal Way:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Grand Cinema:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
The Shining (Stanley Kubrick, 1980) Sat Only 
#Female Pleasure (Barbara Miller) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Temblores (Jayro Bustamante) Fri-Mon, Thurs 35mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Adoring (Larry Yang) Fri-Thurs
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 
Mathu Vadalara (Ritesh Rana) Fri-Thurs 
Prati Roju Pandage (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs  
Avane Srimannarayana (Sachin Ravi) Sat & Sun Only 
Driving License (Jean Paul Lal) Sat & Sun Only  

Regal Meridian:

Avane Srimannarayana (Sachin Ravi) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

Northwest Film Forum:

Babylon (Franco Rosso, 1980) Fri-Sun 
Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen) Fri-Thurs 
Duet for Cannibals (Susan Sontag, 1969) Weds & Next Sat & Sun Only 

AMC Oak Tree:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Midnight Family (Luke Lorentzen) Fri-Thurs 
Adoring (Larry Yang) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Film Center:

What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael (Rob Garver) Fri-Sun 
Cléo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) Sat Only 
Vagabond (Agnès Varda, 1985) Sun Only 
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Pedro Almodóvar, 1988) Weds Only 
Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978) Thurs Only 

Regal Thornton Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review 

SIFF Uptown:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 
Our Bodies Our Doctors (Jan Haaken) Weds Only 

Varsity Theatre:

Ana (Charles McDougall) Fri-Thurs 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Little Women in Wide Release

Two of the finest films of the year open this week in wide release, and while much of the buzz in my area of the internet seems to revolve around the Safdie’s Uncut Gems, which is terrific, I like Greta Gerwig’s Little Women more. It’s a lovely movie, of course, and the source material is impeccable, but the ways in which Gerwig manipulates its structure to make it unmistakably her picture as much as Louisa May Alcott’s is extremely impressive. It’s got great sets, great acting (Emma Watson’s performance as Meg is my favorite), and a whole lot of great hair–just some of its many beauties.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Punch-Drunk Love (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012) Fri & Sat Only 

Central Cinema:

My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao MIyazaki, 1988) Fri-Tues Dubbed or Subtitled, Check Listings

Century Federal Way:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs 

Grand Cinema:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Tues Our Podcast 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
Snowpiercer (Bong Joonho, 2014) Sat Only Our Podcast 
Cyrano, My Love (Alexis Michalik) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Mon, Thurs 35mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 
Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Thurs 
Prati Roju Pandage (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs  

Regal Meridian:

Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Thurs 
Good Newwz (Raj Mehta) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Seattle:

Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Thornton Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Uptown:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 
Moulin Rouge! (Baz Luhrmann, 2001) Tues Only Sing-along

Varsity Theatre:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

A Hidden Life at the Egyptian, the Grand, and the Lincoln Square

A certain blockbuster has sucked up most of the screens around town, but while you’re waiting for Christmas morning to open up to two of the finest movies of the year (Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Josh & Benny Safdie’s Uncut Gems), you can catch Terrence Malick’s latest at three strategically placed locations around the Puget Sound area. An epic of sorts about a man, since sainted, who refused to swear an oath of allegiance to Hitler and the Nazi party and was executed for it, it’s one of Malick’s most fascinating films from a shockingly productive and idiosyncratic decade. No mainstream Hollywood filmmaker more challenges his audience, and Malick’s 2010s will likely be remembered more fondly by history than they have been in his own time. A Hidden Life isn’t a perfect film, though I’m admittedly more ambivalent on it than some of my colleagues, but it’s certainly among the most thought-provoking movies of the year. Catch it on a big screen while you can.

Playing This Week:

The Beacon Cinema:

Carol (Todd Haynes, 2015) Fri, Sat & Tues Only 
A Very Beacon Christmas (??? ?????, ????) Fri & Tues Only 
Carol for Another Christmas (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1964) Sat Only 
Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka (Aleksander Rou, 1961) Sat & Mon Only 
The Dybbuk (Michal Waszynski, 1937) Sat & Mon Only 
The Beacon Holiday Party and Mystery Movie Sat Only 
Tokyo Godfathers (Satoshi Kon, 2003) Sun Only 
Fanny and Alexander (Ingmar Bergman, 1983) Sun Only Full-Length Version
Ghost Stories for Christmas (Jonathan Miller, 1968/Lawrence Gordon Clark, 1976) Sun & Tues Only 
Black Christmas (Bob Clark, 1974) Mon Only 

Central Cinema:

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Mon  

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Mon Our Podcast 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Mon Only 

Century Federal Way:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Tues Only 

Grand Cinema:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Sat Only  
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sat Only 
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Sat Only 
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Mon Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Fri-Tues Our Podcast 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues 
Hero (P.S. Mithran) Fri-Mon  
Prati Roju Pandage (Maruthi) Fri-Tues  
Ruler (K. S. Ravikumar) Fri-Tues 
Thambi (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Sun  
Venky Mama (K. S. Ravindra) Fri-Tues 
It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Tues Only 

Regal Meridian:

Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) Fri-Mon 
Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues 

Northwest Film Forum:

Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent (Olivier Meyrou) Fri Sun 
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sun Only 

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 4 (Wilson Yip) Starts Weds 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Dabangg 3 (Prabhu Deva) Fri-Tues 

AMC Seattle:

Only Cloud Knows (Feng Xiaogang) Starts Weds 

SIFF Film Center:

White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Fri-Tues Sing-along

SIFF Uptown:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Sun  
A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick) Tues-Thurs Our Podcast 
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewison, 1971) Weds Only Sing-along

Varsity Theatre:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
The Report (Scott Z. Burns)  Fri Only  

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Make Way for Tomorrow at the Beacon

The Awful Truth is one of the great screwballs of all time, the prototypical Comedy of Remarriage and among the finest work by stars Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. And it’s only the second-best movie Leo McCarey made in 1937. The best is Make Way for Tomorrow, a very sad comedy, or a very funny tragedy, about an elderly couple who’s children can’t afford to support them together, and so they’re split among their children’s homes. An avowed influence on Yasujiro Ozu, it’s one of the finest movies classical Hollywood ever made at it’s playing three days this week at the Beacon, just in time for holiday season familial guilt. The Beacon’s also got Mr. Arkadin, arguably Orson Welles’s weirdest movie, and Nagisa Oshima’s sublime Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence, with David Bowie as a World War II prisoner of Ryuichi Sakamoto and Takashi Kitano.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Make Way for Tomorrow (Leo McCarey, 1937) Fri, Tues & Weds Only 
The Worst Friday the 13th Movie(??? ?????, ????) Fri Only 
Mr. Arkadin (Orson Welles, 1955) Sat & Sun Only 
The White Reindeer (Erik Blomberg, 1952) Sat, Sun & Weds Only 
American Matchmaker (Edgar G. Ulmer, 1940) Sat & Mon Only 
Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Nagisa Oshima, 1983) Sat & Mon Only 
Silent Night, Deadly Night (Charles E. Seiler Jr, 1984) Sat & Thurs Only 
Horus, Prince of the Sun (Isao Takahata, 1968) Sun Only 
Dial Code Santa Claus (René Manzor, 1989) Sun & Tues Only 
Ringu (Hideo Nakata, 1998) Mon Only 
A Smokey Mountain Christmas (Henry Winkler, 1986) Thurs Only 

Central Cinema:

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Weds 
Love, Actually (Richard Curtis, 2003) Fri-Weds 
Jingle All the Way (Brian Levant, 1996) Thurs Only Hecklevision

Cinerama:

Holiday Film Series Sat-Tues 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

Grand Cinema:

The Two Popes (Fernando Meirelles) Fri-Thurs 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 
Bad Santa (Terry Zwigoff, 2003) Sat Only 
The Report (Scott Z. Burns) Tues Only 
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Weds & Thurs Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
The Wicked/Outback Vampires  Sat Only VHS

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Venky Mama (K. S. Ravindra) Fri-Thurs 
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
Mamangam (M. Padmakumar) Fri-Thurs  
The Body (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Thurs 
Mardaani 2 (Gopi Puthran) Fri-Thurs 
Babru (Sujay Ramaiah) Sat & Sun Only 
Kettyyolanu Ente Malakha (Nissam Basheer) Sat & Sun Only 
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds
Frankie (Ira Sachs) Tues Only 

Regal Meridian:

Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Sat Only  
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds

Northwest Film Forum:

The Final Level: Escaping Rancala (Canyon Prince) Fri-Thurs  
Celebration: Yves Saint Laurent (Olivier Meyrou) Sat-Next Sun 
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sat Only 
Mother (Bong Joonho, 2009) Sun & Weds Only 

AMC Oak Tree:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

The Body (Jeethu Joseph) Fri-Thurs 
Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  

SIFF Film Center:

Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus ( Jim Mallon, 1993) Fri-Sun 

AMC Southcenter:

En Brazos De Un Asesino (Matías Moltrasio) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Thornton Place:

The Polar Express (Robert Zemeckis, 2004) Sat Only  
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds

Varsity Theatre:

Mob Town (Danny A. Abeckaser) Fri & Sat Only 
Daniel Isn’t Real (Adam Egypt Mortimer) Fri-Thurs 
The Death and Life of John F. Donovan (Xavier Dolan) Fri-Thurs 
Line of Descent (Rohit Karn Batra) Fri-Thurs 
The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Isao Takahata, 2013) Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Weds

In Wide Release:

Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Featured Film:

Paranoid Data at the Northwest Film Forum

Despite the fact that Christmas films have already been sneaking on to Seattle Screens for the last week, it is still too early for that kind of thing. Thankfully, the Northwest Film Forum is headed in a different direction this weekend, with a bunch of sci-fi films from the 80s and 90s under the heading “Paranoid Data: Pre-Millennium Tension in Film“. Where else in town can you watch a Harun Farocki doc back-to-back with a 35m print of Johnny Mnemonic? The series also includes a 35 print of Kathryn Bigelow’s 1995 stealth classic Strange Days, David Cronenberg’s Scanners, and a movie I’ve loved since I was seven years old, John Badham’s WarGames. The Beacon has the best movie in town this week, with Night of the Hunter, which just might be the greatest movie ever, and shout out to the Grand, where on Saturday you can watch Marriage Story, The Irishman, Parasite, and Eyes Wide Shut all in a row.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 

The Beacon Cinema:

Marketa Lazarová (František Vláčil, 1967) Fri-Tues 
Female Trouble (John Waters, 1974) Fri & Sat Only 
The Snow Queen (Päivi Hartzell, 1986) Fri, Sun & Weds Only 
Tevya (Maurice Schwartz, 1939) Sat & Mon Only 
Night of the Hunter (Charles Laughton, 1955) Sun & Tues Only 
Comet in Moominland (Hiroshi Saitô, 1992) Sun Only 
Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindô, 1968) Mon Only 
Class of 1999 (Mark L. Lester, 1990) Weds Only 
Children Must Laugh (Alexander Ford, 1938) Thurs Only 
Last Action Hero (John McTiernan, 1993) Thurs Only 

Central Cinema:

Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues 
Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) Fri-Weds 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs 

Century Federal Way:

Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun & Tues Only Dubbed Tues
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

Grand Cinema:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Eyes Wide Shut (Stanley Kubrick, 1999) Sat Only 
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Janice Engel) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Light from Light (Paul Harrill) Fri-Thurs   
Tammy & the T-Rex (Stewart Raffill, 1994) Fri, Tues & Next Fri Only 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
Madhanam (Ajay Sai Manikandan) Fri-Sun Only  
Helen (Mathukutty Xavier) Sat & Sun Only 
Irandan Ulagaporin Kadaisi Gundu (Athiyan Athirai) Sat & Sun Only 
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun & Tues Only Dubbed Tues
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

Regal Meridian:

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Thurs  
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun, Tues & Weds Only Subtitled Sun

Northwest Film Forum:

Unlikely (Adam Fenderson & Jaye Fenderson) Fri Only  
And with Him Came the West (Mike Plante) Fri Only Director in Attendance
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sat Only 
WarGames (John Badham, 1983) Sat Only 
Videograms of a Revolution (Harun Farocki & Andrei Ujică, 1992) Sat Only 
Johnny Mnemonic (Robert Longo, 1995) Sat Only 35mm
Scanners (David Cronenberg, 1981) Sun Only 
Strange Days (Kathryn Bigelow, 1995) Sun Only 
Force of Nature Natalia (Gerald Fox) Sun Only 
Animation Next Weds & Thurs Only 
The Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964) Thurs Only 

AMC Oak Tree:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Pacific Place:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Two Tigers (Fei Li) Fri-Thurs 
The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pati Patni Aur Woh (Mudassar Aziz) Fri-Thurs 
Panipat (Ashutosh Gowariker) Fri-Thurs  

AMC Seattle:

The Whistleblower (Xue Xiaolu) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Film Center:

The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-along
No Dominion: The Ian Horvath Story (Margaret Mullin, Nel Shelby) Tues Only 

AMC Southcenter:

En Brazos De Un Asesino (Matías Moltrasio) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Thornton Place:

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Thurs  
Promare (Hiroyuki Imaishi) Sun, Tues & Weds Only Subtitled Sun
Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944) Sun & Weds Only Our Podcast 

SIFF Uptown:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 

Varsity Theatre:

Knives and Skin (Jennifer Reeder) Fri & Sat Only 
The Aeronauts (Tom Harper) Fri-Thurs 
A Million Little Pieces (Sam Taylor-Johnson) Fri-Thurs 
I See You (Adam Randall) Fri-Thurs 
The Mandela Effect (David Guy Levy) Fri-Thurs 
A New Christmas (Daniel Tenenbaum) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Featured Film:

Sátántangó at the Northwest Film Forum

What better way to spend Thanksgiving weekend than with a six+ hour Hungarian slow cinema epic about the decay of society in the wake of the collapse of the Iron Curtain? I saw Sátántangó at the Film Forum 15 years ago or so, and it remains one of my favorite movie-going days. It’s a singular experience, and one that doesn’t come around often. Elsewhere around town, the Beacon has Umbrellas of Cherbourg (another of my favorite theatrical experiences), SAM wraps their noir series with David Lynch’s Mulholland Dr., and the Crest has two Netflix movies that are two of the best American movies of 2019, with Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Dark Waters (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs  

The Beacon Cinema:

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964) Fri, Sat, Tues & Weds 
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Sun, Weds 
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues, Thurs 
Blast of Silence (Allen Baron, 1961) Sat & Sun Only 
Overture to Glory (Max Nosseck, 1940) Sat Only 
Sailor Moon S: Hearts in Ice (Hiroki Shibata, 1994) Sun Only 
Black Sunday (Mario Bava, 1960) Mon Only 

Central Cinema:

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Fri-Weds Our Review
Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Chechik, 1989) Fri-Tues 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 
Marriage Story (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Waves (Trey Edward Shults) Fri-Thurs  

Century Federal Way:

When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner, 1989) Sun Only 

Grand Cinema:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Dolemite (D’Urville Martin, 1975) Sat Only 
Scandalous (Mark Landsman) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Kingmaker (Lauren Greenfield) Fri-Thurs   
Wallflower (Jagger Gravning) Sat-Tues 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Dark Waters (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs  
Waves (Trey Edward Shults) Fri-Thurs  
Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs 
Arjun Suravaram (T. N. Santhosh) Fri-Thurs  
Commando 3 (Aditya Datt) Fri-Thurs 
Enai Noki Paayum Thota (Gautham Menon) Fri-Thurs 
Raja Varu Rani Garu (Ravi Kiran Kola) Fri-Thurs 
When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner, 1989) Sun & Tues Only 

Regal Meridian:

Dark Waters (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs  
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Sat Only  

Northwest Film Forum:

Sátántangó (Béla Tarr, 1994) Fri-Sun 
In My Room (Ulrich Köhler) Fri-Sun 
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Weds Only 
Unlikely (Adam Fenderson & Jaye Fenderson) Weds-Next Fri 

AMC Pacific Place:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Two Tigers (Fei Li) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pagalpanti (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Thurs  
Unforgettable (Jun Lana & Percival Intalan) Fri-Thurs 

AMC Seattle:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 

Seattle Art Museum:

Mulholland Dr (David Lynch, 2001) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Fri-Sun Sing-along
The Muppet Christmas Carol (Brian Henson, 1992) Weds Only 

Regal Thornton Place:

Dark Waters (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs  
Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Sat Only  
When Harry Met Sally… (Rob Reiner, 1989) Sun & Tues Only 

SIFF Uptown:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs
Moomins on the Riviera\(Xavier Picard, 2014) Sat Only  

Varsity Theatre:

American Dharma (Errol Morris) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Featured Film:

Bound at the Beacon

The Wachowskis’ debut feature, wherein Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly scheme to steal a bunch of Joe Pantoliano’s money, immediately marked them as filmmakers to watch in coming years, and the Beacon is bringing it back this weekend as part of their on-going Sex Work is Work series, which this week also includes one of Max Ophuls’s masterpieces, his final film, Lola Montès, about the notorious woman whose romances covered a large swath of mid-19th century European history. The Beacon’s also got The Last Waltz this week, which is just about as perfect a Thanksgiving film as you’re likely to find.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Pagalpanti (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Tues  

The Beacon Cinema:

Bound (Lilly and Lana Wachowski, 1996) Fri & Sat Only 
Kinetta (Yorgos Lanthimos, 2005) Fri-Sun 
Uptight (Jules Dassin, 1968) Sat & Mon Only 
Lola Montès (Max Ophuls, 1955) Sat, Sun & Tues 
Patlabor: the Movie (Mamoru Oshii, 1989) Sun Only 
Burn! (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1969) Sun & Weds Only 
Opera (Dario Argento, 1987) Mon Only 
The Last Waltz (Martin Scorsese, 1978) Tues & Weds Only 

Central Cinema:

Planes Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) Fri-Weds 
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift (Justin Lin, 2006) Fri-Tues 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Sun, Tues 

Grand Cinema:

Girl on the Third Floor (Travis Stevens) Sat Only 
Weed the People (Abby Epstein) Mon Only 
Chained for Life (Aaron Schimberg) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Another Day of Life (Raúl De La Fuente & Damian Nenow) Fri-Weds  
Lost Angelas (William Wayne) Fri-Weds Director in Attendance Fri & Sat
The Age of Insects (Eric Marciano, 1990) Sat Only  VHS
Blood Rage (John Grissmer, 1987) Thurs Only 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
Pagalpanti (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Tues  
Adithya Varma (Gireesaaya) Fri-Tues 
George Reddy (B. Jeevan Reddy) Fri-Tues 

Northwest Film Forum:

Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Fri-Tues 
Unlikely (Adam Fenderson & Jaye Fenderson) Fri & Sat 
Sundance Indigenous Shorts Sun-Weds 
Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice (Rob Epstein & Jeffrey Friedman) Sun & Weds Only 
The Body Remembers When the World Broke Open (Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers & Kathleen Hepburn) Weds Only 

AMC Pacific Place:

Honey Boy (Alma Har’el) Fri-Thurs 
The Divine Move 2: The Wrathful (Khan Lee) Fri-Tues 
Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Tues Our Review 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Pagalpanti (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Tues  
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Tues 
Unforgettable (Jun Lana & Percival Intalan) Fri-Tues 

SIFF Film Center:

End of the Century (Lucio Castro) Fri-Sun
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Mon-Weds 

SIFF Uptown:

Seattle Turkish Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program 
Mr. Toilet: The World’s #2 Man\(Lily Zepeda) Tues Only  
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Weds-Thurs 

Varsity Theatre:

The Report (Scott Z. Burns) Fri-Thurs 
Return of the Fly (Edward Bernds, 1959) Sat Only 

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Featured Film:

The Irishman at the Cinerama and the Crest

Martin Scorsese’s new superhero movie about an Irish guy who fights crime opens this week at the Cinerama and the Crest (and also a theatre in Redmond). At least, I assume that’s what the movie is about, I haven’t been able to see it yet and I haven’t really been following the news. Elsewhere around town the Beacon has a killer line-up of The Secret of NIMH, Angel’s Egg and Klute, while the Grand brings back my favorite movie of the year so far, Takashi Miike’s First Love, SAM has the Lee Marvin classic Point Blank, the Uptown has a Romanian Film Festival, which includes The Whistlers, a movie we discuss and recommend on our VIFF podcast, and the Egyptian has a live accompaniment to Yasujiro Ozu’s Dragnet Girl.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (Swati Bhise) Fri-Thurs  
Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 

The Beacon Cinema:

Rififi (Jules Dassin, 1955) Fri, Sat, Tues & Thurs 
Santa Sangre (Alejandro Jodorowsky, 1989) Fri-Mon, Thurs 
The Secret of NIMH (Don Bluth, 1982) Sat & Weds Only 
Klute (Alan J. Pakula, 1971) Sat Only 
Angel’s Egg (Mamoru Oshii, 1985) Sun Only 
A Bullet for the General (Damiano Damiani, 1967) Sun & Weds Only 
Ask Any Buddy (Evan Purchell) Sun Only 
Tenebre (Dario Argento, 1982) Mon Only 
Where in the Hell is the Lavender House? (David Hall) Tues Only 

Central Cinema:

Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986) Fri-Weds Dubbed or Subtitled, Check Listings
The Raid: Redemption (Gareth Evans, 2011) Fri-Mon, Weds 

Cinerama:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Weds 

Crest Cinema Centrer:

The Irishman (Martin Scorsese) Fri-Thurs 

SIFF Egyptian:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs 
Dragnet Girl (Yasujiro Ozu, 1933) Thurs Only Live Score Our Podcast

Century Federal Way:

Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon

Grand Cinema:

The Dark Crystal (Jim Henson & Frank Oz, 1982) Sat Only Free Screening
First Love (Takashi Miike) Sat Only Our Review 
Aga (Milko Lazarov) Tues Only 
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa, 1950) Weds Only 
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) Thurs Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Scandalous (Mark Landsman) Fri-Thurs 
Paprika (Satoshi Kon, 2004) Fri-Sun, Tues & Thurs 35mm
Satoshi Kon Rarities Sat Only GI & NWFF Members Only
Pioneers: First Women Filmmakers Mon Only Gi & Scarecrow Members Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs 
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (Swati Bhise) Fri-Thurs  
Sanga Thamizhan (Vijayachander) Fri-Thurs  
Marjaavaan (Milap Zaveri) Fri-Thurs 
Action (Sundar C.) Fri-Thurs 
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Sun, Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Mon

Regal Meridian:

Frankie (Ira Sachs) Fri-Thurs
The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (Swati Bhise) Fri-Thurs 
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Sun, Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Mon 

Northwest Film Forum:

Strange Negotiations (Brandon Vedder) Fri-Weds Director & Subject in Attendance for Some Shows
Millennium Actress (Satoshi Kon, 2001) Sun & Weds Only 
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Sun & Thurs-Next Tues 
Fast Color (Julia Hart) Sun Only 
Unlikely (Adam Fenderson & Jaye Fenderson) Thurs-Next Sat 

AMC Pacific Place:

Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Somewhere Winter (Wang Weiming) Fri-Thurs 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

The Warrior Queen of Jhansi (Swati Bhise) Fri-Thurs  
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs 
Unforgettable (Jun Lana & Percival Intalan) Fri-Thurs 
Housefull 4 (Farhad Samji) Fri-Thurs 

Seattle Art Museum:

Point Blank (John Boorman, 1967) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

The Woman Who Loves Giraffes (Alison Reid) Fri-Sun  

AMC Southcenter:

Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 

Regal Thornton Place:

Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Sun, Mon & Weds Only Subtitled Mon 

SIFF Uptown:

Romanian Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program 
Fantastic Fungi (Louie Schwartzberg) Fri-Thurs  
Moonlight Sonata: Deafness in Three Movements (Irene Taylor Brodsky) Mon Only  
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (Marielle Heller) Thurs Only 
Depeche Mode: SPIRITS in the Forest (Anton Corbijn) Thurs Only 

Varsity Theatre:

The Report (Scott Z. Burns) Fri-Thurs 
Radioflash (Ben McPherson) Fri-Thurs 
Princess Mononoke (Hayao Miyazaki, 1997) Sun & Mon Only Subtitled Mon

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast 

Featured Film:

Perfect Blue at the Northwest Film Forum

It seems there’s a Miyazaki movie playing every other week here in Seattle (there are two next week: Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke), and it’s been the case for going on 20 years now that he and, to a lesser extent, the other Studio Ghibli filmmakers are about all we regularly get from Japanese animated film in regular theatrical release. That’s starting to change though, with great releases like Naoko Yamada’s Liz and the Blue Bird, Makoto Shinkai’s Your Name., and Mamoru Hosada’s Wolf Children in recent years. But in the late 90s and into the 2000s, the one director who could break Miyazaki’s stranglehold on the American market was Satoshi Kon. This week the Northwest Film Forum and the Grand Illusion begin a retrospective of his work with his 1997 Hitchcockian classic Perfect Blue. Next week, they’ll be playing Millennium Actress, and the Grand Illusion will have Paprika (on 35mm!). Elsewhere around town, SAM has one of Samuel Fuller’s greatest films, the nasty noir The Naked Kiss, while the Beacon has Joe vs. the Volcano, another one of those movies (like Ishtar) that for years I was convinced that only people in my immediate family loved, but it turns out that there are much more of us out there and the number is (happily) growing all the time. Oh and the Cinerama has a whole bunch of war movies for Veteran’s Day.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs  

The Beacon Cinema:

Downtown 81 (Edo Bertoglio, 1981) Fri-Thurs 
The Battle of Algiers (Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966) Fri, Sun, Mon & Weds 
Kamikaze Hearts + The Prostitutes of Lyons Speak (Juliet Bashore, 1986/Carole Roussopoulos, 1975) Fri Only 
Night and the City (Jules Dassin, 1950) Sat & Thurs Only 
Street Fight Radio Presents Undercover Business Tyrants Sat Only 
Urusei Yatsura 2 – Beautiful Dreamer (Mamoru Oshii, 1984) Sun Only 
Joe vs. the Volcano (John Patrick Shanley, 1990) Sun-Tues Only 
Deep Red (Dario Argento, 1975) Mon Only 

Central Cinema:

10 Things I Hate About You (Gil Junger, 1999) Fri-Weds 
Escape from New York (John Carpenter, 1981) Fri-Weds 

Cinerama:

Military Film Series Fri-Mon Full Program 

SIFF Egyptian:

Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun & Weds Only  

Grand Cinema:

Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994) Sat Only 
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins (Janice Engel) Tues Only 

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Midnight Traveler (Hassan Fazili) Fri-Thurs 
Making Waves: the Art of Cinematic Sounds (Midge Costin) Fri-Thurs 

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs 
My Dear Liar (Ao Shen) Fri-Thurs  
Thipparaa Meesam (Krishna Vijay) Fri-Thurs 
Kaithi (Lokesh Kanagaraj) Fri-Thurs 
Gantumoote (Roopa Rao) Sun Only  
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun & Weds Only  

Northwest Film Forum:

Rabid (David Cronenberg, 1977) Fri-Sun 
For Sama (Waad Al-Khateab & Edward Watts) Sat & Sun 
Sundance Indigenous Shorts Sat & Sun 
Words from a Bear (Jeffrey Palmer) Sat Only 
Nailed It (Adele Pham) Sat Only 
Perfect Blue (Satoshi Kon, 1997) Sun & Weds Only 
Everybody’s Everything (Ramez Silyan & Sebastian Jones) Tues Only 
Fast Color (Julia Hart) Weds, Thurs & Next Sun Only 
Attack the Block (Joe Cornish, 2011) Thurs Only 

AMC Pacific Place:

Better Days (Derek Tsang) Fri-Thurs Our Review 

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bala (Amar Kaushik) Fri-Thurs 
Unforgettable (Jun Lana & Percival Intalan) Fri-Thurs 
Pain and Glory (Pedro Almodóvar) Fri-Thurs  
Housefull 4 (Farhad Samji) Fri-Thurs 

Seattle Art Museum:

The Naked Kiss (Samuel Fuller, 1964) Thurs Only 

SIFF Film Center:

Greener Grass (Jocelyn DeBoer & Dawn Luebbe) Fri-Sun  

Regal Thornton Place:

The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Sun, Tues & Weds Only  

SIFF Uptown:

Cinema Italian Style Fri-Thurs Full Program 

Varsity Theatre:

Adopt a Highway (Logan Marshall-Green) Fri-Thurs 

In Wide Release:

The Lighthouse (Robert Eggers) Our Review 
Parasite (Bong Joonho) Our Review Our Podcast