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The Golden Space Needle Award winners were announced at a ceremony on Sunday. More than 60,000 ballots were cast by SIFF audiences to determine the winner in six categories: Best Film, Best Documentary, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Short Film. So, without further ado… SIFF 2009...
One of the centerpieces of the festival was the Evening with Francis Ford Coppola, which I hemmed and hawed about, then finally bought a ticket a day or two before the event. Depending on how chatty the subject is, and more importantly, if the subject has anything interesting to...
As the fest goes on, I sometimes find it hard to remember what movies I saw on a certain day. You know that you are getting fest fatigue when you can’t remember the films that you saw earlier in the same day. This is especially true when you get...
Finally! Through some finagling, I’ve gotten to take a couple days of hooky from the “real” job so that I can instead sit inside a theater on a sunny day and see three movies in a row, all before I would even have left my desk on a normal...
Ever since seeing Léa Pool’s lovely 1999 coming of age film Emporte-moi (Set Me Free), I’ve looked forward to her films. Not that she has gotten close to that lovely, sublime film since, but I keep hoping. Her latest returns to that familiar theme: a seemingly happy suburban family...
Are you ever just tired at the end of the work week? You know, like really really tired? Cancel your social plans tired? “Please, you guys should go out anyway without me…” tired? I knew I had a big-ass frosty microbrew in my fridge that had been beckoning for...
Our little heatwave wrapped up last night, and it happened within the two hour span of time in which I was sitting in the theater! As I walked to the Harvard Exit after work, it was still a sweltering 90-ish degrees. I should have known things were in the...
People seem to have zombies on the mind this week. Perhaps it is because of the heat… or maybe because mid-festival fatigue is actually starting to set in. But here are my observations of the day regarding this curious theme: A) The most buzzed about movie of the week...
So I’m in the midst of taking a couple days off of SIFF, but in the meantime, I’ve got some scoops. If you love seeing celebs at screenings (admit it: there’s a celebrity whore in all of us), here are some peeps in town this week that you may...
Many moons ago at the now defunct Women in Cinema film festival (also put on by SIFF), I saw this weird amazing movie from Argentina called La Ciénaga. I have never met anyone since who had even heard of the film, so I was thrilled when SIFF decided to...
You may have noticed my SIFF’n slowing down. I apologize in advance because it will continue this way through the next week, as my regular job is sucking all of my time. But still, I persevere, and will be catching flicks when I can (and hopefully pile them on...
So has anyone noticed that the SIFF tables and main ticket booth aren’t selling any festival schwag this year? No T-Shirts, posters, silly lunchboxes… nothin’! I mean, charging $10 for the program (over $5 the previous years) was surprising, but not really unexpected. But the poor ticketing tables look...
