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The 36th Seattle International Film Festival concluded a record-breaking year on Sunday June 13th, in spite of the downturn in summer movie-going nationwide, with the announcement of juried SIFF 2010 Competition Awards and Golden Space Needle Audience Awards, bringing to a close the largest and most highly attended film...
When the last day of SIFF arrives, it is a cross between a mad scramble to use up vouchers and see as many films as possible (in the past, I’ve seen up to four movies on the last day), or relaxing, calling it good, enjoying the weather, then topping...
The marathon is coming to an end. When I call SIFF an endurance sport, I’m only half-kidding. Seriously. At three-and-a-half weeks long, the festival goes on forever… long enough for me to fall into the swoon of first love, then slowly get into a comfortable groove, then loose enthusiasm...
Stephin Merritt of the alt-pop band The Magnetic Fields is one of those musical characters that you either love, or you have simply never heard of him. I adore Magnetic Fields, so I was thrilled to hear that Merritt was going to come to SIFF with his San Francisco...
Whoah. I knew it would all catch up to me. After taking a week off from work (i.e. My Real Job) to go to SIFF last week, I was out late Friday night for a couple of movies, then left early on Saturday morning with ‘Pie Pal Jen to...
Metro, bless its public transit heart, can be a blessing and the bane of my existence. With the week off, I carefully planned which bus to hop to allow time to get a delicious cuppa before the press screenings, but in this case I happened to catch The Slowest...
During the Seattle International Film Festival, I always enjoy asking random people what films they’ve enjoyed at the fest so far. Sometimes answers are all over the map, but more than one person has gushed about the film Cairo Time (one friend loved it so much she went to...
Wow. The ‘Pie had some technical difficulties the last couple days, but finally we got it cleared up, and the site is back live! So we’ve got a little bit of catching up to do from the last couple days… So my day started out the day with a...
As we here at Moviepie like to say, a film festival ain’t a film festival until you’ve seen at least one gay neo-Nazi film! But more on that later… Luckily for SIFF, the weather during much of Memorial Day sucked, so I’m sure I was not the only one...
The hot Friday night ticket was the recent Sundance winner (Grand Jury Prize-Narrative) Winter’s Bone, so I decided to catch the film right before it, since I was right there in the ‘hood. The Owls (3/8) is a curious film that, though written, directed, produced and starring Cheryl Dunye...
After my first-night fiasco of standing in sludgy ticket lines and losing tickets (dang!!!), I vowed to go straight home and sort out at least *some* of my schedule, ordering a bunch of my “for sure” screening tickets in advance. There! A good dozen printed in hand, at least...
I sometimes have a tough time investing any emotional energy into characters I don’t like. No, let me take that back… everyone loves a good villain, say a Hannibal Lecter or a Scarlett O’Hara. I’ll even go out on a limb and add Gordon “Greed is good” Gekko from...
