Exhibiting great specificity about gay sexual mores (the phone-sex hookups, the fear of AIDS, the dichotomy between carefree promiscuity and…
Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has been mostly in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows and…
In this faux-found-footage horror anthology (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of…
Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia: It’s a topography of middle-aged despair hidden under a sunny beige…
Narrated by Death himself, embodied by the archangel Azraël, Chicken With Plums is the second adaptation of comic book artist…
This bloated spin on The Big Chill follows a septet of grating, mostly Gen-X Parisians as they half-guiltily decide to…
Unlike most anthology films, Stars in Shorts is composed of pre-existing short films that weren’t originally intended to be viewed…
A celebration of local cinema . . . from Argentina to L.A.?
Early in Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30…
Thailand’s Pen-ek Ratanaruang made his reputation with a series of stylish, violent, and oddly contemplative crime thrillers including 6ixtynin9 and…
Everything right about this indie-rocker road movie has to do with the music. Everything wrong with it has to do…
OK, so she might not be rich (yet), but ever since Twilight introduced “The Bella Bag” to the world, Fremont’s…
For all our SIFF-related content, check out SW’s SIFF page.Published on June 5, 2008
Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s third week, June 3 through 9. Follow all our…
Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s second week, May 27 through June 2. Follow all…
Our recommendations for the Seattle International Film Festival’s first week, from Battle in Seattle to 3 Little Pigs.Published on May…
Trouble, Vice, a romantic comedy and a dysfunctional family. No, it’s not daytime television, it’s Week 4 of the Seattle…
Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s fourth week, June 10 through 14. Follow all our…
Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s opening week, May 21 through 26. Follow all our…
Yes, there are some lemons in the bunch. But even if they’re not all great films, these packages will make…
