Many thoughts crossed our mind last night as we left the showing of Edward Curtis's In the Land of the Head Hunters at the Moore, not the least of which was our continued amazement that film ever took off. No more or less so than contemporaneous films like Birth of a Nation, Curtis's work bears witness to the fact that early film sucked. The narrative is disjointed, the story thin and hard to follow. It......

CLASSIC FILM: The spaghetti western The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, starring Clint Eastwood, plays at SIFF Cinema. This classic film has the classic themes of crosses, double crosses, and treasure! Then go home and rent Unforgiven to see how Eastwood’s work has grown. Or not. 7 p.m. // SIFF Cinema // $8-10 FIRST PERSON ACCOUNT: Letters to Sala: A Young Woman's Life in Nazi Labor Camps is a collection of rare Holocaust-era......

The Diary of Anne Frank @ the Intiman // through May 17 // // Tickets $10-$50 // Special talks and events on March 31, April 6, 10, 27, 28 and May 3 When this Seattlest was nine, we visited our grandparents in Brooklyn one weekend. While there, the synagogue hosted a book fair. Our grandparents, being a center of the temple community, went and took us with them. We still hold a distinct memory of......

When we looked at tonight's SIFF Cinema schedule, what first caught our eye was the first part of the double feature: 10 Years of Rialto Trailers. Thinking it would be a great way to figure out which noir films we should see during the rest of the festival, and get a crash course in the genre, we decided to check it out. Plus, we love trailers. But in preparing to write this preview --......

Starting tomorrow night, SIFF Cinema is showing Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust, a documentary that examines Hollywood's relationship and depiction of one of the 20th Century's defining events. Growing up Jewish in New York City, we were introduced to The Diary of Anne Frank at age 9. We quickly became fascinated by her story (our copy of the book is in tatters we read it so often) and by the subject of the......