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    Film
    Lindhardt as Erik.
    Keep the Lights On: A Favorite Queer Romance...
    By Nick Schager • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Exhibiting great specificity about gay sexual mores (the phone-sex hookups, the fear of AIDS, the dichotomy between carefree promiscuity and…

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    A boy and his dog.
    Frankenweenie: Tim Burton Successfully Revives His Old Short
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Ever since Mars Attacks!, Tim Burton has been mostly in the adaptation business, rendering dark and becurlicued Sleepy Hollows and…

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    Matt Bettinelli-Olpin in the short "10/31/98."
    V/H/S: A Horror Anthology Prelude to Halloween
    By Karina Longworth • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    In this faux-found-footage horror anthology (containing material directed by Joe Swanberg, Adam Wingard, Ti West, and others), a crew of…

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    The Oranges' two clans.
    The Oranges: Hugh Laurie as Stifled Suburban Dad
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Yeah, all right already, we get it about suburbia: It’s a topography of middle-aged despair hidden under a sunny beige…

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    Farahani as the haunting lost love.
    Chicken With Plums: Obsessive Love, From Marjane Satrapi’s...
    By Chris Packham • October 2, 2012 12:00 am

    Narrated by Death himself, embodied by the archangel Azraël, Chicken With Plums is the second adaptation of comic book artist…

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    Cotillard at the beach.
    Little White Lies: Marion Cotillard Goes on Vacation
    By Melissa Anderson • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    This bloated spin on The Big Chill follows a septet of grating, mostly Gen-X Parisians as they half-guiltily decide to…

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    Dench is a standout among the Stars.
    Stars in Shorts: Judi Dench and Others in...
    By Sherilyn Connelly • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    Unlike most anthology films, Stars in Shorts is composed of pre-existing short films that weren’t originally intended to be viewed…

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    Hale plays against type in Not That Funny.
    Local Sightings Film Festival: Looking for Love
    By Brian Miller • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    A celebration of local cinema . . . from Argentina to L.A.?

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    It's always a good time to see Willis in action.
    Looper: Bruce Willis Tries to Kill Himself
    By Andrew Schenker • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    Early in Rian Johnson’s time-travel thriller, Joe (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) sits at a diner and chats with his self from 30…

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    Chaiyanam as the soulful gunman.
    Headshot: A Soulful Thai Killer
    By Sean Axmaker • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    Thailand’s Pen-ek Ratanaruang made his reputation with a series of stylish, violent, and oddly contemplative crime thrillers including 6ixtynin9 and…

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    O'Nan wears the moose suit of shame.
    Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best: Indie Rockers on...
    By Brian Miller • September 25, 2012 12:00 am

    Everything right about this indie-rocker road movie has to do with the music. Everything wrong with it has to do…

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    Once upon a time, Angie Bowlds was just another seamstress with a day job, pulling threads in her off hours to bring in a little extra cheese.
    OK, so she might not be rich (yet),...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    OK, so she might not be rich (yet), but ever since Twilight introduced “The Bella Bag” to the world, Fremont’s…

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    Baghead: A frequently bracing, lo-fi revisitation of the concept behind the 1972 zombie flick Children ShouldnaE™t Play With Dead ThingsaE”ham actors isolated in the woods canaE™t decipher if the horror stalking them is real, or their own theatrical prankishness run amokaE”the Duplass brothersaE™ latest imagines four Hollywood never-beens holed up in an isolated cabin to write themselves a breakthrough. (NR) NICK PINKERTON Egyptian: 6:30 p.m., Sunday, June 8 (Also: 4:30 p.m. Mon., June 9.)
    For all our SIFF-related content, check out SW’s...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    For all our SIFF-related content, check out SW’s SIFF page.Published on June 5, 2008

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    PICK: The Dark Harbor: Dark is right. Friendless, luckless fisherman Manzo lives in a small Japanese village, not really content with his life but too lazy to do much about it. When the town arranges a social for the fishermen to meet some city girls, a clerk takes one look at lumpy, sad-sack Manzo and observes, A bit past it, aren't you? Indeed, Manzo (Shinya Kote) looks painfully uncomfortable in anything but his work overalls or favorite blue sweatpants. His idea of a good time is listening to rockabilly music and microwaving corn dogs. (Or in Japan, squid dogs?) Eventually, however, the comic melancholy is interrupted by a home invasionaE”a cute young kid and his mother take residence in Manzo's house while he's out fishing, then hide in the cupboards at night. And of course Manzo is going to fall in love with Mitsuko, and of course she's not quite what she seems. But since there's so little plot to The Dark Harbor, it's best not to mention any other particulars. The slow-moving deadpan tone recalls Aki KaurismA¤ki, and Kote's performance suggests a slightly more voluble Buster Keaton. In a rare burst of speech, he confesses, I'm suffocating here alone. If the interlopers are taking advantage of him, he reasons, it's better than corn dogs for one. SIFFgoers will agree. (NR) BRIAN MILLER Also: 9:30 p.m. Tues., June 9. 6:45 p.m., SIFF Cinema
    Here’s a look at all of our recommended...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s third week, June 3 through 9. Follow all our…

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    Passing Strange: I was hoping that the Tony Award-winning rock opera Passing Strange would eventually reach Seattle, but Spike LeeaE™s exhilarating concert doc is the next best thing. This coming-of-age-while-black musical by Mark Stewart (aka Stew) has been a long time brewing. It progressed from the Bay Area to Off-Broadway with much acclaim, and finally hit Broadway last year. If you loved Hedwig and the Angry Inch at SIFF aE™01, Passing Strange packs at least as much power, but with a much tighter band and more concentrated story. Unlike John Cameron Mitchell playing a transsexual East German character in Hedwig, Stew is relating a (slightly embellished) version of his own life story, one also rooted in the aE™80s, which proceeds from California to Europe and back. And the songs, co-written with Heidi Rodewald, are even better. Surgery is only one path to self-discovery. Music is another. Shooting during the show's final performances on Broadway, Lee sometimes pushes his camera too close , particularly after the intermission, but the high-def images are crisp and the sound quality excellent. Besides StewaE™s band, his ensemble of performersaE”most in multiple roles on a bare stageaE”are in equal command of the stage-tested material. Lee will attend this screening for an audience Q&A. The film is probably bound for HBO later this year. (NR) REVIEW BY BRIAN MILLER Egyptian: 7 p.m., Wed. May 27 (Also: Kirkland Performance Center, 6:30 p.m. Tues., June 2.)
    Here’s a look at all of our recommended...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s second week, May 27 through June 2. Follow all…

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    The 3 Little Pigs: aEœBig ears matter more than a big dick,aE Mathiew informs his brother, Christian, during a tutorial on wooing women. ItaE™s the first of many discussions theyaE™ll have on the subject in comedian/actor Patrick HuardaE™s charming directorial debut, the story of three brothers with three very different marriages. Pacific Place: 1:30 p.m. Sat. May 24; 9:45 p.m. Sun. May 25.
    Our recommendations for the Seattle International Film Festival’s...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Our recommendations for the Seattle International Film Festival’s first week, from Battle in Seattle to 3 Little Pigs.Published on May…

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    Frozen River: Set in deep winter in way-upstate New York, first-time writer-director Courtney Hunt's Frozen River provides a welcome throwback to the truly independent films of festivals yore, movies that offered lyrical glimpses of regional American life in parts of the country rarely visited by the dominant Hollywood cinema. (R) SCOTT FOUNDAS Pacific Place: Thursday, 7 p.m. (Also: Uptown, 4:30 p.m. Sat., June 14.)
    Trouble, Vice, a romantic comedy and a dysfunctional...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Trouble, Vice, a romantic comedy and a dysfunctional family. No, it’s not daytime television, it’s Week 4 of the Seattle…

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    Cairo, Egypt -- 4 March 2007 -- Still photography during shooting and production of the short documentary film "Garbage Dreams" by Mai Iskander.  The principal characters in the film are Adham, Osama and Nabil, all garbage collectors in the Manshiet Nasr quarter of Cairo.Photograph by Barry Iverson
    Here’s a look at all of our recommended...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s fourth week, June 10 through 14. Follow all our…

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    In the Loop: Wait--they're showing a British TV satire for SIFF's gala opener? Not exactly. The creative team behind the BBC's The Thick of It has reunited much of the original cast, added a few Yanks (led by James Gandolfini in the Colin Powell role), and rewritten history -- the lead-up to the Iraq War, though Iraq is never mentioned -- into a transatlantic political farce. I loved it. The movie is talk talk talk, interrupted by a little sex and drinking, then back to the talking, which soon becomes shouting, screaming, and cursing. The Brits are led by Peter Capaldi, who plays a foul-mouthed and thoroughly frightening Scotsman at a British government ministry. We've all heard of the Boss From Hell. Well, Capaldi's Malcolm Tucker is the boss to whom all the underling Bosses From Hell report. Around him swirl doctored intelligence reports, leaks, blunders, and neocon ideologues. The latter fly especially thick when In the Loop jets over to Cheneyland, a.k.a. Washington, DC, where the younger Brit bureaucrats meet their American counterparts. (Look! There's Anna Chlumsky, the girl from My Girl way back when.) Steve Coogan has a small supporting role, but the movie is Capaldi's, Walk the fucking line! he barks at a polite, weak, idealistic MP Tom Hollander, who later asks himself, Is the really brave thing doing what you don't believe? Well, in politics I guess you can convince yourself of anything. (NR) REVIEW BY BRIAN MILLER Paramount: 7 p.m., Thurs. May 21
    Here’s a look at all of our recommended...
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Here’s a look at all of our recommended films for SIFF’s opening week, May 21 through 26. Follow all our…

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    20. Memento (Limited Edition)Posing as the medical file of the protagonist, including pages of a police report, the packaging captures the flavor of the backwards-running thriller without being as confusing. The same can't be said for the discs themselves, famously difficult to navigate without going crazy yourself.
    Yes, there are some lemons in the bunch....
    September 24, 2012 12:00 am

    Yes, there are some lemons in the bunch. But even if they’re not all great films, these packages will make…

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