SIFF Take: Turning Tide (En Solitaire)
Sailing is the kind of activity that seems utterly opaque to those who don’t partake. Like horse-back riding, for example. “How hard can it be…
Sasquatch 2014, Day 3
I have to admit, I kind of like the new Sasquatch schedule of Friday-Sunday instead of the old late Friday-Monday. It’s a little less tiring,…
Chinese Puzzle (Casse-tête chinois)
{Chinese Puzzle opens in Seattle on Friday, 5/30, and is screening at Landmark’s Seven Gables Theatre} Cédric Klapisch continues his story of writer Xavier Rousseau—and…
Maleficent
{Maleficent opens in Seattle on Friday, 5/30, and is screening at AMC Pacific Place, Pacific Science Center IMAX®, Ark Lodge Cinemas, the Varsity Theatre, and…
Sasquatch 2014, Day 2
Saturday turned out to be the sunniest and hottest day of the weekend. It seemed that a good amount of the festival goers tended to…
SIFF Take: Time Lapse
Time travel movies, particularly lower budget ones, are starting to be so prolific at festivals that it’s easy to get jaded, or to at least…
Sasquatch 2014, Day 1
This year's Sasquatch! Music Festival, taking place at the beautiful Gorge Amphitheater, was originally scheduled to be split between two separate weekends the second incarnation…
SIFF 2014: Week Three Highlights
SIFF 2014 is lurching along into its final week, and there's still time to catch up on your cinema (over)consumption if you've yet to partake.…
SIFF Take: Born to Fly
If Evel Knievel had been into dance, a bit LESS risk averse, and had a borderline cult-like following then Born to Fly would be about…
SIFF Take: Why Don’t You Play in Hell
Equal parts Yakuza drama, slavish love story to classic cinema shot on film, romantic comedy and over the top bloodbath, the Venn diagram intersection of…