Arts & Culture
Blancanieves Opens Fri. April 12 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 104
Blancanieves Opens Fri. April 12 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 104 minutes. The obvious comparison to Pablo…
Arts & Culture
Room 237 Opens Fri. April 5 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated.
Room 237 Opens Fri. April 5 at SIFF Cinema Uptown. Not rated. 104 minutes. Sometimes a cigar is…
Arts & Culture
From Up on Poppy HillOpens Fri., March 29 at Egyptian. Not rated.
From Up on Poppy Hill Opens Fri., March 29 at Egyptian. Not rated. 91 minutes. If your idea…
Film
I’ve never read Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 coming-of-age novel Bless Me, Ultima, the
I’ve never read Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 coming-of-age novel Bless Me, Ultima, the tale of a Hispanic schoolboy in…
Film
Who is Pierre Etaix? His filmography is small (five features and a
Who is Pierre Etaix? His filmography is small (five features and a handful of short films, one of…
Film
Headshot: A Soulful Thai Killer
Thailand’s Pen-ek Ratanaruang made his reputation with a series of stylish, violent, and oddly contemplative crime thrillers including…
Arts & Culture
Fall Arts: How the Grand Illusion Cinema Survives
A tiny nonprofit cinema's business model seems to be working.
Film
SIFF: Rick Stevenson’s 10-Year Documentary
If the documentary The 5,000 Days Project: Two Brothers, which follows its subjects over the span of 10…
Film
The 10 Best Reasons to Celebrate Our Local Film Scene
For Seattle cinema lovers, 2011 was a good news/bad news year. For the bad, there was the May…
Film
I Want to See: Catherine Deneuve Plays Catherine Deneuve While Driving Through Lebanon
A famous French actress (Catherine Deneuve) visiting Beirut takes a trip to south Lebanon to see the damage…
News
After transforming the old west into the cool, cruel mercenary world of
After transforming the old west into the cool, cruel mercenary world of the Clint Eastwood Dollar films and…
News
Humpday, the third feature from local filmmaker Lynn Shelton, made its world
Humpday, the third feature from local filmmaker Lynn Shelton, made its world premiere in the Dramatic Competition section…
News
The play’s the thing in Petr Zelenka’s adaptation/transposition of Evald Schorm’s stage
The play’s the thing in Petr Zelenka’s adaptation/transposition of Evald Schorm’s stage version of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov,…
News
“This is not the movie I intended to make,” begins local filmmaker
“This is not the movie I intended to make,” begins local filmmaker Sandy Cioffi’s intermittent narration at the…
Film
SIFF: Axis of the Undead: Zombies Invade Kitsap!
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America.
News
I was at a disadvantage when I saw this film: I was
I was at a disadvantage when I saw this film: I was alone, watching a screener at home…
News
Kathryn Bigelow was at SIFF on Thursday, May 28 for the first
Kathryn Bigelow was at SIFF on Thursday, May 28 for the first screening of her remarkable new film…
Film
Axis of the Undead
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America on the Kitsap Peninsula.…
News
Yim Phil-Sung reworks the Grimm fairy tale as a horror/tragedy, played out
Yim Phil-Sung reworks the Grimm fairy tale as a horror/tragedy, played out with the kids in charge of…