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Dinner and a Movie: Humpday

Director to Explain This Whole "Beyond Gay" Thing

Seattle director Lynn Shelton will do four Q&A sessions this weekend at the Harvard Exit for her feature Humpday, which we like (review). She'll likely discuss her fascination with insecure artist dudes (those being Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, pictured L-R), as she explained to us in a recent s ... More >>

Humpday: Would-Be Seattle Pornographers Talk About Transgressive Art

Seattle director Lynn Shelton will do four Q&A sessions this weekend at the Harvard Exit for her feature Humpday, which we like (review). She'll likely discuss her fascination with insecure artist dudes (those being Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard, pictured L-R), as she explained to us in a recent s ... More >>

Lynn Shelton on Humpday

Humpday, the third feature from local filmmaker Lynn Shelton, made its world premiere in the Dramatic Competition section of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. It was the first film sale of the festival and went on to win a Special Jury Prize "For the Spirit of Independence," and more recently was sel ... More >>

SIFF Week 3: Picks & Pans

By Brian Miller and SW Staff

SIFF Galas--Worth the Price?

Not owning a television, it's a shame how many good shows I miss. One, The Thick of It, ran only a few seasons on the BBC. Its star, Peter Capaldi (at left) plays a foul-mouthed and thoroughly frightening Scotsman at a British government ministry. We've all heard of the Boss From Hell. Well, Capald ... More >>

Humpday Headed for Cannes

Jeez, could things go any better for local director Lynn Shelton? Her third feature, Humpday, got into Sundance this past January. It's getting a mid-fest gala showcase position at SIFF (screening on Friday, June 5). It has a distribution deal for August release. And now, reports Northwest Film Foru ... More >>

Our Final Sundance Dispatch

Scott Foundas has several odds and ends from Park City. But we'll start with his take on Lynn Shelton's Humpday, made here in Seattle:"That forlorn indie-cinema movement known as "mumblecore"--whose navel-gazing Gen Y characters and DIY aesthetics were exalted and derided by a small coterie of film ... More >>

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