A conversation with Seattle
Seattle Public Library has gone, well, public with their streaming media partnership with Hoopla. The collection — of movies, TV shows, albums, and audio books — is Hoopla’s, which is why I’m watching African Queen. They have 10,000 films and TV titles, Netflix has 60,000. Continue reading Seattle Public Library Has Got Your Netflix-Style Streaming Right Here
Here we are in the second full week of the Seattle International Film Festival, and things are starting to get a little bleary for the passholder completists running hither and yon to take advantage of their all-you-can-screen status. For the rest of us, the steady, soothing flow of movies at SIFF represents a chance to hook a few films that might otherwise slip past us. So let’s take a closer look at what’s showing the next few days. Continue reading SIFF 2013 Picks (Week 2)
“Josh: I started the festival by learning that I’m the type of filmgoer who walks out on a Peter Greenaway film a little after the halfway mark. It’s not that I was offended by nudity or lewdity, just that a few episodes of Goltzius and the Pelican Company’s eroticized provocations (enumerating biblical sexual taboos) felt like just about enough.” Continue reading What We’ve Seen at SIFF 2013 (Week 1)
SIFF will present 272 feature films this year and only 3 of them are principally concerned with sports. While I hold out hope that “An Evening with Kyle MacLachlan” will focus on his youth golfing career in Yakima, I suspect that this will not be the case. Three nights — 1.1 percent of the festival’s entries — are all you get, sports fans. Continue reading Scandal! Bias! Just 3 Sports Movies at SIFF 2103
This year’s SIFF has six movies that deal primarily or peripherally with athletic competition: Four are about soccer, two about cricket. Oh, the Europhilia! Most of these movies take familiar sports film plots and move them to different locales. The one unique entrant: Red Eyes (Ojos Rojos), about which more…right now! Continue reading Six-pack of SIFF: The Sports Fan’s Guide
SIFF is upon us! Our first Six-packs of SIFF gets meta by analyzing the Programmer Picks to guide you through the festival. From this, we learn that the only thing SIFF’s programming team loves more than documentaries is an indie coming of age story that features new melancholy songs from Alex Turner. Continue reading Six-pack of SIFF: Programmer Consensus