A case for luring movies to Washington state
You may have seen the movie Captain Fantastic . This week, actor Viggo Mortensen got an Academy Award nomination for his work in it.
View ArticleRemembering those who resisted Japanese internment
Bill Radke speaks with author Frank Abe about his 2000 documentary "Conscience and the Constitution," which looks at Japanese who resisted their internment in American camps during World War II. Abe...
View ArticleThe Horror, The Horror: "Get Out" And The Place of Race in Scary Movies
It's one of the oldest clichés of horror movies: the black guy dies first. But that's not the case in the new film "Get Out," written and directed by Jordan Peele (best known for the Comedy Central...
View ArticleLessons from getting out of the Seattle bubble to meet Trump supporters
Bill Radke speaks with filmmaker James Allen Smith about his latest project to meet Trump supporters. Smith recently drove his Prius from Seattle to Lynden to talk with people who voted for Trump. He...
View ArticleHow does a person end up in Nickelsville?
Bill Radke speaks with filmmaker Derek McNeill about his new documentary "The Road to Nickelsville." Radke also speaks with Colin McCredie, a man who lived in the Nickelsville homeless camp. There will...
View ArticleSeattle filmmaker explains how a mysterious Channel 3 changed his life in...
Bill Radke speaks with Wes Hurley, co-director of the award-winning autobiographical documentary short Little Potato. Hurley explains the hardships of growing up gay in Russia and the mysterious...
View ArticleDavid Lynch's Trippy 'Twin Peaks' Revival Is A Love Letter To Hardcore Fans
[It should be obvious, but there are loads of spoilers below from the first four episodes of Twin Peaks: The Return. ] In a year that has brought us some pretty trippy TV so far, Showtime's Twin Peaks...
View ArticleAziz Ansari On 'Master Of None' And How His Parents Feel About Acting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whde50AacZs Aziz Ansari is in the midst of a whirlwind year. In January, the comic hosted Saturday Night Live the day after President Trump's inauguration — an...
View ArticleThe legendary dirtbag who never got famous
Fred Beckey, 94, is a Northwest mountaineering legend. From his teen years he has monomaniacally devoted himself to climbing mountains and documenting those ascents in guidebooks. But he’s never...
View ArticleThe mystery of two Seattle Landmark theaters closing
Bill Radke talks to KUOW arts reporter Marcie Sillman and Sean Nelson, arts and music editor at The Stranger, about the closing of two Landmark movie theaters in Seattle, Guild 45th and Seven Gables...
View Article'Chasing Coral': Documentary Vividly Chronicles A Growing Threat To Oceans
It would be nice to believe that the reason humanity has taken next to no action to halt the destruction of the world's oceans is because we simply haven't seen the damage report. That argument held...
View ArticleMovie nights at Magnuson canceled due to safety concerns
If you were hoping to make it to movie night at Magnuson Park in the next few weeks, you're out of luck. The outdoor movie series has been canceled part way through the season.
View ArticleWhy a horror movie can be like therapy
Jeannie Yandel wanted to know: Why would anyone want to scare themselves by watching horror movies? Isn’t there enough scary stuff in the real world right now? She got answers from horror fans Amie...
View ArticleFilm Documents Tribal Effort To Reclaim Columbia River Tradition
In the 1940s, construction of the Grand Coulee Dam ended a generations-long tradition among the region’s Native American tribes who had gathered at a nearby waterfall every year. But last year, five...
View ArticleWhen do we cut ties with artists who have been accused of sexual assault?
Bill Radke talks to Dominique Cantwell, executive director of Bainbridge Performing Arts , and Warren Etheredge, curator of Walla Walla Movie Crush and former programmer for the Seattle International...
View ArticleFilm Introducing Bigfoot To World Still Mysterious 50 Years Later
Although it's been decades since the Patterson-Gimlin filmturneda Northwest legend, Bigfoot, intoa household name, thefootage and stories behind it still remainfascinating 50 years later. The...
View ArticleTom Hanks has two Best Actor Oscars, and it turns out he’s a writer, too
And now for something maybe completely unexpected. Tom Hanks wrote a book. The prolific actor credits writer and filmmaker Nora Ephron with encouraging his writing years ago on the set of “Sleepless in...
View ArticleViolent Protests In India Follow Release Of Controversial Bollywood Epic
Shops were ransacked and vehicles torched in parts of India on Thursday as activists from Hindu nationalist groups showed their anger over the release of a controversial film about a 14 th Century...
View ArticleSee the silver screen in the friendly skies
"When this movie's over, the audience will be halfway across the country." This is not because they'll have fled the scene. Instead, it's an introduction to Astrovision, American Airlines' 1960s answer...
View ArticleA Fragile Relationship Tested By Freedom In 'Outside In'
What happens to a relationship when its rules change? That's a question writer/director Lynn Shelton has spent a good part of her filmmaking career answering in a series of intimate indie comedies like...
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