Seattle International Film Festival 2006 preview
It's time for SIFF again. Yes, already. And if you thought last year's acclaimed local month-long cinema celebration was mega-normous, a glimpse at the 2006…
Crash
"How, in the lunacy of your mind, is hip-hop the music of the oppressor?"Back in the late mid-90s, long before gaining fame as screenwriter of…
Hard Candy
"By the way, I fucking hate Goldfrapp." Judge Marilyn Milian is never better, sassier, or more entertaining than when I have cause to procrastinate. And…
Spring Curtain Call
f you didn't catch ACT's highly-praised The Pillowman, you probably missed our city's best theater offering of the year. But a bright and cheery springtime…
The Notorious Bettie Page
"Flattery is the devil's tool, Charlie." Mid-1950s New York City, and men in business suits quietly browse a seedy Times Square magazine shop. One anxious-looking…
Awesome; I Fuckin' Shot That!
By now you've probably read about the concept behind the first Beastie Boys concert film, Awesome; I Fucking Shot That! Fifty fans at a 2004…
9 Parts of Desire
"How 'smart' is this bomb if it bombed a painter?" Based on a series of interviews she conducted over eleven years, Heather Raffo's dense and…
Duck Season
"You have to care about things to remember them." Given only the premise of this fantastic little Mexican indie -- two early-teen boys have a…
Tristam Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
The Life and Opinions of cosmoNY, film reviewer. {Editor's note: Laurence Sterne's mid-1700s novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman was anarchically self-referential…
Capitol Hill High
Did anybody really enjoy high school? I know I didn't, but had my less-than-stellar learning institution been anything like fictional Capitol Hill High (the setting…