Category: Cinema
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Nicky’s Family: The Untold Story of “the British Schindler”
I’d be lying if I said I hadn’t been dreading the inevitability of a Holocaust film coming up on my docket for this year’s Seattle Jewish Film Festival. Having read the synopsis for Nicky’s Family, I was looking forward to the screening in theory but…
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Friend or Foe? My So-Called Enemy Humanizes the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
My So-called Enemy is a new documentary that just played at the SJFF that explores if it is possible for teenage girls across the Israeli/Palestine divide to form lasting friendships after spending just nine days together at a camp. Not only is it possible, but…
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Mabul at SJFF: Sometimes You Need a Good Flood
Dikla Tuchman talks about Mabul, the opening film at the Seattle Jewish Film Festival.
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Seventeenth Annual Jewish Film Festival Coming to a Theater Near You
On Thursday, March 15, the Cinerama Theater will be opening its doors once again to a flood of anxious film festival attendees, kicking off the 17th Annual Seattle Jewish Film Festival (SJFF). Presented by the American Jewish Committee, the SJFF is the largest Seattle film…
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Don Hertzfeldt Brings His Bitter Films to Seattle
As anyone who ever attended a Puget Sound Cinema Society screening knows, I love Don Hertzfeldt’s work. His brilliant Lily and Jim was one of the show-stoppers of the old PSCS days and his work has only grown funnier and richer since then.
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KCTS’ Long Shorts – 1/2/2012: Some Great, Some Bad, Some In-Between
Though there are venues for local filmmakers to present the fruits of their labor, it could hardly be said that opportunities to reach a large audience are plentiful in the area. KCTS’s Reel NW, a program that’s a little over a year old, represents a…
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There Were Houses Here
Salise Hughes’ brilliant evocation of a decimated New Orleans, after the storm.
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Everything new is old again
Enjoy this film, a short trip down the Monorail to Seattle Center, circa 1961.
