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SIFF Week 3: 30 New Picks & Pans
Wednesday, June 2 7 p.m., Neptune American Faust: From Condi to Neo-Condi Back when Will Ferrell did his…
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Splice: Adrien Brody, This Is All Your Oscar Gets You?
Though Sundance-screened and sporting an upscale cast, Vincenzo Natali’s Splice has a mad-science quality. Adrien Brody and Sarah…
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The Living Wake: Jesse Eisenberg in a Petrified Twee Indie
Fatally eccentric, Sol Tryon’s The Living Wake recounts the odyssey of outlandish weirdo K. Roth Binew (Mike O’Connell)…
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Get Him to the Greek: Jonah Hill Has a Man-Crush on Russell Brand
This roller-coaster spinoff of Forgetting Sarah Marshall often feels as if it’ll jump the tracks and smash to…
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Secrets of the Tribe: Anthropology Goes Bad at SIFF
Unless you studied anthropology in college, you may not know the name of the Yanomami Indians who dwell…
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Two Weekend Picks at SIFF
My Year Without Sex It’s difficult to tackle the topic of brain trauma with a pinch of genuine…
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Our Favorite Patricia Clarkson Movie at SIFF
Cairo Time Unabashedly a women’s picture, and one that dares address the romantic longings of a woman north…
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time: Jake Gyllenhaal Adds Muscle, Cashes Paycheck
Our story hinges on a dagger that can rewind time, a narrative conceit that doubles as a taunt…
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SIFF Week 2: Picks & Pans
Wednesday, May 26 7 p.m., Harvard Exit Devil’s Town In tennis-mad Belgrade, this dark comedy is set among…
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Sex and the City 2: Sarah Jessica Parker Refuses to Act Her Age
Sarah Jessica Parker is now 45 years old, and frankly I cannot stomach another moment of the simpering,…
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Survival of the Dead: Or, How to Kill an Undead Franchise
The sixth installment in George A. Romero’s long-running horror serial (est. 1967), follows Sarge Crockett (Alan Van Sprang)…
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Zombies at SIFF: Survival of the Dead
The sixth installment in George A. Romero’s long-running horror serial (est. 1967), follows Sarge Crockett (Alan Van Sprang)…
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Welcome to SIFF 2010
The recession is kinda, sorta ending, but fortunately, says SIFF artistic director Carl Spence, “We tightened our belts…
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Mother and Child: Naomi Watts Demands a Baby, Immediately!
Rodrigo Garcia has admirably distinguished himself through his commitment to creating intelligent roles for his heavily distaff casts.…
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Northwest Newbies at SIFF: Hollywood Is Not the Goal
Let’s say you want to make a movie and you didn’t go to NYU film school. You don’t…
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SIFF Week 1: Picks and Pans
Thursday, May 20 7 p.m., Benaroya Hall The Extra Man Some years we recommend the SIFF opening gala…
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180 Degrees South: Like Browsing the Patagonia Catalog, Listening to Jack Johnson
If you enjoy flipping through the Patagonia catalog, longing to visit the lovely, distant locales depicted therein (and…
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Life After SIFF: A Tale of Two Indies
What happens to those titles from SIFFs past that don’t make it into Seattle theaters? Those with name…
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SIFF Battles Another Kind of Festival Bloat
We often kid SIFF about its ever-expanding schedule, but there’s a different kind of bloat that can afflict…
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Just Wright: Queen Latifah Takes Her Career Back to the ’90s
Another movie, not as awful as this one, might one day find better use for the easygoing vibe…