Seattle International Film Festival
It's time for the SIFF again! It started this past Thursday and runs until June 17th. I think the biggest highlight is the presentation of a lifetime achievement award to Anthony Hopkins this coming Wednesday. Of course getting tickets for the event will be next to impossible, but I did manage to get tickets to a couple of movies--as a matter of fact, it looks like most of them are still not sold out.
Here are the movies I've seen already:
Fair Play (France) - SIFF / IMDB
Sonhos de Peixe (Brazil, Russia; a.k.a. Fish Dreams) - SIFF / IMDB
All were excellent and I wish I could see more movies of such caliber throughout the year. The very good news is that there are actually a number of movie theaters in Seattle (Harvard Exit, Neptune, Loews Uptown, Northwest Film Forum, among others) that play independent and international films, but they're not always good, so I think the only way to see the better ones is keep track of awards given out at other film festivals and just browsing through IMDB and NetFlix.
All were excellent and I wish I could see more movies of such caliber throughout the year. The very good news is that there are actually a number of movie theaters in Seattle (Harvard Exit, Neptune, Loews Uptown, Northwest Film Forum, among others) that play independent and international films, but they're not always good, so I think the only way to see the better ones is keep track of awards given out at other film festivals and just browsing through IMDB and NetFlix.
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