Arts & Culture
The Fussy Eye: Gays and Guns
Steven Miller's imperfect utopia.
Film
Liberal Arts: Elizabeth Olsen as Campus Lolita
Taking all three jobs as writer/director/star, it shouldn’t be surprising that Josh Radnor is way too kind with…
Film
Las Acacias: A Very Quiet Friendship in Argentina
There is no musical score for this Argentine road movie, only the incessant throbbing of a truck’s diesel…
Music
The movie I’d seen before, and the poster seemed strangely familiar. That
The movie I’d seen before, and the poster seemed strangely familiar. That film is 1963’s Elvis vehicle It…
Music
The group show Skyward!, at Fisher Pavilion, riffs on the futuristic ambitions
The group show Skyward!, at Fisher Pavilion, riffs on the futuristic ambitions of our 1962 World’s Fair. The…
Film
Sleepwalk With Me: Comic Mike Birbiglia Adapts His Stage Show
Smart, funny stand-up comic Mike Birbiglia has already based a book and a touring show on his biographical…
Film
Hit & Run: A Girl, a Car, and a Chase
A cheap, silly car-chase movie with a cute girl, Hit & Run wouldn’t stand out during the August…
Film
Iron Sky: Yes, There Are Nazis on the Moon
Nazis on the moon? What could possibly go wrong? The premise to this Finnish sci-fi spoof is golden:…
Arts & Culture
Visual Arts: A Carkeek Park Art Safari
Is the best way to protect public art not to tell the public it's there?
Film
Walk Away Renee: A Son’s Take on His Mom’s Mental Woes
Picking up where his 2004 Tarnation left off, Jonathan Caouette’s new documentary is no less hermetic, autobiographical, messy,…
Film
Milos Forman: What Doesn’t Destroy You…: The Czech Director Deserves a Better Profile
After his Oscars for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and Amadeus, the career of Czech-born director Miloš…
Arts & Culture
Books: A Local Writer Recalls His Texas Youth
A former colleague at Seattle Weekly, Domingo Martinez has been working on The Boy Kings of Texas: A…
Film
Old Goats: A Local Tale of Idle Geezers
Taylor Guterson, son of the local novelist David Guterson, turns an affectionate eye on Northwest geezer-dom in this…
Film
Splinters: Surfing and Sociology in the South Pacific
There is the expectation in a surfing movie that we should see plenty of wave-riding shots, those sun-bronzed…
Film
Unforgivable: An Overbearing Novelist in Venice
Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The Witnesses, The Girl on the Train) employs…
Film
On the Sly: Into the Woods With a Little Fugitive
Following the child runaways of Moonrise Kingdom, this small French drama has a 6-year-old girl (Wynona Ringer) flee…
Film
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry: The Chinese Dissident Films His Own Beating
What with the recent U.S. embassy standoff and flight to freedom of blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng, you…