We're one week into the Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) and there are so many good movies this year! Tonight I am planning to catch Celebration at Pacific Place, an opulent and immersive behind-the-scenes look at haute couture designer Yves Saint Laurent's final show before his death, told through the eyes of longtime business partner Pierre Bergé, which was suppressed for the last two decades. I am so excited to see this film!
Tonight's viewing of Celebration at Pacific Place is the 2nd Fashion Film Friday of SIFF. Each Friday of the festival is a different fashion film showing at Pacific Place. Last Friday was Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic (the US Premiere!), with Timeless Beauty showing next Friday and the final Fashion Film Friday featuring Halston (additional showtimes available.)
In addition to four amazing fashion films, I've included in my Seattle International Film Festival Guide this year some incredible films around travel, art, music, design, just for fun and more! There are over 400 films at this year's SIFF, and after strategic examining of this year's film guide, these are 15+ films I am hoping to see!
If you're attending SIFF, I would love to hear your thoughts on the films and what you're planning to see! If you see me at the movies, come say 'Hi'! Now I'm off to the movies . . .
xoxo
SIFF 2019 FILM GUIDE:
Film - HalstonFASHION
SIFF Fashion Film Fridays at Pacific Place
May 17 at 4pm - Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic
May 24 at 4pm - Celebration
May 31 at 4pm - Timeless Beauty
June 7 at 4pm - Halston
Jean-Paul Gaultier: Freak and Chic (US Premiere)
Any designer can stage a runway show, but possibly only Gaultier can pull off a "Fashion Freak Show" at the Folies Bergère. Go behind the scenes of the fashion innovator's most outrageous project yet.
Sat May 25, 2019 at 3:30pm at Shoreline Community College
Celebration
An opulent and immersive behind-the-scenes look at haute couture designer Yves Saint Laurent's final show before his death, told through the eyes of longtime business partner Pierre Bergé, which was suppressed for the last two decades.
Fri May 24, 2019 at 4pm at Pacific Place
Sat May 25, 2019 at 9:30pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Timeless Beauty
This lush and inspiring doc explores how the fashion industry is expanding its definition of "beauty" beyond merely young and thin to embrace older, ethnically diverse, and nontraditional models of all kinds.
Fri May 31, 2019 at 4pm at Pacific Place
Sat June 1, 2019 at 3:30pm at Shoreline Community College
Fri June 7, 2019 at 6:30pm at Pacific Place
Halston
Relive the roller-coaster career of the designer whose innovative clothes not only gave women new freedom, but who fabulously heightened both the role of fashion in American culture and of American fashion on the world stage.
Fri June 7 at 4pm at Pacific Place
Sun June 9 at 5pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Film - Mysterious TravelersTRAVEL
Mysterious Travelers
Take a journey around the world with these shorts depicting tales of crossing borders, unexpected discoveries and unintended pets.
Sun May 26, 2019 at 12pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Virgin & Extra: The Land of the Olive Oil
Take a trip to sunny Jaen, the Spanish province that produces 20% of the world's olive oil - some say it's the best of all - and follow it's production from tree to table.
Sun June 2, 2019 at 12:30pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Mon June 3, 2019 at 7pm at Pacific Place
Film - Enormous: The Gorge StoryMUSIC, ART + DESIGN
David Crosby: Remember My Name
Producer Cameron Crowe and director A.J. Eaton craft an aggressively honest portrait of Musician David Crosby now 77, framed around a multi-day interview with the controversial legend about his illustrious past and the transformative nature of music.
Fri May 24, 2019 at 6pm - SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sat May 25, 2019 at 1:30pm - AMC Pacific Place
Enormous: The Gorge Story
Dave Matthews and Hozier are among the talking heads in this doc about the history - both musical and geological - of Washington's best known outdoor concert venue.
Sat May 25, 2019 at 2:30pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Tue May 28, 2019 at 6:30pm at Lincoln Square
The Apollo
Archival footage onstage and backstage enriches this portrait of the iconic Harlem theater, since 1934 the epicenter of African-American achievement in performance.
Sat May 25, 2019 at 6:45pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Sun May 26, 2019 at 1:30pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Mon May 27, 2019 at 3:30pm at Shoreline Community College
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Half a century later, travel back to the dairy farm that became for one weekend the red-hot center of the zeitgeist, with this doc that examines why it all happened and what it all meant.
Sun May 26, 2019 at 3pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Palace for the People
This one's for the architecture buffs: a fascinating and delightful look at the histories, hidden secrets, and current occupants of five monumental Communist state buildings, all built during the height of the Communist era.
Sun May 26, 2019 at 8:45pm at Shoreline Community College
Wed May 29, 2019 at 7pm at Pacific Place
Barbara Rubin & the Exploding NY Underground
A portrait of rebellious artist and avant-garde filmmaker Barbara Rubin (Christmas on Earth), who influenced the likes of Andy Warhol, Bob Dylan, and Allen Ginsburg, and broached the traditionally male domain of Orthodox Judaism, before her mysterious death at age 35.
Wed June 5 at 9:30pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Film - Brittany Runs a MarathonLIFE
Brittany Runs a Marathon
A game ensemble cast shines in this Sundance-winning romantic comedy, starring Jillian Bell as a New York slacker who reluctantly takes up running, hoping to put her life back on track one block at a time.
Fri May 24, 2019 at 7:30pm at Shoreline Community College
Sun May 26, 2019 at 7pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Top End Wedding
A young Australian couple returns to the indigenous bride's Northern Territory hometown to find Mom missing; their hunt takes them through luscious landscapes and culture-clash humor in this adorable rom-com.
Sat May 25, 2019 at 6pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Sun May 26, 2019 at 1pm at Shoreline Community College
Monday May 27, 2019 at 3:45pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Late Night
Emma Thompson stars as a legendary late-night talk show host who, faced with diminishing ratings for her long-running show is forced to hire her first female staff writer (Mindy Kaling, who also write the film's script.)
Sat June 1. 2019 at 5:30pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Sun June 2, 2019 at 3:30pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
The Man Who Bought the Moon (North American Premiere)
Lovers in romantic comedies always promise each other the moon, but a Sardinian fisherman somehow actually acquired it - and now an American agent must pass as a Sardinian, track him down, and figure out how.
Sat June 1 at 8pm at Shoreline Community College
Mon June 3 at 7pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Fri June 7 at 4pm at SIFF Cinema Uptown
Aurora
A poor, hard-partying nail technician reluctantly agrees to play matchmaker for an Iranian refugee so he and his young daughter can stay in Finland in this cross-cultural romantic drama.
Fri June 7 at 4pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Sat June 8 at 9pm at Pacific Place
The Farewell
Awkwafina, the flamboyant breakout star of Crazy Rich Asians, plays a woman traveling back home to China to assist in an elaborate ruse to keep a truth from her terminally ill grandmother.
Sun June 9 at 6pm at SIFF Cinema Egyptian
Disclosure: A Seattle International Film Festival Press Pass was provided to me for coverage of SIFF.
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