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Grit, Twang, Soul: Your Southern roots are showing.
Last night, watching Jim White cruising the fecund, salvation-starved backroads of the deep South in Searching for the Wrong-eyed Jesus, I kept hazily reflecting back on my own Southern childhood. My...
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A Different Beauty: Sharing Film with Children
I vividly remember the first time I saw The Red Balloon as a child. I’ve never forgotten the haunting, stark beauty of 1950s Paris, the unapologetic taking of the child’s perspective, and the power of...
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Science Fiction Friday: SF Film Fest
Local science fiction fans may be well aware of the Cinerama’s upcoming Science Fiction Film Fest, but how many of you read the book first? Interestingly, most of the films started out as books of one...
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The Life of Words
A word is dead when it’s been said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. – Emily Dickinson The characters I read about come to life in my imagination. I sometimes dream about them, their...
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Documentaries from SIFFS gone by
As I pore over the hundreds of screenings at the Seattle International Film Festival every year, I find myself focusing on two categories – documentaries and Scandinavian films. Here are some of my...
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Movie Mondays: (Good) movies I never want to see again
Every once in a while a movie comes along that I appreciate and admire, but don’t “like.” They are provocative and disturbing. I’m glad I saw these, but for me, once was enough. Kids (1995), written by...
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Movie Mondays: Happy Birthday, David Lynch!
Director, artist, musician and all around good guy David Lynch turns 68 today. Lynch is indisputably one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary cinema, a man whose style has often been aped but...
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