Seattle International Film Festival 1986 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1986

Relive the 11th 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 1986 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 15–June 9, 1986
Number of Days: 26
Venues: Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Market Theatre

Opening Night: Sweet Liberty at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: The Assault at Egyptian Theatre, Sunrise at Market Theatre
Tribute: Krzysztof Zanussi, Jan de Bont


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

The Market Theatre (added as a venue in 1985) celebrates the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

The Market Theatre (added as a venue in 1985) celebrates the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

The Market Theatre (added as a venue in 1985) celebrates the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

The Market Theatre (added as a venue in 1985) celebrates the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival Founder, Dan Ireland, poses between screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi and actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, in town for their film, My Beautiful Laundrette

Festival Founder, Dan Ireland, poses between screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi and actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, in town for their film, My Beautiful Laundrette

Festival Founder, Dan Ireland, poses between screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi and actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, in town for their film, My Beautiful Laundrette

Festival Founder, Dan Ireland, poses between screenwriter, Hanif Kureishi and actor, Daniel Day-Lewis, in town for their film, My Beautiful Laundrette

SIFF Assistant Director, Gary Tucker, pictured with a film reel on stage

SIFF Assistant Director, Gary Tucker, pictured with a film reel on stage

SIFF Assistant Director, Gary Tucker, pictured with a film reel on stage

SIFF Assistant Director, Gary Tucker, pictured with a film reel on stage

Director, Fons Rademakers, in town for his film, The Assault, proudly holds his Golden Space Needle Award (awarded Best Film and Best Director)

Director, Fons Rademakers, in town for his film, The Assault, proudly holds his Golden Space Needle Award (awarded Best Film and Best Director)

Director, Fons Rademakers, in town for his film, The Assault, proudly holds his Golden Space Needle Award (awarded Best Film and Best Director)

Director, Fons Rademakers, in town for his film, The Assault, proudly holds his Golden Space Needle Award (awarded Best Film and Best Director)

Behold! A ballot box for the Golden Space Needle Awards, established just one year earlier during the 1985 fest

Behold! A ballot box for the Golden Space Needle Awards, established just one year earlier during the 1985 fest

Behold! A ballot box for the Golden Space Needle Awards, established just one year earlier during the 1985 fest

Behold! A ballot box for the Golden Space Needle Awards, established just one year earlier during the 1985 fest

Actor, Arliss Howard, in town for his film, The Lightship, which screened during the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

Actor, Arliss Howard, in town for his film, The Lightship, which screened during the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

Actor, Arliss Howard, in town for his film, The Lightship, which screened during the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

Actor, Arliss Howard, in town for his film, The Lightship, which screened during the 11th Seattle International Film Festival

Film Highlights

The Assault
The Assault
Sweet Liberty
Sweet Liberty
Come and See
Come and See
Vagabond
Vagabond
Mona Lisa
Mona Lisa

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

List of Feature-Length Films

Adela - dir. Mircea Veroiu, 1985, Romania

Ake and His World - dir. Allan Edwall, 1985, Sweden

The Red-Eye Special: 70mm All-Nighter At The Cinerama (Alien) - dir. Ridley Scott, 1979, USA (The Thing) - dir. John Carpenter, 1982, USA (Emerald Forest) - dir. John Boorman, 1985, United Kingdom (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome) - dir. George Miller, George Ogilvie, 1985, Australia

Alpine Fire - dir. Fredi M. Murer, 1985, Switzerland

Angel River - dir. Sergio Olhovich, 1986, USA/Mexico

Angry Harvest - dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1985, West Germany

Antonio Gaudí - dir. Hiroshi Teshigahara, 1985, Japan/Spain

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got - dir. Brigitte Berman, 1985, Canada

The Assault - dir. Fons Rademakers, 1986, Netherlands

The Beauty and the Beast - dir. Nils Malmros, 1983, Denmark

Belizaire the Cajun - dir. Glen Pitre, 1985, USA

Black Narcissus - dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1946, Great Britain

Bombs Away! - dir. Bruce Wilson, 1985, USA

The Boy in Blue - dir. Charles Jarrott, 1985, Canada

Burke and Wills - dir. Graeme Clifford, 1985, Australia

Camorra - dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1986, Italy

Chain Letters - dir. Mark Rappaport, 1985, USA

Chimes at Midnight (Falstaff) - dir. Orson Welles, 1966, Spain/USA/Great Britain

Come and See - dir. Elem Klimov, 1985, USSR

Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie - dir. Robert Mugge, 1983, USA

The Crazy Family - dir. Sogo Ishii, 1985, Japan

Dance Black America - dir. Chris Hegedus, D.A. Pennebaker, 1984, USA

Dark of the Night - dir. Gaylene Preston, 1985, New Zealand

Desert Bloom - dir. Eugene Corr, 1986, USA

Desert Hearts - dir. Donna Deitch, 1985, USA

Detective - dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1985, France

Diabolique - dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955, France

The Dream - dir. Pieter Verhoeff, 1985, Netherlands

Echo Park - dir. Robert Dornhelm, 1985, Austria

Edith’s Diary - dir. Hans W. Geissendoerfer, 1983, West Germany

Elena and Her Men - dir. Jean Renoir, 1956, France

Eyes of Fire - dir. Avery Crounse, 1986, USA

Femmes de Personnes - dir. Christopher Frank, 1985, France

Flight of the Spruce Goose - dir. Lech Majewski, 1986, USA

For Kayako - dir. Kohei Oguri, 1985, Japan

Fran - dir. Glenda Hamby, 1985, Australia

Frida - dir. Paul Leduc, 1985, Mexico

The Funeral - dir. Juzo Itami, 1984, Japan

The Glenn Miller Story - dir. Anthony Mann, 1954, USA

Gospel According to Al Green - dir. Robert Mugge, 1984, USA

The Great Wall is a Great Wall - dir. Peter Wang, 1986, USA/China

Growing Up With Rockets - dir. Nancy Yasecko, 1985, USA

Half Life - dir. Dennis O’Rourke, 1985, Australia

Hanging Out - dir. Marcel Gisler, 1985, West Germany

Happily Ever After - dir. Bruno Barreto, 1985, Brazil

Heimat - dir. Edgar Reitz, 1984, West Germany

Hidden Pleasures - dir. Eloy de la Iglesia, 1977, Spain

High and Low - dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963, Japan

Home of the Brave - dir. Laurie Anderson, 1986, USA

Horse - dir. Kajiro Yamamoto, 1941, Japan

The Horse of Pride - dir. Claude Chabrol, 1980, France

In the Belly of the Whale - dir. Doris Dörrie, 1984, West Germany

In the Shadow of Victory - dir. Ate de Jong, 1986, Netherlands

Joey - dir. Joseph Ellison, 1985, USA

Letter to Brezhnev - dir. Chris Bernard, 1985, Great Britain

The Lightship - dir. Jerzy Skolimowski, 1985, USA

The Lost One (Der Verlorene) - dir. Peter Lorre, 1951, Germany

Loyalties - dir. Anne Wheeler, 1986, Canada

Lulu in Berlin - dir. Richard Leacock, 1984, USA

Mala Noche - dir. Gus Van Sant, 1986, USA

Malcolm - dir. Nadia Tass, 1986, Australia

Mama is Mad! - dir. Ruud van Hemert, 1986, Netherlands

Man in Trouble - dir. Joost Ranzijn, 1985, Netherlands

A Man, When He is A Man - dir. Valeria Sarmiento, 1985, Costa Rica

Marathon Family - dir. Slobodan Sijan, 1983, Yugoslavia

Metamorphosis - dir. Ivo Dvorak, 1975, Sweden

Mixed Blood - dir. Paul Morrissey, 1985, USA

Moliere - dir. Ariane Mnouchkine, 1979, France

Mona Lisa - dir. Neil Jordan, 1986, Great Britain

My Beautiful Laundrette - dir. Stephen Frears, 1985, Great Britain

The Mystery of Alexina - dir. Rene Feret, 1985, France

The Mystery of Picasso - dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot, 1955, France

The Naked Country - dir. Tim Burstall, 1985, Australia

Next Summer - dir. Nadine Trintignant, 1985, France

No Surrender - dir. Peter Smith, 1985, Great Britain

Not All is True - dir. Orson Welles, 1942/1986, Brazil

One, Two, Three - dir. Billy Wilder, 1961, USA

One Wonderful Sunday - dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1947, Japan

Oriana - dir. Fina Torres, 1985, Venezuela/France

Orion’s Belt - dir. Ola Solum, 1985, Norway

Paar: The Crossing - dir. Goutan Ghose, 1984, India

Partisans of Vilna - dir. Josh Waltezky, 1985, USA

Patakin! - dir. Manuel Octavio Gomez, 1985, Cuba

Pervola: Tracks in the Snow - dir. Orlow Seunke, 1985, Netherlands

Population: One - dir. Rene Daalder, 1986, USA

The Power of Evil - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1985, France

Private Conversations - dir. Christian Blackwood, 1985, USA

Psycho III - dir. Anthony Perkins, 1986, USA

Quilombo - dir. Carlos Diegues, 1984, Brazil

Rate it X - dir. Lucy Winer, Paula de Koenigsberg, 1985, USA

Re-Animator - dir. Stuart Gordon, 1985, USA

The Rebel - dir. Luis Trenker, 1933, Germany

The Return of Ruben Blades - dir. Robert Mugge, 1985, USA

Revolution - dir. Hugh Hudson, 1985, Great Britain

Salvador - dir. Oliver Stone, 1986, USA

Shadey - dir. Phillip Saville, 1985, Great Britain

Shanghai Blues - dir. Tsui Hark, 1984, Hong Kong

Sheer Madness - dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1984, West Germany

Sleeping Beauty - dir. Clyde Geronomi, 1959, USA

The Smile of the Lamb - dir. Shimon Dotan, 1985, Israel

Static - dir. Mark Romanek, 1985, USA

Strangler vs. Strangler - dir. Slobodan Sijan, 1984, Yugoslavia

The Stuff - dir. Larry Cohen, 1985, USA

Sugarbaby - dir. Percy Adlon, 1985, West Germany

Sunrise - dir. F.W. Murnau, 1927, USA

Sweet Liberty - dir. Alan Alda, 1986, USA

Three Men And a Cradle - dir. Coline Serreau, 1985, France

Der Todesspringer - dir. Benno Trautmann, 1984, West Germany

The Toxic Avenger - dir. Michael Herz, Samuel Weil, 1986, USA

The Turn of the Screw - dir. Eloy de la Iglesias, 1985, Spain

Twist and Shout - dir. Bille August, 1985, Denmark

Vagabond - dir. Agnes Varda, 1985, France

Vigil - dir. Vincent Ward, 1984, New Zealand

Yellow Earth - dir. Chen Kaige, 1984, China

Yokiro - dir. Hideo Gosha, 1984, Japan

You Got to Move - dir. Lucy Massie Phenix, Veronica Selver, 1985, USA

A Zed and Two Noughts - dir. Peter Greenaway, 1985, Great Britain

Zig Zag Story - dir. Patrick Schulmann, 1980, France

Zina - dir. Ken McCullen, 1985, Great Britain

Special Programs & Events

Coming Soon to a Theater Near You

An Evening with Krzysztof Zanussi - included The Power of Evil

Foreign Film Poster Exhibition and Auction 

Golden Space Needle Awards

Heimat, presented in its entirety twice: once in a 2-day marathon showing at the Egyptian and once in a 4-part showing on weekend matinees over 3 weeks at the Market Theatre

Mugge Music Movies - included Gospel According to Al Green, The Return of Ruben Blades, Cool Runnings: The Reggae Movie 

The Red Eye Special: 70 mm All-Nighter at the Cinerama - included Alien, The Thing, Emerald Forest, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome 

A Salute to Jan de Bont

The Secret Festival 

Sleeping Beauty, presented in 70mm and 6-Track Dolby Stereo at Cinerama

They Only Come Out at Night - included Eyes of Fire, Mixed Blood, Population: One, Re-Animator, Strangler vs. Strangler, The Stuff, The Toxic Avenger, The Red Eye Special: 70 mm All-Nighter at the Cinerama 

A Tribute to the National Film Board of Canada 

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
The Assault (dir. Fons Rademakers, the Netherlands)

Best Director
Fons Rademakers (The Assault)

Best Actress
Cathy Tyson (Mona Lisa)

Best Actor
Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa)

Best Short
The Big Snit (dir. Richard Condie, USA)