Northwest Film Forum does it again with Let’s Do It Again, a night of sex worker made media on Thursday, July 29 at 10 pm, that follows last quarter’s successful screening. Works this time include: films from Seattle filmmakers Kinsey Bell (Manicured) and Basil Shadid and billie rain (Humor Me), as well the performance film [...]
Ready, Set, Bag! is a documentary about the National Grocers Association’s Best Bagger competition. Like other competition documentaries, Ready, Set, Bag divides its time between the build-up to the competition, the competition itself, and the lives of some of the competitors. Groupon is an awesome service that allows people to get super massive discounts on [...]
CALL FOR ENTRIES: Couch Fest Films 2010 Couch Fest Films is a shorts film fest held in people’s houses. There is no submission fee for the following awkwardly awesome prizes. Golden Couch: A Massive Trophy & 2 Nights at my Parents’ House Silver Couch: A Respectable Trophy & Legal Brownies Bronze Couch: An Awe Inspiring [...]
NW Film Forum presents the Seattle premiere ofWomen Without Men. Shirin Neshat makes her directorial debut with a film adaptation of Shahmush Parsipur’s novel about four Iranian women from different social classes struggling with personal tragedies as they seek refuge from the tumult of the 1953 government coup. Henry Art Gallery Associate Curator Sara Krajewski [...]
Pat Spurgeon is a drummer with a mind for music, a heart for his friends, and a kidney that’s breaking down. He’s only got the one, so there’s no spare to take up the slack. He’s on the list for a replacement but it’s six years out and anything can happen in that time. What’s [...]
Kevin Asch makes his feature directorial debut with Holy Rollers, an exciting and thoughtful film about Sam Gold (Jesse Eisenberg), a young Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn who accepts the life chosen for him – rabbinical studies and a prearranged marriage – until his neighbor Yosef (Justin Bartha) recruits him to smuggle drugs for dealer Jackie [...]
From the press release: Stephen Gyllenhaal co-writes and will direct GRASSROOTS, produced by Oscar-winner Peggy Rajski, based on the memoir “Zioncheck for President” by former “Stranger” writer Phil Campbell. Stage and screen veteran Jason Biggs (AMERICAN PIE, MY BEST FRIEND’S GIRL) has signed to star as Campbell, a recently fired journalist who reluctantly agrees to [...]
Hopefully I’ll never be needed as a witness to an incident involving cars because they all pretty much look the same to me. Some are bigger, some are smaller, some are dark and some are light. Cars don’t interest me much so I don’t usually pay any attention to them, as a rule. There is [...]
Created as an homage to ’70s exploitation films, Ticked-Off Trannies with Knives by Texan writer/director/editor Israel Luna pays visual tribute to the grindhouse flick in an intentionally over-the-top send up of the revenge fantasy featuring three lovely showgirls out for the blood of the men who’ve seriously abused them and killed two of their friends. [...]
By Mike Caccioppoli Dream Home (Hong King, 2010) Directed by Pang Ho-Cheung When Cheng can’t seem to buy the condo of her choice she goes insane and kills 11 people in order to bring down the cost. This is the premise of Dream Home, an extremely graphic and gory horror film in which Cheng not [...]
