A great film is enough to celebrate, but why stop there. SIFF is throwing parties immediately following some of the festival’s best films.
Transport back to the glitterball era with 54: The Director’s Cut (5/29). The original was sanitized beyond recognition before its release, but now the original edit is revealed in all of its hedonistic glory in this account of the New York disco scene of the late 1970s.
Go beyond watching a film and be part of the magic. For one night only, the Neptune Theatre becomes Club Studio 54: complete with disco atmosphere, dance lessons, classic music videos, and live performances by actor-comedian-dancer Mark Siano (“Seattle Vice,” “Modern Luv,” “The Soft Rock Kid”). This is SIFF like you’ve never experienced it before!
The Centerpiece Gala features the Jason Segel film End of the Tour (5/30). After the 1996 publication of “Infinite Jest” journalist David Lipsky embarks on an unforgettable five-day interview with enigmatic author David Foster Wallace. Based on Lipsky’s acclaimed memoir, End of The Tour portrays their significant encounter with humor, tenderness, and fantastic performances. Immediately following the film, head over to the DAR Rainer Chapter House for music, dancing, hors d’oeuvres, desserts, and cocktails.
Kick off the festival on the Eastside with the Kirkland Opening Night film Good Ol’ Boy (6/1). Growing up a 10-year-old boy in ’70s suburban America, all Smith wants to do is watch “Happy Days,” play with his Star Wars figurines, and hang out with the girl-next-door. But things aren’t so easy when his father insists on pushing his Indian heritage on him every second of every day. Director Frank Lotito, actor/producer Anjul Nigam, actors Roni Akurati and Samrat Chakrabarti, producer Steve Straka, and cinematographer Thomas Scott Stanton scheduled to attend. Come celebrate SIFF’s seventh year in Kirkland with a reception catered by Volterra preceding the screening.
Always a wild, colorful time, Gay-La has become one of the most treasured events of the Festival. Start the evening with the refreshingly hilarious and raunchy comedy Tangerine(6/4) about a scrappy transgender prostitute besties Sin-Dee and Alexandra on a wild night in L.A. filled with sassy repartee (“Merry Christmas Eve, bitch”), adultering pimps, nightclub debuts, and capital d D-RAMA! Party the night away at the Baltic Room after the show.
Celebrate African short and feature films at the African Pictures Party. Before the shindig at the Northwest African American Museum, check out the family comedy Excuse My French(6/5). In this Egyptian box office smash, 12-year-old Hany, a precocious kid from a privileged Coptic Christian family, must adjust when a change in circumstances sends him to the local majority-Muslim public school.
Close out the Fest at SIFF’s final Saturday night party featuring Eisenstein in Guanajuato (6/6). The great Russian silent filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein’s personal discovery and sexual awakening in 1931 Mexico is illustrated in this delightfully raunchy and over-the-top biopic by Peter Greenaway. The party then continues over at the W Hotel.
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