Deep SIFF: Beautiful Darling: The Life and Times of Candy Darling, Andy Warhol Superstar
"People who I interviewed said she was the most genuine person they had ever met" director James Rasin told me in an interview about Candy…
Deep SIFF: Meet Monica Velour
"Basically, I told her I want to blow Samantha Jones into tiny little pieces" Keith Bearden, the writer and director of the often very funny…
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…
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…
Recommended show: Stephin Merritt scores 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Why, it's Stephin Merritt week in Seattle! Hopefully you caught the excellent Strange Powers at SIFF Cinema eariler this week, but if not, you're not…
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…