Chile ’76: Hitchcockian Slow Cinema?
Tim Basaraba – Chile 76′ succeeds on multiple levels – as an authentic period piece, a visual masterpiece, an aural experience, and a career-defining performance.
Tim Basaraba – Chile 76′ succeeds on multiple levels – as an authentic period piece, a visual masterpiece, an aural experience, and a career-defining performance.
Peter Cameron – I don’t know if this is a new genre, or it’s been around a while, or if it’s another desperate attempt to draw an audience, but “films that revolve around a major product from the 80s” is a genre I can get behind.
Peter Cameron – It’s hard to not get excited when I hear the pressure releasing four letter word—SIFF. The Seattle International Film Festival is back and this year there are no COVID woes to slow it down.
Tim Basaraba – The 49th annual Seattle International Film Festival kicks off later this week, which means it’s time to share the films I’m most excited to see.
Tim Basaraba – Melodrama is not a bad word. Sure, it gets a bad rap for intentionally eliciting emotional responses, but isn’t that what cinema is supposed to do? A.V. Rockwell’s feature film debut, A Thousand and One, does just that – uses melodrama in an attempt to make the audience feel a particular way.