Featured Film:

The Big Sleep and The Big Lebowski at the Central Cinema

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Tunnel (Kim Seonghoon) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Klown Forever (Mikkel Nørgaard) Sat & Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

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

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Lo & Behold at the SIFF Uptown

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

The Tunnel (Kim Seonghoon) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

Time Raiders (Daniel Lee) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

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

SIFF Film Center:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

Lo & Behold at the SIFF Uptown

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

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

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Egyptian:

Clue (Jonathan Lynn, 1985) Fri Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

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

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

Regal Thornton Place:

Hell or High Water (David Mackenzie) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Cockfighter at the Grand Illusion

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

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

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

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

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

Featured Film:

Charade at the Seattle Art Museum

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

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

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

AMC Oak Tree:

Gleason (J. Clay Tweel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) Thurs Only Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

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

Sundance Cinemas:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Featured Film:

Black Girl at the Grand Illusion

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

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

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

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

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

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Pelli Chupulu (Tharun Bhascker) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

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

Regal Thornton Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

King Hu and Noir City at the SIFF Uptown and Egyptian

Sneaking into the Uptown for a mere one show apiece on Friday, Saturday and Sunday are two of the greatest Chinese language films of all-time. King Hu‘s Dragon Gate Inn perfected the wuxia genre in 1968. It’s a propulsive, meticulous action film that set the standard for the next 50 years of martial arts film, inspiring remakes and homages from Ang Lee, Tsai Ming-liang and Tsui Hark (who has remade it at least twice). Hu followed it up three years later with A Touch of Zen, which not only improved on the action, but transformed the generic material into a abstract exploration of transcendence and faith. There is likely to be no film on Seattle Screens this year that will benefit more from being seen on the big screen.
In an embarrassment of riches, SIFF is also presenting Eddie Muller’s traveling Noir City festival all this week at the Egyptian. Structured as a series of old-style double features (prestige A-picture along with a shorter, cheaper B-movie), highlights include: I Wake Up Screaming, This Gun for Hire, The 7th Victim, Scarlet Street, My Name is Julia Ross, The Dark Corner, The Reckless Moment and Gun Crazy. All 18 films in the series are playing on 35mm.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (Brad Silberling, 2004) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

The Neverending Story (Wolfgang Petersen, 1984) Fri-Tues
Wet Hot American Summer (David Wain, 2001) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Noir City 2016: Film Noir From A to B Fri-Thurs Full Program 35mm

Century Federal Way:

Kabali (Pa. Ranjith) Fri-Thurs In Tamil with subtitles & Telugu without subtitles, check showtimes
Train to Busan (Yeon Sang-ho) Fri-Thurs
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffer, 1968) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Genius (Michael Grandage) Fri-Thurs
Our Kind of Traitor (Susanna White) Fri-Thurs
Dough (John Goldschmidt) Fri-Thurs
The Confirmation (Bob Nelson) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Land and Shade (César Augusto Acevedo) Fri-Thurs
The Colossus of Destiny: A Melvins Tale  Sat & Sun Only
Cinememory: Negotiating the Past Through Film Tues Only Video

Landmark Guild 45th:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Kabali (Pa. Ranjith) Fri-Thurs In Tamil with subtitles & Telugu without subtitles, check showtimes
Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffer, 1968) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

One Night Only (Matt Wu) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Legend (Ridley Scott, 1985) Sat Only Live Soundtrack
Selections from Pioneers of African-American Cinema Weds Only Members Only
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) Sat Only Live Soundtrack

AMC Pacific Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
For a Few Bullets (Anzi Pan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Café Society (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Arsenic & Old Lace (Frank Capra, 1944) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams) Fri-Thurs
Tickled (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady) Fri-Thurs
Tikkun (Avishai Sivan) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Fri-Thurs
The Measure of a Man (Stéphane Brizé) Fri-Thurs
Eat that Question (Thorsten Schütte) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971) Fri-Sun Our Podcast
Dragon Gate Inn (King Hu, 1968) Fri-Sun Our Review
Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
Beta Test (Nicholas Gyeney) Fri-Sun
48 Hour Film Project Mon-Weds

Varsity Theatre:

Planet of the Apes (Franklin J. Schaffer, 1968) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

David Lynch and Cary Grant at the Seattle Art Museum

I suppose Fire Walk with Me and The Philadelphia Story go together too well for it to be entirely a coincidence that they’re playing on consecutive nights this week at the Art Museum. One is a nightmarish vision of an insular, thoroughly misogynistic  community, packed with quirky, lunatic performances, featuring a healthy amount of substance abuse and a deeply self-deluded father’s seriously messed-up relationship with his daughter. The other is the big screen prequel to a celebrated television series. Hearthfires and holocausts indeed. We talked about Fire Walk with Me earlier this year on the first episode of The Frances Farmer Show.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) Fri-Thurs
The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

The Princess Bride (Rob Reiner, 1987) Fri-Tues
Conan the Barbarian (John Milius, 1982) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Fight Club (David Fincher 1999) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Therapy for a Vampire (David Ruhm) Fri-Thurs
Older than Ireland (Alex Fegan) Fri-Thurs
Genius (Michael Grandage) Fri-Thurs
Our Kind of Traitor (Susanna White) Fri-Thurs
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Tim Burton, 1985) Sat Only
Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Tues Only
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) Weds Only Quote-Along

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Lucha Mexico (Alex Hammond & Ian Markiewicz) Fri-Thurs
Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (Lucio Fulci, 1971) Fri & Sat Only
Eric Ostrowski: Avenue of the Dead Tues Only 16mm, Video, Live Sounds
Industrial Musicals Thurs Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
Our Kind of Traitor (Susanna White) Fri-Thurs
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu (Hemanth Rao) Fri-Thurs
Fight Club (David Fincher 1999) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo) Fri-Sun Our Review 
Sixty Six (Lewis Klahr) Fri Only Filmmaker in Attendance
#Comments Sat Only Filmmaker in Attendance
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin 1979-1989 (Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck & Heiko Lange) Weds Only
White Star (Roland Klick, 1983) Weds & Thurs Only
Decoder (Muscha, 1984) Thurs Only
Actress (Robert Greene, 2014) Thurs Only Director in Attendance Our Review

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Captain Fantastic (Matt Ross) Fri-Thurs
So Young 2: Never Gone (Zhou Tuo Ru) Fri-Thurs
When Larry Met Larry (Wen Zhang) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller) Fri-Thurs
Our Kind of Traitor (Susanna White) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

Fire Walk with Me (David Lynch, 1992) Weds Only Our Podcast
The Philadelphia Story (George Cukor, 1940) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

NUTS! (Penny Lane) Fri-Sun

Sundance Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller) Fri-Thurs
Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Fri-Thurs
Seoul Searching (Benson Lee) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Zero Days (Alex Gibney) Fri-Thurs
Vita Activa: The Spirit of Hannah Arendt (Ada Ushpiz) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Life, Animated (Roger Ross Williams) Fri-Thurs
The Kind Words (Hamilim Hatovot Fri-Thurs
NUTS! (Penny Lane) Mon-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Jake Szymanski) Our Review 
Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Our Review

Featured Film:

Singin’ in the Rain at the Lincoln Square and the Cinemark Federal Way

There’s other good stuff out there this week: Ponyo, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Love & Friendship, Jaws, A Cat in the Brain, The Wailing, Messiah of Evil and the premiere of Right Now, Wrong Then on Thursday. But Singin’ in the Rain is the only movie out this week that has a legitimate claim to being the Best Movie of All-Time. It’s playing as part of Cinemark’s Classics series, which means digital presentation, Sunday and Wednesday only. But it doesn’t matter. It’s the most watchable movie ever made, regardless of how many times you’ve seen it or what format it’s presented in. If you haven’t seen it (what!), you have no excuse. I’ve seen it dozens of times, including a mere two weeks ago, on the couch with a sick four-year old. And we’ll probably go to see it again this weekend.

Playing This Week:

AMC Alderwood:

Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Fantastic Mr. Fox (Wes Anderson, 2009) Weds Only

The Big Picture:

The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Weds
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Weds Our Review

Central Cinema:

Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) Fri-Tues
Ponyo (Hayao Miyazaki, 2008) Fri-Tues Original Language Tues Only
Waterworld (Kevin Reynolds, 1995) Weds Only
Harry and the Hendersons (William Dear, 1987) Thurs Only

SIFF Egyptian:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Dark Horse (Louise Osmond) Fri-Thurs
Older than Ireland (Alex Fegan) Fri-Thurs
Chasing Niagara (Rush Sturges) Mon Only
Viva (Paddy Breathnach) Tues Only
First Girl I Loved (Kerem Sanga) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

A Cat in the Brain (Lucio Fulci, 1990) Fri & Sat Only
Neil Gaiman: Dream Dangerously (Patrick Meaney) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Les Cowboys (Thomas Bidegain) Fri-Thurs
Tickled (David Farrier & Dylan Reeve) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu (Hemanth Rao) Fri-Thurs
Singin’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Cold War 2 (Longman Leung & Sunny Luk) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Foolish Plans (Jiang Tao) Fri-Thurs
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Three Wise Cousins (Stallone Vaiaoga-Ioasa) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

PALMS Fri & Sat Only
Above & Below (Nicolas Steiner) Weds Only Director in Attendance
Messiah of Evil (William Huyck, 1973) Weds & Thurs Only 35mm
Right Now, Wrong Then (Hong Sangsoo) Starts Thurs Our Review

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs
Cell (Tod Williams) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Love & Friendship (Whit Stillman) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Sultan (Ali Abbas Zafar) Fri-Thurs

Seattle Art Museum:

My Favorite Wife (Garson Kanin, 1940) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Wiener-Dog (Todd Solondz) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Fri-Tues, Thurs
Czech That Film Festival 2016 Fri-Sun Full Program 
Farewell My Queen (Benoît Jacquot) Weds Only

Sundance Cinemas:

Hunt for the Wilderpeople (Taika Waititi) Fri-Thurs
The Lobster (Yorgos Lanthimos) Fri-Thurs
Maggie’s Plan (Rebecca Miller) Fri-Thurs
Music of Strangers (Morgan Neville) Fri-Thurs
From Afar (Lorenzo Vigas) Fri-Thurs
Zero Days (Alex Gibney) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer) Fri-Thurs
Unlocking the Cage (Chris Hegedus &  DA Pennebaker) Fri-Thurs
The Wailing (Na Hong-Jin) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates (Jake Szymanski) Our Review 
Swiss Army Man (Dan Kwan & Daniel Scheinert) Our Review