This week, the big movie news is the Sundance Film Festival Past Event Like List , which is partnering with Northwest Film Forum for its virtual Seattle debut and for which we've outlined our selections here Like List . But aside from that, there are lots of other noteworthy films that are newly available to stream this weekend, like Russia's 2021 Oscar submission, Dear Comrades! Past Event Like List , and The Little Things with Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto (which is also playing at the Blue Fox Drive-In Remind Like List in Oak Harbor, along with the seasonally appropriate Groundhog Day Remind Like List ). Plus, Dan Savage's porn film festival HUMP! Past Event Like List starts this weekend—and if you get inspired to make your own movie, don't forget that its sister festival, the stoner-centric SPLIFF, is accepting submissions through March 5! 

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Atlantis Past Event Like List
Ukraine's official 2021 Oscar submission is set in the not-so-distant year of 2025, centering a romance between a PTSD-suffering veteran and a woman tasked with collecting the dead in a dystopian steel factory town. 
SIFF
Starting Friday

Dear Comrades! Past Event Like List
The international Oscar submissions continue! Harking back to Khrushchev-era Russia in the 1960s, Andrei Konchalovsky's Dear Comrades! is based on a real-life locomotive worker strike demanding fair food prices, which led to a deadly massacre. 
SIFF
Starting Friday

Green Room
Past Event Like List For this week's edition of the Scarecrow Movie Club Past Event Like List , watch Jeremy Saulnier's thriller on your own, then tune in on Saturday afternoon for a virtual discussion. Here's Kathy Fennessy's take on the film from 2016: "Bad guys are bad guys. The goal is to escape their clutches by any means possible. And so it goes for the punk band that ends up playing a gig at a white-supremacist compound in Oregon—shades of Malheur—out of sheer desperation. The punk group, which includes Anton Yelchin (Star Trek’s Chekov) and Alia Shawkat (Night Moves), raises a convincing racket, but they don’t help their cause when they open their set with the Dead Kennedys’ 'Nazi Punks Fuck Off.' Then they witness a murder and the neo-Nazis (led by a chilly Patrick Stewart, the cast’s other Trek veteran) give them the Hotel California treatment. From that point forward, it’s punks versus skinheads set to a soundtrack of Bad Brains, Slayer, and Poison Idea. The fun is in witnessing the ingenious ways the punks—including two turncoats—fight back using the crudest tools available. It’s fast, bloody, and, when you least expect it, hilarious."
Discussion Saturday via Scarecrow Video; available to stream on Kanopy, Showtime, and more

Lara Past Event Like List
After years of alienating her friends and family, a woman has a dramatic change of heart on her 60th birthday and makes it her mission to turn her musical prodigy son's debut composition into a success. This screening is part of the Northwest Film Forum and Goethe Pop Up's German Cinema Now series.
Northwest Film Forum
Thursday only

True Mothers
Grand Cinema's Oscar Contenders from Around the World series continues with Japanese director Naomi Kawase's drama about a family with an adopted son whose routine life is shaken up when a woman claiming to be the child's biological mother demands he leave with her. 
Grand Cinema
Starting Friday

Film Festivals

2021 Sundance Film Festival Past Event Like List
For the first time since it began in 1978, the Sundance Film Festival will partner with the Northwest Film Forum. The seven days of programming will be available digitally due to COVID scuttling any in-person festival plans. The shift to an online festival will bring 70 plus features, 50 short films, and various Q&As right into audiences' homes. The festival will offer live showings of films that can also be viewed anytime within a three-hour window and for a second time two days after the premiere. Sure to be one of the more talked-about films is Passing Past Event Like List . The directorial debut from longtime actor Rebecca Hall, it stars Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga in a thriller about two women living in 1920s New York City where one "passes" as white while the other does not. It is based on the 1929 novel of the same name by the late author Nella Larsen. What may be the film that caught my attention the most is On the Count of Three Past Event Like List . It stars Jerrod Carmichael, more known for his incisive stand-up comedy, in what is also his directorial debut. Carmichael is Val, a depressed man who forms a suicide pact with his best friend Kevin, played by actor Christopher Abbott who looks starkly different from his most recent Possessor performance. Always a utopia for great documentaries, one selection to watch for this year is in many ways about just that: making a better world. Rebel Hearts Past Event Like List follows a group of nuns who started the Immaculate Heart College to ensure women could access degrees previously out of reach. Find the rest of our picks for the festival here Like List . CHASE HUTCHINSON
Northwest Film Forum

HUMP! 2021 Past Event Like List
Every year, The Stranger puts out the call to sex-havers everywhere to submit a homegrown amateur porn film depicting whatever they're into (barring poop, kids, and animals, of course). The result is an incredibly diverse representation of human sexuality in all its straight, gay, trans, queer, kinky, funny, pissy, painful, and pretty forms. Let's see what wild spins people put on their submissions that were created during the lockdown, shall we?
EverOut
Saturday–Sunday

Streaming: Nationwide

Groundhog Day Remind Like List
If your life doesn't already feel like Groundhog Day, the February 2 holiday is as good of a reason as any to rewatch this surprisingly light-hearted yet existential Bill Murray classic.
Fubo and VOD; also playing Fri-Sun at the Blue Fox Drive-In in Oak Harbor Remind Like List

The Dig
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes play a widow and her archaeologist assistant in this period piece about a real-life excavation in pre-WWII England. Variety writes: "The Dig is not intended for children, yet it’s so subtle in its conflicts that culturally curious kiddos may take to it even more so than adults, although this is also a good Netflix option for audiences troubled by the more confrontational themes of modern cinema. It’s hard to say whether the period this picture exhumes was any more innocent than what the world now faces, but that’s certainly the way [director Simon] Stone plays it, acting like an urbane orchidologist, cross-breeding contemporary art-house touches with the old-school refinement of a vintage Masterpiece Theatre production. Sometimes the best escape from the craziness of today is to lose oneself in history."
Netflix
Starting Friday

Freaks and Geeks
The cult classic, single-season high school TV drama is now available to binge on Hulu, if you want a hit of nostalgia or you've never seen Judd Apatow's '80s-set show.
Hulu

The Investigation
Based on the real-life investigation into the 2017 murder of Swedish journalist Kim Wall, limited Danish drama series from Oscar-nominated writer-director Tobias Lindholm takes some artistic liberties with the team of investigators and divers who spent six months gathering evidence.
HBO
Starting Monday

The Lady and the Dale Past Event Like List
This four-part docuseries produced by the Duplass brothers spotlights Liz Carmichael, a car-maker (coincidence?) who helmed a notorious auto scam during the 1970s gas crisis. 
HBO
Starting Sunday

The Little Things
This psychological thriller from John Lee Hancock (The Blind Side, Saving Mr. Banks) stars Denzel Washington and Rami Malek as two LA cops trying to catch a serial killer in the '90s. Jared Leto stars as the creepy, long-haired top suspect. It's gotten mixed reviews for its failure to bring anything new to the table ("There’s scarcely a moment in the movie that doesn’t recall a dozen predecessors, in form or content or both," writes the AV Club), but if the cast is enough for you, go for it.
HBO Max; also playing at the Blue Fox Drive-In in Oak Harbor
Starting Friday

What Happened Was… Past Event Like List
A first date between two Manhattan lawyers (played by Tom Noonan, who stars and directs, and Karen Sillas) takes some wild turns in this 1994 dark comedy, which has been newly restored for rerelease. 
VOD
Starting Friday