Featured Film:

Out 1 at the SIFF Film Center

Long a holy grail for cinephiles around the globe, Jaques Rivette’s 13 hour film serial from 1971 premieres in a new restoration at SIFF. A Balzacian tale of theatrical rehearsals and conspiracy theories, the film stars French New Wave icon Jean-Pierre Léaud, Michael Lonsdale and Rivette regulars Juliet Berto and Bulle Ogier. SIFF is presenting Out  1 in four parts, consisting of two episodes each. Part 1 & 2 play Friday night, 3 & 4 and 5 & 6 play Saturday, and 7 & 8 on Sunday, with the program starting over again Sunday night and continuing with two parts per night through Wednesday. There’ll be a marathon of the whole serial on Sunday, January 24th. So, if you’re able to spend three or four consecutive days at the Seattle Center, or can physically endure 13 hours in the Film Center, this is the program for you.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Labyrinth (Terry Jones, 1986) Fri-Tues
Aliens (James Cameron, 1986) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

The Himalayas (Lee Seokhoon) Fri-Thurs
The Tiger (Park Hoonjung) Fri-Thurs
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs
Barista (Rock Baijnauth) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Thurs
The Man Who Saved the World (Turkish Star Wars) (Çetin İnanç, 1982) Fri & Sat Only Our Review
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Abstractions: The Films of Jon Behrens (Jon Behrens) Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Trumbo (Jay Roach) Fri-Thurs
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Weds

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Wazir (Bejoy Nambiar) Fri-Thurs
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Devil and Angel (Yu Baimei & Deng Chao) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art (James Crump) Fri-Thurs
Noma: My Perfect Storm (Pierre Deschamps) Fri-Thurs
Kevin T. Allen presents Ear as Other Sat Only
Beach Town (Erik Hammen) Sun Only
Rear Window (Alfred Hitchcock) Weds Only 35mm

AMC Pacific Place:

Mojin: The Lost Legend (Wu Ershan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Mr. Six (Guan Hu) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Kirkland Parkplace Cinema:

The Last Picture Show (Peter Bogdanovich, 1971) Mon Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Framing Pictures: A Floating Conversation about Film Led by Veteran Critics Fri Only
Blood Feast (Herschell Gordon Lewis, 1963) Sat Only
The Harder They Fall (Mark Robson, 1956) Sun Only
Taxi 3 (Gérard Krawczyk, 2003) Mon Only
Ghost Fever (Lee Madden, 1987) Tues Only
The White Bus (Lindsay Anderson, 1967) Weds Only
Family Plot (Alfred Hitchcock, 1976) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

L’Avventura (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Out 1: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971) Fri-Weds
The Fencer (Klaus Härö) Thurs Only

In Wide Release:

The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Hateful 8 (Quentin Tarantino) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Concussion (Peter Landesman) Our Review
Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

Carol at the Uptown, Lincoln Square, Meridian and Guild 45th.

The greatest Carol on Seattle Screens this Christmas is Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Blanchett plays an older woman who romances a young shopgirl, played by Rooney Mara, in 1950s New York (and beyond, during one gloriously melancholic road trip West). One of the best reviewed films of the year (it placed fourth in our our survey), Haynes excels in the smallest moments, the tactile particulars of period wardrobe, the longing in a look, the flashes of light across a window, charged details that accumulate an emotional power that pushes the film far beyond its sketchy social problem film plot toward a devastatingly romantic transcendence.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985) Sat-Tues
Clueless (Amy Heckerling, 1995) Sat-Tues

Century Federal Way:

The Himalayas (Lee Seokhoon) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs
The Messenger (Su Rynard) Tues Only
Killing Them Safely (Nick Berardini) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Thurs
Flowers (Jon Garaño and Jose Mari Goenaga) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Mojin: The Lost Legend (Wu Ershan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Mr. Six (Guan Hu) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Beauty and the Bestie (Wenn V. Deramas) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Irony of Fate (Eldar Ryazanov, 1975) Fri Only
New Year’s Evil (Emmett Alston, 1980) Sat Only
The Hobbit (Rankin-Bass, 1977) Sun Only
Cold Water (Olivier Assayas, 1994) Sun Only
Cría Cuervos (Carlos Saura, 1977) Mon Only
Hellraiser II: Hellbound (Tony Randel, 1988) Tues Only
Outcast of the Islands (Carol Reed, 1952) Weds Only
The Wicker Man (Neil LaBute, 2006) Tues Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Il Grido (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1957) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Hateful 8 (Quentin Tarantino) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Concussion (Peter Landesman) Our Review
Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

Carol at the Uptown, Lincoln Square and Guild 45th.

The greatest Carol on Seattle Screens this Christmas is Cate Blanchett in Todd Haynes’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel The Price of Salt. Blanchett plays an older woman who romances a young shopgirl, played by Rooney Mara, in 1950s New York (and beyond, during one gloriously melancholic road trip West). One of the best reviewed films of the year (it placed fourth in our our survey), Haynes excels in the smallest moments, the tactile particulars of period wardrobe, the longing in a look, the flashes of light across a window, charged details that accumulate an emotional power that pushes the film far beyond its sketchy social problem film plot toward a devastatingly romantic transcendence.

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Playing This Week:

 

Central Cinema:

Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) Fri-Weds
Blade Runner – The Final Cut (Ridley Scott, 1982) Fri-Tues

Grand Cinema:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs
Life of Brian (Terry Jones, 1979) Fri & Sat Only
Killing Them Safely (Nick Berardini) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Tues
Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Tues

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Mojin: The Lost Legend (Wu Ershan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Surprise (Show Joy) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Six (Guan Hu) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs
Beauty and the Bestie (Wenn V. Deramas) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Get Crazy (Allan Arkush, 1983) Sat Only
Millions (Danny Boyle, 2005) Sun Only
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only
The Dead (John Huston, 1987) Tues Only
Three Godfathers (John Ford, 1948) Weds Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Thurs Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Thurs Quote-Along

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs
Fiddler on the Roof (Norman Jewish, 1971) Fri Only Sing-along
Moulin Rouge! (Bad Luhrmann, 2001) Thurs Only Sing-along

In Wide Release:

The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Concussion (Peter Landesman) Our Review
Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) Our Review

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, 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.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Tues

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale (Jalmari Helander, 2010) Sat Only
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Tues Only Sing-along

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
VHS Uber Alles presents Droid (Peter Williams, 1988) Fri Only VHS

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Tues
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Tues
The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Joyeuses Fetes!: A Children’s Film Festival Seattle Preview Sat Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Mojin: The Lost Legend (Wu Ershan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Surprise (Show Joy) Fri-Thurs
He Never Died (Jason Krawczyk) Fri-Thurs
Anguish (Sonny Mallhi) Fri-Thurs
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Reindeer Games (John Frankenheimer, 2000) Fri Only
Silent Night, Deadly Night Part 2 (Lee Harry, 1987) Sat Only
The Stingiest Man in Town (Rankin-Bass, 1978) Sun Only
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas Webster, 1964) Mon Only
The Wrong Man (Alfred Hitchcock, 1956) Tues Only
Scrooged (Richard Donner, 1988) Weds Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Thurs Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Thurs Quote-Along

AMC Southcenter:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs
Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Fri-Tues
The Big Short (Adam McKay) Starts Tues

Varsity Theatre:

Miracle on 34th Street (George Seaton, 1947) Sun & Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) Our Review

Featured Film:

Star Wars Marathon at the Cinemark Lincoln Square and the Century Federal Way

In preparation for next Thursday’s premiere of The Force Awakens, a couple of local screens are playing the first six Star Wars films beginning at 3 am Wednesday night (or Thursday morning). They appear to be starting with The Phantom Menace, which would totally be the wrong way to watch them (other than chronological release order, the best way to marathon the films is IV-V-I-II-III-VI), except of course for the fact that the shows begin at 3 am. No sober or sane person has watched The Phantom Menace at 3am in 16 1/2 years, so they might as well throw that one on first. Wise viewers will simply sleep in and show up around the two-thirds point of Attack of the Clones. Anyway, we talked a lot about Star Wars (both the series and George Lucas in general and the 1977 film in particular) on this week’s episode of The George Sanders Show. 

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Fri-Mon
Edward Scissorhands (Tim Burton, 1990) Fri-Tues

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Sun & Weds Only
Boruto: Naruto the Movie (Hiroyuki Yamashita) Sun Only
Star Wars Marathon (Various) Weds Only Our Podcast

Grand Cinema:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review
White Christmas (Michael Curtiz, 1954) Weds Only Sing-along
Eyes of the Totem (WS Van Dyke, 1927) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

It’s a Wonderful Life (Frank Capra, 1946) Fri-Thurs 35mm
VHS Uber Alles presents Droid (Peter Williams, 1988) Fri Only VHS

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Weds
Bengal Tiger (Sampath Nandi) Fri-Weds
Boruto: Naruto the Movie (Hiroyuki Yamashita) Sun Only
Star Wars Marathon (Various) Weds Only Our Podcast

Regal Meridian:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Fall in Love Like a Star (Tony Chan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Tyler Oakley’s Snervous Fri-Sun
Iraq in Fragments (James Longley, 2006) Sat Only 35mm
The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle (David Russo, 2009) Sat Only
Twisted Flicks featuring Prom Queen: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (Nicholas Webster, 1964) Sat Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Our Times (Frankie Chen) Fri-Weds
She Remembers, He Forgets (Adam Wong) Fri-Weds

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
A Second Chance (Cathy Garcia-Molina) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Framing Pictures: A Floating Conversation About Film Fri Only
A Kid for Two Farthings (Carol Reed, 1955) Sun Only
Action Movie Night Sun Only
Santa Claus: The Movie (Jeannot Szwarf, 1985) Mon Only
Dead Bang (John Frankenheimer, 1989) Tues Only
The Shop Around the Corner (Ernest Lubitsch, 1940) Weds Only
Nutcracker: The Untold Story (Andrei Konchalovsky, 2009) Weds Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-Along
Taming Wild (Elsa Sinclair) Tues Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

James White (Josh Mond) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Girl in the Book (Marya Cohn) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Sun Our Review
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Fri-Thurs
Billy Liar plus Advanced Screening of 45 Years (John Schlesinger, 1963/Andrew Haigh, 2015) Mon Only 35mm/DCP Our Review

In Wide Release:

Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) Our Review

Featured Film:

Zodiac on 35mm at the Seattle Art Museum

Bringing the Seattle Art Museum’s 38th Film Noir series to an end this week is David Fincher’s paranoid procedural Zodiac, from 2007. Like all the films in the series, this one is presented on 35mm film, an ever-increasing rarity on Seattle Screens, especially for so recent a film. Zodiac stars Robert Downey Jr, Jake Gyllenhaal, and Mark Ruffalo as reporters and investigators who become increasingly obsessed with a serial killer who sends cryptic clues and terrorizes the Bay Area in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Fincher and his collaborators make meticulous use of digital effects to recreate the environments of the era, but most palpable is the sense of dread, the fear that solving the crime will ultimately prove an impossibility. The darkest truth of any in film noir: that evil is truly incomprehensible.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

From Here to Eternity (Fred Zinnemann, 1953) Fri-Tues
Die Hard (John McTiernan, 1988) Fri-Tues

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs
Teton Gravity Research: The Sammy C Project Weds Only

Century Federal Way:

Mukhtiar Chadha (Gifty) Fri-Thurs
Judge Singh LLB (Atharv Baluja) Fri-Thurs
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (Jeremiah S. Check, 1989) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Bikes vs. Cars (Fredrik Gertten) Tues Only
Calling My Children (David Binder) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri, Sat, Mon, Weds, Thurs
Bikes vs. Cars (Fredrik Gertten) Fri-Thurs
EXcinema presents The Spaces Between Cities (Various) Tues Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Tues
Shankarabaranum (Kona Venkat) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Fall in Love Like a Star (Tony Chan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Paul Taylor: Creative Domain (Kate Geiss) Fri-Sun
Xenia (Panos H. Koutras) Fri-Sun
God Bless the Child (Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck) Fri Only
Next Dance Cinema (Various) Mon Only
Phoebe’s Father (John Helde) Tues Only
Tyler Oakley’s Snervous Thurs-Sun

AMC Pacific Place:

Our Times (Frankie Chen) Fri-Thurs
She Remembers, He Forgets (Adam Wong) Fri-Thurs
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) Weds Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

WNUF Halloween Special (Chris LaMartina, Shawn Jones, James Branscome, 2013) Fri Only
The House of Yes (Mark Waters, 1997) Sat Only
A Year without Santa Claus (Rankin/Bass, 1974) Sun Only
The Long Kiss Goodnight (Renny Harlin, 1996) Sun Only
Carol for Another Christmas (Joseph L. Mankiewicz, 1964) Mon Only
I Confess (Alfred Hitchcock, 1953) Tues Only
The Apartment (Billy Wilder, 1960) Weds Only
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (Shane Black, 2005) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) Thurs Only 35mm

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs
Home Alone (Chris Columbus, 1990) Weds Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Life (Anton Corbijn) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Sun
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Creed (Ryan Coogler) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) Our Review

Featured Film:

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi at the Grand Illusion

Back on the big screen after a successful run two weeks ago at the Northwest Film Forum, the acclaimed Iranian director Jafar Panahi has smuggled another film to the outside world in contravention of his government-imposed 20 year ban on filmmaking. Driving a taxi through the streets of Teheran, digital camera attached to the dashboard, Panahi talks with a variety of locals as he maneuvers around the city’s traffic tangles. Notable passengers include his precocious niece, a dealer in bootleg DVDs, and a pair of women in a hurry to transport some goldfish. Like much of his previous work, it melts the line between fiction and reality, while documenting the poignant struggle of a artist in exile.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Casablanca (Michael Curtiz, 1942) Fri-Tues Our Review
The Breakfast Club (John Hughes, 1985) Fri-Weds
Difret (Zeresenay Mehari) Weds Only

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Opens Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Mukhtiar Chadha (Gifty) Fri-Thurs
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Dangerous Men (John S. Rad, 2005) Fri & Sat Only Our Review
Experimenter (Michael Almereyda) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

The Winding Stream (Beth Harrington) Fri-Mon
In the Basement (Ulrich Seidel) Fri-Thurs
2015 Sundance Film Festival Award Winning Shorts (Various) Tues Only
The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) Thurs Only Live Score

AMC Pacific Place:

Our Times (Frankie Chen) Fri-Thurs
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Sun & Tues Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Star Wars (George Lucas, 1977) Fri Only
The House of Yes (Mark Waters, 1997) Sat Only
The Caine Mutiny (Edward Dmytryk, 1954) Sun Only
Documentary Room: Pick A Winner Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Underworld USA (Samuel Fuller, 1961) Thurs Only 35mm

SIFF Film Center:

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Sun Smell-o-Vision
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Sun Quote-Along
Metropolitan (Whit Stillman, 1990) Mon Only Director Skype Q & A

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Asthma (Jake Hoffman) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Thurs
Class Divide (Mark Levin) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

A Ballerina’s Tale (Nelson George) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Roman Holiday (William Wyler, 1953) Sun & Tues Only

In Wide Release:

Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

In Jackson Heights at the Northwest Film Forum

The latest release from the venerable and prolific documentarian Frederick Wiseman is always a highlight of the film year. Following up last year’s look at London’s National Gallery art museum, Wiseman broadens his focus to an entire neighborhood of Queens. Expect long, carefully but not obviously composed images of people at work, everyday life captured seemingly on the fly, but within a minutely calibrated structure. Despite their appearance and lack of explicit narration (no interviews, no on-screen titles) Wiseman’s films are the opposite of the fly-on-the-wall cinema-verité ideal with which they’re often confused. There’s always an argument being made, there’s always a story he’s telling.

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Playing This Week:

 

Central Cinema:

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) Fri-Tues
The Royal Tenenbaums (Wes Anderson, 2001) Fri-Tues

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

By the Sea (Angelina Jolie-Pitt) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann, 1955) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

Grand Cinema:

The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert) Fri-Thurs
The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Sat Morning Only
Brave Miss World (Cecilia Peck) Mon Only
Rosenwald (Aviva Kempner) Tues Only
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Starts Weds

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Moana with Sound (Robert Flaherty, 1926/Monica Flaherty, 1980) Fri-Thurs Our Review
VHS Uber Alles presents Action USA (John Stewart, 1989) Sat Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Brooklyn (John Crowley) Fri-Thurs
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Oklahoma! (Fred Zinnemann, 1955) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman) Fri-Thurs
Entertainment (Rick Alverson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
What is It? (Crispin Hellion Glover, 2005) Fri Only 35mm with Performance, Q & A, Slide Show, etc
Marlowe’s Cabinet of Curiosities (Various, 1942-2014) Sun Only 16mm + Video

AMC Pacific Place:

Brooklyn (John Crowley) Fri-Thurs
The Last Women Standing (Luo Luo) Fri-Thurs
A Journey through Time with Anthony (Janet Chun) Fri-Thurs
Our Times (Frankie Chen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Heneral Luna (Jerrold Tarog) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

The Night Porter (Liliana Cavani, 1974) Fri Only
Skins (Chris Eyre, 2002) Sat Only
Reel Injun (Neil Diamond, Catherine Bainbridge & Jeremiah Hayes, 2009) Sun Only
Dutch (Peter Faiman, 1991) Sun Only
Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle, 1958) Mon Only
The Babadook (Jennifer Kent, 2014) Tues Only
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) Weds Only

SIFF Film Center:

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Fri-Sun, Weds Our Review, Our Other Review 
(T)error (David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral) Fri-Sun, Weds
Criminal Activities (Jackie Earle Haley) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Brooklyn (John Crowley) Fri-Thurs
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict (Lisa Immordino Vreeland) Fri-Thurs
Criminal Activities (Jacie Earle Haley) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Fri-Thurs
The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Sun-Tues Our Review, Our Other Review
(T)error (David Felix Sutcliffe, Lyric R. Cabral) Mon-Tues
Aferim! (Radu Jude) Fri & Sun Only
Romanian Film Festival Fri-Sun
Internet Cat Video Festival Mon-Weds

Varsity Theatre:

A Ballerina’s Tale (Nelson George) Fri-Tues Our Review

In Wide Release:

Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi at the Northwest Film Forum

The acclaimed Iran director Jafar Panahi has smuggled another film to the outside world in contravention of his government-imposed 20 year ban on filmmaking. Driving a taxi through the streets of Teheran, digital camera attached to the dashboard, Panahi talks with a variety of locals as he maneuvers around the city’s traffic tangles. Notable are his precocious niece, a dealer in bootleg DVDs, and a pair of women in a hurry to transport some goldfish. Like much of his previous work, it melts the line between fiction and reality, while documenting the poignant struggle of a artist in exile.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Strangers on a Train (Alfred Hitchcock, 1951) Fri-Weds
Throw Momma from the Train (Danny DeVito, 1987) Fri-Weds

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien) Fri-Thurs Our Review, Our Other Review 
Samurai Cop 2: Deadly Vengeance (Gregory Hatanaka) Fri Midnight

Century Federal Way:

Fantasia (Various, 1940) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

A Brilliant Young Mind (Morgan Matthews) Fri-Thurs
The Second Mother (Anna Muylaert) Fri-Thurs
Unbranded (Phillip Baribeau) Tues Only
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Dangerous Men (John S. Rad, 2005) Fri-Thurs 35mm Our Review

Landmark Guild 45th:

Ghost in the Shell: The New Movie (Kazuya Nomura) Mon Only
Fantasia (Various, 1940) Sun & Weds Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Fri-Thurs
Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Akhil (Nithin) Fri-Thurs
Fantasia (Various, 1940) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri-Thurs
Homemakers (Colin Healey) Fri & Sat Only
The Devil’s Sword (Ratio Timoer, 1984) Fri Only
Obvious Child (Gillian Robespierre) Sun Only Plus shorts and Panel Discussion
Bob Birdnow’s Remarkable Tale of Human Survival and the Transcendence of Self (Eric Steele, 2013) Weds Only
It Is Fine! EVERYTHING IS FINE (Crispin Hellion Glover, 2007) Thurs Only with Performance, Q & A, Slide Show, etc

AMC Pacific Place:

Ex Files 2: The Backup Tsrikes Back (Tian Yusheng) Fri-Thurs
The Last Women Standing (Luo Luo) Fri-Thurs
The Witness (Ahn Sang-hoon) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Prem Ratan Dhan Payo (Sooraj Barjatya) Fri-Thurs
Heneral Luna (Jerrold Tarog) Fri-Thurs
Felix Manalo (Joel Lamangan) Fri-Thurs
Everyday I Love You (Mae Czarina Cruz) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Swamp Women (Roger Corman, 1956) Fri Only
Danger: Diabolik (Mario Bava, 1968) Sat Only
Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1952) Sun Only
Animation Room: Pick A Winner Sun Only
Framing Pictures: A Floating Conversation About Film Mon Only
The Fly (David Cronenberg, 1986) Tues Only
Pandora’s Box (GW Pabst, 1929) Weds Only
Suspicion (Alfred Hitchcock, 1941) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Nightfall (Jacques Tourneur, 1957) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Goodnight Mommy (Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero) Fri-Thurs
All Things Must Pass (Colin Hanks) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Spartacus (Stanley Kubrick, 1960) Fri-Sun, Thurs
Cinema Italian Style Festival Fri-Thurs Only
Gun Crazy (Joseph H. Lewis, 1950) Sat-Sun & Tues Only Our Podcast
Papillon (Franklin J. Schaffner, 1973) Sat & Weds Only
Exodus (Otto Preminger, 1960) Sun & Mon Only

In Wide Release:

Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Our Review
Crimson Peak (Guillermo del Toro) Our Review
Steve Jobs (Danny Boyle) Our Review
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review