SIFF 2015: Week One Highlights
Our beloved movie gorge-a-thon kicks off tonight with Spy, an amusing Paul Feig / Melissa McCarthy collaboration that spoofs and reveres great spy thrillers. It's…
Beyond the Fest: SIFF films that will (hopefully) open soon
With over 400 films playing the 40th Seattle International Film Festival, there was NO WAY I was going to be able to watch and write…
Best of SIFF 2014 series {6/12-6/19}
If for some reason over the past month you’ve missed the TIG SIFF team's extensive coverage, overlooked the 'round-the-block queues at some of our fine local…
SIFF Take: How to Train Your Dragon 2
It feels a bit unseemly to trumpet such a mainstream movie during this Festival of the Wonderfully Obscure, but How to Train Your Dragon 2…
SIFF 2014: Closing Weekend Highlights
The end of this year’s cinema mega-thon is nigh, and if you've slacked on your SIFFage there's still time to do something about it. Here…
SIFF Take: God Help the Girl
Prior to seeing God Help the Girl, I’d only been a somewhat-interested fan of Stuart Murdoch and Belle & Sebastian—hearing their most popular songs in…
SIFF Take: Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter
Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter is based on an urban legend that a Japanese woman mistook Fargo for a documentary and came looking for the treasure…
SIFF Review: The Family Picture Show
This program is a highlight of the festival every year: 12 diverse short films united only by their appropriateness for all ages. Most but not…
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…
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…