SIFF Take: Finisterrae
The other day I was talking to a fellow festival attendee on line at a SIFF press screening. When he heard I'd seen Finisterrae it…
SIFF Take: Surrogate Valentine
Goh is San Francisco musician Goh Nakamura, and he is living the life you are, your comrades, or your indie singer-songwriter heroes are. Creating songs…
SIFF 2011: Week Two Highlights
We're nearing SIFF's halfway point, and if you've attended more than a few screenings this year I congratulate you on surviving the queues, tolerating any…
Recommended SIFF: Saigon Electric
{Saigon Electric screens again at SIFF on May 30, 3pm at Pacific Place and on June 1, 6:30pm at the Everett Performing Arts Center} I…
SIFF Take: A Cat in Paris
I sometimes like to play a little game while watching animated films called “Why Is This Movie Animated?” Animation is not a genre—we can all…
SIFF Preview: Shut Up Little Man! An Audio Misadventure
Usually "outsider art" begins consensually. Sometimes people find a certain enjoyable quality about something crafted by people a bit off the grid, perhaps in a…
SIFF Take: Karate-Robo Zaborgar
In the case of the latest film from the director of Mutant Girls Squad and RoboGeisha, the description from the SIFF guide is quite accurate:…
Recommended SIFF: Treatment (aka: Sean Nelson directs!) {5/26 & 5/28}
Sean Nelson fans, you may have been asking yourself - what the hell has that guy been up to* lately? Well, here's your answer. Mr.…
SIFF Take: Paper Birds
During my first few times through the SIFF program catalog I'd missed the fact that I'd actually seen this Paper Birds. It played in Palm…
SIFF Take: Trigger
True confession: I will see absolutely anything with Molly Parker in it because I think she is one of the most amazing and underrated actresses…