One Sunday evening I got a call from Film Comment editor Richard Corliss, who said he didn't have an article that felt like a lead piece for the March-April 1980 issue of the magazine. He wondered whether I had anything on my mind. We talked a bit and gradually it emerged that there was a theme running through some reviews I'd recently written for Movietone News and The Weekly ("Seattle's Newsmagazine," as it was subtitled then). He encouraged me to try writing an intro for a piece that would amalgamate some of that material along with fresh insights. The following is what resulted.
The three amigos convene for Framing Pictures' September session at the usual cantina (Northwest Film Forum) this coming Friday, Sept. 14, at 5 p.m.
With all the condominium and apartment buildings rising up in Seattle’s neighborhoods, the conventional neighborhood is shrinking daily. What once could be covered up by a few trees or a fence now requires more creative means of protecting oneself from loud or obnoxious neighbors.
Queen Anne resident Alexander Beaumont was awarded the 2012 “Youth Service in Action” Hero Award by The American Red Cross of King County. The award was given to Beaumont at the annual Heroes Breakfast held by the Red Cross on March 27.
Used to be that hidden in the dark of a movie theater full of anonymous fellow travelers, we could get lost in dreams and nightmares, sometimes wildly fantastic, sometimes as real as right now. But these days, the flickers, so promiscuously accessible in portable frames and big-screen rec rooms, have lost a good deal of that private, privileged magic.
Spielberg's E.T. is due in a new form of transport: Blu-ray. Here's how I welcomed the film in the February 1983 issue of Film Comment.
Numerous World’s Fair programs were produced for the heady April to October run. One concerned art.
A number of Magnolia residents are circulating petitions around the neighborhood calling on Metro to forget about making changes to Bus Route 24.
Not all furniture is created equal. Steve Withcombe knows this.
Gardeners celebrate Earth Day all year-round. We stay in harmony with the turn of the seasons and care for the patch of earth just outside our door.
Magnolia’s new p-patch and Queen Anne’s forest restoration project are the two big winners in the Umpqua Bank “Build Your Block Challenge.”
Not everyone was enthralled by the plans for the World’s Fair, including, apparently, the editor of this publication. Below is a column penned by Editor Evan Sanders from April of 1962, just days before the World’s Fair was to begin.
Commandeering yet another police car to exploit dangerous days and ways in L.A.'s South Central badlands, David Ayer (Training Day) drives deep in End of Watch. Sadly, deep for Ayer is pretty shallow. What saves this cop show from its predictable tropes and clichés are terrific performances by Jake Gyllenhaal and Michael Pena, who've got each other's backs as actors and as "brothers" in law enforcement.
From the time he worked in a deli as 15-year-old in central Wisconsin, Branden Karow has loved cooking. He tired of frozen chicken covered in ice or boxed meals heated in a microwave — he wanted to make things from scratch.