Featured Film:

Pockets of Resistance

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

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seven Gables:

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

SIFF Film Center:

2016 Seattle Turkish Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

AMC Southcenter:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

Three Wisemans at the Grand Illusion and the Northwest Film Forum

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

Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Cinerama:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

Moonlight (Barry Jenkins) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Ae Dil Hai Mushkil (Karan Johar) Fri-Sun

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

2016 Seattle Shorts Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

Jean Cocteau at the Seattle Art Museum

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Cinerama:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Vampires on Film at the Grand Illusion

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

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

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

The Handmaiden (Park Chanwook) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

Recovery (Darrell Wheat) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

Regal Thornton Place:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Japanese Horror at the Grand Illusion

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

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

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sat Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Operation Mekong (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

31 (Rob Zombie) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

In the Mouth of Madness at the Grand Illusion

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

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

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

TWIST 2016 Full Program

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

Shin Godzilla (Hideaki Anno) Sun & Mon Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

Better Off Single (Benjamin Cox) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

I Belonged to You (Zhang Yibai) Fri-Thurs

Pacific Science Center:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

A Man Called Ove (Hannes Holm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Seattle South Asian Film Festival Full Program 

Sundance Cinemas:

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

Regal Thornton Place:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

The 2016 Vancouver International Film Festival

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Loews Alderwood:

Mirzya (Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

Better Off Single (Benjamin Cox) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

I Belonged to You (Zhang Yibai) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Seven Gables:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Irish Reels Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

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