Seattle International Film Festival
SIFF 2010 Review Roundup: Farewell, Letters to Father Jacob, Soul Kitchen, Skateland, Winter’s Bone and The Dry Land
Saturday night’s Seattle International Film Festival Centerpiece Gala Screening event was Christian Carion’s Farewell, based on a true story about an idealistic KGB colonel (Emir Kusturica) who, seeking to make the world a better place for his son, passes crucial information about KGB operations to a French engineer working in Moscow (Guillaume Canet). The engineer, in turn, gets…
Read the full article »SIFF 2010 Ends Record-Breaking Fest with a Spectacular Closing Weekend
The funny thing about a film festival that runs for 25 days (plus three weeks of press screenings before it even kicks off) is that you get used to it being a regular part of your life and schedule, and when it’s over, it leaves a big hole in your life that won’t be filled…
Read the full article »Talkin’ Bout a Revolution: A Conversation with ReGeneration’s Phillip Montgomery and Matt DeRoss
How do you reach a generation of young people lulled by technology, oversaturated with information and weighed down by cynicism to turn indifference into compassion, apathy into action? I sat down during the Seattle Interational Film Festival to chat with Phillip Montgomery and Matt DeRoss, director and producer, respectively, of the documentary ReGeneration, to talk…
Read the full article »Seattle International Film Festival Kicks Off With Festive Gala Opener
The Seattle International Film Festival kicked off last night with a Gala screening of The Extra Man, starring Kevin Kline, Paul Dano and Katie Holmes. Director Robert Pulcini was on-hand for the festivities, along with actors Paul Dano and Alicia Goranson. Goranson enthusiastically praised both Seattle’s beauty (why thanks, we love it here too) and the hospitality of festival staff (which I also…
Read the full article »The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle Directed by David Russo
I finally caught up with The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle at the , and was delighted to find it one of those rare films that heralds an interesting new talent. It’s not often a first-time filmmaker (hell, any filmmaker, for that matter) makes something that’s completely cerebral, original, and artistically exciting; with his debut, writer/director David…
Read the full article »Burma VJ: Reporting from a Closed Country Directed by Anders Østergaard
Call it liberal Seattle guilt if you will, but I grew increasingly uncomfortable sitting in my comfortable theater seat and sipping my Vitamin Water while watching Burma VJ, a documentary about the struggle by the Democratic Voice of Burma to cover the September 2007 protests started by the country’s generally non-political monks and joined by hundreds…
Read the full article »Seattle International Film Festival 2009 Preview
The Seattle International Film Festival opens tonight with a Gala screening of fest openerIn the Loop, followed by a big party, which will probably be very crowded and very loud, like most festival parties, but hopefully fun, too. Folks here in Seattle get excited about parties and films, and when you put both together, we might…
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