Review of SIFF 2010’s “Meet Monica Velour” (with Kim Cattrall) + Crowd Q&A & Interview with director Keith Bearden

The 25-day cinema-lovers marathon that is The Seattle International Film Festival ended on Sunday. Of course our two reviewers couldn’t see all 408 entries, but they did make a sizeable dent in the catalog. Read below to find out which movies they think deserve special mention. The festival awards were announced Sunday afternoon. The SIFF [...]

(Rob Benedict, Michael Weithorn, Daniel Yelsky and Jenna Fischer at the world premiere of A Little Help. Photo by April Brimer). Although directors don’t like to hear this, some movies seem destined for success on Netflix rather than in theaters: you wouldn’t go out of your way to see them, but they’re a pleasant surprise [...]

For our third year in a row, The Seattle International Film Festival has invited Randomville back to the big party. And we mean BIG party as this is the largest film festival in America! You can purchase tickets to the films here and SIFF always needs donations from people in Seattle and beyond so donate [...]

Good god, another year has zipped by already. Well, we’ve been really busy around Randomville, obvisously, since it took me until January 5th, 2010 to publish the 2009 Year in Review! This time last year we were just getting used to our new skin as we had then recently re-designed the website. Well, we learned how [...]

The 35th Seattle International Film Festival is over. Over the last 25 days, SIFF presented 203 narrative features, 11 archival features, 54 documentary features, and 124 short films from 62 countries, including 31 World Premieres (10 features, 21 shorts), 45 North American Premieres (36 features, 9 shorts), and 13 US Premieres (10 features, 3 shorts). [...]

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 [...]

Last year I wrote about Seattle’s “summer of film,” so-called because an unusual number of features were shot in the area. We’re about to see the fruits of that labor as the Seattle International Film Festival, which runs May 21st to June 14th, will spotlight in its Northwest Connections program twenty-nine films recently made in Washington [...]