Keep track of all The SunBreak’s festival coverage on our SIFF 2013 page.
Not heading out to the Gorge for Sasquatch? Have a perfectly nice, completely indoor, cinematic rock weekend with SIFF. Get to know more about hugely influential Riot Grrrl hero Kathleen Hanna in The Punk Singer and celebrate the tragic reach of Alex Chilton with Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me. Meet the woman behind some of the most iconic images of midcentury Northwest rock bands with Jini Dellaccio biopic Her Aim Is True. Or, enjoy the buffer provided by being in a film audience to get a glimpse of a Peaches show (Peaches Does Herself) or pay a visit to Burning Man (Spark: A Burning Man Story) without getting dirty, naked, or painted. It’s probably the closes to “the playa” I can ever imagine myself getting without requiring heavy medication.
The Punk Singer (Director Sini Anderson scheduled to attend both screenings)
- May 24, 2013 9:30 PM Harvard Exit
- May 26, 2013 1:30 PM Harvard Exit
Her Aim Is True (World Premiere; Director Karen Whitehead and editor Kelli Boyd scheduled to attend)
- May 26, 2013 4:00 PM Harvard Exit
- May 27, 2013 2:00 PM Harvard Exit
Big Star: Nothing Can Hurt Me
- May 26, 2013 8:30 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
Peaches Does Herself
- May 25, 2013 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
- May 27, 2013 9:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Spark: A Burning Man Story (Directors Jessie Deeter and Steve Brown scheduled to attend May 25 & May 27; Editor Andrew Gersh scheduled to attend June 9)
- May 25, 2013 9:00 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
- May 27, 2013 2:00 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
- June 9, 2013 9:00 PM Harvard Exit
Other non-musical film options, along with their Seattle International Film Festival blurbs, to help keep you occupied during the long weekend:
Laurence Anyways: Xavier Dolan dazzles with an epic romance between a bohemian couple. When Laurence confesses that he believes he’s transgendered, his relationship with Frédérique is sent spiraling. An audacious and searing meditation on love and sexuality.
- May 24, 2013 8:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
- May 26, 2013 1:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
Fateful Findings David Lynch meets Tommy Wiseau’s The Room in director/writer/star Neil Breen’s unexpected mash-up of relationship drama and paranormal-political thriller, creating a genre-defying outsider production that just may be the next cult classic.
- May 25, 2013 11:55 PM Egyptian Theatre Buy
The Way, Way Back With an all-star cast including Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, Sam Rockwell, and Maya Rudolph, this uproarious comedy centers on the funny and sometimes painful summer vacation of an awkward 14-year-old and his dysfunctional family. Written and directed by Nat Faxon and Jim Rash, the Oscar®-winning writers of The Descendants.
- May 25, 2013 6:30 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown Buy
- Saturday Night Film & Party | Reception at Kaspar’s Events & Catering follows screening.
- May 26, 2013 4:30 PM Egyptian Theatre Buy
Reminder, there’s a more-local screening of Lynn Shelton’s Touchy Feely over the weekend:
- May 25, 2013 1:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
