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Iranian Treasures: A Separation and Caspian Strike Gold

Memento Films InternationalDon't shut the door on this one.​ The Dinner: Fesenjan (and more!) at Caspian (1806 136th Place Northeast, Bellevue) The Movie: A Separation at the Egyptian (805 E Pine) The Screenplate: The Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film is usually a gimmie for nations like ... More >>

Chinese Restaurant Awards Honor Vancouver's Best Dishes

Even after Conde Nast Traveler declared that "Vancouver is home to the best Chinese food in the world," many Western-born eaters remained leery about wandering into the city's unapologetically authentic dumpling houses and dim sum joints. "If you're a foodie, you understand and get it," says Craig S ... More >>

Paul Giamatti and Thai is a Win Win

​The Dinner: Lotus curry and taro custard at Lotus Thai Cuisine (2101 N. 45th Seattle, WA 98103) The Movie: Win Win at Landmark Guild 45th (2115 N. 45th Seattle, WA 98103) The Screenplate: Maybe what we all love so much about Paul Giamatti is that he cuts the crap. When he snatched the Gold ... More >>

Ted Danson's Sea Change

The Cheers star's ocean-sized obsession.

Ted Danson Teas Up at Vito's, Talks Oceans, Vandalism, and His New Book

Curtis Cartier/Seattle Weekly​Even with the silvery mane, thick-rimmed glasses, and hot tea, Ted Danson walking through Vito's last night still gave off visions of the great Cheers barman Sam Malone. To have placed him merely a few feet over behind a beer tap would have likely seemed to those ... More >>

An Incomplete History of Ryan Bingham's Place Between Laurel Canyon and Bad Blake

From the back of a horse in Stephenville, Texas to an Oscar for "The Weary Kind."

The Social Network: A Movie About a Website That Distracts You From Watching Movies

From the back of a horse in Stephenville, Texas to an Oscar for "The Weary Kind."

Goin' to The Chapel for Trivia

Gareth Simpson, 2007.​ The Bar: The Chapel Bar is an often-overlooked Capitol Hill gem, inhabiting what used to be a mausoleum. As if the fact dead people used to hang out here weren't awesome enough, the funeral of local asskicker Bruce Lee himself took place on these very grounds, christenin ... More >>

Pink Strippers and Social Network Nuggets: A Golden Globe-Themed Menu

Merrick Morton/Columbia Pictures​The Golden Globe Awards - forever in the shadow of its prettier older sister, the Oscars - will take place on Jan. 16. The event will no doubt be the kick off to award show viewing party season, and for the last-minute planner filled with the burning desire to ... More >>

Joaquin Phoenix Could Really Use Some Black Bean Bisque

Is Mr. Combs in on Phoenix's joke?​The Dinner: Black bean bisque, white bean and pancetta soup, Ceasar salad and salami sandwich at the Broadway Grill (314 Broadway East). The Movie: I'm Still Here at the Harvard Exit. The Screenplate: I'm Still Here chronicles two-time Oscar nominee Joaquin ... More >>

Dinner & a Movie: Sandra Bullock Golden Globe Edition

Bullock: From Golden Globe win to Oscar contender?​The Dinner The Fight Club chicken/bacon sandwich, plus beers, at Cinebarre (6009 S.W. 244th St., Mountlake Terrace) The Movie The Blind Side, also at Cinebarre, which just earned lead actress Sandra Bullock a Golden Globe award. The Screenpl ... More >>

Dinner & a Movie: My Date With Sandra Bullock

Bullock: From Golden Globe win to Oscar contender?​The Dinner The Fight Club chicken/bacon sandwich, plus beers, at Cinebarre (6009 S.W. 244th St., Mountlake Terrace) The Movie The Blind Side, also at Cinebarre, which just earned lead actress Sandra Bullock a Golden Globe award. The Screenpl ... More >>

Even if You Hate the Movie (You Won't), the Crazy Heart Soundtrack Is Worth Buying

​If ever a soundtrack provided a sound argument in favor of seeing a film about a musician (even a fictional one) this is it. Usually, it works in reverse - you see the film, then go out and buy the soundtrack (it came out yesterday) - but if you even own just one Hank Williams record, you'll ... More >>

Dinner & a Movie: We Regret to Inform You...

Bad news or good food should be delivered in the same manner.​The Dinner: No. 40 beef curry, beers, and chicken satay at Tup Tim Thai (118 W. Mercer St.). The Movie: The Messenger, at the Uptown (511 Queen Anne Ave. N.). The Screenplate: Iraq war movies continue to underperform at the box of ... More >>

Oscar Predictions: A Cautionary Tale

As you dope your ballots for your Oscar office pool, online contest or Sunday night viewing party, I offer this tawdry tale of woe: The year is 2006. The annual Oscar party is at my apartment. And the movie to beat that year was Brokeback Mountain. As we filled out our ballots for the prediction ... More >>

Golden Globes Preview and Predictions

Remember last year's Golden Globe ceremony?  Don't strain too hard - it didn't exist.  The Writers Guild strike, and the Actors Guild's reluctance to cross the picket line, forced the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to reduce their usual glamor-fest to a press conference announcing ... More >>

Why Don't They Hand Out Awards for DVD Extras?

Keith Fenimore, a pal of mine who now works for Howard Stern, has long had what I think is a brilliant idea to stage an awards show devoted to character actors (i.e., non-movie stars who are in just about every flick you've ever seen but whose names you don't know). The Character Actor Awards is w ... More >>

Harvey Milk's Ain True Love

Its Golden Globe snubs aside, Gus Van Sant's Milk is a critical darling, and rightfully so. I saw it over the weekend at the Rose Theatre in Port Townsend (those who feel like the classic American movie experience is dead need only visit this little gem to be convinced otherwise). The performances ... More >>

Beltway Bumblers

The Coen brothers' dark comedy--almost redundant, I know--Burn After Reading got not so much love in September from critics (including our own), and only one award nomination this month, from those mysterious folks at the Golden Globes. Coming to DVD next Tuesday, the movie made me laugh, and quit a ... More >>

Golden Globe's Biggest Snub

I love the Golden Globes because they're set up to recognize great work in broad comedies. Hence, well-deserved nods for James Franco (Pineapple Express) and Robert Downey Jr. (Tropic Thunder). But the Globes screwed up by putting Tom Cruise in the running for his turn as a fat, bald, crass movie ... More >>

Stay Classy, Mercer Street!

SIFF Cinema maintains property values with rep series

Vedder Snubbed by Oscar

SIFF Cinema maintains property values with rep series

The Yodeling Bull

Did you know Randy Quaid could sing?

Kenneth Anger's Candy-Colored Absinthe Freakout.

Plus Ricky Gervais, Peruvian marching powder, and other new releases.

Oscar Predictions

Plus Ricky Gervais, Peruvian marching powder, and other new releases.

Queen Helen

Plus Ricky Gervais, Peruvian marching powder, and other new releases.

Goldfinger, 1937–2006

Meet the Goldfish who admired Al Capone, robbed Judy Garland, stalked Diana Ross, and pantsed Robert DeNiro.

This Week's Reads

Bret Easton Ellis, Karen Fisher, and Rodney Rothman.

Weekly Horoscopes

Bret Easton Ellis, Karen Fisher, and Rodney Rothman.

Golden

Steve Wiecking

Bowling for Columbine

MGM Home Entertainment, $26.98

Best Sporting Oscar

MGM Home Entertainment, $26.98

Quick Oscar Reads

Emanuel Levy, Mason Wylie & Damien Bono, and Gail Kinn & Jim Piazza.

Honesty at the Oscars

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Brief Re-Encounters

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Peacenik

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.

Weighty Picks

My oh-so-cheerful 10 best films of 2002.

Small World

Like a virgin

Small World

Another man's famine

Days of our nights

Another man's famine

The breeze between your knees

Stephen Villegas' concept kilt celebrates its first birthday.

Moustache madness

Stephen Villegas' concept kilt celebrates its first birthday.

Flashback 2000

The 10 best films (though just barely).

All that glitters

The journal of an Oscar junkie.

They like to score

Entwined in cinema, Michael Penn and Aimee Mann take fresh stabs at conquering pop—on and off the screen.

SIFF Notes

Late breaking news, and notes from the field on all events SIFF.

SIFF Diary

Late breaking news, and notes from the field on all events SIFF.