SIFF Take: Last Train Home
Every Spring in China more than 130 million workers jam train stations in desperate attempts to travel home for the New Year holiday -- a…
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Every Spring in China more than 130 million workers jam train stations in desperate attempts to travel home for the New Year holiday -- a…
The immensely entertaining Taiwanese gem Au Revoir Taipei, director Arvin Chen's debut feature (with exec-producer credit to none other than Wim Winders), won my affection in ways…
One of my favorite films at SIFF this year was the beautiful, intuitive drama Cairo Time, written and directed by the equally beautiful and intuitive…
I'm a little ashamed to admit that prior to this documentary, the only thing I knew about William S. Burroughs was that he had written…
Each year the giddy joy of perusing the new SIFF roster gives way inevitably to a sense of fatigue at trying to differentiate, by 25-word…
In the fascinating and thorough new documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel, you don't learn much about the larger-than-life, octogenarian character who spends most of…
Why, it's Stephin Merritt week in Seattle! Hopefully you caught the excellent Strange Powers at SIFF Cinema eariler this week, but if not, you're not…
If the Hallmark Channel ever goes multilingual they should secure the rights to this sweet, slow, unassuming (and rarely surprising) indie. It begins with a…
If you've been to TIG any time over the past twenty days or so, you've noticed that the Seattle International Film Festival is one of…
I feel like I’d be doing something wrong if I simply described Monogamy as "a descent into madness", because while that’s the heart of it,…