Movies into Film
Nastassia Kinski in One From the Heart (Photo: Zoetrope)
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 1
Notes on Maria Full of Grace, The Corporation, Paper Clips, Facing Windows, Frankie and Johnny are Married, In Your Hands, Deep Breath, Learning to Lie, Jester Till, Jagged Harmonies, Scent of the Lotus Pond
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 2
Notes on Everyday People, BAADASSSSS!, The Saddest Music in the World, Intimate Strangers, The Story of the Weeping Camel, The Mother
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 3
Notes on Open Water, In the Realms of the Unreal, Drifters, Quality of Life
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 4
Notes on Before Sunset, Donnie Darko—The Director's Cut, Touch of Pink, A Letter to True
Shirley Knight, DD Wigley, and a friend at the James House, Port Townsend Film Festival no. 4 (Photo: NPT)
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 5
Notes on Foster Island, Primer, Twist, Bright Young Things, November, Garden State
SIFF 30: Short Takes, volume 6
Notes on Orwell Rolls in His Grave, Control Room, 25 Degrees in Winter, Bright Leaves, Riding Giants, Hero, Cinematography Master Class with Christopher Doyle, Stander, The Graffiti Artist, Hedda Gabler, Witnesses, Incident at Loch Ness, Remember Me My Love, Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence, Goodbye Dragon Inn, The Coldest Day, Paternal Instinct, Criminal, plus dishonorable mentions and a few fun people
Notes on Trollywood, The Golden Space Needle Awards, Wild Side, Last Life in the Universe
the best, the worst
Floating downstream in Foster Island (Photo: Serge Gregory)
The 1 Reel Film Festival (a preview)
September 3-6, 2004
Sontag & Kael: Opposites Attract Me
Reviewed in January Magazine
Re-visiting Maria Full of Grace
a few words with Catalina Sandino Moreno and Joshua Marston
The Best and Worst Films of 2004
and a Susan Sontag memory
The Joffrey Ballet performs Blue Snake in Altman's The Company. (Images courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
A Yasujiro Ozu Retrospective
By Peter Bogdanovich...reviewed in Seattle Weekly
in conversation with the director of Finding Neverland
ecstatic thoughts on the site's one-year anniversary
Michael Powell's The Edge of the World (Photo: Milestone Films)
The Port Townsend Film Festival 2005
Notes on Ballets Russes, Going Through Splat, Life in a Box, The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico, My Brother's Summer, Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Peas at 5:30, and more
A review of John Simon on Theater, on Film, on Music
The Best (and Worst) Films of 2005
Weathering the Storm: The Enduring Cinema of Mikio Naruse
At the Northwest Film Forum, January 20 to February 26
The Port Townsend Film Festival 2006
Notes on If..., The Cats of Mirikitani, The Camden 28, and more
Malcolm McDowell as H.G. Wells in Time After Time (Photo: Warner Bros.)
The Malcolm McDowell Interview
In conversation about Lindsay Anderson, Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, David Sherwin, Stanley Kubrick, Blake Edwards, Pauline Kael, and more
Fragrance of the Past and The Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Notes on the re-opening of Seattle Asian Art Museum, Winter 2006
I Have Heard You Calling in the Night
By Thomas Healy
with screenwriter Stewart Stern, author of Rebel Without a Cause
The River of Lost Footsteps: Histories of Burma
By Thant Myint-U
Observations on movies seen at SIFF 33: Scott Walker: 30 Century Man, Woman on the Beach, How is Your Fish Today?, The Missing Star, I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone, Golden Door, La Vie en Rose, The Singer, Once, Made in China, Interview, 2 Days in Paris, Life in Loops, and Falling
Beneath the Neon: Life and Death in the Tunnels of Las Vegas
By Matthew O’Brien
Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art
at Seattle Asian Art Museum, August 9-December 2, 2007
Some notes on the making of Lust, Caution, an Ingmar Bergman reminiscence, and a postscript on Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain
16th-19th Century Japanese Art From Kobe City Museum, at SAM Downtown through January 6, 2008
Desert Gothic by Don Waters
Model for the Learning Center, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, designed by SANAA
Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa/SANAA
at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, through March 2, 2008
Chinese Art: A Seattle Perspective
at Seattle Asian Art Museum until Fall 2008
The Eye of Jade: A Mei Wang Mystery
By Diane Wei Liang
They Say She Was Wonderful: Ethel Merman at 100
On Caryl Flinn's Brass Diva: The Life and Legends of Ethel Merman and Brian Kellow's Ethel Merman: A Life
short stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
Josh Peck in The Wackness (Photo by JoJo Whilden, © 2008 Occupant Films, courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)
Notes on Mermaid, The Saga of Anatahan, The Last Mistress, The Wackness, Máncora, Encounters at the End of the World, Frozen River, and more
Notes on Chris & Don: A Love Story, Gonzo: The Life and Work of Dr. Hunter S. Thompson, Theater of War, Ballast, and Sita Sings the Blues
Sita Cries a River in Sita Sings the Blues (Image courtesy of Nina Paley)
Notes on An Afternoon with F. Murray Abraham, The Children of Huang Shi, Ploy, The Red Awn, and more
Notes on Newcastle
Notes on Cherry Blossoms: Hanami, Faces, Be Like Others, Up the Yangtze, Billy Strayhorn: Lush Life, and Dream Boy
Notes on Bliss, Trouble the Water, Pierre Rissient: Man of Cinema, When Did You Last See Your Father?, and Time to Die
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