Sundance 2025 is in full-swing in Park City, Salt Lake City, and — beginning from January 30–February 2, 2025 — online.
Category: Festivals
Movie Festivals around the world
In Presence, Steven Soderbergh spins a ghost story through the eyes of the ghost
In a series of single cooped-up takes Steven Soderbergh gives us a ghost’s eye view of a family slowly coming undone.
SFCS puts a spotlight on PNW films this weekend
Seattle Film Critics Society has been hard at work bringing attention to Pacific Northwest filmmakers and productions over the last several years. …
Daniel Craig delves into a jungle of addiction and desire in Luca Guadagnino’s Queer
Thought if anyone could make the smack-addled writings of William S Burrows romantic it would have to be Luca Guadagnino, but alas.
With a quartet of flashy performances and musical numbers Emilia Pérez makes its splash on Netflix
To its enormous credit and occasional detriment, Jacques Audiard’s improbable musical is as mercurial as its title drug kingpin-to-society queen would-be heroine. With something new every few minutes the boldly ambitious film succeeds in never being boring while it has an enormous amount to say (sing).
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin shine in Sundance standout A Real Pain
Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin are terrifically paired as an anxiety bundle and his charismatic chaos monster cousin.
Live from your favorite local cinema, it’s Saturday Night
Jason Reitman’s hyperkinetic dive into the unbelievable 90 minutes of chaos before the first ever episode of Saturday Night Live is hardly a study in extreme competence, but it’s a hell of a ride.
Seattle Queer Film Festival opens tomorrow, goes online Monday
Maybe due to the changing of the seasons, October’s a big month for film festivals in the Pacific Northwest. Hot on the heels of Local Sightings and just as SIFF’s Docs Fest is winding down, the Seattle Queer Film Festival rises.
In The Outrun a stellar Saoirse Ronan searches for recovery, grace, and little birds
There’s nothing quite like a sobriety memoir to put an actor through their paces and Saoirse Ronan goes on a full marathon as an alcoholic searching for recovery, grace, and little birds in the harsh windswept beauty of the outer Orkney Islands
Are We Not Film? SIFF DocFest returns this week
Tomorrow begins one of my favorite mini-festivals in Seattle: SIFF’s annual DocFest. It’s a week-long festival celebrating some of the best new-ish documentaries out there (and in true Seattle fashion, this week goes from Thursday to Thursday, so it is actually eight days long).