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Klown: Danes Take a Canoe Trip to the Whorehouse
Based on a TV series in Denmark (where broadcast standards are far different than here), Klown sends two…
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Visual Arts: Spinning the Oldies at the Henry
This jukebox show cheerfully recycles the past.
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Ron Phillips/Warner Bros.Bale and Hathaway dance while Gotham burns.The Dinner: Massaman Beef
Ron Phillips/Warner Bros.Bale and Hathaway dance while Gotham burns.The Dinner: Massaman Beef Curry, at Tup Tim Thai (118…
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Trishna: Freida Pinto in a Thomas Hardy Update
I love a good bummer as much as the next man, and Thomas Hardy’s Tess of the d’Urbervilles…
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A Cat in Paris: A Delightful French Animation Caper
First be warned, this animated French tale about a cat burglar and his companion in crime, a cat,…
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100% Off: A Recession-Era Romance: Two Seattle Couples Gradually Come Apart
Not yet 30, local filmmaker Shaun Scott has an unusual affinity for history and archival footage. Both are…
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People Like Us: Chris Pine and Elizabeth Banks Avoid Incest
Let us now take this moment to praise Michael Bay. In a Hollywood career devoted to blowing shit…
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Music From the Big House: Louisiana Prisoners Make Music
Documentary filmmakers have long been drawn to the notorious Louisiana State Penitentiary, a huge complex known as Angola,…
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Grassroots: Our Very Own Monorail Saga Gets the Jason Biggs Treatment
Journalist Phil Campbell wrote a book (Zioncheck for President) about his getting booted from The Stranger and subsequently…
Arts & Culture
30 Years to the Altar
Lewis Black got dumped. Then he wrote about it. For the next three decades.
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Your Sister’s Sister: Lynn Shelton’s SIFF Opener Returns
Seattle filmmaker Lynn Shelton’s fourth feature is another agreeable exercise in small-scale humanism, an intimate three-hander set mostly…
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Keyhole: Guy Maddin’s New Ghost House
Shot mostly in black-and-white by local cinematographer Ben Kasulke, Guy Maddin’s latest feels like a rehash of all…
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Niko Tavernise/Focus FeaturesKara Hayward and Jared Gilman go camping on an idyllic
Niko Tavernise/Focus FeaturesKara Hayward and Jared Gilman go camping on an idyllic island.The Dinner: Hot dog, potato salad,…
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Go Tell It on the Fountains
Why is our famously rainy city so obsessed with jet-propelled water?
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Safety Not Guaranteed: Aubrey Plaza in a Locally Shot Time-Travel Comedy
With deadpan impatience/intelligence, Aubrey Plaza (Parks and Recreation) plays Darius, an intern at Seattle magazine sent to the…