If you’re going to save yourself from self- indulgence as the writer/director/star/ composer of a shoestring indie, you’d better do…
Its opening shots replete with heavily fetishized close-ups of kids taking hits off joints and its dialogue peppered with lines…
This documentary opens with a photomontage of Japanese-Americans in the late ’30s and early ’40s, just before the outbreak of…
WEDNESDAY, MAY 30 Rent-a-Cat/3:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Wait, you mean this isn’t the plot for Zooey Deschanel’s TV show New…
A deeply archived and circumspect history of the Joffrey dance company, this doc does a perfect white swan but has…
The nonfiction formula pioneered by Spellbound leads to frustrating superficiality in this glossy documentary about a multicultural collection of young…
Arguably the strangest of the many recent Scandinavian movies to rifle through modern American-indie tropes and then cash in by…
“Nobody can escape the wheel of history,” a physician says in Pablo Larraín’s devastating follow-up to Tony Manero (2008). That…
WEDNESDAY, MAY 23 Unforgivable/6:30 p.m., Harvard Exit Unforgivable? Interminable is more like it. Veteran writer/director André Téchiné (The Witnesses, The…
The script for Bernie was in part dictated from the stand: In a 1997 murder trial in Carthage, Texas, Bernhardt…
You’ll find two main varieties of SIFFgoers at the Seattle International Film Festival, now in its 38th year. First are…
Admiral General Aladeen (Sacha Baron Cohen), dictator of the fictional North African nation Wadiya, travels to New York to defend…
Heidi Murkoff’s mega-bestselling mommy manual actually makes perfect sense as a vehicle for a contemporary Hollywood ensemble comedy. For an…
THURSDAY, MAY 17 [PICK] Your Sister’s Sister/7 p.m., McCaw Hall For decades, it seems, Seattle’s tiny film community has been…
“I think that men are having an identity crisis, but they don’t really know it.” So says “biological anthropologist” Helen…
It’s quite the honor to be selected as SIFF’s opening-night feature, particularly when Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister is the…
If the documentary The 5,000 Days Project: Two Brothers, which follows its subjects over the span of 10 years, makes…
Every once in a while, a movie comes along that’s so utterly shameless, it achieves a certain grandeur. Peter Berg’s…
The British have practically cornered the multiplex’s senior demo (think Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls) and look to be…
Michael (Michael Fuith) is a 30-something unmarried insurance agent who, by necessity, meticulously keeps up domestic ritual. Michael, you see,…
