Film
Cafe de Flore: Love in Quebec, Pathos in Paris
If you don’t have the patience for Cloud Atlas‘ six plots in three hours, how about two in…
Film
The Sheik and I: Do Not Commission a Movie From This Man
American filmmaker Caveh Zahedi professes to know nothing about Sharjah, one of the United Arab Emirates, when he…
Film
The Dirt on The Details
Visiting SIFF this June with The Details, Jacob Aaron Estes was also returning to the location where he’d…
Film
The Details: Tobey Maguire Versus Seattle Raccoons!
Shot in Seattle and seen at SIFF this spring, this dark comedy’s release was delayed by Harvey Weinstein’s…
Film
Fat Kid Rules the World: A Locally Shot Coming-of-Age Tale
In his first directing gig, adapting the 2003 young-adult coming-of-age novel by K.L. Going, actor Matthew Lillard (Scream,…
Arts & Culture
SAM’s Elles Overload
An all-women show makes it hard for any one artist to stand out.
Film
Backwards: James Van Der Beek in a Sculling Drama
You can’t go home again—or at least that’s the feeling of ex-jock Abi, who fails to make the…
Film
Local Sightings Film Festival: Looking for Love
A celebration of local cinema . . . from Argentina to L.A.?
Film
Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best: Indie Rockers on the Road
Everything right about this indie-rocker road movie has to do with the music. Everything wrong with it has…
Film
Hello I Must Be Going: Returning to the Parental Nest in Shame
Kate Winslet we know, but whatever happened to Melanie Lynskey, her co-star in Peter Jackson’s 1994 Heavenly Creatures?…
Arts & Culture
Fall Arts: Trieu Tran’s One-Man Show at ACT
Aiming to defy Asian entertainment stereotypes.
Arts & Culture
Fall Arts: Many Candles on the Cake
This is a year of birthdays and anniversaries among Seattle art institutions. The Frye turns 60, and it…
Arts & Culture
Fall Arts: Timothy Egan on Edward S. Curtis
How our city's most famous photographer was lost and found.