Imaginary Interview: Bass Ackwards
Photo Credit: Victoria Holt Another favorite of mine at SIFF this year was the charming road trip movie Bass Ackwards. I grabbed some time with…
One more chance to partake of SIFF 2010
Just when you thought SIFF 2010 was a thing of the past, SIFF Cinema has announced a special three-day, 14-program selection of festival award winners…
SIFF Take: Last Train Home
Every Spring in China more than 130 million workers jam train stations in desperate attempts to travel home for the New Year holiday -- a…
SIFF Take: Au Revoir Taipei
The immensely entertaining Taiwanese gem Au Revoir Taipei, director Arvin Chen's debut feature (with exec-producer credit to none other than Wim Winders), won my affection in ways…
Imaginary SIFF Interview: Ruba Nadda, Director of Cairo Time
One of my favorite films at SIFF this year was the beautiful, intuitive drama Cairo Time, written and directed by the equally beautiful and intuitive…
SIFF Take: William S. Burroughs: A Man Within
I'm a little ashamed to admit that prior to this documentary, the only thing I knew about William S. Burroughs was that he had written…
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…
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…
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,…
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…