Calendar
Uncle Kent 2
Nov 09, 2016
(Todd Rohal, USA, 2015, DCP, 73 min)
What if the the world ended while you were texting into the void from the least popular booth at Comic-Con? In Todd Rohal's most delightfully meta and nihilistically hilarious film to date, the genre-jumping anti-sequel to Joe Swanberg’s post-mumblecore feature Uncle Kent, Kent embarks, sequel-less, to Comic-Con in San Diego, which rapidly turns into his psychological unraveling -- or the apocalypse -- you pick.
We Are X
Nov 09 - Nov 13, 2016
(Stephen Kijak, UK, 2016, 92 min)
From the production team behind the Oscar-winning Searching for Sugar Man comes We Are X, a transcendent rock & roll story about X Japan, the world’s biggest and most successful band you’ve never heard of...yet.
Titicut Follies
35mm print!
Nov 11 - Nov 13, 2016
(Frederick Wiseman, US, 1967, 35mm, 84 min)
Titicut Follies is a stark and graphic portrayal of the conditions that existed at the State Prison for the Criminally Insane at Bridgewater, Massachusetts. The film won critical acclaim after its 1967 premiere at the New York Film Festival, but was then censored for 24 years after state officials objected to the startling depiction of guards and inmates.
My King
Seattle premiere!
Nov 11 - Nov 13, 2016
(Maïwenn, France, 2015, 125 min, French with English subtitles)
French writer-director Maïwenn’s magnum opus about the real and metaphysical pain endured by a woman who struggles to leave a destructive co-dependent relationship with a charming, yet extremely self-centered lothario.
High School
35mm print! Screening at The Grand Illusion Cinema
Nov 12 - Nov 17, 2016
(Frederick Wiseman, US, 1968, 35mm, 75 min)
Frederick Wiseman's High School, a film about a large, urban high school, records the daily activities of administrators, teachers, parents and students and the policies and attitudes which shape the institution.
Indigenous Showcase: The Seventh Fire
Seattle premiere!
Nov 12, 2016
(Jack Pettibone Riccobono, US, 2016, 78 min)
When gang leader Rob Brown is sentenced to prison for a fifth time, he must confront his role in bringing violent drug culture into his beloved American Indian community in northern Minnesota. As Rob reckons with his past, his seventeen-year-old protégé, Kevin, dreams of the future: becoming the most powerful and feared Native gangster on the White Earth Indian Reservation.
Hospital
35mm print! Screening at The Grand Illusion Cinema
Nov 12 - Nov 17, 2016
(Frederick Wiseman, US, 1969, 35mm, 84 min)
Frederick Wiseman's Hospital shows the daily activities of Metropolitan Hospital in New York City, with particular emphasis on the emergency ward and out-patient clinics. It won an Emmy for Best News Documentary, and Wiseman won for Best Director in 1970.
A Thousand Cuts: Film Collector Book Release and Archival Screening
Book sales and signings with authors Dennis Bartok & Jeff Joseph at 6:30!
Nov 12, 2016
(various directors, DCP, ~90 min)
Join us for 90 minutes of film rarities, including the last surviving films of Greta Garbo and Humphrey Bogart for never-completed projects, the only existing footage of Fred Astaire and choreographer Hermes Pan dancing together, and much more. Dennis Bartok & Jeff Joseph, authors of A Thousand Cuts: the Bizarre Underground World of Collectors and Dealers Who Saved the Movies, will be in attendance to discuss the role of collectors in film history.
Theo Who Lived
Seattle premiere! Subject in attendance!
Nov 16, 2016
(David Schisgall, US, 2016, 86 min, in English and Arabic with English subtitles)
In the late fall of 2012, American journalist Theo Padnos slipped into Syria to report on the country’s civil war and was promptly kidnapped by Al Qaeda. His fluency in Arabic led his captors to suspect that he worked for the CIA. A gripping narrative of torture, thwarted escapes, and unlikely friendships and betrayals in captivity, Theo Who Lived is an intimate portrait of personal resilience, and grace in the face of hate.
If There's a Hell Below
Director in attendance Nov. 17!
Nov 16 - Nov 17, 2016
(Nathan Williams, US, 2016, 94 min)
A thriller for the Snowden era, If There’s a Hell Below's entire runtime is infused with paranoia. Abe, a journalist with the scoop of his career, meets with Debra, who claims to work for national security’s secret service, but their meeting is ensnared in a web of suspicion and beset by third parties hell-bent on containing the threatened information leak.
A Rendering
Free event!
Nov 17 - Dec 03, 2016
LIMITS (Corrie Befort & Jason E Anderson), in association with filmmaker Adam Diller, premiere A Rendering, a two-part iterative dance film. Sound, space, and movement emerge as characters in a hypnotic, parallel universe that yields unusual psychological and physical states.
Dead Slow Ahead
Nov 17 - Nov 19, 2016
(Mauro Herce, Spain / France, 2015, DCP, 74 min, Tagalog with English subtitles)
Dead Slow Ahead chronicles the voyage of the commercial freighter the Fair Lady from the Ukraine to New Orleans. Director Mauro Herce, a cinematographer by trade, envisions the cavernous ship as a near-abstract space worthy of science fiction. The solitude of the crew is punctuated by bouts of karaoke and phone calls to loved ones, providing a heartbeat to the crew's mechanical existence inside the Fair Lady's dark belly.
Crumbs
Seattle premiere!
Nov 18, 2016
(Miguel Llansó, Ethiopia / Spain / Finland, 2015, DCP, 68 min)
The best apocalyptic settings are enigmatic. Where not only human society, but even the rules of reality seem to have been cracked open and reassembled in the wrong order. Crumbs, a striking new post-apocalyptic film, falls into this category, while offering a unique, visually arresting slant on what the world looks like post-civilization.
IRL: Craigslist
Co-presented with Horse in Motion!
Nov 18 - Nov 19, 2016
Through 10 original plays, songs, short films, dance pieces and visual art, Craigslist is presented “in real life” in a night of performance and art that explores the humanity of the internet. Wheels, deals, missed connections and scams — who knows what the evening will bring.
Homo Sapiens
Seattle premiere!
Nov 18 - Nov 19, 2016
(Nikolaus Geyrhalter, Switzerland / Germany / Austria, 2016, DCP, 94 min)
Homo Sapiens is a film about the finiteness and fragility of human existence and the end of the industrial age, and what it means to consider what human impact on the world looks like once we’re gone. What will remain of our lives?
Babe: Pig in the City
Nov 20 - Nov 23, 2016
(George Miller, Australia, 1998, DCP, 97 min)
Babe: Pig in the City is George Miller’s (of Mad Max fame) dark, surrealist follow-up to the Australian family hit. In the sequel, Babe leaves his idyllic farm for the sprawling metropolis; Miller's urban landscape is a dystopic, overwhelming, frightening, chaotic, and sometimes cruel place for the animal proletariat.
Puget Soundtrack: Chris Brokaw Presents the Films of Peter Hutton
Live score!
Nov 20, 2016
(Peter Hutton, US, 1975-2000)
The late experimental filmmaker Peter Hutton (1944-2016) is renowned for his silent, dreamlike, cinematic portraits of landscapes and cities. Seattle musician and composer Chris Brokaw will score three of Hutton's films live, leaving another two silent in a gesture that preserves the subtle, contemplative nature of Hutton’s work.
Boatman
Seattle premiere!
Nov 25, 2016
(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/US, 1993, DCP, 55 min)
Boatman is Gianfranco Rosi's account of a boat trip along the Ganges River, together with his helmsman Gopal. They pass tourists and Indians who are bathing, working or meditating. In a series of small portraits Rosi depicts life on and at the banks of India's sacred river.
The Wanderers
Nov 25 - Nov 30, 2016
(Philip Kaufman, US, 1979, 112 min)
Based on the acclaimed first novel by Richard Price, Philip Kaufman's The Wanderers follows the exploits of the titular Italian-American gang in the Bronx in 1963, just before the country underwent profound change. Part comedy and part drama, the film is an evocative and thrilling look back at a more innocent time.
Below Sea Level
Seattle premiere!
Nov 26, 2016
(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy/US, 2009, DCP, 119 min)
Winner of the 2013 Orizzonti and Doc/It awards at the Venice International Film Festival. Not far from Los Angeles, 35 meters below sea level, lies Slab City, an abandoned desert site of a former military base. A community of nonconformists lives there with no government, water or electricity, with the sole purpose of finding inner peace.
For the Plasma
Nov 26, 2016
(Bingham Bryant and Kyle Molzan, US, 2014, DCP, 94 min)
In a remote house in Maine, two old friends analyze CCTV footage of the surrounding forest to predict shifts in global financial markets. For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, all set to an out-there score by legendary video game composer Keiichi Suzuki of the Earthbound series, and every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.
Sacro GRA
Seattle premiere!
Nov 27, 2016
(Gianfranco Rosi, Italy, 2013, DCP, 95 min)
Gianfranco Rosi turns his lense on a part of his own country, roaming and filming for over two years in a minivan on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA—to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil. The result is a beguiling, utterly uncliched love letter to Rome itself.
Zona Intangible
Nov 30, 2016
(Ann Hedreen & Rustin Thompson, US, 2016, 77 min)
Directed by Emmy award-winning filmmakers Ann Hedreen and Rustin Thompson, the feature-length documentary Zona Intangible shows how one act of generosity can ripple forward and backward through time, improving life in a Peruvian community founded on nothing but resilience and hope.
Brothers (Brodre)
Dec 01 - Dec 03, 2016
(Aslaug Holm, Norway, 2015, 102 min, Norwegian with English subtitles)
Aslaug Holm is a Norwegian filmmaker and mother of two sons, and both roles become inextricably intertwined as Holm trains her camera on sons Lukas and Markus (aged five and eight respectively when she began shooting) over the course of a decade, and the result is an astonishingly candid portrait of childhood that is faithful to the flux of coming-of-age.
Rainbow Time
Director in attendance!
Dec 01, 2016
(Linas Phillips, US, 2016, 91 min)
In Rainbow Time, a mentally challenged 40-year-old man named Shonzi (director/star Linas Phillips) is sent to live with his brother Todd. When Shonzi develops a crush on Todd’s new girlfriend Lindsay, he threatens to reveal past secrets that could ultimately tear the couple apart.
Miss Sharon Jones! Tribute Screening
Dec 02, 2016
(Barbara Kopple, US, 2015, 94 min)
Barbara Kopple’s euphoric documentary Miss Sharon Jones! followed the soul diva of our generation through her battle with pancreatic cancer, in the most intense and courageous year of her life. This screening is dedicated to her memory.
Seattle Documentary Association: Present Perfect
Free event! Happy hour at 4pm!
Dec 04, 2016
Filmed over the course of a year in a preschool housed within a retirement home, Present Perfect is a feature length documentary about growing up and growing old in America.