All Tomorrow’s Parties, directed by Jonathan Caouette, All Tomorrow’s People (United Kingdom, 2009) 85 min.
Festival screenings:
May 26, 2009 9:30 PM @ Egyptian Theatre
May 28, 2009 4:30 PM @ Neptune Theatre
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Favela on Blast, directed by Leandro HBL and Wesley Pentz (a.k.a. Diplo) (Brazil, 2009) 80 min.
Festival Screenings:
May 24, 2009 5:00 PM, SIFF Cinema
May 25, 2009 9:30 PM, SIFF Cinema
review by masakaman
Years ago, Samba was born as African slave dance music in the favelas, or Brazilian shantytowns. Some called it the original ghetto music, discriminated [...]
Trimpin: The Sound of Invention, directed by Peter Esmonde (USA, 2008) 79 min.
Festival Screenings:
May 22, 7:00pm, SIFF Cinema
May 23, 1:30pm, SIFF Cinema
If you’d like a pair of tickets for tonight’s show, email us now. The first 3 people will win a pair of tickets, but you must be able to pick the tickets up [...]
My second week of SIFF 2008
by masakaman
My 4th and final week at SIFF 2008 wasn’t really a whole week but rather 3 days — still, there were many films left to see. On Sunday night I finished the last screening at the Egyptian Theater, and that ended my SIFF 2008 experience. All of those days [...]
My third week of SIFF 2008
by masakaman
During my third week at SIFF 2008, the unusually cold and wet Seattle streets did slow me down little but didn’t stop me from going out to see films at all. Abdullah Oguz’s Bliss from Turkey was undeniably gorgeous and magical. From Japan, Miike’s Sukiyaki Western Django was utterly [...]
My second week of SIFF 2008
by masakaman
The highlight of my second week at the 2008 Seattle International Film Festival was a film from Poland. Time to Die is a black & white film about the elderly Aniela & her smart companion dog Philadelphia. This visually stunning film captures the day to day story life in [...]
My first week of SIFF 2008
by masakaman
My first week of The 34th SIFF 2008 started with Battle in Seattle on 22nd of May, a movie drama based on the 1999 World Trade Organization riots in Seattle that took place between November 29 to December 3, 1999.
I lived in Belltown, a few blocks away from center [...]
by masakaman
In Argentina, Tango is a way of life. Cafe de Los Maestros is a music documentary about the country’s internationally famous Tango players by award-winning composer Gustavo Santaollala (Brokeback Mountain). The film introduces players and their contributions to tango music history through interviews and archival footage. It also includes their 2006 reunion performance at [...]
Masa, one of the three DJs on KEXP’s Expansions, attends as many movies during the Seattle International Film Festival as humanly possible each year, and he likes to write about them. While the festival ended last month, many of these movies are now circulating theaters or are still awaiting theatrical release. Masa wrote a four-part [...]
