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Upcoming films and events at SIFF Cinema
Buñuel in the Labyrinth of the Turtles
Spain | 2018 | 77 minutes | Salvador Simó
Opens August 23, 2019
Filmmaker Luis Buñuel struggles to move on to his next project after the controversy that surrounded the release of L’age D’or, his collaboration with Salvador Dali.
Mike Wallace is Here
USA | 2019 | 90 minutes | Avi Belkin
Opens August 23, 2019
A look at the career of 60 Minutes newsman, Mike Wallace.
Rear Window
USA | 1954 | 112 minutes | Alfred Hitchcock
August 24, 2019
Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 masterful thriller about a photographer (James Stewart) whose bad habit of spying on his neighbors yields dangerous results.
Try A Screenwriting Class Free!
August 24, 2019
Get a sneak peek at a different type of screenwriting class from Geof Miller; screenwriter, producer, development consultant, and teacher.
Brittany Runs A Marathon
USA | 2019 | 103 minutes | Paul Downs Colaizzo
Opens August 30, 2019
Jillian Bell stars as a slacker who reluctantly takes up running, hoping to put her life back on track one block at a time.
The Nightingale
Australia | 2018 | 136 minutes | Jennifer Kent
Opens August 30, 2019
In director Jennifer Kent’s brutal western, her follow-up to arthouse horror hit The Babadook, a vengeful Irish convict-woman and an Aboriginal tracker stalk a group of British soldiers through the Tasmanian wilderness.
Rashomon
Japan | 1950 | 88 minutes | Akira Kurosawa
Opens September 6, 2019
A horrible crime is told and retold from multiple--and vastly divergent perspectives--in the classic film that brought Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa to the global stage.
Tigers Are Not Afraid
Mexico | 2017 | 83 minutes | Issa Lopez
Opens September 6, 2019
A young girl forms an alliance with a gang of orphaned boys in a Mexican town ravaged by drug wars.
Seattle Free Screening of "A Prayer for Compassion" #BeInspired
USA | 2019 | 97 minutes | Thomas Wade Jackson
September 11, 2019
Be inspired to live the teachings of compassion that are the heart of all spiritual and religious traditions.
NT Live: Fleabag
United Kingdom | 2019 | 100 minutes | Vicky Jones
Opens September 12, 2019
See the hilarious, award-winning, one-woman show that inspired the BBC’s hit TV series Fleabag, starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge and captured live in London’s West End.
Chulas Fronteras & Del Mero Corazón
USA | 1976 | 58 minutes | Les Blank
Opens September 13, 2019
A zesty introduction to Norteña music and culture that exists along the Texas-Mexican border.
Raise Hell: The Life & Times of Molly Ivins
USA | 2019 | 91 minutes | Janice Engel
Opens September 13, 2019
With a personality as big as her native Texas, political columnist Molly Ivins skewered both right and left (but mostly right) with ferocious wit and equally ferocious devotion to the powerless and to the First Amendment.
One Cut of the Dead
Japan | 2017 | 97 minutes | Shinichiro Ueda
September 17, 2019
Real life zombies attacking the cast and crew of a horror film are just the beginning in this incredibly innovative genre comedy sensation.
Downton Abbey
United Kingdom | 2019 | 121 minutes | Michael Engler
Opens September 19, 2019
Return with us to Downton Abbey where the upstairs-downstairs drama between the aristocratic Crawley family and their domestic servants continues to unfold in an unexpected and scintillating manner.
We Are the Radical Monarchs
USA | 2019 | 96 minutes | Linda Goldstein Knowlton
September 19, 2019
An Oakland group for young women of color (ages 8-13) is at the front lines of social justice.
Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
USA | 2019 | 115 minutes | Stanley Nelson
Opens September 20, 2019
Blending never before seen footage with both unheard music tracks and narration drawn from his own autobiography, Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool paints a vibrant portrait of the trailblazing and hard-living jazzman that was Miles Davis.
Paris is Burning
USA | 1990 | 78 minutes | Jennie Livingston
Opens September 20, 2019
Decades ahead of its time, director Jennie Livingston’s insightful and revelatory exploration of drag culture in New York City returns in a brand new restoration.
Taste of Cherry
Iran | 1997 | 95 minutes | Abbas Kiarostami
Opens September 20, 2019
A solitary man drives his truck in search of someone who will quietly bury him under a cherry tree after he commits suicide.
And Life Goes On
Iran | 1992 | 95 minutes | Abbas Kiarostami
Opens September 21, 2019
The third chapter in Abbas Kiarostami’s loose Koker Trilogy returns in a brand new restoration.
The Last Unicorn
United Kingdom | 1982 | 93 minutes | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
September 21, 2019
A brave unicorn and a magician fight an evil King who is obsessed with attempting to capture the world's unicorns.
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
Canada | 2018 | 87 minutes | Jennifer Baichwal, Nicholas de Pencier, Edward Burtynsky
September 25, 2019
Alicia Vikander narrates this beautiful and timely meditation on the ways in which humanity has altered the planet’s climate.
Chained for Life
USA | 2019 | 91 minutes | Aaron Schimberg
Opens October 4, 2019
Director Aaron Shimberg (Go Down Death) examines Hollywood’s fascination and misrepresentation of disfigured and disabled performers and characters in his masterfully meta film, involving an actress cast in a horribly misguided production.
NT Live: One Man Two Guvnors
180 mintues | Nicholas Hytner, Cal McCrystal
Opens October 6, 2019
James Corden rose to international fame after staring in this howlingly funny farce.
Metallica & San Francisco Symphony: S&M2
USA | 2019 | 150 minutes | Wayne Isham
October 9, 2019
Join us for a national one-night special event featuring legendary metal band Metallica as they commemorate the 20th anniversary of their groundbreaking S&M album in collaboration with The San Francisco Symphony.
NT Live: Frankenstein (Reverse Cast)
United Kingdom | 2011 | 2hr 9min | Danny Boyle
October 23, 2019
Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the dramatic stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic monster tale. Reverse cast version.
April and the Extraordinary World
France | 2015 | 103 minutes | Christian Desmares, Franck Ekinci
October 26, 2019
In an alternate steampunk world of 1940’s Paris, a young girl finds herself at the center of a far-reaching conspiracy. Based on the work of renowned graphic novelist Jacques Tardi.
NT Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream
2019 | 180 minutes | Nicholas Hytner
Opens October 27, 2019
Join us for the Bridge Theatre production of William Shakespeare’s classic play, starring Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones) and directed by Nicholas Hytner.
NT Live: Frankenstein
United Kingdom | 2011 | 2hr 14min | Danny Boyle
October 30, 2019
Danny Boyle directs Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller in the dramatic stage adaptation of Mary Shelley's classic monster tale.
Exhibition on Screen - Leonardo: The Works
2019 | 85 minutes | Phil Grabsky
Opens November 3, 2019
Released on the 500th anniversary of his death, this is the definitive film about Leonardo: the first to truly tell the whole story.
NT Live: Hansard
2019 | 180 minutes | Simon Godwin
Opens November 10, 2019
See Olivier Award-winners, Lindsay Duncan (Birdman) and Alex Jennings (The Queen), in this brand new play from Simon Woods, captured live from the National Theatre in London.
NT Live: Present Laughter
United Kingdom | 2019 | 180 minutes | Matthew Warchus
Opens December 1, 2019
Join us for The Old Vic in London’s production of Noël Coward’s provocative comedy Present Laughter, starring Andrew Scott (Sherlock, Fleabag) and directed by Matthew Warchus.