SIFF 2017: week one highlights
Seattle’s beloved movie gorge-a-thon gets underway this evening, gala-style, with The Big Sick, and will be followed by 24 days of an ever-varied (and ever-bloated)…
SIFF 2017 Preview: Northwest Connections
Get your calendars out and get ready to plan your screenings of NW films this year! Northwest Connections at SIFF honors films that are connected to…
SIFF 2017 Preview: Face the Music
IT’S THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR! The 43rd Seattle International Film Festival kicks off this Thursday night, and TIG is stoked to see…
Tickled
{Tickled opens in Seattle for an exclusive engagement Friday, July 1 at Landmark's Guild 45th Theatre} Oh dear. I wasn't quite prepared to fall down…
Best of SIFF 2016 showcase {6/17-6/23}
Are you feeling under-SIFFed? Well, this Friday SIFF Cinema kicks off a ‘best-of’ series that whittles down the gargantuan SIFF 2016 lineup to 13 programs…
Imaginary SIFF Interview: Viggo Mortensen and Matt Ross
TIG got to hang out on the red carpet again last night for the Viggo Mortensen Tribute program, which included Viggo receiving SIFF’S Outstanding Achievement…
SIFF 2016: closing weekend highlights
Good news, procrastinators: there’s still time to do something about your SIFF-slacking ways. The coming weekend offers your final chances to partake in this year’s…
Recommended SIFF: Viggo, Viggo, Viggo AND Viggo!
Closing weekend of SIFF 2016 (What? ALREADY?) brings us A Tribute to Viggo Mortensen: a conversation with Viggo on stage at the Egyptian, followed by a screening…
SIFF Take: NUTS!
NUTS! is an exuberant, improbable documentary about a fellow—J. R. Binkley—who claimed to be able to cure impotence by grafting goat testicles onto human ones.…
Imaginary SIFF Interview: 5 questions with Lou Diamond Phillips {+ a bonus question with Megan Griffiths!} re: The Night Stalker
Some kind of magical planetary alignment happened on Saturday night, allowing imaginary rich and I to be on the red carpet in order to capture…