SIFF 2011 Opening Weekend Highlights
Yep, it's time for the 2011 edition of the Seattle International Film Festival. Can you feel the excitement? Have you carefully perused the printed schedule…
Bill Cunningham New York
If you've spent much time in New York it's not unlikely that you've come across New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham. He's hard to miss,…
Heartbeats
I brought earplugs to this screening, just in case, because Montreal wunderkind Xavier Dolan's first film, I Killed My Mother, was an absolute screechfest. Dolan,…
Cold Weather
Send me an AARP application, pass the Metamucil™ and buy me a Clapper® now. I'm losing patience for the kids and their ways today. Portland-set…
Kaboom
I advise you to be under the influence of something fun if you elect to see Gregg Araki's frisky, silly, candy-colored mess Kaboom. Just give…
Kuroneko
Entertainment option for a bleak midwinter evening: a super-stylin' late-'60s Japanese samurai romance revenge melodrama... with spooky-ass ghosts. Specifically, Kaneto Shindo's 1968 horror triumph Kuroneko…
One more chance to partake of SIFF 2010
Just when you thought SIFF 2010 was a thing of the past, SIFF Cinema has announced a special three-day, 14-program selection of festival award winners…
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…
SIFF Take: Au Revoir Taipei
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…
SIFF take: Patagonia
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…