Soundtracking #10: Kubrick and Ligeti
The occasional podcast on music in movies; part of the series “Continue down your mistaken…
SIFF Days 21-22: Love Hurts
Jamshid Mahmoudi’s Iranian/Afghan semi-adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, A Few Cubic Meters of Love takes a bit…
Before BIRDMAN: Films about Actors – Part 6: FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION
The mockumentaries assembled by Christopher Guest, such as This Is Spinal Tap (1984) and Best…
SIFF Days 19-20: Male Toxicity
On its third Tuesday, the Seattle International Film Festival continued its amazing parade of special…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: The Lost Worlds of 2001
We don’t want to conquer the cosmos, we simply want to extend the boundaries of…
SIFF Day 18: The Windows of Film
The title Chuck Norris Vs Communism is a lie. Chuck Norris’s films barely make an appearance…
“Continue down your mistaken path”: 2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY (1968)
Everything Stanley Kubrick learned went into the making of 2001, and he made something utterly…
SIFF Day 17: The Masks We Wear
Fourth Man Out is a new comedy about coming out in a middle-class environment to…
SIFF Day 16: Connecting Dots
The easiest way to open a full day of movie going is to watch an…
SIFF Days 13-15: Code-Switching
The conversation surrounding the “gay voice” has been shadowed and loaded. Shadowed by the specter…