Seattle International Film Festival

WHAT MAISIE KNEW

By Elias Savada | May 2013

2013 SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SELECTION! In a summer clogged with tentpoles sucking mostly 3-D IMAX box office dollars, you might want to put a few (lesser) bucks aside for this elegant tadpole swimming with the bigger fishes…

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WHAT MAISIE KNEW

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American author Henry James has been dead nearly a century, but his realistic literary style, as found in the 1897 novel "What Maisie Knew," lives on in a...

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KINK

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Every October in Seattle, our free weekly newspaper, The Stranger, puts on an amateur porn film festival called Hump! (their exclamation point). It’s not...

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YELLOW

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There are plenty of films about people with crippling mental illness, but there are far fewer that tell the story through the over-medicated perspective of...

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THE SWEET SMELL OF SIFF 2013

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The smell of SIFF is in the air. Only this year, thanks to Washington Marijuana Initiative 502, it’s a sweeter, more pungent aroma. The 39th Seattle...

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HERE COMES THE DEVIL

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Mexican director Adrián García Bogliano’s film “Here Comes the Devil” is the kind of horror film I tend to love. While at once fitting well within...

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100 BLOODY ACRES

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Mixing horror with any kind of comedy can be pretty tough to pull off, unless it’s dark comedy. Even then I get the feeling many people miss the fact...

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AFTER LUCIA

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Michel Franco’s “After Lucia” is about the quiet dissolution of a family following the death of its matriarch. Having just picked up the nearly...

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THE EAST

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Online hackers who go by the name “Anonymous” have been getting quite a bit of well-earned buzz. Over the past few years they’ve hacked and posted...

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MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

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There have always been retellings of Shakespeare using a modernized lens. Oft these focus on the more famous tragedies, but Joss Whedon (Serenity, The...

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BIG JOY: THE ADVENTURES OF JAMES BROUGHTON

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How does a man go from a kid whose own mother penalized him monetarily for being too effeminate to being one of the more notable counterculture icons of...

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