Featured Film:

Film Festivals Around Town

Labor Day weekend sees the arrival of a trio of miniature film festivals on Seattle Screens. The Cinerama begins a two week series of 40 fan favorite films, each playing one time only in state of the art digital presentations. The SIFF Film Center hosts a short film festival in conjunction with Bumbershoot, featuring a number of shorts that played SIFF earlier this year. And Scarecrow Video dedicates its Screening Lounge to classic films by female directors from around the world.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) Fri-Thurs
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Central Cinema:

Porco Rosso (Hayao Miyazaki, 1993) Fri-Weds Subtitles on Weds Only
The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers, 1998) Fri-Weds
West Side Story (Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins, 1961) Thurs Only

Cinerama:

No Country for Old Men (The Coen Brothers, 2007) Fri Only
Vertigo (Alfred Hitchcock, 1958) Fri Only
The Big Lebowski (The Coen Brothers, 1998) Fri Only
Forrest Gump (Robert Zemeckis, 1994) Sat Only
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles, 1941) Sat Only
The Prisoner of Azkaban (Alfonso Cuaron, 2004) Sat Only
Inception (Christopher Nolan, 2010) Sat Only
The Wizard of Oz (Victor Fleming, 1939) Sun Only
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) Sun Only
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola, 1972) Sun Only
Spirited Away (Hayao Miyazaki, 2001) Sun Only
American Graffiti (George Lucas, 1973) Mon Only
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (George Roy Hill, 1969) Mon Only
The Good, the Bad & the Ugly (Sergio Leone, 1966) Mon Only
Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2010) Mon Only
Mad Max (George Miller, 1979) Tues Only
Ghostbusters (Ivan Reitman, 1984) Tues Only
The Blues Brothers (John Landis, 1980) Tues Only
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2001) Tues Only
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) Weds Only
Last of the Mohicans (Michael Mann, 1992) Weds Only
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Weds Only
Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001) Weds Only
Moulin Rouge! (Base Luhrmann, 2001) Thurs Only
Raiders of the Lost Ark (Steven Spielberg, 1981) Thurs Only
Monty Python & the Holy Grail (Terry Gilliam & Terry Jones, 1975) Thurs Only

Crest Cinema Center:

Love and Mercy (Bill Pohlad) Fri-Thurs Our Interview 

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bloodsucking Bastards (Brian James O’Connell) Fri-Sat Midnight

Grand Cinema:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs
Sunshine Superman (Marah Strauch) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Iron Ministry (JP Sniadecki) Mon-Thurs Our Review
Top Spin (Sara Newens & Mina T. Son) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Phantom (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues
Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet) Fri-Thurs
Bhale Bhale Magadivoi (Maruthi) Fri-Thurs
Welcome Back (Anees Bazmee) Fri-Tues
Stripes (Ivan Reitman) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney) Fri-Thurs
Human Highway: Director’s Cut (Neil Young & Dean Stockwell) Fir-Sun
Dance Film Salon: Vertigo Bird and Vashava Mon Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet) Fri-Thurs

Kirkland Parkplace Cinema:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

The Portrait of a Lady (Jane Campion, 1996) Fri Only Our Podcast
Starstruck (Gillian Armstrong, 1982) Sat Only
A Simple Life (Ann Hui, 2012) Sun Only
Daisies (Věra Chytilová, 1966) Mon Only
The Man Who Knew Too Much (Alfred Hitchcock, 1934) Tues Only
Cleo from 5 to 7 (Agnés Varda, 1962) Weds Only
Wishful Dancing: The Films of Kathie Kelly Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Learning to Drive (Isabel Coixet) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

1 Reel Film Festival  Sat-Mon

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Queen of Earth (Alex Ross Perry) Fri-Thurs
Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine (Alex Gibney) Fri-Thurs
Khalil Gibran’s The Prophet (Roger Allers et al) Fri-Thurs
A Borrowed Ideantity (Eran Riklis) Fri-Thurs

Regal Thornton Place:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bloodsucking Bastards (Brian James O’Connell) Fri-Tues, Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Dragon Blade (Daniel Lee) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Mistress America at the Egyptian, Guild 45th and Lincoln Square Theatres

With his second Seattle release of the year, director Noah Baumbach continues his collaboration with star/co-writer Greta Gerwig. An inversion of this spring’s While We’re Young, wherein an older couple became enamored with an younger, hipper pair, Mistress America follows a college freshman (Lola Kirke) as she idolizes an older, more adventurous woman (played by Gerwig) along her various New York adventures. It’s Baumbach’s lightest film, and the best of what is turning out to be a great year for screwball comedies. Our Review.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) Fri-Thurs

Central Cinema:

Valley Girl (Martha Coolidge, 1983) Fri-Weds
Wild at Heart (David Lynch, 1990) Fri-Tues

Crest Cinema Center:

Love and Mercy (Bill Pohlad) Fri-Thurs Our Interview 
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell) Fri-Sat 11:30pm Only

Century Federal Way:

Memories of the Sword (Park Heung-shik) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, 1980) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren, 2013) Fri-Thurs
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs
When Marnie Was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Tues Only Our Review

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Iron Ministry (JP Sniadecki) Fri-Thurs Our Review
VHS Uber Alles presents Angel of Fury (Ackyl Anwari, 1992) Sat Only VHS
EXcinema presents Basement Media Festival Tues Only Video

Landmark Guild 45th:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Phantom (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
Airplane! (David Zucker, Jim Abrahams & Jerry Zucker, 1980) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Go Away Mr. Tumor (Han Yan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Digging for Fire (Joe Swanberg) Fri-Thurs
Counting (Jem Cohen) Sat-Tues
New Vacation: Artist Talk Tues Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Westworld (Michael Crichton, 1973) Fri Only
Futureworld (Richard T. Heffron, 1976) Sat Only
It Follows (David Robert Mitchell, 2014) Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only
Run Hide Die (Collin Joseph Neal) Tues Only Release Party
The Hitch-Hiker (Ida Lupino, 1953) Weds Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley) Fri-Tues, Thurs
Turbo Kid (François Simard, Anouk Whissell & Yoann-Karl Whissell) Fri-Tues, Thurs
Call Me Lucky (Bobcat Goldthwait) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Ten Thousand Saints (Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
7 Chinese Brothers (Bob Byington) Fri-Thurs
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2013) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Featured Film:

Phoenix at the SIFF Uptown Cinemas

Our featured film for the second week in a row (thus are the dog days of summer), German director Christian Petzold’s latest stars Nina Hoss as a disfigured Holocaust survivor who undergoes reconstructive plastic surgery. Returning home but presumed dead, she seeks out her husband, who may have informed on her to the Nazis during the war. When he meets but does not recognize her, she pretends to be another woman to go along with his scheme to pose her as his wife in order to collect an inheritance. In playing this patently absurd premise with a detailed and patient realism, Petzold captures the essence of the 1950s melodrama, from Douglas Sirk to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, driving relentlessly toward an instant-classic ending. Our Review.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Sunset Blvd. (Billy Wilder, 1950) Fri-Tues
Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2001) Fri-Tues

Crest Cinema Center:

Love and Mercy (Bill Pohlad) Fri-Thurs Our Interview

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Star Leaf (Richard Cranor) Sat Midnight Only
Mistress America (Noah Baumbach) Opens Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Assassination (Choi Donghoon) Fri-Thurs
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren, 2013) Fri-Thurs
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs
I am Big Bird (Dave LaMattina & Chad N. Walker) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Jellyfish Eyes (Takashi Murakami, 2013) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller) Fri-Thurs
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (John Hughes, 1987) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Go Away Mr. Tumor (Han Yan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Bike-in at Naked City Brewery Sat Only
Project Metalbeast: DNA Overload (Alessandro De Gaetano, 1995) Weds Only

AMC Pacific Place:

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Contamination (Luigi Cozzi, 1980) Fri Only
Lady Terminator (H. Tjut Djalil, 1989) Sat Only
The Bedroom Window (Curtis Hanson, 1987) Mon Only
To Catch a Thief (Alfred Hitchcock, 1955) Tues Only
Dudes (Penelope Spheeris, 1987) Weds Only
Princess Chang Ping (John Woo, 1976) Thurs Only Our Review

Seattle Art Museum:

Anima State (Hammad Khan) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Listen to Me Marlon (Stevan Riley) Fri-Thurs
On the Waterfront (Elia Kazan, 1954) Sat Only
The Wild One (László Benedek, 1953) Sat Only
The Godfather (Francis Ford Coppola) Sun Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

The Diary of a Teenage Girl (Marielle Heller) Fri-Thurs
Being Evel (Daniel Junge) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Guidance (Pat Mills) Fri-Thurs
The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2013) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

She’s Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Phoenix at the SIFF Uptown Cinemas

German director Christian Petzold’s latest stars Nina Hoss as a disfigured Holocaust survivor who undergoes reconstructive plastic surgery. Returning home but presumed dead, she seeks out her husband, who may have informed on her to the Nazis during the war. When he meets but does not recognize her, she pretends to be another woman to go along with his scheme to pose her as his wife in order to collect an inheritance. In playing this patently absurd premise with a detailed and patient realism, Petzold captures the essence of the 1950s melodrama, from Douglas Sirk to Hitchcock’s Vertigo, driving relentlessly toward an instant-classic ending. Our Review.

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Playing This Week:

Central Cinema:

Sixteen Candles (John Hughes, 1984) Fri-Weds
Barbarella (Roger Vadim, 1968) Fri-Weds

Crest Cinema Center:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman) Sat Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Assassination (Choi Donghoon) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Sing-along

Grand Cinema:

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan) Fri- Thurs
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) Fri-Thurs
Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
The Karate Kid (John G. Avildsen, 1984) Sat Only
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) Weds Only Our Podcast

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Tom at the Farm (Xavier Dolan, 2013) Fri-Thurs
8th Annual Druid Underground Film Fest Mon Only
New Rijkmuseum (Oeke Hoogendijk) Tues-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Brothers … Blood Against Blood (Karan Malhotra) Fri-Thurs
Meru (Jimmy Chin & Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Sing-along

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Go Away Mr. Tumor (Han Yan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

The Damned: Don’t You Wish That We Were Dead (Wes Orshoski) Fri-Sun
Advantageous (Jennifer Phang) Fri Only Filmmakers in Attendance
Best of Couch Fest Mon Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Jian Bing Man (Dong Chengpeng) Fri-Thurs
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Sing-along

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Mutant Hunt (Tim Kincaid, 1987) Fri Only
The New Kids (Sean S. Cunningham, 1985) Sat Only
Party Girl (Daisy von Scherler Meyer, 1995) Sun Only
The Cannonball Run (Hal Needham, 1981) Mon Only
Thunder Road (Arthur Ripley, 1958) Tues Only
The President’s Analyst (Theodore J. Flicker, 1967) Weds Only
Voyage to the End of the Universe (Jindrich Polák, 1963) Thurs Only

Landmark Seven Gables:

Best of Enemies (Morgan Neville & Robert Gordon) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

People Places Things (James C. Strouse) Fri-Thurs
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan) Fri-Mon, Weds-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Cop Car (Jon Watts) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Phoenix (Christian Petzold) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Cop Car (Jon Watts) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Dark Places (Gilles Paquet-Brenner) Fri-Tues
Jenny’s Wedding (Mary Agnes Donoghue) Fri-Tues Our Review
Grease (Randal Kleiser, 1978) Sun & Weds Sing-along

Featured Film:

The Look of Silence at the Northwest Film Forum

Joshua Oppenheimer follows his acclaimed 2012 documentary The Act of Killing with this companion piece, another look at the massacres of alleged communists at the hand of the military dictatorship of Indonesia in the mid-1960s. One man, the younger brother of one of the victims, patiently confronts many of the men who murdered his brother, as we see their reactions: evasions, threats, boasts and more. We discussed the movie this week on The George Sanders Show, along with The Sound of Music, which also plays this week at the Central Cinema. Our Podcast

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Friday (F. Gary Gray, 1995) Friday Only
Boyz n the Hood (John Singleton, 1991) Saturday Only
Training Day (Antoine Fuqua, 2004) Saturday Only
House Party (Reginald Hudlin, 1990) Sunday Only
CB4 (Tamra Davis, 1993) Sunday Only
Juice (Ernest Dickerson, 1992) Monday Only
Menace II Society (The Hughes Brothers, 1993) Tuesday Only
8 Mile (Curtis Hanson, 2002) Wednesday Only
Tales from the Hood (Rusty Cundieff, 1995) Thursday Only

Central Cinema:

Stand By Me (Rob Reiner, 1986) Fri-Mon
Taxi Driver (Martin Scorsese, 1976) Fri-Tues
Speciesism: The Movie (Mark Devries, 2013) Tues Only
The Sound of Music (Robert Wise, 1965) Thurs Only Our Podcast

Crest Cinema Center:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan) Fri & Sat Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Assassination (Choi Donghoon) Fri-Thurs
Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs
Coming to America (John Landis, 1988) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) Fri-Thurs
Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (Felix Herngren, 2013) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

The Wanted 18 (Amer Shomali & Paul Cowan) Fri-Thurs
8th Annual Druid Underground Film Fest Mon Only
New Rijkmuseum (Oeke Hoogendijk) Tues-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Bangistan (Karan Anshuman) Fri-Thurs
Coming to America (John Landis, 1988) Sun & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer) Fri-Thurs Our Podcast
You’re Lookin’ at Country: Invitation to Infidelity Fri Only
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Remixed (Robert Wiene, 1919) Sat Only Live Soundtrack
Classy Credits: An Evening with Jennifer Roth Mon Only
Seattle Send-off for Calvin Reeder Weds Only Shorts and Q & A

AMC Pacific Place:

To the Fore (Dante Lam) Fri-Thurs
Jian Bing Man (Dong Chengpeng) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues Our Review 
Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

A Better Tomorrow II (John Woo, 1987) Fri Only Our Review
The Jerk (Carl Reiner, 1979) Sat Only
Party Girl (Nicholas Ray, 1958) Sun Only
Hooper (Hal Needham, 1978) Mon Only
North by Northwest (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959) Tues Only
Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1967) Weds Only
Seventeen (Joel DeMott & Jeff Kreines, 1983) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Hail the Conquering Hero (Preston Sturges, 1944) Thurs Only 35mm Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

Samba (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Jimmy’s Hall (Ken Loach) Fri-Thurs
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) Fri-Thurs
2015 Sundance Award-Winning Shorts Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Tangerine (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck (Brett Morgan) Fri- Thurs
Dark Places (Gilles Paquet-Brenner) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1962) Tues Only
Dark Places (Gilles Paquet-Brenner) Fri-Thurs

Featured Film:

Wild City at the AMC Pacific Place

After more than a decade of spending time with his family, legendary  director Ringo Lam is back with Wild City, a noir-inflected action thriller that hearkens back to the classics of late 80s Hong Kong cinema. Louis Koo and Shawn Yue play brothers who help a mysterious woman with a secret fend off hordes of gangsters and their even more vicious ultra-rich employers. The apocalyptic Hong Kong of Lam’s early films is no less electric, but is now marked by an dangerously unstable, justice-shattering mix of lawless capital and an omniscient surveillance state. Our Review.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Wallace & Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Nick Park & Steve Box, 2005) Weds Morning Only

Central Cinema:

The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Fri-Tues
The Matrix (The Wachowskis, 1999) Fri-Tues
Fateful Findings (Neil Breen) Thurs Only

Crest Cinema Center:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Tangerine (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The End of the Tour (James Ponsoldt) Thurs Only

Century Federal Way:

Angrej (Simerjit Singh) Fri-Sun Only
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Tues & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) Fri-Thurs
Batkid Begins (Dana Nachman) Fri-Thurs
Antarctic Edge: 70˚ South (Dena Seidel) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

New Rijkmuseum (Oeke Hoogendijk) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Baahubali (S.S.Rajamouli) Fri-Tues, Thurs Our Review (Telugu)
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Drishyam (Nishikant Kamat) Fri-Weds
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Tues & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Irrational Man (Woody Allen) Fri-Thurs
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Twinsters (Samantha Futerman & Ryan Miyamoto) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

Court (Chaitanya Tamhane) Fri-Thurs
Miracle Mile (Steve De Jarnatt, 1988) Fri Only 35mm, with director 
Dark Cool Quiet Sat Only
New Vacation: Installation Opening Sat Only
Her Wilderness (Frank Mosley) Weds Only Filmmaker in Attendance
A-Bomb: 70 Years Since Hiroshima Thurs Only 16mm

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Tues & Weds Only

AMC Pacific Place:

Wild City (Ringo Lam) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Jian Bing Man (Dong Chengpeng) Fri-Thurs
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Tues & Weds Only

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues Our Review

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai (WD Richter, 1984) Fri Only
The Heroic Trio (Johnnie To, 1993) Sun Only Our Review
The Villain (Hal Needham, 1979) Mon Only
Barquero (Gordon Douglas, 1970) Tues Only
When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960) Weds Only
The Long, Long Trailer (Vincente Minnelli, 1953) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (Preston Sturges, 1944) Thurs Only 35mm Our Podcast

Landmark Seven Gables:

Samba (Olivier Nakache & Eric Toledano) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Film Center:

Our Man in Tehran (Drew Taylor & Larry Weinstein) Fri-Thurs
Boulevard (Dito Montiel) Fri-Thurs

AMC Southcenter:

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Tues & Weds Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

The Stanford Prison Experiment (Kyle Patrick Alvarez) Fri-Thurs
That Sugar Film (Damon Gameau) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

I am Chris Farley (Derik Murray & Brent Hodge) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

The Young and Prodigious TS Spivet (Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 2013) Fri-Thurs
Beyond the Brick: A Lego Brickumentary (Daniel Junge & Kief Davidson) Fri-Sun
Daisies (Věra Chytilová, 1966) Tues Only
Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection ‘F’ (Tadayoshi Yamamuro) Weds Only

Featured Film:

The Apu Trilogy at the SIFF Uptown

Following a sold out run at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, the very fine digital restoration of Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy plays this week at the SIFF Uptown. Released between 1955 and 1959 and comprising the great Bengali director’s first, second and fifth feature films (Pather Panchali, Aparajito and The World of Apu, respectively), adapting two novels by Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay. Warm and naturalistic in style, evincing the influence of both Jean Renoir and the Italian Neo-Realists, Ray’s films were among the first (and remain some of the few) Indian films to crossover into the European/North American canon.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

The Muppet Movie (James Frawley, 1979) Weds Morning Only

Central Cinema:

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (Mel Stuart, 1971) Fri-Weds
Pulp Fiction (Quentin Tarantino, 1994) Fri-Weds

Crest Cinema Center:

When Marnie was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Fri-Thurs Early shows dubbed, evening shows subtitled – check showtimes Our Review
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

Tangerine (Sean Baker) Fri-Thurs Our Review 

AMC Loews Factoria:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues

Century Federal Way:

Baahubali (S.S.Rajamouli) Fri-Tues Our Review (Hindi)
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Charlie’s Country (Rolf de Heer, 2013) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

A Hard Day (Kim Seonghun) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
VHS Über Alles presents Demonwarp (Emmett Alson, 1988) Sat Only VHS
EXcinema presents The Clearing (Various) Tues Only

Landmark Guild 45th:

 Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali (S.S.Rajamouli) Fri-Tues Our Review (Telugu)
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues
Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984) Sun & Weds Only Our Review

Regal Meridian:

Only You (Zhang Hao) Fri-Thurs
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) Fri-Mon Our Review
Do I Sound Gay? (David Thorpe) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Heaven Adores You (Nickolas Rossi) Sun Only
Our Lives in Google (Adam Sekuler) Mon Only Filmmaker in Attendance, Live Performance
Cotton Road (Laura Kissel) Tues Only Filmmaker in Attendance

AMC Pacific Place:

Jian Bing Man (Dong Chengpeng) Fri-Tues

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Tues
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Tues

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Castle in the Sky (Hayao Miyazaki, 1986) Sun Only
Chris Marker Group Mon Only
Marnie (Alfred Hitchcock, 1964) Tues Only
Tarzana (Steve De Jarnatt, 1972) Thurs Only Filmmaker in Attendance

Seattle Art Museum:

The Palm Beach Story (Preston Sturges, 1942) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (Marc Silver) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman) Fri-Thurs
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Fri-Thurs
Unexpected (Kris Swanberg) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray, 1955-1959) Fri-Thurs
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman) Fri-Thurs

Varsity Theatre:

Caffeinated (Hanh Nguyen & Vishal Solanki) Fri-Sun Only
Shadows (John Cassavetes, 1959) Tues Only

Featured Film:

Rebels of the Neon God at the SIFF Film Center

The 1992 debut film from singular Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-liang opens in a newly restored version at SIFF this week. It stars Lee Kang-sheng as Hsiao-kang, a lonely young man who lives with his parents and his haunted by water and the films of François Truffaut. We’ll see his story unfold in film after film for the next two decades, but this is where it all starts. In the precisely static long-takes that are the hallmark of his minimalist style, Tsai tracks Hsiao-kang’s growing obsession with some local teenaged toughs through the arcades, malls and apartment complexes of Taipei. Our Review.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

A Cat in Paris (Jean-Loup Felicioli & Alain Gagnol, 2010) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (Blake Edwards, 1961) Fri-Tues
La femme Nikita (Luc Besson, 1990) Fri-Tues

Crest Cinema Center:

The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

When Marnie was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Fri-Thurs Early shows dubbed, evening shows subtitled – check showtimes Our Review 
Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis, 1985) Fri Midnight Only
The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975) Sat Midnight Only

AMC Loews Factoria 8:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs

Century Federal Way:

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Sun, Mon & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Emptying the Skies (Douglas & Roger Cass) Tues Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Stung (Bennie Diez) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali (S.S.Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Sun, Mon & Weds Only

Regal Meridian:

Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs
Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs

Northwest Film Forum:

A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Boom! (Joseph Losey, 1968) Sat Only 35mm with Intro
RADAR: Exchanges In Dance Film Frequencies Sun Only
Polk County Pot Plane (Jim West, 1977) Weds Only VHS

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

AMC Pacific Place:

Forever Young (He Jiong) Fri-Thurs

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Bajrangi Bhaijaan (Kabir Khan) Fri-Thurs
Breakup Playlist (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Stardust (Mathew Vaughn, 2007) Fri Only
Scarecrows (William Wesley, 1988) Sat Only
Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983) Sun Only
My Man Godfrey (Gregory LaCava, 1936) Mon Only
Godzilla vs. the Smog Monster (Yoshimitsu Banno, 1971) Tues Only
Juggernaut (Richard Lester, 1974) Weds Only
Girlfriends (Claudia Weill, 1978) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

Lost Highway (David Lynch, 1997) Fri Only 35mm Plus Shorts
Sullivan’s Travels (Preston Sturges, 1942) Thurs Only 35mm

Landmark Seven Gables:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Film Center:

Rebels of the Neon God (Tsai Ming-liang, 1992) Fri-Tues, Thurs Our Review
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) Fri-Sun Only 
3 1/2 Minutes, Ten Bullets (Marc Silver) Mon Only
Shake the Dust (Adam Sjöberg) Thurs Only

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman) Fri-Thurs
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Fri-Thurs
A Murder in the Park (Christopher S. Rech) Fri-Thurs
Lila & Eve (Charles Stone III) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Cartel Land (Matthew Heineman) Fri-Thurs
Ardor (Pablo Fendrik) Fri-Thurs
1001 Grams (Bent Hamer) Mon-Thurs Only

Varsity Theatre:

Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944) Sun & Mon Only
Belle de jour (Luis Buñuel, 1967) Tues Only Our Podcast

Featured Film:

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure at the Central Cinema

One of Mike’s All-Time favorite movies returns to Seattle Screens this week with a run at the Central Cinema. The enduring story of two dopey teens gifted with a time machine to help finish their history project, the successful completion of which is the lynchpin guaranteeing an idyllic future for all humanity stars Keanu Reeves, Alex Winter and George Carlin. We discussed it awhile back on The George Sanders Show, and along with that is Our Preview.

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Playing This Week:

Ark Lodge Cinemas:

Chicken Run (Nick Park & Peter Lord, 2000) Weds Only

Central Cinema:

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (Stephen Herek, 1989) Fri-Weds Our Review
Zoolander (Ben Stiller, 2001) Fri-Weds Quote-along
The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974) Thurs Only

Cinerama:

Jaws (Steven Spielberg, 1975) Weds Only Laser Projection

Crest Cinema Center:

The Wolfpack (Crystal Moselle) Fri-Thurs Our Review

SIFF Cinema Egyptian:

When Marnie was There (Hiromasa Yonebayashi) Fri-Thurs Early shows dubbed, evening shows subtitled – check showtimes Our Preview 
We are Still Here (Ted Geoghegan) Sat & Sun Midnight Only

Century Federal Way:

Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987) Sun & Weds Only

Grand Cinema:

A Little Chaos (Alan Rickman) Fri-Thurs
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Gemma Bovery (Anne Fontaine) Fri-Thurs
The Circle (Stefan Haupt) Tues Only
Tangerine (Sean Baker) Weds Only

Grand Illusion Cinema:

Felt (Jason Banker) Fri-Thurs

Landmark Guild 45th:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs

Cinemark Lincoln Square:

Baahubali (S.S.Rajamouli) Fri-Thurs
Spaceballs (Mel Brooks, 1987) Sun & Weds Only

Northwest Film Forum:

The Tribe (Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy) Fri-Thurs
Table Read: “Idaho ’73” Mon Only
Videoasis Weds Only

AMC Loews Oak Tree:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Meridian:

Testament of Youth (James Kent) Fri-Thurs

AMC Pacific Place:

Forever Young (He Jiong) Fri-Thurs
Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review

Regal Parkway Plaza:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review
Breakup Playlist (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs
Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Vinterberg) Fri-Thurs

Scarecrow Video Screening Lounge:

Yes or No (Sarasawadee Wongsompetch, 2010) Fri Only
Seconds (John Frankenheimer, 1966) Sat Only
The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946) Sun Only
An American in Paris (Vincente Minnelli, 1951) Mon Only At the Seattle Public Library
A Day in the Country (Jean Renoir, 1936) Mon Only
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock, 1940) Tues Only
Kiss Me Deadly (Robert Aldrich, 1955) Weds Only
Cohen & Tate (Eric Red, 1989) Thurs Only

Seattle Art Museum:

The Lady Eve (Preston Sturges, 1941) Thurs Only 35mm

SIFF Film Center:

Fair Play (Andrea Sedláčková) Fri Only 
Václav Havel – A Life in Freedom (Andrea Sedláčková) Fri Only 
Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer & the Maysles) Sat Only
Krasno (Ondřej Sokol) Sat Only 
The Icing (Jan Hrebejk) Sat Only 
Clownwise (Viktor Tauš) Sun Only
To See the Sea (Jiří Mádl) Sun Only

AMC Southcenter:

Breakup Playlist (Dan Villegas) Fri-Thurs

Sundance Cinemas Seattle:

Strangerland (Kim Farrant) Fri-Thurs
The Third Man (Carol Reed, 1949) Fri-Thurs
Batkid Begins (Dana Nachman) Fri-Thurs
The Suicide Theory (Dru Brown) Fri-Thurs

SIFF Cinema Uptown:

Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Alfonso Gomez-Rejon) Fri-Thurs Our Review 
Grey Gardens (Ellen Hovde, Muffie Meyer & the Maysles) Fri, Sun-Thurs
A Story of Floating Weeds (Yasujiro Ozu, 1934) Sat Only Live Accompaniment

Varsity Theatre:

When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (Mikio Naruse, 1960) Tues Only