The Seattle Internation Film Festival is celebrating fifty years. The festival has been bringing great film making from around the world to audiences. For several years in a row I attended the festival which shows more films, movies and documentaries than any other festival.
I had no expectation when I attended the festival for the first time. I was just going to spend time with a friend and catch a few movies. Having never been to Seattle I didn't know much about the city. I checked into a hotel near Pioneer Square which I found out was the heart of downtown. It put me in walking distance of the theaters. It rained, but not your typical rain. It was like a mist, and I found it to be cold. I ended up seeing about 35 films and movies that first year. I would have seen more, but I had to take time to eat. I don't know how some of the people did it. I am not a coffee drinker, so Starbucks wasn't going to cut it for me. That was also my first time of hearing of Starbucks and there seemed to be one on every corner. Once I got used to the rain, I wasn't going to let anything stop me from getting out and walking around. After that first day, the sun came out and it was very pleasant.
Here are 50 films I had seen during my time attending the festival. This is not a complete list, and it includes movies and documentaries. They are in no particular order. There are a few that I have never been able to find on DVD and as far as I know they never got a theatrical release. Some of the films I list one of the actors. Some of the titles are foreign films. They are all worth watching if you love films and movies as much as I do.
Besieged- Thandi Newton * SEX IS...* Defying Gravity * Love and Human Remains - Thomas Gibson &Mia Kirshner * Romper Stomper Russell Crowe * Hammers on the Anvil- Charlotte Rampling * UnZipped- documentary on fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi * House of Angels * Acting on Impulse C. Thomas Howell * Twenty Bucks * Les Visiteurs - Jean Reno* Saturn - Scott Caan * Burn * The Secret Life of Girls- Linda Hamilton * Freak Talks About Sex * Golden Balls * Jamon Jamon * The Low Life- Rory Cochran * Kika * Menace II Society * Man Bites Doug * Al Lupo Al Lupo * White Marriage * Crush * The Doom Generation * The Confessional * The Wedding Banquet * Bound by Honor (Blood in , Blood out) * The Music of Chance * Quick * The Abyss (special edition) * Crush * Orlando * Dazed and Confused * Train Spotting- Robert Carlisle * The Pillow Book- Ewan McGregor * Get Real * Lotto Land * Chain of Desire * Twin Falls Idaho * Priscilla Queen of the Desert * Gods and Monsters- Brendan Fraser * The Velocity of Gary- Selma Hayek * Desert Blue- Christina Ricci * Get Bruce (documentary on comic writer Bruce Vilanch * Creature (documentary) * Sick -The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan (documentary) * Scratch the Surface (documentary on the modeling industry) * East Side Story (documentary)
The cover is from a different year.
