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Love or treasure? Knightley and Depp take a magic compass bearing.

Film

Something Fishy

Disney tries to build a Pirates franchise trilogy with a bouillabaisse of CG effects. Couldn't they have used…

When the Seattle film festival got started, there were only five or six festivals in all of North America. Now there are literally hundreds.—SIFF director Darryl Macdonald

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Reel change

What's in the future for our old-school film fest?

Beer baroness Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World.

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I SIFF, therefore I am…standing in line

The older SIFF gets—it turns 30 this year—the bigger it gets. What started as a two-week, 26-title, auteur-oriented…

Arts & Culture

Wilder, Fellini, and Doc-tober!

Classics and oddballs, but no boredom.

Though rangers warned him to keep more than 100 yards away, Treadwell only got closer to his beloved bears.

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Into the Wild

Werner Herzog finds one of his very best subjects by accident. His wonderfully foolhardy hero, however, is on…

Holiday in Hell

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Holiday in Hell

Perdition is no excuse not to find the right gifts this season.

Skeptical Harris amid the masses.

Film

The Third Miracle

Ed Harris as priest/detective.

Duo Bujie leads Kekexili's eco-vigilantes.

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Mountain Patrol: Kekexili

Showing at Varsity, Fri., May 5–Thurs., May 11. Not rated. 89 minutes.

The authors: coming soon to a theater near you?

Arts & Culture

My Beautiful Career

How did the newsroom suddenly become so gorgeous?

One of Esther Bubley's 1950s studies of the now-gone Third Avenue El.

News

Framed for the Holidays

A photo book roundup.

Nobel prize-winner Gertrude Elion reflects on a long, full life in science.

Film

Seven-upped

Scientists bare empirical details.

Potente crosses first, looks afterward.

Film

Sleeping beauty

A truck, a girl, and a fateful intersection.

Film

The State of Seattle Filmmaking

The annual complaint from local filmmakers about SIFF is, “Why didn’t my movie make it into the festival?”…

Huckabees hoo-ha: existential detectives doing philosophical zigzags.

Film

Only (Dis-) Connect

Oddball auteur David O. Russell makes the movie he wanted to make. If you don't see the point,…

Washington confronts Streep, the ultimate WMD: Weapon of Maternal Destruction.

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Fahrenheit 9,011

Sacrilege? No, for once a remake makes sense—and will make more people mad than Michael Moore.

Porter Mathis: "Eye contact and a smile."

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Best Bus Driver

TURF: URBAN LIVING

It's one long scenic campout for Kaneshiro and Zhang.

Film

An Empire of Two

Zhang Yimou takes the politics out of his new historical romance. But the movie also feels like opera…

NWFF's new two-cinema headquarters.

Arts & Culture

The Bigger Picture

Northwest Film Forum returns, bigger, better, and easier to get to.

A long way from Zoolander, Owen Wilson turns action hero.

Film

The running man

Aviator chases redemption over dangerous ground.

Land escapes from Kappa Sig to M.F.A.

Arts & Culture

Frat-Boy Confidential

Goat rises above Animal House, but just barely.