SIFF Take: Roll Red Roll
In 2012, I remember hearing about the Steubenville rape case via Twitter, and as I started following Alexandria Goddard’s tweets and blogs about, I became…
SIFF Take: What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
I didn’t know about Pauline Kael until the early 2000s. Growing up, the only film critics I knew were Siskel & Ebert; I never even…
SIFF 2019: week two highlights
An experimental documentary about two Hollywood legends, a new take on an animated masterpiece, and a sporty Iranian melodrama are among the must-see offerings in…
SIFF Take: Brittany Runs a Marathon
I was admittedly nervous about seeing Brittany Runs a Marathon, because I worried that this would be a “woman loses weight and is instantly happy”…
SIFF 2019: week one highlights
Our annual celebration of cinematic overconsumption strikes again tonight with Lynn Shelton’s Sword of Trust (details below) – and, as always, there'll be plenty more…
SIFF Take: The Nightingale
The Nightingale focuses on the historical nightmare of the British colonization of Tasmania and The Black War, which led to the genocide of Aboriginal Australians.…
SIFF Take: Good Kisser
Good Kisser is a fresh, sexy perspective on discovering more about yourself, and an exploration of how things aren’t always what they seem. From the…
There’s still time to get tickets to SIFF’s Opening Night Gala
Who’s ready to spend 25 days in a movie theater?!? This Thursday, May 16, the 45th Annual Seattle International Film Festival officially kicks off with…
Best of SIFF 2018 series {6/15 – 6/21}
I gotta say, SIFF audiences made some good picks for this year’s Golden Space Needle awards: the glorious suburban-adolescence drama Eighth Grade and the heart-rending…
SIFF Take: Good Manners
I’ll admit I wasn’t sure what I was in for with Good Manners. Rich society girl Ana is expecting, and hires Clara, a struggling nurse,…