The fact that Paper Heart won a screenwriting award at Sundance suggests it’s not a typical documentary. The team of comedian Charlyne Yi and director Nicholas Jasenovec may have actually created a new genre to tell their story about love, both real and imaginary. The film starts as a traditional documentary as Yi sets out [...]
The Blair Witch Project. Natural Born Killers. Sin City. Game shows. Really bad Texas used-car commercials. These are all things I was reminded of while watching the turbo-paced, teenage-angst film My Suicide. In addition to including one of the final performances from recently deceased David Carradine, this film takes you deep into the mind of [...]
I hoped that the chance to see several locally-made comedies at the same time – during this year’s Seattle International Film Festival – would lead me to some powerful revelations about the Pacific Northwest Sense of Humor.  But it turns out that our comic sensibility is not very consistent, and our favorite leading man is [...]
From May 21st to June 14th, The SIFF will screen 268 features and 124 shorts from 62 countries over 25 days, with 31 World Premieres, 45 North American Premieres, and 13 US Premieres. SIFF is the largest film festival in the US. Once again the Seattle International Film Festival has invited us back to help [...]
This is one of the many films we will be reviewing as part of The Seattle International Film Festival. In the documentary We Live In Public, director Ondi Timoner (Dig!) captures the life of Internet mogul Josh Harris for nearly a decade, following him through his wild experiments, fortune rises, and fortune plunges. The prelude explained [...]
This is one of the many films we will be reviewing as part of The Seattle International Film Festival. Imagine if you paired Steven Colbert with Sascha Baron Cohen, and they decided to become modern Robin Hood’s, literally going out and messing with gigantic corporations that do bad things morally, and sometimes their antics cost these [...]
First thing’s first: The Limits of Control is not a movie. It’s a meditation. Defying most typical cinematic conventions such as pacing, plot and character development. And while I did see this at an AMC theatre in a typical North American Mall in Montreal, The Limits of Control would not feel out of place if I had [...]
From May 21st to June 14th, The SIFF will screen 268 features and 124 shorts from 62 countries over 25 days, with 31 World Premieres, 45 North American Premieres, and 13 US Premieres. SIFF is the largest film festival in the US. Once again the Seattle International Film Festival has invited us back to help [...]
Che starts with a geography lesson. What one must understand about the film from the outset is that, like war, it is only about land to begin with. The film is divided into two parts, the Argentine and Guerilla, each of which contributes to answering the question posed by Edwin Starr in the 1970s: “War, [...]
Every once in a moment, five of us get together and choose a topic, then write five things about it. This time we decided to pick five or our favorite movies of 2008 that we think you should give a try. Actually, scratch all this: just go see the Dark Knight and Wall-E!! Â ELI [...]