Oscar-Nominated Short Films: The Documentaries Runs Fri., Feb. 21–Thurs., Feb. 27 at Sundance Cinemas. Not rated. 167 minutes. Among the five titles included here, four… Continue reading
Pablo Picasso made the cover ofTimeseveral times, along with that of Life and just about every other major postwar periodical. But his fellow-traveler and countryman… Continue reading
Forget about our ferns and forests and fleece; never mind our Prius-driving liberal monoculture or the Seahawks or coffee or Bertha. A transplant to our… Continue reading
Artists belong to various different tribes and schools. There are painters, sculptors, and photographers; then the subdivisions sprout and branch into Pop, conceptualism, landscapes, figurative . . . The… Continue reading
Walking the Camino: Six Ways to Santiago Runs Fri., Feb. 7–Thurs., Feb. 13 at SIFF Cinema Uptown and SIFF Film Center.
Not rated. 84 minutes.… Continue reading
Visitors Opens Fri., Feb. 7 at Cinerama.
Not rated. 87 minutes. Shot in super-high-def black-and-white digital video, this is the latest state-of-the world doc from Godfrey… Continue reading
The End of Time Runs Fri., Feb. 7–Thurs., Feb. 13 at
Grand Illusion. Not rated. 114 minutes. Peter Mettler’s inquisitive doc clocks in at a… Continue reading
12 O’Clock Boys Runs Fri., Jan. 31–Sun., Feb. 2 at
SIFF Film Center. Not rated. 76 minutes. The lure of a dirt bike is strong,… Continue reading
Northern Light Runs Fri., Jan. 31–Thurs., Feb. 6 at Northwest Film Forum. Not rated.
105 minutes. Trends are hard to judge in documentary filmmaking, but I’d… Continue reading
Flight of the Storks Runs Fri., Jan. 31–Thurs., Feb. 6 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 180 minutes. Based on a French crime novel and… Continue reading
Every local artist wants to do a show at Suyama Space, the atrium-lit old gallery hosted in a Belltown architect’s office. Once a garage, its… Continue reading
Art and memorials are inseparable, and some might consider prehistoric funerary rites to be the origin of what we now consider Western art. During her… Continue reading
Tokyo Waka Runs Fri., Jan. 24–Thurs., Jan. 30 at Grand Illusion. Not rated. 63 minutes. Seattle is unusually well-provided with both crows and crow experts.… Continue reading
The Invisible Woman Opens Fri., Jan. 24 at Varsity and Lincoln Square. Rated R. 111 minutes. There’s been a recent vogue to make superheroes out… Continue reading
Beyond Outrage Runs Fri., Jan. 17–Thurs., Jan. 23 at
Grand Illusion. Rated R. 112 minutes. “I’m getting too old for this shit,” says an aging… Continue reading
When the young Pennsylvania photographer LaToya Ruby Frazier visited Seattle Art Museum last month to discuss Born by a River, a documentary study of her… Continue reading
Pig Death Machine Runs Fri., Jan. 10–Thurs., Jan. 16
at Northwest Film Forum.
Not rated. 84 minutes. Ah, the blessings of Kickstarter. Just because you… Continue reading
Lone Survivor Opens Fri., Jan. 10 at Pacific Place and other theaters. Rated R. 121 minutes. This movie’s title, and Mark Wahlberg’s being the only… Continue reading
Those like me who read with delight Gary Shteyngart’s 2002 debut novel, The Russian Debutante’s Handbook, could safely assume the book had biographical and familial… Continue reading
A Touch of Sin Runs Fri., Jan. 3-Thurs., Jan. 9 at Northwest Film Forum. Not Rated.125 minutes.The Secret Life of Walter Mitty isn’t the only… Continue reading