Festivals Archive for June, 2011
Review: Terri
Note: This review ran earlier this year during Sundance. I’m re-running it today because Terri opens in limited release. Go see it. It’s great. Terri, the latest effort by Azazel Jacobs (Momma’s Man) is everything a coming-of-age story should be: it’s honest, it’s real, it’s completely unpretentious, and it utterly lacks any whiff of the…
Read the full article »DP/30 @LAFF: Somewhere Between, director Linda Goldstein Knowlton
Linda Goldstein Knowlton was an Exec Producer on Whale Rider and the co-director of The World According To Sesame Street. But her personal journey into the world of adoption – specifically adopting a daughter from China – brought her to her newest film, which tells the story of four girls and their families years after coming to America.
Read the full article »SIFF Dispatch: Last Review Round-Up
The Seattle International Film Festival has wrapped now, but I wanted to mention here a few other films that stood out from this year’s fest. Early in the fest I caught Red Eyes, a spectacularly shot and edited doc that follows the Chilean national soccer team, La Roja (The Red), on their eight-year quest to…
Read the full article »SIFF Dispatch: It’s a Wrap!
It’s hard to believe, after nearly six week’s immersion in the Seattle International Film Festival, that we’re already at closing weekend. At most longer fests like Sundance and Toronto, the time flies, sure. But SIFF lasts so long, it always takes me a few days to realign my brain around not checking the SIFF schedule…
Read the full article »37th SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL WRAPS WITH 2011 GOLDEN SPACE NEEDLE AWARDS
Jury, Audience Awards Given for Best Film, Documentary, Director, Actor and Short Film SEATTLE – The 37th Seattle International Film Festival, the largest and most highly-attended event of its kind in the United States concluded today with the announcement of the SIFF 2011 Competition Awards and Golden Space Needle Audience Awards. The 25-day Festival, which…
Read the full article »SIFF Trailer Park #2
It’s hard to believe it’s almost over, but it is — this weekend is your last chance to immerse yourself in SIFF this year! But what to see? Here are trailers for some of the film playing this weekend that you might want to check out … Buck
Read the full article »SIFF Dispatch: In Which Our Raptured Car is Found, Safe and Sound
Good news! My mom’s car, which was raptured/stolen from the parking lot during the Renton SIFF screening of The Sound of Mumbai a couple weeks ago, has been found in an apartment complex in Auburn, empty of gas and littered with burrito wrappers but otherwise fine. Whew.
Read the full article »SIFF Review: A Thousand Times Stronger
I can’t think of the last time I saw a film about teenagers in which the female protagonist does not flirt with boys, talk about boys, obsess about boys, dress to attract the attention of boys, or engage in rivalry with another girl over a boy. Can you? Swedish film A Thousand Times Stronger, directed…
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This charming, energetic film out Egypt — shot before the recent Middle East revolutions — had its inception in the director, Ahmad Abdalla, wandering the streets of Alexandria like a tourist, when some graffiti caught his eye. A little research revealed the graffiti artist to be a 19-year-old girl, and thus was planted the seed…
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