SIFF Take: The Wedding Cake
Each year the giddy joy of perusing the new SIFF roster gives way inevitably to a sense of fatigue at trying to differentiate, by 25-word…
Deep SIFF: Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel
In the fascinating and thorough new documentary Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist, Rebel, you don't learn much about the larger-than-life, octogenarian character who spends most of…
SIFF take: Patagonia
If the Hallmark Channel ever goes multilingual they should secure the rights to this sweet, slow, unassuming (and rarely surprising) indie. It begins with a…
Imaginary Interview: SIFF
If you've been to TIG any time over the past twenty days or so, you've noticed that the Seattle International Film Festival is one of…
SIFF Take: Monogamy
I feel like I’d be doing something wrong if I simply described Monogamy as "a descent into madness", because while that’s the heart of it,…
Deep SIFF: Wheedle's Groove
You could probably be forgiven if the first time you thought of Seattle as having a vibrant music scene was when MTV first aired "Smells…
SIFF Take: The Wild Hunt
Since I was reminiscing a bit about the 1982 Tom Hanks masterpiece Mazes & Monters, I thought it might be a good idea to take…
SIFF Take: Cherry
Cherry centers around Aaron, a seventeen year old freshman at some unnamed Ivy League university. He's sensitive and smart but still in his awkward teenage…
Three Imaginary Films to see: Seattle's True Independent Film Festival
Hey guys? I know most of y'all are wrapped up in SIFF, but I wanted to remind you that Seattle’s True Independent Film Festival starts…
The punk rock life and unsolved death of the mastermind behind "New Wave Theatre" is extraordinary reading
Have you ever seen Eraserhead? In David Lynch's first B&W Surrealist mind-hump of a movie, there is scene with a little song the "Lady in…