I’ve never read Rudolfo Anaya’s 1972 coming-of-age novel Bless Me, Ultima, the tale of a Hispanic schoolboy in a small…
Who is Pierre Etaix? His filmography is small (five features and a handful of short films, one of which earned…
Thailand’s Pen-ek Ratanaruang made his reputation with a series of stylish, violent, and oddly contemplative crime thrillers including 6ixtynin9 and…
A tiny nonprofit cinema’s business model seems to be working.
If the documentary The 5,000 Days Project: Two Brothers, which follows its subjects over the span of 10 years, makes…
For Seattle cinema lovers, 2011 was a good news/bad news year. For the bad, there was the May closure of…
A famous French actress (Catherine Deneuve) visiting Beirut takes a trip to south Lebanon to see the damage from the…
A local director’s study in grief.
After transforming the old west into the cool, cruel mercenary world of the Clint Eastwood Dollar films and defining the…
Humpday, the third feature from local filmmaker Lynn Shelton, made its world premiere in the Dramatic Competition section of the…
The play’s the thing in Petr Zelenka’s adaptation/transposition of Evald Schorm’s stage version of Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov, played out…
“This is not the movie I intended to make,” begins local filmmaker Sandy Cioffi’s intermittent narration at the opening of…
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America.
I was at a disadvantage when I saw this film: I was alone, watching a screener at home for this…
Kathryn Bigelow was at SIFF on Thursday, May 28 for the first screening of her remarkable new film The Hurt…
How an Oscar-nominated producer and first-time director made a gore-soaked satire of post-9/11 America on the Kitsap Peninsula. With zombies!
Yim Phil-Sung reworks the Grimm fairy tale as a horror/tragedy, played out with the kids in charge of the “House…
Lee Yoon-ki is the “Emerging Master” of the opening weekend, which means the festival is screening a matched set of…
I had a marvelous interview with filmmaker David Russo in preparation for the profile I penned for the Weekly earlier…
Hong Kong action cinema, once the home of the most kinetic and crazy (and often wildly absurd) adrenaline filmmaking on…
