Talking with Jeff Baena & Aubrey Plaza about The Little Hours
The heavily improv’d medieval nun comedy The Little Hours screened at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, and although I think the film suffers from…
The Beguiled
The plot of The Beguiled is a recipe for the perfect Gothic thriller: drop a wounded soldier from the North into the laps of seven…
Weather Diaries by Ride
It has been twenty-one years since Ride called it a day back in 1996, after the two primary songwriters, Andy Bell and Mark Gardener, dissolved…
Spiral into Animal Collective’s Sound-Drenching Show in Seattle
Animal Collective will be at the Neptune Theatre in Seattle, WA this Thursday, June 29, 2017. Opening the show will be special guests: Eyvind Kang…
Best of SIFF 2017 series {6/16 – 6/22}
Another year, another SIFF, another Best of SIFF program at the Uptown. Once again the festival programmers will be serving up a diverse roster of…
Stealing Sand by Transient Songs
Transience. Traveling to escape customary life. Wandering. Vagabond impulses. Songs that were born and created throughout a determination to experience scenes and emotions outside of…
Recommended SIFF: The Landing
It is all but impossible to talk about The Landing, a film by the Dobson Brothers, without detracting from the experience of watching it. I…
Happy 15th Birthday to Three Imaginary Girls!
Happy 15 years to you and me and all that is imaginary! I love this time of year. It gives me a chance to gush…
SIFF 2017: closing weekend picks
Hey, SIFF procrastinators! The next few days offer your last chances to partake in 2017’s grand cinema binge… until the “best of fest” program rolls…
SIFF take: Swallows and Amazons
My children wholeheartedly, enthusiastically, and loudly captial-L Loved Swallows and Amazons. In the estimable tradition of The Boxcar Children or The Bobbsey twins (and based…