With a smattering of films Morgen was able to see during SIFF, she tells us why these three, that are all set to have a wider release or show at a SIFF cinema near you, are worthy of your time… or at least strange enough to experience for yourself.
Category: Festivals
Movie Festivals around the world
After wowing Sundance and SIFF, I Saw The TV Glow opens wide in Seattle
Into each generation a new Donnie Darko is born. With Lynchian threads as applied to post-millennial trans awakenings, grounded in a deep love for Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and coming with its own slew of possible interpretations, Jane Schoenbrun’s eerie, visually entrancing, and sonically inventive cautionary love note to the nineties just might be it for the Zoomies.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: The Primevals
The Primevals (2023 | USA | 90 minutes | David Allen) It sounds strange with hindsight, but there was a time when …
Evil Does Not Exist: after a tantalizing festival circuit, Hamaguchi’s latest lands a local run
Catching up with the rest of the week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
SIFF 2024 Roundtable: Festival Exit Survey, Golden SunBreak Awards
The in-person portion of the Seattle International Film festival closed this weekend — first with a Gala screening of Sing Sing and a party at MOHAI on Saturday, then with the Golden Space Needle Brunch on Sunday morning. The festival continues through the weekend with about 50 titles still playing online, but we took this transition from theatrical to home-viewing to catch our breaths and share our experience with this year’s big birthday event.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: Sing Sing and Ghostlight
Two SIFF features with different approaches to portraying the transformative power of theater, be it in the carceral system or the prison of one’s own heart.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: I Saw the TV Glow, Dragon Superman, and Oddity
I Saw the TV Glow (2024 | USA | 100 minutes | Jane Schoenbrun) Jane Schoenbrun’s mesmerizing follow-up to We’re All Going …
SIFF 2024 Notebook: Grasshopper Republic, Scala!!!, the Critical Zone
A trio of imperfect films that nevertheless give viewers entry into the past and present of unfamiliar parts of our world.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: Bob Trevino Likes It
Capsule reviews from SIFF. Bob Trevino Likes it is the laugh, cry, and scream, heartbreaker hit of the festival.
SIFF 2024 Notebook: The Black Sea, Seagrass
Capsule reviews of two seaside SIFF films