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Coverage of the Seattle International
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programming in the Pacific Northwest.

Kathy Fennessy is former president of Seattle Film Critics Society, a Northwest Film Forum board member, and a Tomatometer-approved critic. She writes or has written for Amazon, Minneapolis's City Pages, Resonance, Rock and Roll Globe, Seattle Sound, and The Stranger.

Member: IBEW and SAG-AFTRA.

Thursday, August 27, 2026

My Need to Possess You Has Consumed My Soul: On Eckhart Schmidt’s 1982 Der Fan

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 DER FAN / The Fan  (aka Trance) (Eckhart Schmidt, Germany, 1982, 92 minutes)  My need to possess you has consumed my soul  My life is tremb...
Saturday, August 22, 2026

A Journey into a Mysterious Past with Carla Simón's Semiautobiographical Romería

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ROMERIA / Pilgrimage  (Carla Simón, Spain, 2025, 111 minutes)  With a pack on her back and a camcorder at the ready, 18-year-old Marina (new...
Sunday, August 16, 2026

Advance to Paradise with Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Murder Mystery The Samurai and the Prisoner

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THE SAMURAI AND THE PRISONER / Kokurôjô /  黒牢城,  (Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 2026, Japan, 147 minutes)  True to its title, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's The...
Sunday, August 9, 2026

Original Maverick: James Garner, 1928-2014

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Here's the pre-obituary I wrote for Amazon's now-defunct blog Armchair Commentary in 2009. Garner would end up outliving this piece ...
Friday, July 31, 2026

Not Everybody Does It But Everybody Should: In I Want Your Sex, Gregg Araki Returns to Give the Office Comedy a BDSM Makeover

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I WANT YOUR SEX (Gregg Araki, 2026, USA, 90 minutes)  Part One: Gregg and Olivia   Sex is natural, sex is good Not everybody does it But eve...
Friday, July 24, 2026

There's a Chick Who's Paid to Be My Slave: Sex and Scams in Georgia Bernstein's Night Nurse

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NIGHT NURSE  (Georgia Bernstein, USA, 2026, 95 minutes)  And if I'm feelin' edgy  There's a chick who's paid to be my slave ...
Tuesday, July 21, 2026

All I've Got Is a Photograph: Looking Back at Lisa Cholodenko's Sad, Sultry Debut High Art

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HIGH ART  (Lisa Cholodenko, USA, 1998, 101 minutes)  Every time I see your face  It reminds me of the places we used to go  But all I've...
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