When the Seattle film festival got started, there were only five or six festivals in all of North America. Now there are literally hundreds.—SIFF director Darryl Macdonald

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Reel change

What's in the future for our old-school film fest?

Staunton as Vera: Beatrix Potter gets nicked.

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No Choice

A do-gooder's moral impulses lead her into illegality, where family loyalties turn out to be even more fraught…

Beer baroness Isabella Rossellini and Mark McKinney in Guy Maddin's The Saddest Music in the World.

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I SIFF, therefore I am…standing in line

The older SIFF gets—it turns 30 this year—the bigger it gets. What started as a two-week, 26-title, auteur-oriented…

Though rangers warned him to keep more than 100 yards away, Treadwell only got closer to his beloved bears.

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Into the Wild

Werner Herzog finds one of his very best subjects by accident. His wonderfully foolhardy hero, however, is on…

Depp and Highmore get lost together.

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Eminent Edwardians

There's magic to the Peter Pan story, but precious little insight into its repressed magician.

A lesbian Iranian refugee is Unveiled in this year's festival.

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Queer as (Film) Folk

Seattle's LGFF gives everybody a warm embrace on its 10th birthday.

Skeptical Harris amid the masses.

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The Third Miracle

Ed Harris as priest/detective.

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SIFF 2002 Events

GALA SCREENINGS Fabulous outfits, glamorous stars (well, sort of), red carpets, VIP areas—the usual. That extra cash outlay…

Eating's Stiles, Carnes, and Lunsford (from left) are cuter than their material.

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Eating Out

Also: It's All Gone Pete Tong, Mindhunters, Monster-in-Law, The Rider Named Death, and Torremolinos 73.

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SIFF Ticket Info

Thursday, May 25, through Sunday, June 18

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Moulin Rouge

MOULIN ROUGE Fox Home Ent., $29.98 BAZ LUHRMANN is a gaudy, intrusive, pretentious braggart of a director .…

Wood (at left) in the glam days of grunge.

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Rock Docs

SIFF offers a wealth of music documentaries, with important local emphasis and national significance.

Marathoners Rick (top) and Dick Hoyt in Heart.

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This Week’s Attractions

America’s Heart and Soul Opens Fri., July 2, at Metro and others Even those who, like myself, aren’t…

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Rivers and Tides: Andy Goldsworthy Working With Time

Docurama, $26.95

Duo Bujie leads Kekexili's eco-vigilantes.

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Mountain Patrol: Kekexili

Showing at Varsity, Fri., May 5–Thurs., May 11. Not rated. 89 minutes.

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Mouse in the house

Cry 'havoc' and let slip the rodents of repression.

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Moonlight Mile

Believe it when they tell you to write what you know. Director Brad Silberling made the cartoon adaptation…

Flora Montgomery liberates a reluctant Peter McDonald in When Brendan Met Trudy.

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Touch of green

Irish cinema reaches beyond the Troubles.

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Wedding Crashers

New Line Home Ent., $28.98

Nobel prize-winner Gertrude Elion reflects on a long, full life in science.

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Seven-upped

Scientists bare empirical details.