Intimate Apparel
Esther (Gwendolyn Mulamba), an unmarried 35-year-old African-American woman living in the dawn of the last century, makes an uncommon living for herself in New York…
Children Playing Before a Statue of Hercules
Buy It!{Simon & Schuster} When a book is deemed a "good summer read", I tend to avoid it. "Summer reading" often indicates something light and quick…
Happy Endings
"Nothing says 'I love you' like blackmail." The latest by Don Roos begins with a crash, and that's not the only thing that brings to…
The Tricky Part
I thought a lot about the fantastic Gregg Araki film Mysterious Skin during writer/actor Martin Moran's challenging, Obie Award-winning solo show The Tricky Part (an…
Dominique Durand of Ivy
Lovely chanteuse Dominique Durand wants you to know that she is not Ivy, even though hers is the dreamy voice you may associate with the…
Seattle International Film Festival 2005 preview
Look out -- here comes SIFF! And even though it's long been considered America's largest film festival, the beast just keeps on growing. Running a…
Imaginary Interview: David Duchovny
The one and only David Duchovny was in town recently, and our paths actually crossed. It all started on a Monday night in late March,…
Turtles Can Fly
"They have to learn how to fight now." A beautifully wrenching and refreshingly truthful film (the first to be made in Iraq since the fall of…
Giant and The Constant Wife
Giant Book-It at Seattle Rep Leo K. TheatreThe striking image of a cowboy silhouetted against a wide blue sky bookends Giant, the latest fantastic Book-It…
Nobody Knows and Dear Frankie
Nobody Knows I hesitate to slap the "horror" label onto Hirokazu Kore-eda's latest, Nobody Knows, though it certainly worked its way under my skin like…