Special Events and Series
We’re Moving!
Our lease is not being renewed in 2025 and as of January 31st we will be moving out of our home of 50+ years. Plans are underway to relocate the cinema and we need your help to build an even grander Grand Illusion!
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Hundreds of Beavers
- Thursday, Feb 27, 2025, 8:00pm
Screening location: Central Cinema – 1411 21st Ave, Seattle
🎶 DON’T CHEW FORGET ABOUT ME 🎶 Twelfth encore screening!
Our friends at Central Cinema are generously helping us keep the beavers gnawing away while we search for a new home. 60% of ticket sales go to our relocation fund!
In this 19th century, supernatural winter epic, a drunken applejack salesman must go from zero to hero and become North America’s greatest fur trapper by defeating hundreds of beavers.
Created by Mike Cheslik and Ryland Brickson Cole Tews, the duo behind the modern cult hit LAKE MICHIGAN MONSTER (2018).
Named one of the 10 best movies of 2024 by Ty Burr of The Washington Post and Amy Nicholson of The Los Angeles Times.
“Starts strange, gets stranger, and yet remains resolutely adorable… embraces the defiant glee of art cinema and distills it into something so thoroughly pure and sincere that it is surely hard not to fall in love with it.” Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, Alliance of Women Film Journalists
“It’s sure to develop a significant cult following with its unique mix of silent-era slapstick, animation elements, theme-park-style critter costumes, and general air of inspired absurdity.” Dennis Harvey, Variety
“Steroidally swollen with gags and smarts.” Guy Maddin
Battle Royale
- Tuesday, Mar 4, 2025, 7:00pm
Screening location: Here-After (21+) – alley entrance, 2505 1st Ave, Seattle
Join us at the Here-After for a 25th anniversary screening of Kinji Fukasaku’s dystopian masterpiece, BATTLE ROYALE! The majority of the ticket gross will go to our relocation fund.
In the near future, the economy has collapsed, unemployment has soared, and juvenile crime has exploded. Fearful of their nation’s youth, every year the Japanese government sends a 9th grade class to a remote island where they will be locked into exploding neck collars, given a random weapon, and forced to hunt and kill each other until there is only one survivor left.
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Please note: Here-After is a 21 and over establishment. The entrance is via the alley in back of The Crocodile building. Get there early to order tasty beverages from the bar and delicious food from Tat’s Deli!
“One of Japanese cinema’s most daring and influential crowning achievements… it remains one of the finest treasures to ever grace genre cinema.” Kieran Fisher, Dread Central
“It’s a movie that never lets you settle down, zipping between satire and splatter, offering moments that will make the most hardened viewer cringe and snatches of quiet melancholy that will haunt you for a long time.” Kim Newman, Empire