Northwest Film Forum Saturday-SundayĬinema Italian Style Like Add to a List One major benefit of digitizing Cinema Italian Style, SIFF's weeklong mini-festival featuring the best in contemporary Italian cinema, is that all the films will be available on-demand at the same time, meaning you won't have to race to Queen Anne in the middle of a weekday for a matinee screening. Highlights of the virtual two-day hap include Alexandra Pianell's The Kiosk, a visual diary wherein the filmmaker helps her mother tend to her newspaper kiosk in a neighborhood of Paris, and the shorts block The Night, which features an array of reality-bending animation. Thursday-SaturdayĬhamps-Elysées Film Festival US Tour | Seattle Edition 2020 Like Add to a List The Champs-Elysées Film Festival’s US Tour comes to the Northwest, courtesy of the Alliance Française de Seattle, to bring you a stellar lineup of French independent shorts and feature-length films. SIFF Starting Friday Film FestivalsĢ020 Banff Mountain Film Festival Virtual Tour Like Add to a List "Is the mountain out today?" This virtual stop on the world tour of the Banff Mountain Film Festival will celebrate action, environmental, and adventure films. With many of the same actors gracing the screen in each film, we have no doubt that taking in his entire oeuvre will feel like one long, wild ride in a singular universe. It includes all his greatest hits from the late '80s to the early 2000s, including As Tears Go By, Days of Being Wild, Fallen Angels, Happy Together, The Hand, and his best-known works Chungking Express and In the Mood for Love. World of Wong Kar-wai Like Add to a List Let Chinese director Wong Kar-wai take you over with the sonically perfect, poetic, excruciatingly cool, often blood-soaked love stories and thrillers featured in this SIFF series. Virtual Moving History – The Video Artwork of Doris Chase Like Add to a List Discover a compilation of kaleidoscopic work by the late Northwest School video-art pioneer Doris Chase in this edition of the Moving Image Preservation of Puget Sound's digital series. This documentary delves into the R&B artist's life and unconventional career. The Changin' Times of Ike White Like Add to a List Released in 1974, Changin' Times was the first commercial album recorded inside an American prison by an inmate, Ike White, who at 19 was sentenced to life for murder and eventually released under the endorsement of Stevie Wonder. A perfect watch if your heartbeat's been a little too steady lately.
In an icy Force Majeure-style conflict, the sister on land must decide between getting herself to safety or risking her life for her family member.
SIFF Starting Fridayīreaking Surface Like Add to a List A mid-winter trip to a remote Norwegian fjord for two professional divers (and sisters) goes horribly wrong when a rockfall traps one of them on the ocean floor with a finite amount of oxygen in her tank. It pays particular attention to the upbringings and motives of Siti Aisyah and Đoàn Thj Huong, the two young women who did the deed.
Jump to: Streaming: Local Connection | Film Festivals | Streaming: Nationwide Streaming: Local ConnectionĪssassins Like Add to a List The global investigation following the 2017 murder of North Korean royal family member Kim Jong-nam, the half-brother of Kim Jong-un, drives this documentary from Ryan White ( The Keepers, The Case Against 8).
Plus, if you haven't heard, The Stranger's amateur porn film festival HUMP! is accepting submissions through January 8, as is the stoner short film fest SPLIFF, through March 5! And don't forget to check out the second installment of The Stranger's Film Club, a new biweekly video series entering Black films with Stranger film experts Jasmyne Keimig and Charles Mudede. We've rounded up those and other options below, including picks from nationwide platforms. Retrospective and Northwest Film Forum's Seattle edition of the Champs-Elysées Film Festival's US Tour Like Add to a List This week brings some particularly exciting options in that vein, like SIFF's Cinema Italian Style Like Add to a ListĪnd World of Wong Kar-wai Like Add to a List If your holiday spirit is at large, allow yourself to give up on your annual viewing of The Family Stone in place of something that has nothing to do with the Yuletide season.