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Somehow we’re already halfway through 2022. Amid the fireworks and festivities of the long weekend, we took stock of our favorite movies of the year. We each separately compiled our individual lists and in a surprising bit of unanimity we all picked the DANIELS’ maximalist multiverse-spanning sci-fi saga Everything Everywhere All At Once as our favorite.
After eleven days of virtual and in-person screenings, partying, and celebrating independent filmmakers, the 48th Seattle International Film Festival closed on Sunday with a morning awards ceremony and an evening gala. In the afterglow of our individual festing, the SunBreak’s SIFF team gathered on the internet to debrief on this year’s event.
Even though we’re at the halfway point of the 2022 Seattle International Film Festival, there’s still plenty of time to soak up an array of movies leading into the final weekend. Films continue to play all around town as well as online through the SIFF channel. Below, we scrutinized the remaining program and came up with a few movies each that we either recommend or can’t wait to see for ourselves.
It’s here! SIFF returns to in-person (and online) format this year beginning on Thursday night with a screening of Navalny at the Paramount followed by a gala in the street (like audiences and juries, the vital and thrilling documentary wowed us at Sundance; it’s a home run for a SIFF opener). By now, we’re all used to outdoor dining; so the springlike weather with its cool temperatures and ever-present threat of showers shouldn’t pose too much of an imposition. This is a city that knows well the virtues of layering so a little weather shouldn’t dampen the mood of a crowd eager to celebrate the return of its signature film festival.
Below, we each highlight a few films to look forward to in the opening days of the festival as it kicks into full gear on Friday.
Starting today, tickets and passes are now available to the public for the 48th Seattle International Film Festival. Running from April 14-24th, the eleven-day festival features hundreds of films playing in-person in venues across the city, with more than half of the selections also available online. We’re still soaking up the trailers, digesting the full lineup, and strategizing the best ways to get the most out of this year’s event, but we thought we’d start by each highlighting a film (or two) from the program that we’re most excited to see or recommend.
The Seattle International Film Festival is a massive event that spans eleven days. We’ll be posting about it through the marathon of …
After a very long awards season, the 94th Academy Awards will finally be presented this Sunday on ABC. Josh, Chase, and Jenn huddled together (virtually) to talk through the nominees, read the tea leaves, and make some guesses about who’s going to (and who should) win Oscars.
If you’re not already caught up on “awards fare”, the first couple months of the new year can be a prestige buffet. But it can also feel like a dumping ground before the “real” spring season of “actually good” movies picks up. Although it can be a wasteland, surely there are some gems to be found? So as we bid farewell to Dumpuary … a SunBreak Survey: what’s the best thing you saw in the last month?
Last weekend, the Sundance Film Festival concluded its second year of holding the festival entirely online. After returning from the virtual mountaintops and packing away our imaginary snow boots, Josh, Chase, and Morgen unpack some of our highlights, lowlights, and predictions from our ten days in virtual Park City.
Jenn and Morgen and diving into this year’s hybrid festival, which is showing films online via Eventive as well as in person at the Northwest Film Forum.
