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SIFF Take: God Help the Girl
Prior to seeing God Help the Girl, I’d only been a somewhat-interested fan of Stuart Murdoch and Belle & Sebastian—hearing their most popular songs in passing. Sure, I listened to plenty of friends...
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Rigor Mortis (Geung si)
{Rigor Mortis opens in Seattle on Friday, 6/6, and is screening at AMC Pacific Place}I was pretty psyched to watch Rigor Mortis (especially since I’d just missed it at SIFF), mostly because I knew that...
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Best of SIFF 2014 series {6/12-6/19}
If for some reason over the past month you’ve missed the TIG SIFF team's extensive coverage, overlooked the 'round-the-block queues at some of our fine local movie houses, and/or remained oblivious to...
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Beyond the Fest: SIFF films that will (hopefully) open soon
With over 400 films playing the 40th Seattle International Film Festival, there was NO WAY I was going to be able to watch and write about what got me into those theater seats before the festival was...
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Happy Christmas
{Happy Christmas starts an exclusive screening engagement on Friday, August 08th at the Landmark Varsity Theatre}I’m not sure if Director Joe Swanberg intended for Happy Christmas to pass The Bechdel...
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Tusk
{TUSK officially opens in Seattle on Friday, 9/19 – but there are some Thursday night showings starting at 8pm! Screening at Regal Meridian 16 and Oak Tree Cinemas} A horror movie from Kevin Smith?...
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IT FOLLOWS
Maika Monroe in IT FOLLOWS{It Follows opens in Seattle on Friday, 3/20 at SIFF Cinema Egyptian}“It’s slow, but it’s not dumb.” ~ Hugh, IT FOLLOWSImagine going on a date with someone you really, really...
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SIFF 2015: Week One Highlights
Our beloved movie gorge-a-thon kicks off tonight with Spy, an amusing Paul Feig / Melissa McCarthy collaboration that spoofs and reveres great spy thrillers. It's big and boisterous, and will play very...
View ArticleSIFF 2015 Preview: Face the Music
Forgive me for chiming in a little late on ALL THE SIFF THINGS, but [I could insert many, many excuses here – but let’s just chalk it up to go old procrastination] better late than never, right?! This...
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SIFF Take: Goodnight Mommy
Two angelic 9-year-old twin boys arrive home to find their mother in the hallway with a face all wrapped up in plastic surgery bandages. Mommy needs her rest in order to recover—never mind that she...
View ArticleSIFF 2015 Preview: NW Connections
You know I always have to run through the Northwest Connections program for SIFF! This year’s offerings include a lot of documentaries and a fair amount of my favorite movie genre: HORROR. First up:...
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SIFF Take: Valley of the Sasquatch
Forced out of their home and with very little savings left, Roger and his son Michael end up trying to make a home in a rustic—and completely trashed by some kind of wild animal—family cabin. But...
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SIFF 2015 Recommendation: ALL THE KEVIN BACON THINGS
In case it’s not obvious, I am a huge fan of Kevin Bacon. A large part of this is because of Footloose, sure, because that movie came out right when I discovered dancing was the thing I loved to do the...
View ArticleSIFF Take: Circle
Circle is a Sci-Fi social experiment where a group of people fleeing an alien invasion awaken to find themselves locked inside a room with a giant circular dial in the middle. It takes them a little...
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SIFF Interview: 5 Questions (+5 Photos) with Kevin Bacon
Three Imaginary Girls got to hit the red carpet last night for An Evening with Kevin Bacon and the premiere of Cop Car at the Seattle International Film Festival with Director Jon Watts & star...
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SIFF Take: Chatty Catties
After watching Chatty Catties with me, my cat, Frankie, insisted on writing this review. He says that I can’t possibly understand the film’s real meaning since I’m a human and not an oppressed feline...
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SIFF Take: Cartel Land
A documentary about a Mexican vigilante group fighting drug cartels! And: a documentary about the Arizona Border Recon fighting drug cartels! And: a story about how hopeless it is to fight drug...
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SIFF Double-Feature: Jason Schwartzman in Two Closing Weekend Films
Triple the adorableness! I’m psyched that SIFF had not one, but TWO amazing “An Evening with” programs lined up this year with actors that I adore. An Evening with Jason Schwartzman happens TOMORROW...
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SIFF Interview: 5 Questions with Jason Schwartzman and Bob Byington for 7...
^ OMG! it's Jason! Schwartzman!!! You guys! TIG got to be on the red carpet again Saturday night to interview Jason Schwartzman and Director Bob Byington for the Seattle International Film Festival...
View ArticleThe 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared
This weekend, SIFF Cinema Uptown is showing one of my favorites from SIFF 2014. It’s about… there’s this very old man, see? And he gets put in a home for being rather ornery—the kind of ornery that...
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