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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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True Wolf: “Honey, Get the Wolf Off the Couch!”
In 1991, Montana wolf biologist Pat Tucker and her husband Bruce Weide began raising a wolf pup at…
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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…
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Here: Ben Foster in an Armenian Romance
Will (Ben Foster)—a lone-wolf American cartographer on contract to collect data on the ground to match to satellite…
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I Wish: Japanese Brothers Seek a Miracle on the Bullet Train
Japan’s Hirokazu Koreeda has always been an astute observer of all human behavior, but his greatest gift as…
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Seeking a Friend for the End of the World: Steve Carell and Keira Knightley on a First (and Last) Date
What’s missing from first-time director Lorene Scafaria’s Steve Carell–vehicle misfire is the one element any apocalypse narrative suffocates…
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Hysteria: Maggie Gyllenhaal Helps Invent the Vibrator
The origin story of a beloved bedroom gadget, Hysteria, set in London in the 1880s, proceeds as a…
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Goodbye First Love: Headlong Teen Passion in France
Writer/director Mia Hansen-Løve’s life-inspired feature begins in 1999, when protagonist Camille (Lola Créton), a highly emotional high-school girl…
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Last Days Here: Barely Surviving a Life in Rock
When we’re first introduced to emaciated, bug-eyed, trembling Bobby Liebling, the 50-ish frontman of the frequently dormant cult…
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Turn Me On, Dammit!: Teen Lust in Norway
Set in the Norwegian boonies, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen’s debut feature (based on Olaug Nilssen’s 2005 novel) introduces its…
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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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Bel Ami: Robert Pattinson Beds His Way Through Paris
What could be hotter than a bed-hopping bodice-ripper in which the movie hunk of the moment plows through…
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Rock of Ages: Tom Cruise Goes Back to the Hair-Metal ’80s
In this star-clogged pop-musical diversion (based on a jukebox musical built around an afternoon of VH1 Classics’ worth…
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The Woman in the Fifth: Ethan Hawke in a Parisian Dreamworld Thriller
The first film from émigré director Pawel Pawlikowski since 2004’s dreamy My Summer of Love, this thoroughly odd…
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On Its Centennial, Paramount Pictures Celebrates Its Peak: The 1970s
It’s a warm spring evening on the Paramount Pictures lot in Hollywood, and the crowd jostling for hors…
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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…
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Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson’s Enchanted Island Romance
It’s 1965, the rainy end of summer on the rocky coast of a fictional New England isle. Twelve-year-old…
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SIFF Week 4: Picks, Pans, and the Monorail!
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6 Future Lasts Forever/4 p.m., Pacific Place Turkish writer/director Özcan Alper places a modern young woman…
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Prometheus: Not Quite Alien, Not Quite 2001
Prone to shallow ponderousness, Prometheus assumes the air of a blockbuster-with-brains that links the genesis and ultimate fate…