Riff on SIFF

Notes on the Seattle International Film Festival

"...here made a most lasting impression: Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris. Miike was honored by SIFF with..."

June 21, 2002 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Citizen McCall

Kinky Friedman once remarked that the line between fiction and reality is the one he snorted back in 1978. More than two decades later, he's still getting things mixed up. Chronicle writer Sidney Moody investigates why he puts his friend John McCall, the multimillionaire shampoo magnate and owner of the beauty supply firm Armstrong McCall, in his new detective novel Steppin' on a Rainbow without even bothering to change his name.

"...do with ultimate success, not to mention freedom or happiness."..."

Nov. 2, 2001 Books Feature by Sidney Moody

Reissues

"...Praise be to God: "Let's Stay Together," "Love and Happiness," "Take Me to the River," "I'm Still in Love..."

June 27, 1997 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...anything I fear for an artist, it's their well-deserved happiness. Sometimes it's falling in love, and sometimes, like now,..."

July 19, 1996 Music Review

Record Reviews

"...anything I fear for an artist, it's their well-deserved happiness. Sometimes it's falling in love, and sometimes, like now,..."

July 19, 1996 Music Review

The Old Way

Nic Cage saddles up for a Western with a surprise in its saddlebags

"...a small town mercantile. Of course, this picture of happiness is shattered when a charming outlaw (1883's Le Gros)..."

Jan. 6, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Loving Highsmith

Documentary about the acclaimed American novelist explores her past loves

"...married Englishwoman with whom she could never realize lasting happiness. But little is disclosed here about the dynamic of..."

Oct. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Steve Davis

My Donkey, My Lover & I

Giddy romp through the South of France is charming and scenic

"...of love and more about the journey of discovering happiness in solitude. There are no big teary moments, no..."

July 22, 2022 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Q&A: The Dicks’ Gary Floyd Talks Lifelong Creativity Ahead of Austin Art Exhibition

Maybe We'll See Butterflies opens tomorrow at Prizer Arts & Letters

"...California home, where he's fronted bands like Sister Double Happiness, Black Kali Ma, and the Buddha Brothers over the..."

June 10, 2022 Music Post by Rachel Rascoe

Rondo and Bob

An Austin film legend's obsession with a Hollywood monster

"...second marriage, to Mabel Housh (Pribilski), gave him the happiness he seemed to feel his affliction would render impossible...."

May 20, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Northman

A vengeance-fueled odyssey across Viking culture and myth

"...of his son and heir, Amleth (Novak). But any happiness is soon devastated by blades loyal to the king’s..."

April 22, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 28 - February 3

"...Author Helen Hunt Jackson said that one component of happiness is "a little less time than you want." Why?..."

Jan. 28, 2022 Column by Rob Brezsny

Hotel Transylvania: Transformania

The monsterific animated franchise lumbers back out of the tomb

"...franchise by giving widower Drac a second chance at happiness with Ericka van Helsing (Hahn, still lumbered with one..."

Jan. 14, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Belfast

Kenneth Branagh's stunning if messy look back at his childhood in Northern Ireland

"...wide, gap-toothed smile frequently flashed to convey the unadulterated happiness only a child can feel, Hill further brightens longtime..."

Nov. 12, 2021 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Luv Doc: An On-the-Ball Housedaddy

Would a moat increase your property value?

"...you're going to get the short end of the happiness stick, perhaps you should reexamine your own situation and..."

Oct. 1, 2021 Column by The Luv Doc

Free Guy

Ryan Reynolds levels up for the summer’s most charming and fun blockbuster

"...well-established persona. Guy is a beacon of hope and happiness in a chaotic world (think Ted Lasso spawned into..."

Aug. 13, 2021 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It

After 70 years of being someone else, the screen legend gets to be herself

"...out that her drive for attention, for performing, for happiness were in fact nurturing her. It’s a profound realization..."

June 18, 2021 Movie Review by Josh Kupecki

12 Mighty Orphans

Historical football drama can't get past first down

"...kids, but likely became their one shining glimmer of happiness they looked back on throughout most of their adult..."

June 11, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, May 21-27

"...pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness." To that I reply, "Other people's pleasure and happiness..."

May 21, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

Happily

Deliciously acerbic comedy finally knows what to do with Joel McHale

"...is the natural order of things wrong, if their happiness can cause so much misery? And misery it causes,..."

March 26, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Free Will Astrology

Your weekly horoscope, January 15-21

"...Capricorn author Edgar Allen Poe named "four conditions for happiness: life in the open air; love of another human..."

Jan. 15, 2021 Column by Rob Brezsny

The Pale Door

Witches versus cowboys in the weird, weird West

"...to look past the film’s genre shortcomings and find happiness in the little things – such as Sage’s Creole..."

Aug. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Amulet

Supernatural thriller is more mood than meaning

"...know no way to express even a fragment of happiness. Secareanu is less showy than Juri, who is given..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Oops!

"..."the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." That phrase actually appears in Thomas Jefferson's rough draft..."

July 24, 2020 Column

We Are Little Zombies

Wildly inventive Japanese musical comedy-drama finds the joy in nihilism

"...signposts, it's the controlled chaos of Takashi Miike's The Happiness of the Katakuris, or Jang Joon-hwan's Save the Green..."

July 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

My Darling Vivian

Vivian Cash removed from Johnny's shadow through their daughters' voices

"...an inconvenience, a glitch before true love and domestic happiness. Hell, Ginnifer Goodwin's performance in Walk the Line turned..."

June 19, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The King of Staten Island

Pete Davidson grows up a bit in this semi-autobiographical dramedy

"...a wonderful depiction of a couple finding a little happiness later in life...."

June 12, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Beanpole

Post-war Russian drama reappraises the position of women veterans through a strange compact

"...ever after, Balagov suggests - merely the hope that happiness can be possible...."

April 10, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sonic the Hedgehog

The Sega speedster finally arrives with all the nostalgic fun intact

"...his loneliness grows, Sonic begins to envy the rural happiness of the local sheriff, Tom (Marsden), and his veterinarian..."

Feb. 21, 2020 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

SXSW Announces Midnighters, VR And More

Time to get dark and artistic with the latest film wave

"...and his friends narrate Parker's mission to find true happiness through superficial obsessions. "Lip Service" D: Emily Tremaine. A..."

Feb. 5, 2020 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

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