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Post-SIFF 2013 Reflections, or Suggestions for SIFF 2014

Audrey — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:18 +0000

"From a consumer standpoint, SIFF 2013's consistency was a great thing. But that consistency almost became numbing sometimes. Very few of the films disappointed, but conversely that meant fewer surprises, pleasant or otherwise, for me."

SIFF What We Saw (The End)

Audrey — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:15:20 +0000

Without ever making the criminals sympathetic, Sofia Coppola nevertheless captures the way that the heady romance of new friendship, hunger for thrills among the entitled rich (but not super-rich), and a lack of impulse control combine to almost make their actions understandable. Even though it’s based on a true story and is told in interviews and flashbacks, The Bling Ring still held plenty of suspense, particularly as the clique of Hollywood strivers get more and more brazen with their string of celebrity robberies.

“Camion” and a Québecois Poetics of the Masculine

Michael van Baker — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 22:51:08 +0000

While parts of Camion (which means "truck" in French) fit the fictional-documentary mold -- Ouellet's father drove a truck, as does the father played by Julien Poulin -- other sources of inspiration are local to the Northwest. A musical touchstone for Ouellet is the Portland band Richmond Fontaine.

SIFF 2013 Closing Weekend Picks

josh — Fri, 07 Jun 2013 21:30:37 +0000

Well, friends, the finish line for Seattle's annual marathon of film is in sight. From tonight's event featuring the Maldives performing their new original score for the Wind to the festival's closing night gala for Sofia Coppola's The Bling Ring, we provide a few picks for how to spend SIFF's last three days in a film-consumption sprint.

SIFF 2013: What We Saw (Part 3)

Audrey — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:30:01 +0000

MvB: For sheer cinema, Laurence Anyways from Xavier Dolan takes the SIFF 2013 cake, so far as I’m concerned. At 160-some minutes, it’s a grand opera of a film, replete with arias from leads Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément, enacting an amour fou. Dolan tells a gripping, affecting story about the costs of being true to thine ownself — if a quirk of nature has mismatched your gender identity with secondary sexual characteristics — but he also tries his hand at motion portraiture

Legendary Singers Merry Clayton and Tata Vega Lend Oomph to SIFF Screening (Photo Gallery)

Tony Kay — Wed, 05 Jun 2013 00:16:52 +0000

At the Q&A, Tata Vega brought the house down with a rendition of James Brown's "It's a Man's Man's Man's World," while Merry Clayton, brassy and sassy as all get-out, tore the roof off with a cover of an old Leon Russell chestnut.