Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
Relive the 25th Seattle International Film Festival. Read key details, flip through the full Festival catalog, see photos and other media, and find a full list of feature-length films presented at the 1999 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 13–June 6, 1999
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Barnes & Noble Pacific Place, Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas, Paramount Theatre, Valley Drive-In Theatres
Opening Night: The Dinner Game at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me at Pacific Place Cinemas
Tribute: John Sayles
Emerging Masters: Tom Tykwer, François Ozon, Michael Winterbottom, Dorota Kedzierzawska
Photos
Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
Guests gather at the corner of Pine and 9th at the Paramount Theatre for the Opening Night of the 25th Seattle International Film Festival
Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, shakes hands with director, Michael Winterbottom, during the Emerging Masters series
Writer/Director, Martyn Burke, and actor, Anthony Michael Hall, visit Seattle to show their film, Pirates of Silicon Valley
Actor, Bruce Willis, graces the stage, with director, Alan Rudolph, to celebrate their film, Breakfast of Champions
Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge
Best Film
Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer, Germany)
Best Director
John Sayles (Lone Star, USA)
Best Actress
Piper Laurie (The Mao Game)
Best Actor
Rupert Everett (An Ideal Husband)
Best Short
12 Stops of the Road to Nowhere (dir. Jay Lowi, USA)
Best Documentary
Buena Vista Social Club (dir. Wim Wenders, USA)
New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Rosie (dir. Patrice Toye, 1998, Belgium)
New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Dead Dogs (dir. Clay Eide, 1999, USA)
A Beautiful New World - dir. Shi Runjiu, 1998, China
Adrenaline Drive - dir. Shinobu Yaguchi, 1998, Japan
After Life - dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda, 1998, Japan
After the Rain - dir. Ross Kettle, 1999, South Africa
Aguirre, Wrath of God - dir. Werner Herzog, 1972, Germany
All the Little Animals - dir. Jeremy Thomas, 1998, Great Britain
Amerikan Passport - dir. Reed Paget, 1999, USA
An Ideal Husband - dir. Oliver Parker, 1999, Great Britain
Angel of the Night - dir. Shaky González, 1998, Denmark
At Sachem Farm - dir. John Huddles, 1999, USA
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me- dir. Jay Roach, 1999, USA
Autumn Tale - dir. Eric Rohmer, 1998, France
The Basement and the Kitchen - dir. David Fickas, 1999, USA
Battleship Potemkin - dir. Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1925, Russia
Beautiful Sunday - Tetsuya Nakashima, 1998, Japan
Beauty - dir. Yonfan, 1998, Hong Kong/China
Bedrooms & Hallways - dir. Rose Troche, 1998, Great Britain
Beefcake - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 1998, Canada
Beloved/Friend - dir. Ventura Pons, 1999, Spain
Bent Familia - dir. Nouri Bouzid, 1997, Tunisia/France
Beshkempir - The Adopted Son - dir. Aktan Abdikalikov, 1998, Kyrgyzstan/France
Besieged - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1998, Italy
Betrayal - dir. Arthur Fontes, Claudio Torres, José Enrique Fonseca, 1998, Brazil
Better Living Through Circuitry - dir. Jon Reiss, 1999, USA
Better Than Chocolate - dir. Anne Wheeler, 1999, Canada
Bingo: The Documentary - dir. John Jeffcoat, 1999, USA
Black Cat, White Cat - dir. Emir Kusturica, 1998, Yugoslavia
Breakfast of Champions - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1999, USA
Buena Vista Social Club - dir. Wim Wenders, 1999, Germany
Buttoners - dir. Petr Zelenka, 1997, Czech Republic
Can’t Stop Dancing - dir. Stephen Falick, Ben Zook, 1999, USA
Chance or Coincidence - dir. Claude Lelouche, 1998, France/Canada/Italy/Turkey/Mexico/USA
Choose Me - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1984, US
Chutney Popcorn - dir. Nisha Ganatra, 1999, USA
Circus Palestina - dir. Eyal Halfon, 1998, Israel
Coming Soon - dir. Colette Burson, 1999, USA
Conquest - dir. Piers Haggard, 1998, Canada/Great Britain
Creature - dir. Parris Patton, 1999, USA
Dance of Dust - dir. Abolfazl Jalili, 1998, Iran
Date Wine - dir. Radwan el-Kashef, 1998, Egypt
Day of the Full Moon - dir. Karen Shakhnazarov, 1998, Russia
Dead Dogs - dir. Clay Eide, 1999, USA
Dead Letter Office - dir. John Ruane, 1998, Australia
Deadly Maria - dir. Tom Tykwer, 1993, Germany
Desert Blue - dir. Morgan J. Freeman, 1999, USA
Devils, Devils - dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, 1991, Poland
Dill Scallion - dir. Jordan Brady, 1998, USA
Divine - dir. Arturo Ripstein, 1998, Mexico/Argentina
Don’t Tell Anyone - dir. Francisco J. Lombardi, 1998, Peru/Spain
Earth - dir. Deepa Mehta, 1999, Canada/India
Entre Las Piernas - dir. Manuel Gomez Pereira, 1998, Spain/France
Element of Crime - dir. Lars von Trier, 1984, Denmark
Elvjs & Merilijn - dir. Armando Manni, 1998, Italy
Emporte-Moi (Set Me Free) - dir. Léa Pool, 1998, Canada/Switzerland/France
Expect the Unexpected - dir. Patrick Yau, 1998, Hong Kong
Final Rinse - dir. Robert Tucker, 1999, USA
Fire-Eater - dir. Pirjo Honkasalo, 1998, Finland/Sweden
Following - dir. Christopher Nolan, 1999, Great Britain
The Fourth Man - dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1983, The Netherlands
Freak Talks About Sex - dir. Paul Todisco, 1998, USA
Genghis Blues - dir. Roko Belic, 1999, USA
Get Bruce - dir. Andrew J. Kuehn, 1998, USA
Get Real - dir. Simon Shore, 1998, Great Britain
Getting to Know You - dir. Lisanne Skyler, 1999, USA
A Glass of Rage - dir. Aluízio Abranches, 1999, Brazil
Gomez: Heads or Tails - dir. Edward Berger, 1998, Germany/Switzerland
Grandma and Her Ghosts - dir. Wang Shaudi, 1998, South Korea
Hand of Fate - dir. Scott Morgan, 1999, USA
Happy Birthday, Mr. Mograbi - dir. Avi Mograbi, 1999, Israel
Head On - dir. Ana Kokkinos, 1998, Australia
Here We Are, Waiting for You - dir. Marcelo Masagão, 1999, Brazil
Hit and Runway - dir. Christopher Livingston, 1999, USA
Hitchcock, Selznick and the End of Hollywood - dir. Michael Epstein, 1998, USA
Holy Smoke! - dir. Jane Campion, 1999, USA
I Stand Alone - dir. Gaspar Noé, 1998, France
I Want You - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1997, Great Britain
I.D. - dir. Mweze Ngangura, 1998, Republic of Congo/France/Belgium
Ikinai - dir. Hiroshi Shimizu, 1998, Japan
In That Land - dir. Lidia Bobrova, 1998, Russia
In the Winter Dark - dir. James Bogle, 1998, Australia
Insomnio - dir. Chus Gutiérrez, 1997, Spain
The Iron Heel of the Oligarchy - dir. Alexander Bashirov, 1998, Russia
Jam - dir. Chen Yiwen, 1998, Taiwan
Jesus of Montreal - dir. Denys Arcand, 1989, Canada
Jinnah - dir. Jamil Dhlavi, 1998, Pakistan/Great Britain
Jose Rizal - dir. Marilou Diaz-Abaya, 1998, Philippines
Judy Berlin - dir. Eric Mendelsohn, 1999, USA
Kathy Tippel - dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1975, The Netherlands
Keepers of the Frame - dir. Mark McLaughlin, 1999, USA
Keiho - dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, 1999, Japan
Killer - dir. Darezhan Omirbaev, 1998, Kazakhstan Republic/France
Kiss of the Spiderwoman - dir. Hector Babenco, 1985, Brazil/USA
Last Night - dir. Don McKellar, 1998, Canada
Late August, Early September - dir. Olivier Assayas, 1999, France
Lautrec - dir. Roger Planchon, 1998, France
Let’s Get Lost - dir. Jonas Elmer, 1997, Denmark
Life in Fog - dir. Bahman Ghobadi, 1998, Iran
Limbo - dir. John Sayles, 1999, USA
Little Tony - dir. Alex van Warmerdam, 1998, The Netherlands
Lola and Bilidikid - dir. E. Kutlug Ataman, 1998, Germany/Turkey
Love Happens - dir. Tony Cookson, 1999, USA
Lovers on the Bridge - dir. Leos Carax, 1991, France
Lucy’s Revenge - dir. Janusz Mrozowski, 1998, Burkina Faso/France
Made in Hong Kong - dir. Fruit Chan, 1997, Hong Kong
Mating Game - dir. Olga Malea, 1999, Greece
Mensaka - dir. Salvador García Ruiz, 1998, Spain
Miguel/Michelle - dir. Gil M. Portes, 1998, Philippines
Money Buys Happiness - dir. Gregg Lachow, 1999, USA
MuMu - dir. Yuri Grymov, 1998, Russia
My Son the Fanatic - dir. Udayan Prasad, 1996, Great Britain
Night Train - dir. John Lynch, 1999, Ireland
Nô - dir. Robert Lepage, 1998, Canada
No Trace - dir. Hilmar Oddsson, 1998, Iceland
Nothing - dir. Dorota Kedzierzawska, 1998, Poland
Of Freaks and Men - dir. Aleksei Balabanov, 1998, Russia
One False Move - dir. Carl Franklin, 1991, USA
One Girl Against the Mafia - dir. Marco Amenta, 1998, Italy/France
Only Clouds Move the Stars - dir. Torun Lian, 1998, Norway
Open Bodies - dir. Sébastien Lifshitz, 1997, France
Pep Squad - dir. Steve Balderson, 1999, USA
Pirates of Silicon Valley - dir. Martyn Burke, 1999, USA
Porgy & Bess - dir. Otto Preminger, 1959, USA
Portland Street Blues - dir. Raymond Yip, 1998, Hong Kong
The Powder Keg - dir. Goran Paskaljevic, 1998, Yugoslavia/France/Greece/Macedonia/Turkey
Praise - dir. John Curran, 1998, Australia
Rabbit in the Moon - dir. Emiko Omori, 1999, USA
The Red Dwarf - dir. Yvan le Moine, 1998, Belgium/France/Italy
The Red Violin - dir. François Girard, 1998, Canada/Italy/UK/Austria
Regret to Inform - dir. Barbara Sonneborn, 1998, USA
Return With Honor - dir. Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders, 1998, USA
Romani Kris — Gypsy Lore - dir. Bence Gyöngyössy, 1998, Hungary
Rosie - dir. Patrice Toye, 1998, Belgium
Run Lola Run - dir. Tom Tykwer, 1998, Germany
Santitos - dir. Alejandro Springall, 1999, Mexico
Saturn - dir. Robert Schmidt, 1999, USA
Say You’ll Be Mine - dir. Brad Kane, 1998, USA
See the Sea - dir. Francois Ozon, 1997, France
Sekal Must Die - dir. Vladimir Michalek, 1998, Czech Republic/Poland/France
Senso Unico (One Way) - dir. Aditya Basu Bhattacharya, 1999, Italy/India/Great Britain
Shadow Boxers - dir. Katya Bankowsky, 1999, USA
Shores of Twilight - dir. Efthimios Hatzis, 1998, Greece
Show Me Love - dir. Lukas Moodysson, 1998, Sweden
Side Streets - dir. Tony Gerber, 1998, USA
Sitcom - dir. François Ozon, 1998, France
Some Like it Hot - dir. Billy Wilder, 1959, USA
Speak to Me Sisters - dir. Maj Wechselmann, 1999, Sweden/South Africa
Speaking in Strings - dir. Paola Di Florio, 1999, USA
Speedway Junky - dir. Nickolas Perry, 1999, USA/Israel
Speedy Boys - dir. James Herbert, 1999, USA
Star Sisters - dir. Tobias Falk, 1999, Sweden
Such A Long Journey - dir. Sturla Gunnarsson, 1998, Canada/Great Britain
Sweet Thing - dir. Mark David, 1999, USA
Sweety Barrett - dir. Stephen Bradley, 1998, Ireland
TAMARO: Stones and Angels. Mario Botta and Enzo - dir. Villi Hermann, 1998, Switzerland
The Terrorist - dir. Santosh Sivan, 1997, India
The Adventures of Sebastian Cole - dir. Tod Williams, 1998, USA
The Assault - dir. Fons Rademakers, 1986, The Netherlands
The Basket - dir. Rich Cowan, 1999, USA
The Bed - dir. Oskar Reif, 1998, Czech Republic
The Big Swap - dir. Niall Johnson, 1998, Great Britain
The Book of Stars - dir. Michael Miner, 1999, USA
The Castle - dir. Rob Sitch, 1997, Australia
The Children of Chabannes - dir. Lisa Gossels, Dean Wetherell, 1999, USA
The Dinner Game - dir. Francis Veber, 1998, France
The Element of Crime - dir. Lars von Trier, 1984, Denmark
The Hole - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1998, Taiwan/France
The Hole - dir. Jacques Becker, 1960, France
The Interview - dir. Craig Monahan, 1998, Australia
The Last Best Sunday - dir. Don Most, 1999, USA
The Last Contract - dir. Kjell Sundvall, 1998, Sweden
The Lifestyle - dir. David Schisgall, 1999, USA
The Little Girl Who Fell From a Tree - dir. Michael Bartlett, 1997, Germany
The Living Museum - dir. Jessica Yu, 1998, USA
The Loss of Sexual Innocence - dir. Mike Figgis, 1999, USA
The Lovers of the Arctic Circle - dir. Julio Medem, 1998, Spain
The Man Who Drove With Mandela - dir. Greta Schiller, 1998, Great Britain/USA/Belgium/The Netherlands
The Mao Game - dir. Joshua Miller, 1999, USA
The Passion of Ayn Rand - dir. Christopher Menaul, 1998, USA
The Power of Kangwon Province - dir. Sangsoo Hong, 1998, South Korea
The Secret Life of Girls - dir. Holly Goldberg Sloan, 1999, USA
The Swindle - dir. Claude Chabrol, 1997, France
The Third Man - dir. Carol Reed, 1949, USA
The Tichborne Claimant - dir. David Yates, 1998, Great Britain
The Wounds - dir. Srdjan Dragojevic, 1998, Yugoslavia/France
This Space Between Us - dir. Mathew Leutwyler, 1999, USA
Thundercrack - dir. Curt McDowell, 1975, USA
Titanic Town - dir. Roger Michell, 1998, Great Britain
To Walk With Lions - dir. Carl Schultz, 1998, Great Britain/South Africa
Tokyo Eyes - dir. Jean-Pierre Limosin, 1998, Japan/France
Tom’s Midnight Garden - dir. Willard Carroll, 1998, USA
Too Many Ways to Be #1 - dir. Ka-Fai Wai, 1997, Hong Kong
Train of Life - dir. Radu Milhaileanu, 1998, France/The Netherlands/Belgium/Romania
True Mob Story - dir. Jing Wong, 1999, Hong Kong
Twin Falls Idaho - dir. Michael Polish, 1999, USA
Under A Spell - dir. Carlos Carerra, 1998, Mexico
Unlucky Monkey - dir. Sabu, 1998, Japan
Vacas - dir. Julio Medem, 1991, Spain
Via Satellite - dir. Anthony McCarten, 1998, New Zealand
Welcome to Sarajevo - dir. Michael Winterbottom, 1997, Great Britain
West Beirut - dir. Zaid Doueiri, 1998, France/Lebanon
When Love Comes - dir. Garth Maxwell, 1998, New Zealand
Xiao Wu - dir. Jia Zhang Ke, 1998, China
You Can Thank Me Later - dir. Shimon Dotan, 1998, Canada
25th Anniversary Art Auction
25th Anniversary Gala - included Breakfast of Champions, The Red Violin, The Ideal Husband, To Walk With Lions, At Sachem Farm
The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day One Trade. Business. Art. Industry. Craft - included Truth With An Attitude, The First Rehearsal, A Conversation with…, Screenwriters Salon Presents…
The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day Two Is Digital Video a New Alternative? - included Get Ready to Rumble, From the Basement Up, Flashing 101 - The Art of Exhibition, Pre-Movie Soundtrack - Film Spotting
The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day Three The Art of Audience Participation - included State of the Art - Critical Mass & Independent Film, Lion King, Fly Filmmaking - Cast and Crew Screening, Fly Filmmaking - How the Film Was Done
Adrenaline Rush - included Angel of the Night, Portland Street Blues, True Mob Story, Unlucky Monkey
Archival Presentations - included The Hole, Some Like It Hot, The Third Man
CineCafe Discussions with Jennifer Steinberg - included Love At First Sight?, Under One Roof, Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled, Manage a Plot, You Lookin’ at Me?, It’s the End of the World as We Know It…, Take Mine Dark, Bad Taste, Black Humor, and More
Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 23 feature films
Drive-In Party - included Pep Squad, Can’t Stop Dancing, Final Rinse, Angel of the Night
Emerging Master–Dorota Kedzierzawska - included Nothing, Devils, Devils
Emerging Master–François Ozon - included Sitcom, Short Films from François Ozon
Emerging Master–Michael Winterbottom - included I Want You, Welcome to Sarajevo
Emerging Master–Tom Tykwer - included Run Lola Run, Deadly Maria
Erotic City - included A Glass of Rage, Naughty Bits, Speedy Boys, Thundercrack
An Evening with John Sayles Limbo
Films 4 Families - included The Basket, Grandma and Her Ghosts, Star Sisters, Tom’s Midnight Garden
Flashback Films: 25 Years of Introducing the Future - included 10 feature films
New Directors Showcase - included 13 feature films
Poster Auction: Going Once, Going Twice, Going…Online!
The Secret Festival
Shorts Program - included American Roadway, Boy’s Briefs, International Shorts, Northwest Filmmakers Showcase, Women In Cinema
Space Needle Awards
Special Benefit Screening Money Buys Happiness
Special Archival Presentation - included Battleship Potemkin, Porgy & Bess