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SIFF Film Review – Your Sister’s Sister
As part of the Seattle International Film Festival’s press kickoff, we watched the festival’s opening movie, Your Sister’s Sister, directed by Lynn Shelton. I was not looking forward to it because I made the mistake of reading the IMDb summary beforehand: “Iris invites her friend…
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In 1971, after a long battle with the studio and the BBFC, a truncated version of Ken Russell’s The Devils opened in the UK to acclaim and controversy. The film touches upon the relationship between church and state, and the hypocrisy inherent in both organizations.…
READ MOREFilm Review – Moonrise Kingdom
Skilled woodsman Sam Shakusky (Jared Gilman) decides to skip town with his girl Suzy (Kara Hayward), but her well-to-do family is none to happy and has involved the cops. Sam and Suzy wander through the woods, isolated and happy, until they come across Sam’s former…
READ MORESIFF Film Review – We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists
Playing at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, directed by Brian Knappenberger, is both an explanation of the group Anonymous and a history of their activities. Who are Anonymous and what do they do? Well, the film does a…
READ MOREFilm Review – Ultrasonic
I don’t know what it is about me, but I have a lot of friends who are what one could call “conspiracy theory nuts.” (Although they might not appreciate the “nuts” part.) I’m originally from Southern Oregon, which has a lot of right-wing survivalists and…
READ MOREWhat We’re Watching – SIFF 2012 Edition
The Mexican Suitcase: In the late 1930s, photographers Robert Capa, Gerda Taro, and David “Chim” Seymour traveled to Spain to cover the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Three boxes—known as the “Mexican Suitcase”—of their work went missing, only to resurface seventy years later in Mexico. The…
READ MORESIFF Film Reviews – The Eye of the Storm & Any Day Now
The Eye of the Storm: Australian matriarch Elizabeth Hunter (Charlotte Rampling) has decided she is on her deathbed and summons her two children, Basil (Geoffrey Rush) and Dorothy (Judy Davis), home to pay their last respects. While her children certainly do want to say goodbye,…
READ MOREFilm Review – Sound of My Voice
Sound of My Voice opens with a young couple preparing to meet a woman named Maggie (Brit Marling) for the first time. They enter an unfamiliar house, where they are asked to shower and change into white hospital gowns. They are then blindfolded and driven…
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