In this year’s SIFF wrap-up, I sung the praises of the smaller, intensely-focused film festival as a counterpoint to the multi-week sprawling …
Category: Reviews
SIFF 2018: Short Reviews (Dearly Belated)
Editor’s Note: Well, isn’t this is embarrassing? In the midst of tweaking my year-end rankings I was revisiting SIFF reviews and only …
SIFF 2018: Short Reviews, Part Three (Stranger than Fiction)
Continuing a series of reviews from SIFF 2018, a collection of documentaries, stories of real people, or something in between. American Animals …
SIFF 2018: Short Reviews Part Two (Girls on Film)
SIFF has wrapped, but the festival films live on in memory — and one hopes, in wider distribution. Continuing Chris’s earlier series …
SIFF 2018: Mid-Festival Roundtable
We’re just past SIFF’s Centerpiece Weekend and are now in final week of the 44th Seattle International Film Festival. To mark the …
SIFF 2018: Some Short Reviews, part one
SIFF, the behemoth formally known as the Seattle International Film Festival, is well into its ninth (of 25) day. With over 400 …
‘Pride and Prejudice and Zombies’ is Exactly What You Expect–in a Good Way
It’s the cinephiles’ equivalent of kicking a first-grader in the shins to expect Pride and Prejudice and Zombies to be some sort of masterpiece–or …