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Thumbnail for - Best of SIFF 2012: Any Day Now, Eden
Jun 11, 2012
Film Fest Withdrawal
Best of SIFF 2012: Any Day Now, Eden
Twenty-five days and 700 screenings later, the country’s largest film festival wrapped last night with the world premiere of made-in-Seattle Grassroots and an appearance by Jason Biggs in red...
By Laura Dannen
Thumbnail for - TONIGHT: Grassroots Reading at Hugo House with Stephen Gyllenhaal, Grant Cogswell, Phil Campbell, and Charles Mudede
Jun 11, 2012
Books & Talks
TONIGHT: Grassroots Reading at Hugo House with Stephen Gyllenhaal, Grant Cogswell, Phil Campbell, and Charles Mudede
What From Failure to Hollywood—A Loose Evening of Poetry, Writing, and Film Where and when Richard Hugo House at 7pm (1634 11th Ave) LA director Stephen Gyllenhaal (maker of Maggie and Jake)...
By Laura Dannen
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Jun 5, 2012
SIFF 2012
It’s the Final Week of SIFF
Moonrise Kingdom Cowriters Roman Coppola and Wes Anderson team up for another quirk-filled escapade (that looks better than the soooo slow Darjeeling Limited) about a pair of 12-year-olds in love...
By Laura Dannen
Thumbnail for - Today’s SIFF Pick: Emerald City Visions (A Hip-Hop Reinterpretation of The Wiz)
May 31, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Emerald City Visions (A Hip-Hop Reinterpretation of The Wiz)
This isn’t a film. It’s better than that. From the brain of Larry Mizell Jr, The Stranger music columnist and KEXP DJ, comes a live hip-hop reimagining of The Wiz at the Triple Door, which itself...
By Laura Dannen
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May 30, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Welcome to Doe Bay
Every summer for the past five years, your indiest of friends have been sneaking off to Orcas Island for a weekend stay at a 40-acre waterfront resort and to sing around the campfire with their...
By Laura Dannen
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May 29, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Starbuck
To start, it’s Starbuck, not Starbucks. Important difference. In Ken Scott’s comedy, a middle-aged meat delivery man who’s perpetually in debt discovers that his anonymous sperm bank deposits...
By Laura Dannen
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May 24, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Fat Kid Rules the World
Actor Matthew Lillard seems to be exorcising the demons of his Scream and Shaggy days with his latest work. First it was his surprising turn in The Descendants as the homewrecker opposite...
By Laura Dannen
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May 23, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Take This Waltz
Hot-burning lust or warm, quiet love? That’s the choice at the core of Sarah Polley’s indie drama Take This Waltz. Michelle Williams plays a woman torn between her sweet, loyal husband (Seth...
By Seth Sommerfeld
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May 22, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: The Do-Deca Pentathlon
In the latest mumblecore film by writers/directors/producers/mother sharers Jay and Mark Duplass, two brothers revive a decade-old rivalry that pits them against each other in a "Do-Deca...
By Laura Dannen
Thumbnail for - Today’s SIFF Pick: Eden
May 21, 2012
SIFF 2012
Today’s SIFF Pick: Eden
Given how moody and melancholic a roadside diner could be in Megan Griffiths’s debut feature, The Off Hours, it’s no surprise the Seattle director has a deft hand with even harsher material. In...
By Laura Dannen
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