SIFF 2012

It’s the Final Week of SIFF

There’s still time to catch a movie—here are our final picks.

By Laura Dannen June 5, 2012

Moonrise Kingdom

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 who’ve run away from home. Bill Murray, Jason Schwartzman, Frances McDormand, Bruce Willis, and Edward Norton costar as various meddling adults and camp counselors. Screening: June 5 at 7 (Egyptian Theater; standby tickets only)

Diaz: Don’t Clean Up This Blood
The drama’s been turned up to 11 in this fictional recreation of the bloody G8 protests in Genoa by Italian filmmaker Daniele Vicari. Police lay siege to a school where suspected armed anarchists are hiding out among anti-globalization protestors; it’s not pretty. Screening: June 5 at 9 (Harvard Exit)

4 Days in May
World War II is almost over, the Germans have lost, and loyalties are shifting in one final standoff at an orphanage along the German-Baltic coastline. The German film is based on a true story and creates an unorthodox picture of good versus evil. Screenings: June 7 at 9 (Harvard Exit), June 9 at 4:30 (Egyptian Theater)

Wuthering Heights
Rising indie director Andrea Arnold has completely deconstructed Brontë’s gothic romance, stripping it of period-drama cliche and adding a healthy dose of profanity. The adaptation focuses on the first half of the book, with young Cathy and Heathcliff (now a black child with slave markings) engaged in a sort of primeval, words-are-overrated relationship. Screenings: June 8 at 6:30, June 9 at 2:30 (Harvard Exit)

An Evening with Sissy Spacek
SIFF celebrates Spacek’s oeuvre, from Carrie to Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner’s Daughter, with clips from her past, a Q&A with the actress, and a screening of Terrence Malick’s 1973 crime drama Badlands. Screening and Q&A: June 7 at 7 (SIFF Cinema Uptown)

Closing Night Gala: Grassroots
Director Stephen Gyllenhaal adapted Seattle’s most quixotic City Council race as a Hollywood movie, cast Joel David Moore as council hopeful/monorail champion Grant Cogswell and Jason Biggs as campaign manager Phil Campbell, and shot the film all over town. It doesn’t get more Seattle than this; Grassroots makes its world premiere to close out SIFF. Screening: June 10 at 6 (SIFF Cinema Uptown)

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