AUGUST 2025 HIGHLIGHTS
Weapons
OPENS AUG 7 • UPTOWN
From Zach Cregger, the wholly original mind behind 2022’s hit Barbarian , comes one of the most anticipated horror films in recent memory, starring Julia Garner ( The Assistant), Alden Ehrenreich (Cocaine Bear), and Josh Brolin (No Country For Old Men). When all but one child from the same class mysteriously vanish on the same night at exactly the same time, a community is left questioning who or what is behind their disappearance.
Sundays & Tuesdays: Open Caption Screenings
Mondays: Discount Movie Mondays
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High and Low Red Beard
The Hidden Fortress
Eddington Together
Sorry, Baby Folktales
Grand Illusion: Afternoons of Solitude
Seven Samurai
Yojimbo High and Low Weapons Together
CatVideoFest 2025
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
SIFF ‘n’ Stitch: 10 Things I Hate About You
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox Seven Samurai Eddington
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley Seattle 48 Hour Film Awards
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
Over,
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley SIFF Movie Club: They Live
Talking
Ikiru Throne of Blood
Eddington Together Sorry, Baby Folktales
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
CatVideoFest 2025
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
Highest 2 Lowest
Rocky Horror Picture Show Weapons
Cloud
Boys Go To Jupiter
High and Low Stray Dog
Ran Eddington Together
Sorry, Baby Folktales
Emerald City Short Film Fest
Community Screening: Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Ran
Stray Dog Weapons Together
CatVideoFest 2025
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
Spectrum of Love: Happy Together
Spectrum of Love: Vive L’Amour
Boys Go To Jupiter
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE
Ikiru (1952)
AUG 1 & 11 • DOWNTOWN
One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an explora tion of death. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE High and Low (1963)
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE Throne of Blood (1957)
AUG 1 & 8 • DOWNTOWN
Together
A vivid, visceral Macbeth adaptation, Throne of Blood sets Shakespeare’s definitive tale of ambition and duplicity in a ghostly landscape in feudal Japan. As a hardened warrior who rises to power, Toshiro Mifune gives a remarkable, animalistic performance, as does Isuzu Yamada as his ruthless wife. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE Stray Dog (1949)
AUG 2, 3, 1O, 13, & 14 DOWNTOWN
Toshiro Mifune is unforgettable as Kingo Gondo, a wealthy industrialist whose family becomes the target of a cold-blooded kidnapper in this highly influential domestic drama and police procedural. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE The Hidden Fortress (1958)
AUG 3 & 8 • DOWNTOWN
Kurosawa’s first widescreen film is a delightfully comedic Samurai saga starring Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE
Rashomon (1950)
AUG 5 & 11 DOWNTOWN
A horrible crime is told and retold from multiple— and vastly divergent perspective—in the classic film that brought Japanese auteur Akira Kurosawa to the global stage. New 2K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE
Yojimbo (1961)
AUG 10 DOWNTOWN
The incomparable Toshiro Mifune stars in Akira Kurosawa’s visually stunning and darkly comic Yojimbo. To rid a terror-stricken village of corruption, wily masterless samurai Sanjuro turns a range war between two evil clans to his own advantage. New 4K restoration.
Highest 2 Lowest
OPENS AUG 15 • DOWNTOWN
In Spike Lee’s contemporary interpretation of Kurosawa’s High and Low, music mogul (Denzel Washington) is targeted with a ransom plot and jammed up in a life-or-death moral dilemma.
Folktales
NOW PLAYING • UPTOWN
Years into their relationship, Tim and Millie (Dave Franco and Alison Brie) find themselves at a crossroads as they move to the country. With tensions already flaring, a nightmarish encounter with a mysterious, unnatural force threatens to corrupt their lives, their love, and their flesh.
AUG 2, 5, & 9 DOWNTOWN
A bad day gets worse for young detective Murakami when a pickpocket steals his gun on a hot, crowded bus. This early classic goes beyond a crime thriller, probing the squalid world of postwar Japan and the nature of the criminal mind. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE Seven Samurai (1954)
AUG 4, 10, & 12 • DOWNTOWN
A 16th-century farming village requests protection from seven samurai against a horde of bandits who have warned they will return when the crops are ripe. A gripping three-hour ride from master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE Ran (1985)
AUG 2, 6, & 9 DOWNTOWN
Akira Kurosawa’s favorite of his films, this innovative, epic adaptation of “King Lear”—nominated for four Academy Awards including Best Director— returns to the giant screen. New 4K restoration.
KUROSAWA RETROSPECTIVE Sanjuro (1962)
AUG 13 DOWNTOWN
Toshiro Mifune swaggers and snarls to brilliant comic effect in Akira Kurosawa’s tightly paced, beautifully composed Sanjuro. Jaded samurai Sanjuro helps an idealistic group of young warriors weed out their clan’s evil influences, and in the process turns their image of a “proper” samurai on its ear. New 4K restoration.
Jaws (1975)
OPENS AUG 28 • DOWNTOWN
Originally released on June 20, 1975, Jaws, based on the best-selling novel by Peter Benchley, became the first true summer blockbuster and a cultural tsunami. Celebrate 50 years of Jaws with this new 4K restoration, with four screenings presented in 3D.
CatVideoFest 2025 AUG 8–10 • UPTOWN
Oscilloscope Laboratories presents CatVideoFest, a compilation of the latest and best cat videos culled from countless hours of unique submissions and sourced animations, music videos, and classic internet powerhouses.
Things I Hate About You (1999) AUG 10 UPTOWN
When the beautiful but fiercely independent Kat Stratford meets the charismatic bad boy Patrick Verona, sparks fly as they navigate a web of teenage drama, secret admirers, and unexpected emotions. Bring your small needlecraft projects to work on while socializing with the lights up!
Cloud
AUG 15–21 • UPTOWN
Legendary filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Pulse, Cure Tokyo Sonata) ramps up the thrills in this genre-bending potboiler about a craven opportunist who finds success as an internet reseller, only for revenge-seeking vigilantes to come calling.
Splitsville
OPENS AUG 28 • UPTOWN
Carey and Ashley are at a crossroads after just one year of marriage. When Ashley asks for a divorce, Carey runs to his two friends, Julie and Paul, for support, only for them to reveal that their secret to marital happiness is an open marriage.
Tim Travers and the Time Traveler’s Paradox
AUG 8–11 FILM CENTER
In this blast of WA state sci-fi co-starring Felicia Day, Keith David, and Seattle native Joel McHale, a brilliant scientist invents a time machine and concocts a scheme to kill his younger self... with unintended consequences.
AUGUST 1–7 • UPTOWN
At a Norwegian Folk School located 800 miles north of the Arctic Circle, teenagers learn survival skills in one of the harshest environments on Earth. Dropped in the arctic wilderness for one year, they must rely on themselves and a ragtag pack of loyal sled dogs as they take the daunting step from childhood to adulthood.
It’s Never Over, Jeff Buckley AUG 8–14 • UPTOWN
The definitive tale of Jeff Buckley, the rising young star with an otherworldly voice whose sudden death at age 30, after the release of his critically acclaimed debut album “Grace,” shocked the world. Told through never-before-seen footage from Buckley’s archives and intimate accounts.
AUG 13 UPTOWN
A rugged loner (Roddy Piper) stumbles upon a terrifying discovery: goulish creatures are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Introduced by SIFF Cinema Assistant Manager
Honey Don’t!
OPENS AUG 22 • UPTOWN
She only has two desires, and one of them is justice. Honey O’Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church in this comic noir.
The Roses
OPENS AUG 29 • UPTOWN
Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman play a picture-perfect married couple who descend into a bitter cat-and-dog divorce battle in this reimagining of The War of the Roses
Boys Go To Jupiter
AUG 15–18 • FILM CENTER
Set in the liminal period between Christmas and New Year’s, Boys Go to Jupiter follows the adventures of Billy 5000, a teenage gig worker with a rise-and-grind mindset whose quest to make $5,000 is derailed by the appearance of a gelatinous little dude from outer space.
SIFF MOVIE CLUB They Live (1988)
Tony Ochoa.
TALKING PICTURES WITH LEX VAUGHN Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004)
AUG 7 • DOWNTOWN
Join SIFF for Talking Pictures, a series of film experiences where local luminaries host a screening of a film of their choice at SIFF Cinemas and share with audiences how it has impacted them. Join founder and editor of local satirical news outlet The Needling, Lex Vaughn, for a presentation of Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy.
COMMUNITY SCREENING Pee-wee’s Big Adventure (1985)
AUG 9 • DOWNTOWN
Celebrate the 40th anniversary of Tim Burton’s comic masterpiece Pee-wee’s Big Adventure at SIFF Cinema Downtown. In appreciation of our movie-loving community, tickets to this screening are available on a sliding scale basis, starting at $5 for child tickets.
