SIFF Take: The Intervention
In actor Clea DuVall’s confident directorial debut, a group of thirtysomething friends and their partners gather for a Big Chill-esque weekend retreat with a decidedly…
Recommended SIFF: The Tenth Man
You’ve got the middle-age doldrums. You plan to take your girlfriend to go visit your father in Buenos Aires. But your girlfriend bails. You show…
Recommended SIFF: Girl Asleep
Oh, such a fun and funny film is Girl, Asleep! It’s got lots of Wes Andersonian mega-quirkiness, but derivative it’s not. Shy Greta just started…
SIFF Take: Alone (Hon-ja)
[embed]https://youtu.be/87avWfyZ0tk[/embed] Oof, what a mess of a movie. The first part feels like it might be a worth-it kind of mess. It’s like a jumbly…
Recommended SIFF: The Lure
For the first 15 minutes of The Lure {Corki Dancingu}, I felt like I was watching a David Lynch movie on Acid. This New Wave musical nightmare romance…
SIFF 2016: week two highlights
Gritty adolescence, Turkish kitty-cats, and the resurrection of Dawn Wiener are all on tap in your best bets through 6/2. DON'T MISS: Kedi {5/28 3p Uptown; 5/30 12p Uptown}…
Recommended SIFF: As You Are
The beautiful thing about As You Are is the way it mashes up a police investigation with a solidly authentic feeling coming-of-age story set in the '90s. Sounds weird,…
SIFF Take: Concerto: A Beethoven Journey
[embed]https://youtu.be/6u4hdY3ATRk[/embed] Ludwig van Beethoven, in his early career, was far better known as a pianist than as a composer. He began performing when he was…
26 Songs in 30 Days: Greg Vandy’s book about Woody Guthrie’s Columbia River Songs
A history book by local authors about music created in the Pacific Northwest? Of course I was going to read to 26 Songs in 30 Days:…
SIFF Take: Other Girls
You know how sometimes you choose a SIFF film randomly because you like the trailer and you watch it and then you totally ugly cry…