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Drury, left, and Boudinot meet again.

Arts & Culture

Talent Required

Two young, unknown Seattle writers pop up in the Eggers pantheon.

The Tollbooth's Sokoloff (left) and Feldshuh.

Film

No Bombs, Please, We’re Jewish

It's not all sorrow and loss at the 10th annual film fest.

Holiday Film

Film

Holiday Film

Save yourself, flee your family— at the movies

Is she or isn't she? Zhou Xun in mermaid mode.

Film

Down by the river

Vision distorted by the murky waves of memory.

Honey, is that a new gun you're wearing? Pitt and Jolie visit the armory.

Film

The Marriage Reloaded

Holster your weapons, please. Firepower overwhelms star power in this off-target comedy.

In a musical, nothing dreadful ever happens, says Björk, here with David Morse.

Film

Climb every mountain

Adversity accompanied by swelling music, flowing tears.

McKellen as Gandalf.

Film

The empire strikes back

Original fantasy force finally claims cinematic crown.

"It was like a movie."

Film

“It was like a movie.”

In a universal phrase, a common effort to comprehend.

Salman Rushdie

Arts & Culture

Book Favorites and Calendar

Salman Rushdie From a guy who knows something about Muslim extremism, the subject of his new novel, Shalimar…

Some Like It Hot

Film

Some Like It Hot

Billy Wilder worked with Marilyn Monroe twice, which is twice as much as most directors could stand her.…

Film

The War Within

Opens Fri., Oct. 14, at Metro.

Dead Bride walking, Sept. 23.

Arts & Culture

Film Favorites and Calendar

Corpse Bride I wasn’t crazy about Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (both too sweet and too sour), but…

Viesturs on the upper reaches of Shishapangma this April.

News

Dot-com death zone

Local climber surmounts unexpected low-altitude technical challenge.

Like Falstaff, Greene laughs at his own decline.

Film

Fire Water

Crude but powerful drama mixes arson and alcohol.

Weisz and Fiennes stick together, even when they're not.

Film

Beyond Borders

Globalization is the new villain in this effective international thriller.

From 1983.

Arts & Culture

Don’t Smile for the Camera

War and politics have taken a grim toll in John Kerry's Camelot. Are we really ready for the…

Happy together? Co-directors and co-stars Cumming and Leigh.

Film

From dusk till dawn

Celebration turns into all-night cathart-a-thon.

Pipe Dream

Film

SIFF News

Week 4: Home stretch.

On the beach: Mazzarella looks toward eternity.

Film

The madeleine

Old memories revived with surrealist technique.

Danielle Cormack prepares to wed.

Film

Sweet stuff

Bride-to-be ponders and squanders what she values.