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Seattle Movie at Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival opens Jan. 15 in Park City, Utah. Among the 118 features is at least one Seattle-made title (I'm still digging through the list): Humpday, by writer-director Lynn Shelton. It's her first film at Sundance, so congratulations. It's entered in the U.S. Dramatic Competition ca ... More >>

Another Seattle Title at Sundance

In addition to Lynn Shelton's Humpday, we've now confirmed with Northwest Film Forum that local director David Russo will also have a feature at January's Sundance Film Festival in Utah. His first feature, The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle, follows years of making local shorts, most using s ... More >>

Afternoon Edition: Sundance and Seattle

-- As we reported yesterday, Lynn Shelton's Seattle-made Humpday is Sundance-bound.-- And so is David Russo's The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle-- Duff McKagan pens a love letter to Kurt Bloch.-- The other half of the Sea Times getting cheaper by the day?-- Erika Hobart finds herself a 16 ... More >>

Filmmaker Benefit Party for Sundance

As previously reported, local director Lynn Shelton got her new feature Humpday into Sundance, which begins January 15 in Utah. That's great news, but movies always cost more to make than originally envisioned. So, naturally, there's to be a fundraiser/send-off party tomorrow night, with music, refr ... More >>

Humpday Benefit Party Redux

As previously reported, local director Lynn Shelton got her new feature Humpday into Sundance, which begins January 15 in Utah. That's great news, but movies always cost more to make than originally envisioned. So, naturally, there's to be a fundraiser/send-off party tomorrow night (the last one, o ... More >>

Carpetbagger Meets Seattle Director at Sundance

New York Times media reporter and blogger David Carr, aka The Carpetbagger, ran into Seattle director Lynn Shelton over the weekend at Sundance. And though he hadn't actually, you know, seen the her new movie Humpday, he was thoroughly smitten with Shelton and her scrappy band of indie stars and cre ... More >>

Lynn Shelton Charms the Bagger

New York Times media reporter and blogger David Carr, aka The Carpetbagger, ran into Seattle director Lynn Shelton over the weekend at Sundance. And though he hadn't actually, you know, seen the her new movie Humpday, he was thoroughly smitten with Shelton and her scrappy band of indie stars and cre ... More >>

Humpday Sold at Sundance

Lynn Shelton's local indie Humpday has sold to Magnolia Pictures. Defamer.com has a nice account here. And Variety also confirms here, with some notable details. Magnolia owns the Landmark Theatres chain, which runs the Harvard Exit, Seven Gables, and other arthouse cinemas in town. Both are control ... More >>

Harsh Indie Film Reality

So we're happy that the two genuinely made-in-Seattle films sold at Sundance. Those being, as we've previously reported, Humpday and The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle. But for how much did they sell in our current recession economy? The New York Times here reports that Humpday went for "ab ... 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 >>

Your Weekend Arts Planner

Never mind the lovely, cool weather outside right now (Friday, around 4 o'clock). It's supposed to rain, even snow, all weekend. So we've got several cultural recommendations for you, all of them safe, dry, warm, and indoors. After the jump, our writers weigh in on dinosaurs, nice Korean housewives ... More >>

Rawstock V

Never mind the lovely, cool weather outside right now (Friday, around 4 o'clock). It's supposed to rain, even snow, all weekend. So we've got several cultural recommendations for you, all of them safe, dry, warm, and indoors. After the jump, our writers weigh in on dinosaurs, nice Korean housewives ... More >>

Week 1 Picks & Pans

Never mind the lovely, cool weather outside right now (Friday, around 4 o'clock). It's supposed to rain, even snow, all weekend. So we've got several cultural recommendations for you, all of them safe, dry, warm, and indoors. After the jump, our writers weigh in on dinosaurs, nice Korean housewives ... More >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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Nobody, apart from a few wretched members of the media, sees more movies at SIFF than the full series pass-holders: a.k.a. the "fool serious" crowd. (It's a pun--get it?) And their post-festival judgment is often more interesting than the festival's juried and popular awards. Less swayed by local fa ... More >>

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Nobody, apart from a few wretched members of the media, sees more movies at SIFF than the full series pass-holders: a.k.a. the "fool serious" crowd. (It's a pun--get it?) And their post-festival judgment is often more interesting than the festival's juried and popular awards. Less swayed by local fa ... More >>

Local Artists in the National News

Seattle talent gets some props over the long weekend. First, film director Lynn Shelton has a nice profile in The New York Times. Her film Humpday, seen at SIFF, opens this Friday at the Harvard Exit. We'll review it Wednesday, and add an interview online. (The NYT profile was written by Michelle Or ... More >>

Humpday: Would-Be Seattle Pornographers Talk About Transgressive Art

Seattle talent gets some props over the long weekend. First, film director Lynn Shelton has a nice profile in The New York Times. Her film Humpday, seen at SIFF, opens this Friday at the Harvard Exit. We'll review it Wednesday, and add an interview online. (The NYT profile was written by Michelle Or ... More >>

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 >>

Again, the Brits Discover Seattle

​Not this again. First it was Everett True and grunge. Now it's Lynn Shelton and mumblecore. The Guardian is falling all over her locally shot indie Humpday, a film we like but which isn't exactly landmark cinema. But, oh, it was made in Seattle! The land of grunge! From which Everett True onc ... More >>

Beeswax: Mumblecore Comes of Age

​Not this again. First it was Everett True and grunge. Now it's Lynn Shelton and mumblecore. The Guardian is falling all over her locally shot indie Humpday, a film we like but which isn't exactly landmark cinema. But, oh, it was made in Seattle! The land of grunge! From which Everett True onc ... More >>

Director Lynn Shelton Gets SWAT Treatment from Seattle Police

Lynn Shelton's view down the barrel of a shotgun was less than pleasant.​Director Lynn Shelton, most recently of "Humpday" fame, was driving down Aurora Avenue last night with three crew members and Thee Emergency lead singer Zana Geddes all stuffed in Geddes' 1968 Ford LTD. They had just fini ... More >>

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Lynn Shelton Talks "$5 Cover" at Sundance, Blurs Lines of Reality

Movie Trailers - Movies Blog Maybe I'm one of few people left in America who still cares whether reality television is actually real or not, but I'm getting more and more confused about how accurate MTV's new web series "$5 Cover Seattle" will be. It's starting to feel like MTV and director Lynn She ... More >>

MTV Docudrama "$5 Cover: Seattle" Screens at SIFF on March 1

After showing at the Sundance Film Festival last month, MTV's "$5 Cover: Seattle" is finally premiering in the city where it was filmed. On March 1, SIFF will host a cast-and-crew screening of Lynn Shelton's docudrama in its 60-minute entirety. Cost is $15. There's no info yet about when the 12 ... More >>

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After showing at the Sundance Film Festival last month, MTV's "$5 Cover: Seattle" is finally premiering in the city where it was filmed. On March 1, SIFF will host a cast-and-crew screening of Lynn Shelton's docudrama in its 60-minute entirety. Cost is $15. There's no info yet about when the 12 ... More >>

Dinner and a Movie: Humpday

After showing at the Sundance Film Festival last month, MTV's "$5 Cover: Seattle" is finally premiering in the city where it was filmed. On March 1, SIFF will host a cast-and-crew screening of Lynn Shelton's docudrama in its 60-minute entirety. Cost is $15. There's no info yet about when the 12 ... More >>

"$5 Cover Seattle" Releases Footage of The Lights' "Buttons vs Boulders," but Docudrama's Release Date Still Unknown

"$5 Cover Seattle," the Lynn Shelton-directed and MTV-produced docudrama, has released live footage of discordant local indie trio The Lights performing "Buttons vs Boulders." As a music video for the song (the title track on this year's Failed Graves), the footage makes perfect sense: it's tightl ... More >>

The Moondoggies Debut New Song, "It's a Shame, It's a Pity" Documentary Clip By Lynn Shelton

​The Moondoggies will hit Bumbershoot's Starbucks Stage on Monday at 5pm (check out our 100% comprehensive guide to Bumbershoot here), and here's a couple things to tide you over until then -- this morning Spinner debuted a brand-new song from the band's forthcoming Tidelands (out October 12 o ... More >>

Arboring Film

​The Moondoggies will hit Bumbershoot's Starbucks Stage on Monday at 5pm (check out our 100% comprehensive guide to Bumbershoot here), and here's a couple things to tide you over until then -- this morning Spinner debuted a brand-new song from the band's forthcoming Tidelands (out October 12 o ... More >>

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​The Moondoggies will hit Bumbershoot's Starbucks Stage on Monday at 5pm (check out our 100% comprehensive guide to Bumbershoot here), and here's a couple things to tide you over until then -- this morning Spinner debuted a brand-new song from the band's forthcoming Tidelands (out October 12 o ... More >>

MTV's $5 Cover Seattle Will Premier Dec. 15...And Be Already Out of Date

Earlier this week, MTV finally announced that "$5 Cover Seattle"--the Lynn Shelton-directed docudrama about one weekend and 13 bands in the Seattle music scene--would begin airing as web series on December 15. According to the show's blog, the series, which was filmed back in summer of 2009, is s ... More >>

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Lynn Shelton, Filmmaker and Mother of Deaf Child, Says Cochlear Implants Are Like "Bionic Ears"

​As this week's feature story relates, there are skeptics who doubt that the latest technology for the deaf, cochlear implants, are the miracle they're cracked up to be. For Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton, best known for her movie Humpday, it took a few years to realize how important the devic ... More >>

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