Big Audio Dynamite, “Live: E=MC2” DVD
Filmed in 1990, this DVD features a short, tight set by ex-Clash frontman Mick Jones and some flashy young players who helped him after his…
Gram Parsons "Fallen Angel" DVD
The founder of the Flying Burrito Brothers, Parsons was a millionaire kid who created out of a playful passion for Americana (before it was known…
Tim Buckley "My Fleeting House" DVD
As people continue to be drawn into the Jeff Buckley cult, it’s tragic to watch his also mysteriously doomed father’s troika of a career —…
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds "The Abattoir Blues Tour" DVD
I adore Nick Cave and the work of his comrades the Bad Seeds, with their gloomy insouciance matched by a passion for life and expression…
The New SIFF Cinema
In case you haven’t noticed, our movie-crazed city has a new art cinema. And the Seattle International Film Festival is feeding our fanaticism by offering…
Best Films of 2006
Golden Globes have been awarded (I guess I’m OK with Babel, but I still can’t believe Bobby was even in the running), Oscar nominations will…
For Your Consideration
Christopher Guest's latest comic masterwork departs a bit from the loose mockumentary format of Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show and A Mighty Wind. There…
Mid-Fall Curtain Call
A Carlotta musical and new adaptations of two classic American stories are among the pre-Thanksgiving theater offerings around town You know the year is winding…
Henry Darger "In the Realms of the Unreal"
The biography of a reclusive and undiscovered artist by the name of Henry Darger who lived from 1892-1972 and died a hermit in a small…
Dig!
"Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin became addicts AFTER they were famous." Dig!, a documentary film by Ondi Timoner, won the Grand Jury Prize at last…