Featured Film:

Wim Wenders and Chantal Akerman at SIFF

Following up their co-presentation with the Northwest Film Forum of a weeks-long retrospective of the films of German director Wim Wenders earlier this spring, SIFF this week is playing at the Uptown a condensed version of the series, a kind of Wenders Greatest Hits, with four of his best-known films. Paris, Texas, Wings of Desire and The American Friend are the familiar titles, but the real gem is a second chance at seeing the recently restored five hour Director’s Cut of his 1991 sci-fi epic Until the End of the World. At the same time, the SIFF Film Center is kicking off a two-week series on the late Belgian director Chantal Akerman. They’re playing her final film, No Home Movie, along with a documentary about Akerman called I Don’t Belong Anywhere. next week the Northwest Film Forum continues the series with From the East (D’Est), Down There (Là-bas) and a second documentary, Chantal Akerman, From Here. We talked about Akerman and her film Je, tu, il, elle last fall on The George Sanders Show.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Pretty in Pink (Howard Deutch, 1986) Fri-Tues
Hot Fuzz (Edgar Wright, 2007) Fri-Weds

SIFF Egyptian:

Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) Sat Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Sarrainodu (Boyapati Srinu) Fri-Thurs
Vaisakhi List (Sumeep Kang) Fri-Thurs
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Saving Face (Alice Wu, 2004) Sun Only
Rolling Papers (Mitch Dickman) Tues Only
The Hand that Feeds (Robin Blotnick & Rachel Lears) Weds Only Filmmaker Q & A
Red Wolf Revival (Roshan Patel) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Too Late (Dennis Hauck) Fri-Thurs 35mm
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Sat, Mon & Tues Only
VHS Über Alles presents Rocktober Blood (Beverly Sebastian, 1984) Fri Only VHS
Zigeurnerweisen (Seijun Suzuki, 1980) Sat Only 35mm
Kagerô-za (Seijun Suzuki, 1981) Sun Only 35mm Our Suzuki Podcast

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Theri (Atlee Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Laal Rang (Syed Ahmed Afzal) Fri-Thurs
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Fri – Thurs Our Podcast 
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

My Golden Days (Arnaud Desplechin) Fri-Thurs
As You Like It (Michael Elliott & Ronald Eyre, 1963) Sat Only Free Screening
The Taming of the Shrew (David Richards, 2005) Sun Only
Elephant (Gus Van Sant, 1977) Tues Only 35mm
Tattooed Life (Seijun Suzuki, 1965) Weds Only 35mm
David Domingo: A Super 8 Odyssey Thurs Only Director in Attendance

AMC Pacific Place:

Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier Fri-Thurs Our Review
New York, New York (Luo Dong) Fri-Thurs
Purple Rain (Albert Magnoli, 1984) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Seattle Art Museum:

Les choses de la vie (Claude Sautet, 1970) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

The First Monday in May (Andrew Rossi) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

No Home Movie (Chantal Akerman) Fri-Sun, Tues & Thurs
I Don’t Belong Anywhere: The Cinema of Chantal Akerman (Marianne Lambert) Fri-Thurs

AMC Southcenter:

Compadres (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Green Room (Jeremy Saulnier Fri-Thurs Our Review
Louder than Bombs (Joachim Trier) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Fireworks Wednesday (Asghar Farhadi, 2006) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov) Fri-Thurs Our Review
April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci) Fri-Thurs
The Glamour & The Squalor (Marq Evans) Fri Only
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) Fri & Mon Only
The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977) Fri & Weds Only
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1988) Sun, Tues & Weds Only
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders, 1991) Sun Only Director’s Cut

Varsity Theatre:

Precious Cargo (Max Adams) Fri-Thurs
Sky (Fabienne Berthaud) Fri-Thurs
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Our Review Our Other Review

Featured Film:

Seijun Suzuki at the Grand Illusion and the Northwest Film Forum

Beginning last week, Seattle’s best art house theatres launched an eleven film retrospective of the works of Japanese director Seijun Suzuki, featuring several of his classic 1960s films as well as a handful of later works. Growing out of B-movie cops and gangster pictures in the 1950s, Suzuki by the mid-60s took to abstracting his generic tales with wild flourishes of color and framing, not so much eating away at the conventions of the studio system as Hollywood termites like Samuel Fuller did, but rather outright obliterating conventions of realism, exposing previously unfathomable, ludicrous beauties in the crime melodrama. By the late 60s, his excesses got him banned from the studio system, only to resurface a decade later with his acclaimed Taishō Trilogy. This weekend the Grand Illusion presents two of his 60s films, Gate of Flesh and Fighting Elegy, with all three Taishō films to follow over the next two weeks, all on 35mm. Meanwhile, on Wednesdays from April 27-May 11, the Film Forum is showing 60s classics Tatooed Life, Tokyo Drifter, Carmen from Kawachi, and Branded to Kill. This week on The Frances Farmer Show, we’ll be talking about Suzuki and his Youth of the Beast (which played this past Wednesday at the Film Forum), along with Takeshi Kitano’s 1993 yakuza film Sonatine.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Bridget Jones’s Diary (Sharon Maguire, 2001) Fri-Tues
Shaun of the Dead (Edgar Wright, 2004) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

Theri (Atlee Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) Sun & Weds Only

Cinerama:

The Hateful Eight (Quentin Tarantino) Fri-Thurs 70mm Our Review

Grand Cinema:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli) Fri-Thurs
Cambodian Son (Kosal Khiev) Fri Only
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Tues Only Our Review 
Landfill Harmonic (Brad Allgood & Graham Townsley) Thurs Only
A Hologram for the King (Tom Tykwer) Thurs Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Too Late (Dennis Hauck) Fri-Thurs 35mm Director in attendance Fri
Gate of Flesh (Seijun Suzuki, 1964) Sat Only 35mm Intro by Tony Kay
Fighting Elegy (Seijun Suzuki, 1966) Sun Only 35mm Intro by Tony Kay Our Suzuki Podcast
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Weds Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli) Fri-Thurs
The Empire of Corpses (Ryôtarô Makihara) Tues & Weds Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Theri (Atlee Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs
Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Fri – Thurs Our Podcast 
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs
The Witch (Robert Eggers) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review

Northwest Film Forum:

By Design 2016 Fri-Sun Only Full Program
Heartburn Highways (James Szalapski) Fri Only
Following Kina (Sonia Goldenberg) Sat Only
My Brooklyn (Kelly Anderson, 2013) Mon Only
Hausu (Nobuhiko Obayashi, 1977) Weds Only 35mm, Live Score
A Space Program (Van Neistat & Tom Sachs) Thurs Only Director in Attendance

AMC Leows Oak Tree:

Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

New York, New York (Luo Dong) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Fri – Thurs Our Podcast 
Fan (Maneesh Sharma) Fri-Thurs
The Witch (Robert Eggers) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Seattle Art Museum:

Stolen Kisses (François Truffaut, 1968) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

The First Monday in May (Andrew Rossi) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
A Space Program (Van Neistat) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Sold (Jeffrey D. Brown) Fri-Thurs
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Born to Be Blue (Robert Budreau) Fri-Thurs
The Preppie Connection (Joseph Castelo) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov) Fri-Thurs Our Review
April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci) Fri-Thurs
Sync Music Video Festival 2016 Fri Only

Varsity Theatre:

The Adderall Diaries (Pamela Romanowsky) Fri-Thurs
One More Time (When I Live My Life Over Again) (Robert Edwards) Fri-Thurs
Kill Your Friends (Owen Harris) Fri-Thurs
Fastball (Jonathan Hock) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Everybody Wants Some!! at the Sundance and the Lincoln Square

Richard Linklater’s latest film, a sequel in all but name to his 1993 masterpiece dazed and Confused opens this week at the Sundance Cinemas in the U-District and the Cinemark Lincoln Square in Bellevue. The film has dramatically split the staff here, with Mike finding it crude and obnoxious while I think it’s one of Linklater’s very best, a delightful and insightful look at a subculture that, while maintaining a frustratingly dominant position in the culture at large (though less so now than in 1980, when the film is set), is nonetheless often misunderstood. Check it out for yourself and see if it earns those exclamation marks.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Ocean’s Eleven (Stephen Soderbergh, 2001) Fri-Weds
Point Break (Kathryn Bigelow, 1991) Fri-Weds Our Podcast

Century Federal Way:

Ambarsariya (Mandeep Kumar) Fri-Thurs
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Remember (Atom Egoyan) Fri-Thurs
Meet the Patels (Geeta & Ravi Patel, 2014) Sun Only
Internet Cat Video Festival Mon Only
The Wave (Roar Uthaug) Tues Only
Straight Outta Compton (F. Gary Gray) Thurs Only Our Review

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Invitation (Karyn Kusama) Fri-Thurs
Passport to Darkness (Seijun Suzuki, 1959) Sat Only 35mm
Drone Cinema Film Festival 2016 Sat Only
Positive Force: More Than a Witness (Robin Bell, 2014) Sun Only Director in Attendance
Corn’s-A-Poppin’ (Robert Woodburn, 1956) Tues Only 35mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Oopiri (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Telugu
Ki and Ka (R. Balki) Fri-Thurs
Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (Stanley Kramer, 1963) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Northwest Film Forum:

Notfilm (Ross Litman) Fri-Mon Only
Work in Progress (Adam Sekuler) Fri Only
Bleak Street (Arturo Ripstein) Fri-Sun Only
Youth of the Beast (Seijun Suzuki, 1963) Weds Only 35mm
A Space Program (Van Neistat & Tom Sachs) Thurs Only Director in Attendance

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
Ardaas (Gippy Grewal) Fri-Thurs
Love is Blind (Jason Paul Laxamana) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video:

Framing Pictures Fri Only
Matango (Ishiro Honda, 1963) Sat Only
Hamlet (Franco Zeffirelli, 1990) Sun Only
Russian Ark (Alexander Sokurov, 2002) Sun Only Our Podcast
April in Paris (David Butler, 1952) Mon Only
Lifeboat (Alfred Hitchcock, 1944) Tues Only
Jefferson in Paris (James Ivory, 1995) Weds Only
Masque of the Red Death (Roger Corman, 1964) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Classe tous risque (Claude Sautet, 1960) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Sun
April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci) Sun Only

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Francofonia (Alexander Sokurov) Fri-Thurs Our Review
April and the Extraordinary World (Christian Desmares and Franck Ekinci) Fri-Thurs
Storefront Hitchcock (Jonathan Demme, 1998) Thurs Only with Robyn Hitchcock in Person

Sundance Cinemas:

Everybody Wants Some!! (Richard Linklater) Fri-Thurs Our Review Our Other Review
Mr. Right (Paco Cabezas) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Born to Be Blue (Robert Budreau) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review
One More Time (When I Live My Life Over Again) (Robert Edwards) Fri-Thurs
Kill Your Friends (Owen Harris) Fri-Thurs
Fastball (Jonathan Hock) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review

Featured Film:

Beauty and the Beast at the Grand Illusion

Hard to think of a better way to celebrate the 12th anniversary of the current iteration of the U-District’s venerable Grand Illusion Cinema than with a 35mm print of Jean Cocteau’s classic 1946 fairy tale. Decades ahead of its time in the integration of the surreal and avant-garde into popular filmmaking, Cocteau’s adaptation of the story by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont remains, 70 years after its release, a landmark in special effects. Among the greatest works of magic in film history, only scattered moments in movies by the likes of Georges Méliès, Ray Harryhausen and Tsui Hark can even dare to be considered in the same breath.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (Nicholas Meyer, 1982) Fri-Weds
Galaxy Quest (Dean Parisot, 1999) Fri-Weds

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Ambarsariya (Mandeep Kumar) Fri-Thurs
A Clockwork Orange with 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1971 & 1968) Sun & Weds Only Double Feature

Grand Cinema:

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Martian (Ridley Scott) Mon Only Our Review
Boy and the World (Alê Abreu, 2013) Tues & Thurs Only Our Review

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) Fri, Sat & Weds Only 35mm
Baskin (Can Evrenol) Fri-Thurs
Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA with Hot Biskits (Spencer Williams, 1946 & 1929) Sun Only
From Mayerling to Sarajevo (Max Ophuls, 1940) Sun & Mon Only 35mm
Corn’s-A-Poppin’ (Robert Woodburn, 1956) Tues Only 35mm

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Oopiri (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Telugu
Midnight Special (Jeff Nichols) Fri-Thurs
Ki and Ka (R. Balki) Fri-Thurs
Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
A Clockwork Orange with 2001: A Space Odyssey (Stanley Kubrick, 1971 & 1968) Sun & Weds Only Double Feature

Regal Meridian:

Chongqing Hot Pot (Yang Qing) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Neptune Theatre:

Nanook of the North (Robert Flaherty, 1922) Weds Only Live Performance

Northwest Film Forum:

2016 Seattle Deaf Film Festival Fri-Sun Only Full Program
They Will Have to Kill Us First (Johanna Schwartz) Mon-Weds Only
Tanya Tagaq discussion with Tracy Rector Tues Only
The Seattle Process with Brett Hamil Thurs Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
Ardaas (Gippy Grewal) Fri-Thurs
Love is Blind (Jason Paul Laxamana) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video:

Silent Running (Douglas Trumbull, 1972) Fri Only
The Calamari Wrestler (Minoru Kawasaki, 2004) Sat Only Live Music
Richard III (Richard Loncraine, 1995) Sun Only
Obselidia (Diane Bell, 2010) Sun Only
Butterfly (Doug Wolens, 2000) Mon Only
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) Tues Only
Letter from an Unknown Woman (Max Ophuls, 1948) Weds Only
Cat People (Jacques Tourneur, 1942) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Richard Beymer’s Before the Big Bang Weds Only
A Pig Across Paris (Claude Autant-Lara, 1956) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

City of Gold (Laura Gabbert) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Take Me to the River (Matt Sobel) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) Fri-Sun Our Podcast
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
The Last Dragon (Michael Schultz, 1985) Fri Only With Taimak in Person
Rescue Dogs (MJ Anderson & Haik Katsikian) Sat & Sun Only
Seattle Jewish Film Festival Mon-Thurs Only Full Program

Sundance Cinemas:

Remember (Atom Egoyan) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Kill Your Friends (Owen Harris) Fri-Thurs
Fastball (Jonathan Hock) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review

Featured Film:

Ran at the SIFF Uptown

Shakespeare is in the air this spring on Seattle Screens. With the First Folio’s arrival at the Seattle Public Library and the upcoming episode of The Frances Farmer Show on Peter Greenaway’s Prospero’s Books and Matías Piñeiro’s The Princess of France, SIFF this week is presenting the latest restoration of Akira Kurosawa’s final masterpiece, his 1985 King Lear adaptation Ran. Tatsuya Nakadai stars as the aged king who unwisely splits his realm among his sons, disinheriting the truly loyal one. A bleak vision of a chaotic universe, colored by brilliant production design, a mournful score by Toru Takemitsu and as much influence from classical Noh drama as Elizabethan theatre, it remains one of the most powerful and original of all Shakespeare films. We discussed it in the second part of our They Shot Pictures podcast series on Akira Kurosawa back in 2013. In conjunction, the SIFF Film Center is playing the great film essayist Chris Marker’s documentary about the making of Ran and Kurosawa himself, A. K. Japanese film scholar Donald Richie wrote that all his life, whenever Kurosawa was asked to pick his favorite from among his own films, he’d always say “the next one.” After 1985, he’d answer, “Ran“.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Fri-Tues
Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

Ambarsariya (Mandeep Kumar) Fri-Thurs
Spirits Homecoming (Cho Jung-rae) Fri-Thurs
Love Punjab (Rajiv Dhingra) Fri-Thurs
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Stephen Spielberg, 1981) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Trapped (Dawn Porter) Fri-Thurs
Emelie (Michael Thelin) Fri & Sat Only
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar) Tues Only
Smoke Signals (Chris Eyre) Weds Only Free Screening

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Requiem for the American Dream (Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott ) Fri, Mon-Thurs Only Our Review
City of Women (Federico Fellini, 1981) Fri-Thurs
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Birthright with Darktown Revue (Oscar Micheaux, 1939 & 1931) Sun Only
UFO Night with Intergalactic Space Busk & Teenagers from Outer Space (Ian Volpi, Tom Graeff, 2016 & 1959) Mon Only Video

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Oopiri (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Telugu
Thozha (Vamsi Paidipally) Fri-Thurs In Tamil
Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Stephen Spielberg, 1981) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Songs My Brother Taught Me (Chloe Zhao) Fri-Sun Only
I Knew Her Well (Antonio Pietrangeli, 1965) Fri-Mon Only
Trapped (Dawn Porter) Fri-Thurs
The Lost Arcade (Kurt Vincent) Sun Only
Sex & Broadcasting (Tim K Smith, 2014) Weds Only
Festival of (In)Appropriation (Jaimie Baron, Lauren Berliner & Greg Cohen) Weds Only
Until the End of the World (Wim Wenders, 1991) Thurs Only Director’s Cut

AMC Pacific Place:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Kapoor & Sons – Since 1921 (Shakun Batra) Fri-Thurs
Ardaas (Gippy Grewal) Fri-Thurs
Hello My Name is Doris (Michael Showalter) Fri-Thurs
Love is Blind (Jason Paul Laxamana) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Sci-Fi Commons Secret Movie Fri Only
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (Philip Kaufman, 1978) Sat Only
Young Cassidy (Jack Cardiff & John Ford, 1965) Sun Only
The Future (Miranda July, 2011) Sun Only
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967) Mon Only
In Cold Blood (Richard Brooks, 1967) Tues Only
Lust for Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956) Weds Only
3 Women (Robert Altman, 1977) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Antoine and Antoinette (Jacques Becker, 1947) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

City of Gold (Laura Gabbert) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

A.K. (Chris Marker, 1985) Fri-Sun
Aferim! (Radu Jude) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs
Cemetery of Splendour (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) Mon Only
Buena Vista Social Club (Wim Wenders, 1999) Weds Only

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
Pina (In 3D) (Wim Wenders, 2011) Weds Only

Sundance Cinemas:

Krisha (Trey Edward Shults) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Get a Job (Dylan Kidd) Fri-Thurs
The Confirmation (Bob Nelson) Fri-Thurs
Fastball (Jonathan Hock) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review

Featured Film:

Knight of Cups at the Seven Gables and the Lincoln Square

The seventh feature from Terrence Malick, one of cinema’s most revered filmmakers, arrives on Seattle (and Bellevue) screens this week. Malick continues his push to narrative abstraction as he reunites with star Christian Bale, who previously worked with the director on The New World, one of the best films of the young century. In Knight of Cups Bale plays a successful screenwriter that sleeps with a bunch of pretty women but feels really bad about it. The film is as much a portrait of the hedonistic City of Angels, as it is of its protagonist. Come for the overlapping internal monologues, stay for Antonio Banderas diving into a pool in a tuxedo. Our Review.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

The Wedding Singer (Frank Coraci, 1998) Fri-Weds
Bridesmaids (Paul Feig, 2011) Fri-Weds

Century Federal Way:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Love Punjab (Rajiv Dhingra) Fri-Thurs
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
A War (Tobias Lindholm) Fri-Thurs
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (FW Murnau) Sun Only Live Score
Janis: Little Girl Blue (Amy Berg) Tues Only
Psycho Pass: The Movie (Zach Bolton) Tues & Weds Only
Singing’ in the Rain (Stanley Donen & Gene Kelly, 1952) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Requiem for the American Dream (Peter D. Hutchison, Kelly Nyks & Jared P. Scott ) Fri-Thurs Q & A Thurs Our Review
VHS Uber Alles presents Robo-C.H.I.C. (Ed Hansen & Jeffrey Mandel, 1990) Fri Only
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour: Digital Program: Part A Sat & Tues Only Full Program 
The Blood of Jesus  with Hell-Bound Train (Spencer Williams, James and Eloyce Gist, 1941 & 1931) Sun Only

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosada) Fri-Thurs Dubbed and Subtitled, Check Showtimes
Psycho Pass: The Movie (Zach Bolton) Tues & Weds Only

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosada) Fri-Thurs English Dubbed
Kalyana Vaibhogame (B. V. Nandini Reddy) Fri-Thurs
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Echoes of Silence (Peter Emmanuel Goldman, 1967) Fri Only 16mm, Live Score
Seattle Web Fest 2016 Sat Only
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum (Kenji Mizoguchi, 1939) Sun & Mon Only
Here Come the Videofreex (Jon Nealon & Jenny Raskin) Sun-Weds Only
Madam Phung’s Last Journey (Nguyễn Thị Thấm) Sun Only
Wings of Desire (Wim Wenders, 1987) Thurs Only

AMC Pacific Place:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Rise of the Legend (Roy Chow, 2014) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Always Be My Maybe (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Ardaas (Gippy Grewal) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Framing Pictures: A Floating Conversation about Film Fri Only
Troop Beverly Hills (Jeff Kanew, 1989) Sat Only
The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952) Sun Only
The Ugly Swans (Konstantin Lopushansky, 2006) Sun Only
Humble Pie (Chris Bowman, 2007) Mon Only
Streetwise (Martin Bell, 1984) Tues Only
The Playhouse & Sherlock Jr (Buster Keaton, 1921 & 1924) Weds Only
Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas, 1996) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Il Divo (Paolo Sorrentino, 2009) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Knight of Cups (Terrence Malick) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Sun
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Sun Our Review 
Wrong Move (Wim Wenders, 1975) Weds Only

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast Subtitled and Dubbed, Check Listings
Embrace of the Serpent (Ciro Guerra) Fri-Thurs
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (FW Murnau) Mon Only Live Score

Sundance Cinemas:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
Colliding Dreams (Joseph Dorman & Oren Rudavsky) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
13 Hours (Michael Bay) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review

Featured Film:

2015 Favorites Return

With awards season finally behind us (for a few weeks at least), some of the best films of the past year have been returning for short engagements at area theatres. Johnnie To’s Office played one night at the Uptown a couple of weeks ago and features this weekend at the Issaquah International Film Festival. Guy Maddin’s The Forbidden Room, one of our favorite films of the year, a nesting doll of lunacy that ranks as possibly Maddin’s funniest and weirdest film, is back on Monday at the SIFF Uptown. Laurie Anderson’s heartbreaking memory film on life, death and a beloved pet Heart of a Dog plays Tuesday only at the Grand Cinema in Tacoma. And on Wednesday, Scarecrow Video’s Screening Room presents Alex Garland’s Ex Machina, starring freshly minted Oscar winner Alicia Vikander as a scheming robot built by Oscar Isaac.

Playing This Week:

 

Central Cinema:

Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) Fri-Weds
Army of Darkness (Sam Raimi, 1993) Fri-Weds

Century Federal Way:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

A Married Woman (Jean-Luc Godard, 1964) Fri-Thurs
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
53rd Ann Arbor Film Festival Traveling Tour: Digital Program: Part A Tues Only Full Program

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosada) Fri-Thurs Dubbed and Subtitled, Check Showtimes

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Boy and the Beast (Mamoru Hosada) Fri-Thurs English Dubbed
Kalyana Vaibhogame (B. V. Nandini Reddy) Fri-Thurs
Neerja (Ram Madhvani) Fri-Thurs
Jai Gangaajal (Prakash Jha) Fri-Thurs
To Kill a Mockingbird (Robert Mulligan, 1962) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Men Go to Battle (Zachary Treitz) Fri-Thurs Director & Producer in Attendance
International Women’s Day 2016 Sat Only
Love Between the Covers (Laurie Kahn) Sun-Weds Only
Harold and Lillian: A Hollywood Love Story (Daniel Raim) Sun Only
The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick (Wim Wenders, 1971) Thurs Only
The State of Things (Wim Wenders, 1982) Thurs Only

AMC Pacific Place:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Always Be My Maybe (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

9 to 5 (Colin Higgins, 1980) Fri Only
Trashgasm: Nude Nuns with Big Guns (Joseph Guzman, 2010) Sat Only Live Music
The Informer (John Ford, 1935) Sun Only
I’ve Heard the Mermaids Singing (Patricia Rozema, 1987) Sun Only
Telefon (Don Siegel, 1977) Mon Only
The Lady Vanishes (Alfred Hitchcock, 1938) Tues Only
Ex Machina (Alex Garland, 2015) Weds Only
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, 1962) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

The Arabian Nights (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1974) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
A War (Tobias Lindholm) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

The Forbidden Room (Guy Maddin) Mon Only Our Review
Alice in the Cities (Wim Wenders, 1974) Weds Only

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast Subtitled and Dubbed, Check Listings
The Club (Pablo Larrain) Fri-Thurs
Issaquah International Film Festival 2016 Sat & Sun Only Full Program 
The Mask You Live In (Jennifer Siebel Newsom) Thurs Only Panel Discussion

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
13 Hours (Michael Bay) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
Sisters (Jason Moore) Our Review
Brooklyn (John Crowley) Our Review
Spotlight (Tom McCarthy) Our Review
Bridge of Spies (Steven Spielberg) Our Review

Featured Film:

Only Yesterday at the SIFF Uptown

Isao Takahata’s 1991 masterpiece is finally being released in North America, having been one of the only films produced by Studio Ghibli that Disney did not bother to make available when they controlled the rights to their films, apparently because it’s simply too real. A quiet story of a woman in her late 20s who takes a vacation in the country which inspires a series of memories of her ten year old self, the film shifts fluidly between past and present, between childhood traumas and adults dreams so deftly that the film is more rightly compared to the greatest works by Japanese masters such as Mikio Naruse or Yasujiro Ozu than the products served up lately by Disney, Dreamworks or even Pixar and Hayao Miyazaki. It’s one of the three best films Ghibli ever made (along with Miyazaki’s Kiki’s Delivery Service and Yoshifumi Kondō’s Whisper of the Heart. It’s playing in both the original Japanese and English-dubbed versions. Despite Daisy Ridley’s voice, there’s really no reason to see the latter: the film is a bit too mature for illiterate children, and if you’re old enough to like this movie, you’re old enough to read subtitles. It’s a film of such locational and cultural specificity that watching it in English is an act of destruction. We talked all about the movie and a lot of other Ghibli films besides a couple of years ago on this episode of the They Shot Pictures podcast.

Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

Central Cinema:

Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Fri-Weds
Mulholland Dr. (David Lynch, 2001) Fri-Weds
Velvet Goldmine (Todd Haynes, 1998) Thurs Only

Century Federal Way:

Channo Kamli Yaar Di (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Southbound (Various) Fri & Sat Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Vanished Elephant (Javier Fuentes-León) Fri-Thurs
Kizumonogatari Part 1: Tekketsu (Akiyuki Shimbou) Sat-Mon Only
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

A War (Tobias Lindholm) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Neerja (Ram Madhvani) Fri-Thurs
Tere Bin Laden Dead or Alive (Abhishek Sharma) Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Meridian:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

New Voices of World Cinema (Various) Fri Only
Hadwin’s Judgment (Sasha Snow) Fri & Sat Only
Bob and the Trees (Diego Ongaro) Fri & Sat Only
Schellen-Ursli (The Little Mountain Boy) (Xavier Koller) Sat Only
K2 and the Invisible Footmen (Iara Lee) Sat Only
Bungalow Heaven Sun Only
Drawing the Tiger (Amy Benson) Mon Only
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) Thurs Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review

AMC Pacific Place:

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Monkey King 2 (Soi Cheang) Fri-Thurs

The Paramount Theatre:

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Fred Niblo & Charles Brabin, 1925) Mon Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Walang Forever (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Edge of Tomorrow (Doug Liman, 2014) Fri Only
Night Movies (Arthur Penn, 1975) Sat Only
King of Kings (Cecl B. DeMille, 1927) Sun Only
Comedy Section Spotlight Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
Rams (Grímur Hákonarson) Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

The American Friend (Wim Wenders, 1977) Weds Only

AMC Southcenter:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Sundance Cinemas:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Last Man on the Moon (Mark Craig) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast Subtitled and Dubbed, Check Listings
45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Stephen Tobolowsky in person: The Primary Instinct and Groundhog Day Mon Only

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
13 Hours (Michael Bay) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
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

Featured Film:

The Arabian Nights at the SIFF Film Center

One of the very best films of 2015 finally appears this week on Seattle Screens, with the debut of director Miguel Gomes’s three-part, six hour panorama of contemporary Portugal. Taking the story of Scheherazade as a starting point, Gomes weaves together a series of tales of varying degrees of realism (neo-, magical, sur-) to tell the story of austerity-era Portugal. A world of priapic businessmen, wandering bandits, ghost dogs, pyromaniac lovers, psychic roosters, outrageous court proceedings, an unbelievable amount of chaffinches and much much more, with a perfect soundtrack (“Perfida”, “Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft”, “Say You, Say me”) and soulful performances, it’s the masterpiece of sad absurdity our world demands.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Robert Zemeckis, 1988) Fri-Tues
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

A Violent Prosecutor (Lee Il-hyung) Fri-Thurs
Channo Kamli Yaar Di (Pankaj Batra) Fri-Thurs
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

We Are Twisted F***ing Sister! (Andrew Horn) Fri-Thurs
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
EXcinema Group Show Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Krishnashtami (Vasu Varma) Fri-Thurs
Neerja (Ram Madhvani) Fri-Thurs
Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha (Hanu Raghavapudi) Fri-Thurs
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Sun & Weds Only
Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Regal Meridian:

Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Ruined Heart (Khavn De La Cruz) Fri-Weds
In Football We Trust (Tony Vainuku) Sat Only
Seattle Asian-American Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program
Morphine: Journey of Dreams (Mark Shuman) Weds Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review

AMC Pacific Place:

The Mermaid (Stephen Chow) Fri-Thurs
The Monkey King 2 (Soi Cheang) Fri-Thurs

The Paramount Theatre:

Lime Kiln Club Field Day (T. Hayes Hunter, Edwin Middleton, & Sam Corker Jr., 1913) Mon Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Walang Forever (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review
Busco Novio Para Mi Mujer (Enrique Begne) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Psychos in Love (Gorman Bechard, 1987) Fri Only
Chinatown (Roman Polanski, 1974) Sat Only
Hallelujah (King Vidor, 1929) Sun Only
Venus Beauty Institute (Tonie Marshall, 2000) Sun Only
Pretty Poison (Noel Black, 1968) Mon Only
Saboteur (Alfred Hitchcock, 1942) Tues Only
Grindhouse Nostalgia Weds Only
Ma vie en rose (Alain Berliner, 1997) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

For a Few Dollars More (Sergio Leone, 1965) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs
Rams (Grímur Hákonarson) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Arabian Nights Vol. 1-3 (Miguel Gomes) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Rolling Papers (Mitch Dickman) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Boy and the World (Alê Abreu, 2013) Fri-Weds Our Review
Eisenstein in Guanajuato (Peter Greenaway) Fri-Thurs
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar) Mon Only
The Human Face of Big Data (Sandy Smolan) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Maltese Falcon (John Huston, 1941) Weds Only

In Wide Release:

The Witch (Robert Eggers) Our Review
Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
13 Hours (Michael Bay) Our Review
The Revenant (Alejandro González Iñárritu) Our Review
The Force Awakens (JJ Abrams) Our Podcast
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

Featured Film:

The Seattle Screen Valentine Scene

As usual, local theatres around town have assembled a vast array of date movies this holiday weekend. The highlight of the bunch is Claire Denis’s debut feature Chocolat, playing at the Northwest Film Forum (do not confuse it with the Lasse Hallström film!) in a new 35mm print. Also at the NWFF is the latest from French director Philippe Garrel, In the Shadow of Women, an examination of the most essential and timeless element of all French cinema, infidelity. Another French classic plays at the SIFF Uptown, Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, one of the more remarkable fantasy films ever made. They’ve matched it with Hal Ashby’s perennial favorite Harold & Maude. The 1980s are well-represented this holiday season with John Hughes’s Pretty in Pink at the Cinemark Theatres (forget Ducky and Blaine, we all know Molly Ringwald belonged with Annie Potts) and Cameron Crowe’s Seattle-set Say Anything, playing at the Central Cinema. Also at the Central, Tony Scott’s True Romance from a script by Quentin Tarantino, featuring the most romantic closing lines in all of 1990s Hollywood cinema.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Say Anything (Cameron Crowe, 1989) Fri-Tues
True Romance (Tony Scott, 1993) Fri-Tues

SIFF Egyptian:

Boy and the World (Alê Abreu, 2013) Fri-Weds Our Review

Century Federal Way:

Pretty in Pink (John Hughes, 1986) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Sat-Tues Our Review
A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton, 1988) Sun Only
Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Treasure (Corneliu Porumboiu) Fri-Thurs
VHS Über Alles presents The Demon Lover (Donald G. Jackson & Jerry Younkins, 1983 Fri Only VHS
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
The Best of VHSEX (Various) Sat Only VHS

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Fitoor (Abhishek Kapoor) Fri-Thurs
Krishna Gaadi Veera Prema Gaadha (Hanu Raghavapudi) Fri-Thurs
Pretty in Pink (John Hughes, 1986) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Chocolat (Claire Denis, 1988) Fri-Sun 35mm
In the Shadow of Women (Philippe Garrel) Fri-Sun
Never Get Tired: The Bomb the Music Industry! Story (Sara Crow) Weds Only
Ruined Heart (Khavn De La Cruz) Weds-Weds
The Anthropologist (Daniel Miller) Thurs Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Monkey King 2 (Soi Cheang) Fri-Thurs
From Vegas to Macau III (Andrew Lau & Wong Jing) Fri-Thurs

The Paramount Theatre:

The Big Parade (King Vidor, 1925) Mon Only Our Podcast

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Everything About Her (Bb. Joyce Bernal) Fri-Thurs
Fitoor (Abhishek Kapoor) Fri-Thurs
Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

The Pink Angels (Larry G. Brown, 1972) Sat Only
It (Clarence G. Badger, 1927) Sun Only
Brother (Aleksey Balabanov, 1997) Sun Only
My Demon Lover (Charlie Loventhal, 1987) Mon Only
The Pursuit of Happyness (Gabriele Muccino, 2006) Tues Only
The Oscar (Russell Rouse, 1966) Weds Only
Romeo + Juliet (Baz Luhrmann, 1996) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Sandra of a Thousand Delights (Luchino Visconti, 1966) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Rosemary’s Baby (Roman Polanski, 1968) Fri Only
The Craft (Andrew Fleming, 1996) Fri Only
Witchfinder General (Michael Reeves, 1968) Sat Only
The Devils (Ken Russell, 1971) Sat Only

Sundance Cinemas:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Ingrid Bergman: In Her Own Words (Stig Björkman) Fri-Thurs
Southbound (Various) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Beauty and the Beast (Jean Cocteau, 1946) Fri-Sun
Harold & Maude (Hal Ashby, 1971) Fri-Sun
Office in 3D (Johnnie To) Mon Only Our Review Our Podcast 
The Human Face of Big Data (Sandy Smolan) Weds Only

Varsity Theatre:

It’s Already Tomorrow in Hong Kong (Emily Ting) Fri-Sun, Tues-Thurs Our Review

In Wide Release:

Hail, Caesar! (Joel & Ethan Coen) Our Review
13 Hours (Michael Bay) Our Review
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