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My first day of SIFF usually falls on the second day, as I eschew the mobs of folks fighting over tiny cupcakes and the like that is offered at the Opening Night soiree. And usually, as was the case this year, I also get to see the Opening film...
OK, before I start blogging about the beginning of the film festival, I just HAVE to share a trailer that I saw tonight on my first full night of SIFF. Check out this supremely awesome trailer for RoboGeisha! The film is playing at SIFF: Egyptian Theatre – May 28,...
I enjoyed Iron Man for what it was, a sort of snarky super-hero movie that actually starred adults for a change. Robert Downey, Jr., with his affected narcissism, was a total hoot and completely made the movie. And when I saw the trailer for Iron Man 2 several months...
SIFF is proud to announce the lineup for the 36th Seattle International Film Festival, the largest and most highly attended event of its kind in the United States. Running a full 25 days, SIFF will present 189 narrative features, 54 documentary features, 13 archival films, and 150 short films...
OK, I love Werner Herzog. He can literally do anything, from dramatic narrative films like Rescue Dawn with Christian Slater, to documentaries that range from quirky (Encounters at the End of the World) to disturbing (Grizzly Man). Let’s just say he has the greatest job in the world, and...
So of course I had this Def Leppard song in my head through much of Armageddon—partially, I’m sure, to block out the creepiness of the all-Aerosmith, all-the time soundtrack. Now this would be fine in any other movie, but when one of the stars is Steven Tyler’s own daughter...
The film is based on late poet/rocker Jim Carroll’s book The Basketball Diaries, which itself is based on his own life as a teen heroin addict. In a curious choice, rather than setting the story in the 1960s, when Carroll was growing up and getting deep into trouble, The...
Imagine a world, much like our own, where people love super-heroes, but, well, super-powers don’t exist. Sounds like reality, doesn’t it? In the opening scene, a super-hero with metal wings takes a glorious swandive from a skyscraper, and crashes to his death on a taxi cab far below in...
Every once in awhile, a movie comes along that makes me swoon. A film swoon usually begins within the first ten minutes, making me sit up with attention and surprise. I get excited and nervous with anticipation, wondering if the movie can pull through on it’s promise for its...
Seattle, WA – The 36th Seattle International Film Festival will open on May 20 with the Seattle Premiere of the sophisticated comedy The Extra Man – directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. The film will screen at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall, kicking off the nation’s largest film festival...
I went into How to Train Your Dragon with absolutely no expectations. Zero. Nada. But by the time the closing credits were winding up, I found myself loitering in the theater just a little longer, keeping my shaded 3D glasses on, trying to hide the fact that I was...
The Runaways were formed in Los Angeles when punky Joan Jett (Kristen Stewart) approached producer svengali Kim Fowley (Michael Shannon) at a nightclub and sold herself as a female rocker, who wanted to be part of an all-girl rock band. First she and drummer Sandy West impressed him enough...
