Film
April 26, 2013 | by Leah Baltus

Life In Pictures

After 13 years of filmmaking in Seattle, Megan Griffiths has made more than a career out of movies.  At the Film Forum in Tribeca, a line winds out of the lobby and spills onto the sidewalk, the very tail of twilight dissolving into an inky blue Manhattan skyline. It’s a Friday in late March,...
February 15, 2013 | by Tony Kay

SIFF Salutes Oscar Also-Rans on Sunday

Oscar Parties come a dime-a-dozen this time of year. But if you’re looking for a unique (and fun) spin on that movie-nerd tradition, has SIFF got a fete for you...
January 31, 2013 | by Mark Baumgarten

Behind the Camera with Northwest Video Stars

You would think that Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” might have solved the riddle of the music video: Is it art or advertisement?  Despite its ongoing title as...
January 28, 2013 | by Scarecrow Staff

Scarecrow Suggests DVDs & Blu-Rays

Feb. 12 The Man with the Iron Fists RZA, the producer/rapper known as “the Abbot” of the Wu-Tang Clan, is a renowned fan of and expert on martial arts films, so it...
January 23, 2013 | by Katey Rich

Shelton's 'Touchy Feely' Premieres at Sundance

Fans of Lynn Shelton's intimate, sharply realist, deeply funny films like Humpday and Your Sister's Sister may be surprised to find a new element in her fifth film...
January 10, 2013 | by Tony Kay

Lucid Inc.'s 'The Roper' Will Screen among Short Films at Sundance

You wouldn’t expect acclaimed ad work and heartfelt documentary shorts worthy of national attention to sprout from the same source. But Lucid Inc. is all about...
December 31, 2012 | by Mark Baumgarten

Hope, Change & Zombies

On the road with author Isaac Marion, the man who gave the walking dead free will. People are obsessed with zombies, but people don’t care about zombies. They’re...
December 31, 2012 | by Shaun Scott

The Difference Between Thinking and Feeling on the Beach

In August, I took a small cast and crew to the beach to film a scene I’d written about an exhausted travel writer, sent by his publishing agency to interview a...