Walk the Camino Again Tonight
Portland director Lydia B. Smith’s documentary Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago more than made its mark in Seattle … Continue reading Walk the Camino Again Tonight
Tag: SIFF Cinema
SIFF 2013 Pro-Tips, or Let’s Get Ready to Festival
Here we are again, on the verge of the annual marathon known as the Seattle International Film Festival. SIFF 2013 officially kicks off this Thursday night with near-instantly sold-out Much Ado About Nathan Nothing, and by the time all all is said and done with The Bling Ring on closing night, the 39th annual SIFF will have run a full 25 days, and that’s not even counting the three weeks of media/uber-member screenings in advance of the fest. Continue reading SIFF 2013 Pro-Tips, or Let’s Get Ready to Festival
Seattle Becomes Noir City Once More
Film noir fans, rejoice — or brood charismatically in front of a starkly-lit city street, at least. Noir City’s back. If you’re even familiar in passing with the film noir genre, you’re probably well-acquainted with the annual fest, curated by Film Noir Guru Eddie Muller and brimming with darkly-rich cinematic morsels. Continue reading Seattle Becomes Noir City Once More
It’s the Elles of Cinema, at SIFF
Opening night, for instance, offers you the chance to take in an erotic sci-fi thriller along with a film about Hannah Arendt’s coverage of the trial of Nazi Adolf Eichmann for the New Yorker. Director Margarethe von Trotta and actor Barbara Sukowa were “remarkably successful” say the Hollywood Reporter in their attempt to dramatize the juridical process that led Arendt to coin her phrase, “the banality of evil.” Continue reading It’s the Elles of Cinema, at SIFF
At SIFF Cinema, “Barbara” Looks East and West in Longing
Barbara (Nina Hoss), a doctor, finds herself in “the provinces” near the Baltic coast, north of Berlin, though she sees a patient, a young girl from Torgau. Home of a few infamous prisons where Nazis (and then the Soviet secret police) kept dissidents and other undesirables, Torgau was where the GDR ran a juvenile workhouse not very different from a prison. Continue reading At SIFF Cinema, “Barbara” Looks East and West in Longing
SIFF 2012 Full Lineup Announced, Tickets On Sale NOW
Let’s get ready to festival! Like some rough beast, its hour come round at last, the 2012 Seattle International Film Festival is snuffling at our door. Are you ready for 460 films from 75 countries (273 features, 64 documentaries, 187 short films)? Are you prepared to take in 61 world premieres, 36 North American premieres, and 24 U.S. premieres? Of course not! Don’t be ridiculous. That’s why we’re here. Continue reading SIFF 2012 Full Lineup Announced, Tickets On Sale NOW
It’s A Weird World (Blowfly’s Just Honest About It)
I consulted with one of the web’s leading chatbots, who/which countered my “You’ve never heard of Blowfly?” with, and I quote, “I welcome death, he stay away from those who yearn it.” Whew. Continue reading It’s A Weird World (Blowfly’s Just Honest About It)