This week we're confronting public-private issues
Was KUOW too private about its negotiations to buy a public radio station? What say should the public have in bathroom privacy? Should the private Seattle University accommodate its students...
View ArticleThree picks for SIFF from Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths
Kim Malcolm talks with Seattle filmmaker Megan Griffiths about her picks for the Seattle International Film Festival. Griffiths recommends "Captain Fantastic" and "Tiny: The Life of Erin Blackwell."...
View ArticleVirtual reality comes to SIFF
Ross Reynolds interviews Sandy Cioffi, curator of the virtual reality festival SIFFX, within the Seattle International Film Festival. Cioffi describes the unique ability of VR productions to evoke...
View ArticleCan comedy reform a swing hater?
Bill Radke speaks with social justice comedian Negin Farsad about how she believes comedy can change people's negative views of Muslims and other minorities. Her new book is "How To Make White People...
View Article'Just Keep Swimming': A Lesson In Fortitude From Dory And DeGeneres
When Finding Nemo came out in 2003, it was Dory, the plucky, forgetful blue fish, who taught us all, in the face of adversity, to "just keep swimming."Ellen DeGeneres, who voiced Dory, says she was...
View Article'Tracktown' Movie Blurs Lines Between Reality And Fiction
Art meets real life on so many levels at the Northwest premiere Tuesday of a new movie. "Tracktown" is set in Eugene, Oregon, the city now emblazoned with Tracktown USA banners. The movie tells the...
View Article100 Years Of Olivia De Havilland Handling Sexism, Her Sister, And Scarlett...
Actress Olivia de Havilland, the last surviving star of the most popular film of all time, retired from showbiz decades ago, apparently feeling that 49 films, two best actress Oscars, and a...
View ArticleIn 'Ten Years,' A Dystopian Vision Of Hong Kong's Future Under China
The Hong Kong film industry is best known for martial arts and crime thrillers, and for launching the careers of international stars like Jackie Chan and Chow Yun-fat. But the most celebrated Hong Kong...
View ArticleA Mouse Watches Film Noir And Offers Clues To Human Consciousness
Letting mice watch Orson Welles movies may help scientists explain human consciousness.At least that's one premise of the Allen Brain Observatory, which launched Wednesday and lets anyone with an...
View ArticleKristen Bell On 'Bad Moms': 'It Was The Funniest Script I Had Ever Read'
Bad Moms is a movie about good moms who try to go bad. Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis and Kathryn Hahn play suburban Chicago mothers who find themselves ground down by the daily cycle of school drop-offs and...
View ArticleCrowds love 'Sausage Party', but animators don't
Bill Radke speaks with Stephen Quinn, host of CBC Radio's On The Coast, about a complaint filed on behalf of Vancouver animation workers. Animators claim they worked in terrible conditions and weren't...
View ArticleActing For Film Or Acting For Life? Doc Tells Story Of Kim Jong Il's Captives
It's well-known that Dear Leader was crazy about movies. What's less known — at least in the West — is that infamous North Korean dictator Kim Jong Il was so crazy about them that he kidnapped a South...
View ArticleAmanda Knox: 'People love the idea of a monster'
When Amanda Knox enters a coffee shop in Seattle, she just wants a cup of coffee. Sometimes that’s what happens.
View ArticleSeattle International Film Fest gets new leader
The Seattle International Film Festival's director and chief curator, Carl Spence, is stepping down after more than 20 years with SIFF. Spence joined the organization in 1994 as an assistant to the...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher, Actress Beloved For Playing Princess Leia, Dies At 60
Carrie Fisher, the actress who became a pop culture icon for her performance as Princess Leia in Star Wars, has died at age 60. Fisher had suffered a massive heart attack last week on a flight from...
View ArticleCarrie Fisher Was In On The Joke
Some people possess a quality — a highly specific fuel mixture of intelligence and humor — that makes them seem like they've always got a secret they want to share with you, and only you. It's not...
View ArticleA 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...
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