Better late than never!

The 2017 Seattle International Film Festival, which runs for 25 days every spring in the Emerald City, is four weeks of wall-to-wall, butt-numbing entertainment. This year’s festival took place May 18^th to June 11^th and featured 400 films from 80 countries. All told, there were 750 festival screenings and events, including 36 world premieres. That’s a lot of time spent in a dark theater. On the festival’s final day, the SIFF employees who introduced the screenings asked the audience how many of them had seen over 100 SIFF films this year. I was shocked when a couple of people actually raised their hands. Those folks averaged 4 films per day. My itinerary wasn’t quite as impressive, but I did manage to squeeze in 26 films, at an average of 1 per day. Hey, I had to see my kids some time.

Special honored guests included Angelica Houston, who received an award for Outstanding Achievement in Acting; and the buttery-voiced cowboy Sam Elliott, who spent an afternoon reminiscing about his career and taking questions from an enthusiastic audience.

There were a lot of great films this year.

Read about them on Hammer to Nail!

July 21, 2017
Categories: Filmpinions . Tags:a date for mad mary, anjelica huston, backpack full of cash, beatriz at dinner, bill pullman, crown heights, dean, demetri martin, ferguson, gillian jacobs, Hammer to Nail, kevin kline, LaKeith Stanfield, mary steenburgen, matt damon, michael winterbottom, rob brydon, selma hayek, siff 2017, steve coogan, the fabulous allan carr, the feels, the reagan show, the trip to spain, two irenes, Whose Streets? . Author: Baxter

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