Seattle International Film Festival 1987 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1987

Relive the 12th 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 1987 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 14–June 8, 1987
Number of Days: 26
Venues: Egyptian Theatre, Market Theatre, Paramount Theatre

Opening Night: La Bamba at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: Good Morning, Babylon at Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: Dennis Hopper


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Guests of the 3-D Movie Marathon with a midnight start time, pose with their pillows outside the theatre

Guests of the 3-D Movie Marathon with a midnight start time, pose with their pillows outside the theatre

Guests of the 3-D Movie Marathon with a midnight start time, pose with their pillows outside the theatre

Guests of the 3-D Movie Marathon with a midnight start time, pose with their pillows outside the theatre

SIFF projectionist explains his process as the reels spin

SIFF projectionist explains his process as the reels spin

SIFF projectionist explains his process as the reels spin

SIFF projectionist explains his process as the reels spin

SIFF staff, including an arms-extended Craig Cappucino, celebrate the 12th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF staff, including an arms-extended Craig Cappucino, celebrate the 12th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF staff, including an arms-extended Craig Cappucino, celebrate the 12th Seattle International Film Festival

SIFF staff, including an arms-extended Craig Cappucino, celebrate the 12th Seattle International Film Festival

Tribute guest, actor and director, Dennis Hopper, answers questions from festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Tribute guest, actor and director, Dennis Hopper, answers questions from festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Tribute guest, actor and director, Dennis Hopper, answers questions from festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Tribute guest, actor and director, Dennis Hopper, answers questions from festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Good Morning, Babylon
Good Morning, Babylon
La Bamba
La Bamba
Evil Dead 2
Evil Dead 2
My Life As A Dog
My Life As A Dog
Tampopo
Tampopo

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

List of Feature-Length Films

Abel - dir. Alex van Warmerdam, 1986, Netherlands

Almacita di Desolato - dir. Felix de Rooy, 1986, Netherlands

Amazing Grace and Chuck - dir. Mike Newell, 1987, USA

Anne Trister - dir. Lea Pool, 1986, Canada

Arriving Tuesday - dir. Richard Riddiford, 1986, New Zealand

Backyard - dir. Ross McElwee, 1984, USA

Berliners on Sunday - dir. Dieter Koster, Hannalore Conradsen, 1986, Germany

Black & White (Blanc et Noir) - dir. Claire Devers, 1986, France

Black Lizard - dir. Kinji Fukasaku, 1968, Japan

Blood Diner - dir. Jackie Kong, 1987, USA

Boy Meets Girl - dir. Leos Carax, 1985, France

Castaway - dir. Nicolas Roeg,1986, Great Britain

Charleen - dir. Ross McElwee, 1978, USA

Chile: Hasta Cuando? - dir. David Bradbury, 1986, Australia

Chinatown - dir. Roman Polanski, 1974, USA

A Chronicle of Amorous Accidents - dir. Abdrzej Wajda, 1985, Poland

Chuck Solomon: Coming Of Age - dir. Marci Huestis, 1986, USA

Comic Magazine - dir. Yojiro Takita, 1986, Japan

Coming Up Roses - dir. Stephen Bayly, 1986, Great Britain

A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera - dir. Michael Blackwood, 1986, USA

Dark Hideout - dir. Pedro Almovodar, 1982, Spain

Dead End Drive-In - dir. Brian Trenchard-Smith, 1986, Australia

Devil In the Flesh - dir. Marco Bellocchio, 1986, Italy

Diary Of A Mad Old Man - dir. Lili Rademakers, 1986, Belgium

Directed By William Wyler - dir. Aviva Slesin, 1986, USA

Dolls - dir. Stuart Gordon, 1986, USA

Double Indemnity - dir. Billy Wilder, 1944, USA

The Dream Makers - dir. Robbe de Hert, 1984, Belgium/Netherlands

Duck Soup - dir. Leo McCarey, 1933, USA

Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn - dir. Sam Raimi, 1987, USA

The Farewell - dir. Elem Klimov, 1983, USSR

Flodders - dir. Dick Maas, 1986, Netherlands

Forget Mozart - dir. Slavo Luther, 1986, Germany

From Beyond - dir. Stuart Gordon, 1986, USA

Genesis - dir. Mrinal Sen, 1986, India/France/Belgium/Switzerland

German Dreams - dir. Lienhard Wawrzyn, 1986, Germany

God Doesn’t Believe In Us Anymore - dir. Axel Corti, 1981, Austria

Gone To Earth - dir. Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, 1950, Great Britain

Gonza the Spearman - dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1986, Japan

Good Morning, Babylon - dir. Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, 1987, USA/Italy

Gothic - dir. Ken Russell, 1986, Great Britain

The Great Generation - dir. Ferenc Andras, 1986, Hungary

Happy New Year 1949 - dir. Stole Popov, 1986, Yugoslavia

Hard Asphalt - dir. Solve Skage, based on the autobiography by Ida Halvorsen with Liv Finstad, Cecilie Hoigard,1986, Norway

Hey Babu Riba - dir. Jovan Acin, 1986, Yugoslavia

High Season - dir. Clare Peploe, 1987, Great Britain

Hour Of The Star - dir. Suzana Amaral, 1985, Brazil

How I Was Systematically Destroyed By The Idiot - dir. Slobodan Sijan, 1983, Yugoslavia

I Lived, But... - dir. Kazuo Inoue, 1986, Japan

I Played It For you - dir. Ronee Blakely, 1985, USA

Identification Of A Woman - dir. Michelangelo Antonioni, 1982, Italy

Impure Thoughts - dir. Michael A. Simpson, 1986, USA

Inside Out - dir. Robert Taicher, 1987, USA

Iris - dir. Mady Saks, 1986, Netherlands

It - dir. Clarence Badger, 1927, USA

Jean de Florette - dir. Claude Berri, 1986, France

John’s Secret - dir. Ake Sandgren, 1985, Denmark

The Journey (Die Reise) - dir. Markus Imhoof, 1986, Germany/Switzerland

Journey Of A Young Composer - dir. Georgi Shengelaya, 1986, USSR

Karayuki-san: The Making Of A Prostitute - dir. Shohei Imamura, 1975, Japan

Kindergarten - dir. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 1985, USSR

A King and His Movie - dir. Carlos Sorin, 1986, Argentina

L’Effrontée - dir. Claude Miller, 1985, France

La Bamba - dir. Luis Valdez, 1987, USA

Laputa - dir. Helma Sanders-Brahms, 1986, Germany

The Last Movie - dir. Dennis Hopper, 1971, USA

Let’s Hope It’s A Girl - dir. Mario Monicelli, 1986, Italy/France

Mabou Mines’ Dead End Kids: A Story of Nuclear Power - dir. JoAnne Akalaitis, 1988, USA

Macario - dir. Roberto Gavaldon, 1960, Mexico

Magnificent Lover - dir. Aline Issermann, 1986, France

Malabrigo - dir. Alberto Durant, 1986, Peru

Man Facing Southeast - dir. Eliseo Subiela, 1986, Argentina

Meier - dir. Peter Timm, 1986, Germany

Midnight - dir. Mitchell Leisen, 1939, USA

Miss Mary - dir. Maria Luisa Bemberg, 1986, Argentina

Miss or Myth? - dir. Geoffrey Dunn, Mark Schwartz, 1986, USA

The More Things Change - dir. Robyn Nevin, 1986, Australia

Morocco - dir. Josef von Sternberg, 1930, USA

My Life As A Dog - dir. Lasse Hallstrom, 1985, Sweden

My Little Girl - dir. Connie Kaiserman, 1986, USA

My Mother’s Lovers - dir. Radoslow Piwowarski, 1986, Poland

Nanou - dir. Conny Templeman, 1986, Great Britain /France

No End - dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1985, Poland

No Man’s Land - dir. Alain Tanner, 1985, Switzerland/France

Odd Birds - dir. Jeanne Collachia, 1986, USA

One More Spring - dir. Henry King, 1935, USA

Oscar Wilde: Spendthrift of Genius - dir. Sean O Mordha, 1986, Ireland

Other Halves - dir. John Laing, 1984, New Zealand

The Palm Beach Story - dir. Preston Sturges, 1942, USA

Paradise - dir. Doris Dorrie, 1986, Germany

Paso Doble - dir. Dan Pita, 1985, Romania

People on Sunday - dir. Robert Siodmak, Fred Zinnemann, Edgar G. Ulmer, 1927, Germany

The Perfect Match - dir. Mark Deimel, 1987, USA

Personal Foul - dir. Ted Lichtenhaeld, 1987, USA

Personal Services - dir. Terry Jones, 1986, Great Britain

The Pied Piper - dir. Jiri Barta, 1986, Czechoslovakia

Ping Pong - dir. Po Chih Leong, 1986, Great Britain

The Plainsman - dir. Cecil B. DeMille, 1936, USA

The Poet’s SIlence - dir. Peter Lilienthal, 1986, Germany

The Pointsman - dir. Jos Stelling, 1986, Netherlands

Poor Butterfly - dir. Raul de la Torre, 1986, Argentina

Pouvoir Intim - dir. Yves Simoneau, 1986, Canada

Prick Up Your Ears - dir. Stephen Frears, 1987, Great Britain

Rendez-vous - dir. Andre Techiné ,1985, France

Retribution - dir. Guy Magar, 1986, USA

Ricochets - dir. Eli Coen, 1986, Israel

The Right Hand Man - dir. Di Drew, 1986, Australia

The Riverbed - dir. Rachel Reichman, 1986, USA/Netherlands

Rosa Luxemburg - dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1986, Germany

The Ruins - dir. Mrinal Sen, based on the novel by Premendra Mitra, 1984, India

Sadie Thompson (1928) - dir. Raoul Walsh, 1928/1986, USA

Santa Fe - dir. Axel Corti, 1985, Austria

Saxophone Colossus - dir. Robert Mugge, 1986, USA

Secrets, Secrets - dir. Guiseppe Bertolucci, 1985, Italy

She Done Him Wrong - dir. Lowell Sherman, 1933, USA

Slate, Wyn & Me - dir. Don McLennan, 1987, Australia

Sorekara - dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, 1986, Japan

South Bank Show: Michael Powell - dir. David Hinton, 1986, Great Britain

Straight to Hell - dir. Alex Cox, 1987, USA

Street Trash - dir. Jim Muro, 1987, USA

Summer Night - dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1986, Italy

Sunset Boulevard - dir. Billy Wilder, 1950, USA

Tampopo - dir. Juzo Itami, 1986, Japan

Time - dir. Peter Gothar, 1986, Hungary

The Time to Live and the Time to Die - dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1985, Taiwan

Trancers - dir. Charles Band, 1982, USA

Trouble In Paradise - dir. Ernst Lubitsch, 1932

Trouble With Dick - dir. Gary Walkow, 1986, USA

A Turn Of The Screw - dir. Eloy de la Iglesia, 1985, Spain

The Unknown Soldier - dir. Rauni Mollerg, 1985, Finland

Va Banque - dir. Diethard Kuster, 1986, German

A Walk On The Moon - dir. Raphael Silver, 1986, USA

Weapons Of The Spirit - dir. Pierre Sauvage, 1986, USA

Welcome In Vienna - dir. Axel Corti, 1986, Austria

Wild Mountains - dir. Yan Xueshu, 1985, China

Wings - dir. William Wellman, 1927, USA

The Wolf At The Door - dir. Henning Carlsen, 1986, Denmark/France

A Woman Alone - dir. Agnieszka Holland, 1981, Poland

A Woman From The Provinces - dir. Andrzej Baranski, based on the novel by Waldemar Sieminski, 1984, Poland

Special Programs & Events

3-D x 4 Marathon - included House of Wax, Dial M for Murder, Andy Warhol’s Frankenstein, Fantastic Invasion of Planet Earth

Austrian Trilogy - included God Doesn’t Believe In Us Anymore, Santa Fe, Welcome In Vienna

In CinemaScope with Leonard Maltin

Foreign Film Poster Exhibition and Auction

German Dreams…Berlin Blues - included German Dreams, The Journey (Die Reise), Laputa, Meier, People on Sunday, Berliners on Sunday, The Poet’s Silence, La Banque

Golden Space Needle Awards 

Salute To Paramount Pictures: 57 years - included Chinatown, Double Indemnity, Duck Soup, It, Midnight, Morocco, The Palm Beach Story, The Plainsman, She Done Him Wrong, Sunset Boulevard, Trouble In Paradise, Joseph (Joe) Vigil 

A Tribute to Dennis Hopper - included The Last Movie

Wings, Special Presentation by the American Theatre Organ Society 

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
My Life As A Dog (dir. Lasse Hallstrom, Sweden)

Best Director
Lasse Hallstrom (My Life as a Dog, Sweden)

Best Actress
Monique Van de Ven (Iris)

Best Actor
Gary Oldman (Prick Up Your Ears)

Best Short
Your Face (dir. Bill Plimpton, USA)