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Ready, Set, Bag!: Why Arent Our Safeway Clerks So Cheerful?
If you cast a Christopher Guest mockumentary from real life, played it absolutely straight, and eliminated all ridicule…
News
Best Place to Sit in the Kingdome!
For our 25th Best of Seattle® issue, we recall the best of the first.
Film
Farewell: A Spy Movie Desperately in Need of Angelina Jolie
Based on real events near the end of the Cold War, Christian Carion’s well-made but routine French spy…
Film
The Wildest Dream: Conquest of Everest: High-Altitude Detectives in IMAX
Everest looks suitably majestic in this IMAX documentary, though five different expeditions on the peak are awkwardly cobbled…
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Restrepo: Sebastian Jungers War Report From Afghanistan
The worst violence Sebastian Junger reports in his new book War, based on his Vanity Fair dispatches from…
Arts & Culture
The Fussy Eye: Small Hopes
All those tarped, empty construction pits around town are killing the design trade. Architecture firms are shrinking into…
Film
A Sit-Down With the Directors of Restrepo
A prizewinning documentary at Sundance, Restrepo reached SIFF at the same time as co-director Sebastian Junger’s companion book,…
Eat Drink Toke
Rico Torres/20th Century FoxBrody and Braga use guns, not chopsticks.The Dinner: Sushi
Rico Torres/20th Century Fox Brody and Braga use guns, not chopsticks. The Dinner: Sushi and beer at Sam’s…
Arts & Culture
The Fussy Eye: Lost in the Woods
The idea of encountering art amid leafy ravines and lawns is attractive: You stumble upon some statue in…
Film
Johanna: Joan of Arc as Hungarian Opera
More of an opera than a movie, this rather strange and daring Hungarian musical follows a street junkie…
Film
OSS 117: Lost in Rio: A Favorite French Spy Spoof Returns From SIFF
This sequel to the delightful French 2006 retro romp OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies now revives a…
Film
Winters Bone: Like Deliverance Without Canoes
Like a Sundance film from the early ’80s (before the festival was so named), this Sundance prizewinner starts…
Film
I Am Love: Tilda Swinton in Mad, Glorious Passion
This extravagant melodrama starring Tilda Swinton is both ridiculous and sublime. As the Russian-born trophy wife of a…
