Featured Film:

Lunar New Year at the Pacific Place

Celebrate the Lunar New Year this week with three of the biggest Hong Kong films of the year at AMC’s flagship theatre. Donnie Yen continues his quest to transform a real-life kung fu master into a cinematic folk hero, with the help of the villainous real estate developer Mike Tyson in Ip Man 3. Soi Cheang follows up his smash hit 2014 special effects epic with The Monkey King 2, with Aaron Kwok taking the title role over from Donnie Yen in a story from Journey to the West where the godlike simian and his Buddhist monk master confront a viciously amorphous demon played by Gong Li. Finally, Chow Yun-fat is back in yet another gambling action-comedy from director Wong Jing (a genre the two pioneered 27 years ago with God of Gamblers) in From Vegas to Macau III. This one adds Andrew Lau (Infernal Affairs) as co-director along with an all-star cast of Golden Age stars such as Andy Lau, Jacky Cheung, Carina Lau and David Chiang paired with younger celebrities like Nick Cheung, Shawn Yue, and Li Yuchun. It promises questionable taste, even more questionable plotting and plenty of weird fun.

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Charade (Stanley Donen, 1963) Fri-Sat, Mon-Tues Our Podcast
Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 2009) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Lazer Team (Matt Hullum) Fri Only
Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Hitchcock/Truffaut (Kent Jones) Sun, Tues-Thurs
Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946) Sat, Sun & Tues Only 35mm
Mississippi Mermaid (François Truffaut, 1969) Sat, Sun & Thurs Only 35mm
Lux Lives Movie Night Fri Only Video
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Pieces (Juan Piquer Simon, 1982) Sat & Weds Only 35mm

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Oscar Nominated Live Action Short Films Fri-Thurs
Oscar Nominated Animated Short Films Fri-Thurs Our Review

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Airlift (Raja Menon) Fri-Thurs
Bangalore Naatkal (Bhaskar) Fri-Thurs
Ghayal Once Again (Sunny Deol) Fri-Thurs
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Airlift (Raja Menon) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Iraqi Odyssey (Samir) Fri-Mon
The Automatic Hate (Justin Lerner) Fri-Sun Q & A with Producer
Live from UB (Lauren Knapp) Weds Only
I Am A Knife With Legs (Bennett Jones) Weds Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) 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 Gold Rush (Charles Chaplin) Mon Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Ong-Bak (Prachya Pinkaew, 2003) Fri Only
The Parallax View (Alan J. Pakula, 1974) Sat Only
The Kid (Charles Chaplin, 1921) Sun Only
Working Girl (Mike Nichols, 1988) Sun Only
Bonnie & Clyde (Arthur Penn, 1967) Mon Only
Foreign Correspondent (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) Tues Only
Gun Crazy (Tamra Davis, 1992) Weds Only
Framing Pictures: A Floating Conversation about Film Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Son of Saul (László Nemes) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Regression (Alejandro Amenábar) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas:

Oscar Nominated Documentary Short Films Fri-Thurs
Regression (Alejandro Amenábar) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

45 Years (Andrew Haigh) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
River of Fundament Acts 1-3 (Mathew Barney) Fri-Thurs In Three Parts

Varsity Theatre:

Misconduct (Shintaro Shimosawa) Fri-Thurs

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

Featured Film:

Two Chinese Films at the Pacific Place

A pair of big Chinese releases open this week at the AMC Pacific Place. First is Ip Man 3 (which also plays this week at the Century in Federal Way), the latest in the series of films about the kung fu master starring Donnie Yen and directed by Wilson Yip (and not to be mixed up with the other three Ip Man films, two of which were directed by Herman Yau and one by Wong Kar-wai). In this installment, Donnie’s Master Ip defends his son’s school from an army of toughs led by none other than former Heavyweight Champion Mike Tyson. Also opening is Monster Hunt, the effects-driven extravaganza that last summer became the highest grossing local film in China’s history. It’s directed by Raman Hui, a veteran of Hollywood’s Shrek series and stars Bai Baihe along with a plethora of veteran Hong Kong and Mainland stars, in a story mixing wuxia comedy and adorably goofy CGI creatures. Our Reviews

Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Dr. Strangelove (Stanley Kubrick, 1964) Fri-Tues
Grey Gardens (Albert & David Maysles, Ellen Hovde & Muffie Meyer, 1975) Fri-Tues
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) Tues Only Brain Doctors in Attendance

Century Federal Way:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
How to Change the World (Jerry Rothwell) Tues Only
Eyes of the Totem (WS Van Dyke, 1927) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

World of Kanako (Tetsuya Nakashima) Fri-Thurs
Anthem of the Heart (Tatsuyuki Nagai) Fri-Sun
Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Sun-Weds
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
Stunt Rock (Brian Tenchard-Smith, 1980) Thurs & Next Sat Only 35mm

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Airlift (Raja Menon) Fri-Thurs
Nannaku Prematho (Sukumar) Fri-Thurs
Express Raja (Merlapaka Gandhi) Fri-Thurs
Soggade Chinni Nayana (Kalyan Krishna) Fri-Thurs
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (John Huston, 1948) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Airlift (Raja Menon) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Children’s Film Festival Seattle 2016 Jan 21-31 Full Program

AMC Pacific Place:

Ip Man 3 (Wilson Yip) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Monster Hunt (Raman Hui) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Detective Chinatown (Chen Sicheng) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

All You Need Is Pag-Ibig (Antoinette Jadaone) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Meet John Doe (Frank Capra, 1941) Fri Only
Pandemonium (Alfred Sole, 1982) Sat Only
Vera Cruz (Robert Aldrich, 1954) Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only
Frenzy (Alfred Hitchcock, 1972) Tues Only
Alice (Jan Švankmajer, 1988) Weds Only
The January Man (Pat O’Connor, 1989) Weds Only

Seattle Art Museum:

The Witches (Pasolini, Visconti, Rossi, De Sica & Bolognini, 1967) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Out 1: Noli me tangere (Jacques Rivette, 1971) Sun Only

Sundance Cinemas:

Lamb (Ross Partridge) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Laurie Anderson at the Grand Illusion

Extended beyond a two week run that was already an extension of a run late last year at the Northwest Film Forum, Laurie Anderson’s sprawling, funny, devastating essay film Heart of a Dog is back for four more days this week at the Grand Illusion. Ostensibly a film about her beloved dog, Anderson muses on everything from 9/11 to her own childhood memories, processing tragedy and celebrating life. Over it all, but unnamed hangs the death of her husband, Lou Reed. In conjunction, for one night only, the Grand Illusion is also playing a 35mm print of Anderson’s 1986 concert film Home of the Brave, which features William S. Burroughs.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Some Like It Hot (Billy Wilder, 1959) Fri-Sun
Saturday Night Fever (John Badham, 1977) Fri-Sun
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Michel Gondry, 2004) Tues Only Brain Doctors in Attendance

Century Federal Way:

Nannaku Prematho (Sukumar) Fri & Sat
The Tiger (Park Hoonjung) Fri-Thurs
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri-Thurs
Labyrinth (Jim Henson, 1986) Fri, Sun, Mon & Weds Only
Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution (Stanley Nelson) Tues Only
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson) Sun-Weds
The Man Who Saved the World (Turkish Star Wars) (Çetin İnanç, 1982) Thurs Only Our Review
The Sprocket Society presents Saturday Secret Matinees Sat Only
VHS Über Alles presents Ninja: Silent Assassin (Godfrey Ho, 1987) Sat Only VHS
Home of the Brave (Laurie Anderson, 1986) Fri Only 35mm
Dreams Rewired (Manu Luksch, Martin Reinhart & Thomas Tode) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Wazir (Bejoy Nambiar) Fri-Thurs
Nannaku Prematho (Sukumar) Fri-Thurs
Express Raja (Merlapaka Gandhi) Fri-Thurs
Soggade Chinni Nayana (Kalyan Krishna) Fri-Thurs
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

Theeb (Jani Abu Nowar) Fri-Tues
Sundance Native Lab Shorts Fri Only
Children of the Civil Rights (Julia Clifford) Sat Only Q & A After
Sex & Broadcasting Sun Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Detective Chinatown (Chen Sicheng) Fri-Thurs
Mr. Six (Guan Hu) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

All You Need Is Pag-Ibig (Antoinette Jadaone) Fri-Thurs
Dictator (Sriwass) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

Shampoo (Hal Ashby, 1975) Fri Only
Yeti: The Giant of the 20th Century (Gianfranco Parolini, 1977) Sat Only
Anything Goes (Lewis Milestone, 1936) Sun Only
Selma (Ava DuVernay, 2014) Mon Only
Death By Design (Peter Friedman & Jean-Francois Brunet, 1995) Tues Only
Shoot the Piano Player (François Truffaut, 1960) Weds Only

Seattle Art Museum:

I Fidanzati (Ermanno Olmi, 1963) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Nordic Lights Film Festival Fri-Sun Full Program

Varsity Theatre:

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) Weds Only
Band of Robbers (Adam & Aaron Nee) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

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
Sicario (Denis Villeneuve) Our Review

Featured Film:

Out 1 at the SIFF Film Center

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

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Kirkland Parkplace Cinema:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

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

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

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

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

Century Federal Way:

The Himalayas (Lee Seokhoon) Fri-Thurs

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Carol (Todd Haynes) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

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

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

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Playing This Week:

 

Central Cinema:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Mustang (Deniz Gamze Ergüven) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

It’s a Wonderful Life at the Grand Illusion

This Christmas a venerable Seattle tradition continues as the Grand Illusion plays, on 35 millimeter film, Frank Capra’s greatest film, the grim, bleak, heart-warming holiday classic from 1946. James Stewart plays a suicidal banker reliving the agonies of his small town, small-time life of thwarted dreams with the help of a bumbling guardian angel. Donna Reed plays the gorgeous girl next door for whom he lassos not the moon but a mortgage and a passel of toothless moochers. As densely-packed with post-war anxiety and shadowy fears as any film noir, it’s desperately cheerful.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Elf (Jon Favreau, 2003) Fri-Tues

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Landmark Guild 45th Theatre:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Youth (Paolo Sorrentino) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Bajirao Mastani (Sanjay Leela Bhansali) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

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

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Diwale (Rohit Shetty) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

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

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

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Landmark Seven Gables:

Macbeth (Justin Kurzel) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

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

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Zodiac on 35mm at the Seattle Art Museum

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

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

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

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

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

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

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

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

Zodiac (David Fincher, 2007) Thurs Only 35mm

SIFF Film Center:

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

AMC Southcenter:

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

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Life (Anton Corbijn) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

East Side Sushi (Anthony Lucero) Fri-Thurs

In Wide Release:

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

Featured Film:

Jafar Panahi’s Taxi at the Grand Illusion

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

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

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

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Chi-Raq (Spike Lee) Opens Thurs

Century Federal Way:

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

Grand Cinema:

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

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Taxi (Jafar Panahi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

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

Regal Meridian:

Tamasha (Imtiaz Ali) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

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

AMC Pacific Place:

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

Regal Parkway Plaza:

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

Scarecrow Video Screening Room:

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

Seattle Art Museum:

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

SIFF Film Center:

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

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Asthma (Jake Hoffman) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

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

Varsity Theatre:

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

In Wide Release:

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