The Seattle Jewish Film Festival kicks off tonight, and runs through April 7, showcasing a few dozen films and events featuring Jewish filmmakers and/or …
Isabella Rossellini wants to make you laugh and then think about animal behavior in her “Link Link Circus”
What is there to say about Isabella Rossellini? She’s a legendary film and TV star, with notable star turns in Blue Velvet, Fearless, and Death …
Orcas Island Film Festival: We Have to Go Back to The Island
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 …
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 …
Won’t You Be My Neighbor? Well Worth 94-Minute Run Time – And So are You!
Every time one of us wakes up in the morning, there’s a very good chance that the first news story we’ll see …
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: Wrap-up Roundtable, Golden SunBreaks, & Best of SIFF
Josh: SIFF’s twenty-five day film marathon concluded last weekend and we all crossed the finish line along with it. Let’s start by …
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 …
At SIFF: the Whittakers and Kennedys Reunite in ‘Return to Mt. Kennedy’
In 1965, the Canadian government, in a tribute to the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy, named a previously-unscaled 12,000-ft. mountain Mt. …
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 …