SIFF staffer, practicing strong eye contact, poses at the theatre box office
Relive the 10th 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 1985 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 9–June 10, 1985
Number of Days: 33
Venues: Cinerama Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, Market Theatre
Opening Night: Twice in a Lifetime at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: Flesh and Blood at Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: Ann-Margret, Harry Dean Stanton, Nicolas Roeg
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
SIFF staffer, practicing strong eye contact, poses at the theatre box office
Festival Founders, Darryl Macdonald and Dan Ireland, cut into SIFF's 10th Birthday cake, with a bow-tied Gary Tucker (Assistant Director) in the background
A behind-the-scenes look at a SIFF scheduling board, used to arrange the lineup of the 10th Seattle International Film Festival
28 Up - dir. Michael Apted, 1984, Great Britain
A Nos Amours (To Our Loves) - dir. Maurice Pialat, 1983, France
Acqua e Sapone - dir. Carlo Verdone, 1985, Italy
Ah Ying - dir. Allen Fong (Fong Yuk-Ping), 1983, Hong Kong
Almost You - dir. Adam Brooks, 1984, USA
Always - dir. Henry Jaglom, 1985, USA
Another Way - dir. Karoly Makk, 1982, Hungary
Bad Timing - dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1980, Great Britain
Balkan Spy - dir. Duscan Kovocevic, 1984, Yugoslavia
Banana Cop - dir. Po-Chick Leong, 1984, Hong Kong
Bastille - dir. Rudolf van den Berg, 1985, Netherlands
Becky Sharp - dir. Rouben Mamoulian, 1935, USA
Before Stonewall - dir. Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg, 1984, USA
Before the Dawn - dir. Amarnath Jayatilaka, 1981, Sri Lanka
Behind the Shutters - dir. Stig Bjorkman, 1984, Sweden
Beyond the Walls - dir. Uri Barbash, 1984, Israel
Bigger than Life - dir. Nicholas Ray, 1956, USA
Birdy - dir. Alan Parker, 1984, USA
Bittersweet - dir. Kees van Oostrum, 1984, Netherlands
Blind Husbands - dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1919, USA
Blue Money - dir. Colin Bucksey, 1984, Great Britain
The Boys Next Door - dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1985, USA
Came a Hot Friday - dir. Ian Mune, 1984, New Zealand
Canyon Consort - dir. David Vassar, 1985, USA
La Chevre - dir. Francis Veber, 1982, France
China 9/Liberty 37 - dir. Monte Hellman, 1979, United States/Italy
Ciske the Rat - dir. Guido Pieters, 1984, Netherlands
The Class of 1984 - dir. Mark Lester, 1984, USA
Claw and Tooth - dir. François Bel, Gerard Vienne, 1984, France
Colegas (Pals) - dir. Eloy de la Iglesias, 1982, Spain
The Cool Lakes of Death - dir. Nouchka van Brakel, 1983, Netherlands
The Country Girls - dir. Desmond Davis, 1983, Great Britain
Cruel Story of Youth - dir. Nagisa Oshima, 1960, Japan
Dance with a Stranger - dir. Mike Newell, 1985, Great Britain
Darlings! - dir. Ruud van Hemert, 1984, Netherlands
Death Warmed Up - dir. David Blyth, 1984, New Zealand
The Devil Probably - dir. Robert Bresson, 1977, France
The Devil’s Playground - dir. Fred Schepisi, 1976, Australia
Diary For My Children - dir. Marta Meszaros, 1982, Hungary
Don’t Look Now - dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1973, Great Britain
The Element of Crime - dir. Lars von Trier, 1984, Denmark
Empire of Passion - dir. Nagisa Oshima, 1978, Japan
Favorites of the Moon - dir. Otar Iosseliani, 1984, France/Italy
La Femme de l’Hotel - dir. Lea Pool, 1984, Canada
Five Graves to Cairo - dir. Billy Wilder, 1943, USA
Flesh and Blood - dir. Paul Verhoeven, 1985, USA
A Flight of Rainbirds - dir. Ate de Jong, 1981, Netherlands
Foolish Wives - dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1922, USA
French Can-Can - dir. Jean Renoir, 1955, France
Funny Dirty Little War - dir. Hector Olivera, 1983, Argentina
The Go Masters - dir. Junya Sato, Duan Jishun, 1982, Japan
The Golden 80’s - dir. Chantal Akerman, 1983, Belgium
Greed - dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1923, USA
Hard Traveling - dir. Dan Bessie, 1985, USA
Heartbreakers - dir. Bobby Roth, 1985, USA
A Hill on the Dark Side of the Moon - dir. Lennart Hjulstrom, 1984, Sweden
The Hit - dir. Stephen Frears, 1984, Great Britain
The Holy Innocents - dir. Mario Camus, 1984, Spain
The Home and The World - dir. Satyajit Ray, 1984, India
L’homme blessé - dir. Patrice Chereau, 1983, France
House for Swap - dir. Juan Carlos Tabío, 1984, Cuba
The Ice Cream Parlor - dir. Dimitri Frenkel Frank, 1985, Netherlands
Improper Conduct - dir. Nestor Almendros, Orlando Jimenez Leal, 1984, France
The Inheritors - dir. Walter Bannert, 1983, Austria
Insignificance - dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1985, Great Britain
Jazzman - dir. Karen Shakhnazarov, 1983, USSR
Kerouac - dir. John Antonelli, 1984, USA
Key Exchange - dir. Barnet Kellman, 1985, USA
Kiss of the Spiderwoman - dir. Hector Babenco, 1985, Brazil/USA
Ladies on the Rocks - dir. Christian Braad Thomsen, 1983, Denmark
The Lost Empire - dir. Jim Wynorski, 1984, USA
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum - dir. Margaretha von Trotta, 1975, West Germany
MacArthur’s Children - dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1984, Japan
Mademoiselle: A Portrait of Nadia Boulanger - dir. Dominique Parent-Altier, 1985, USA
The Man in the Silk Hat - dir. Maud Linder, 1983, France
A Man Like Eva - dir. Radu Gabrea, 1983, West Germany
Man Under Suspicion - dir. Norbert Kuckelman, 1984, West Germany
The Man Who Fell to Earth - dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1976, Great Britain
Man With A Suitcase - dir. Chantal Akerman, 1984, France
The Man You Loved To Hate - dir. Patrick Montgomery, 1979, USA
Maria Chapdelaine - dir. Gilles Carle, 1983, Canada
Max Havelaar - dir. Fons Rademakers, 1977, Netherlands/Indonesia
The Merry Widow - dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1925, USA
Merry-Go-Round - dir. Eric von Stroheim, 1923, USA
The Mirror - dir. Andrei Tarkovsky, 1974, USSR
Mississippi Blues - dir. Betrand Tavernier, Robert Parrish, 1984, France
Mother’s Meat and Freud’s Flesh - dir. Demetrios Estdelacropolis, 1984, Canada
Muddy River - dir. Kohei Oguri, 1981, Japan
My First Wife - dir. Paul Cox, 1984, Australia
My New Partner - dir. Claude Zidi, 1984, France
Nicaragua: No Pasaran - dir. David Bradbury, 1984, Nicaragua
Not For Publication - dir. Paul Bartel, 1984, USA
Observations Under the Volcano - dir. Christian Blackwood, 1984, USA
Oedipus Rex - dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1967, Italy
Ohan - dir. Kon Ichikawa, 1985, Japan
On The Edge - dir. Rob Nilsson, 1985, USA
One Deadly Summer - dir. Jean Becker, 1983, France
Out of Order - dir. Carl Schenkel, 1984, West Germany
Paradise Is Not For Sale - dir. Teit Ritzau, 1985, Denmark
Performance - dir. Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammell, 1970, Great Britain
The Perils of Gwendoline - dir. Just Jaeckin, 1984, France
Permanent Vacation - dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1980, USA
Petit Con - dir. Gerard Lauzier, 1984, France
The Ploughman’s Lunch - dir. Richard Eyre, 1983, Great Britain
The Pretenders - dir. Jos Stelling, 1981, Netherlands
Private Practices: The Story of a Sex Surrogate - dir. Kirby Dick, 1984, USA
Qiu Jin—A Revolutionary - dir. Xie Jin, 1983, China
Queen Kelly - dir. Erich von Stroheim, 1928, USA
Rembetiko - dir. Costas Ferris, 1983, Greece
Restless Natives - dir. Michael Hoffman, 1985, Great Britain
The River Without Buoys - dir. Wu Tianming, 1983, China
Roar - dir. Noel Marshall, 1983, USA
Scorpion - dir. Ben Verbong, 1984, Netherlands
Screamplay - dir. Rufus Butler Seder, 1984, USA
Secret Admirer - dir. David Greenwalt, 1985, USA
Secret Places - dir. Zelda Barron, 1984, Great Britain
Sex Mission - dir. Juliusz Machulski, 1984, Poland
Shivers - dir. Wojciech Marczewski, 1981, Poland
The Shooting Party - dir. Alan Bridges, 1984, Great Britain
The Silent Pioneers - dir. Lucy Winer, 1984, USA
Skyline - dir. Fernando Colomo, 1984, Spain/USA
The Snowdrop Festival - dir. Jiri Menzel, 1984, Czechoslovakia
Softly…Softly - dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1985, Italy
Tchao Pantin (So Long, Stooge) - dir. Claude Berri, 1984, France
Sonatine - dir. Micheline Lanctôt, 1984, Canada
Stepping Out - dir. Esben Hoilund Carlsen, 1981, Denmark
The Stilts - dir. Carlos Saura, 1984, Spain
Streamers - dir. Robert Altman, 1983, USA
Strikebound - dir. Richard Lowenstein, 1984, Australia
The Tables Turned - dir. Rolando Diaz, 1984, Cuba
A Test of Love - dir. Gil Brealey, 1984, Australia
That’s My Baby - dir. Edies Yolles, John Bradshaw, 1984, Canada
Tosca’s Kiss - dir. Daniel Schmid, 1984, Switzerland
The Trouble With Love - dir. Helke Sander, 1984, West Germany
Twenty Years Later - dir. Eduardo Coutinho, 1984, Brazil
Twice in a Lifetime - dir. Bud Yorkin, 1985, USA
Uforia - dir. John Binder, 1980, USA
The Unapproachable - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1982, West Germany
Untitled Movie - dir. Sam Raimi, 1985, USA
Utu - dir. Geoff Murphy, 1984, New Zealand
Voyage of the Rock Aliens - dir. James Fargo, 1985, USA
Walkabout - dir. Nicolas Roeg, 1970, Australia
White Madness - dir. Adriaan Ditvoorst, 1984, Netherlands
Who’s Singin’ Over There? - dir. Slobodan Sijan, 1983, Yugoslavia
The Wild Duck - dir. Henri Safran, 1983, Australia
Wrong World - dir. Ian Pringle, 1985, Australia
The Year of the Quiet Sun - dir. Krzysytof Zanussi, 1984, Poland
Zappa - dir. Billie August, 1983, Denmark
The Best of the Fest - included The Lost Honor of Katarina Blum, Max Havelaar, The Devil’s Playground, Empire of Passion, China 9/Liberty 37, A Flight of Rainbirds, Muddy River, Stepping Out, Streamers
An Evening with Harry Dean Stanton - included Uforia
The Films of Erich Von Stroheim - included Queen Kelly, Blind Husbands, Five Graves to Cairo, Foolish Wives, Greed, The Man You Loved to Hate, Merry-Go-Round, The Merry Widow
Foreign Film Poster Exhibition and Auction
The Golden Space Needle Awards Plus An Evening of Short Films - included 30 short films
The Secret Festival
Sheila Benson: Anatomy of a Movie - included Cutter’s Way
Spaced Out! The Cinerama 70-Millimeter Marathon - included The Right Stuff, Dune, Alien, 2001: A Space Odyssey
A Special Presentation Made Possible through Fox/Lorber-Classics Associates Joint Venture–UCLA Film Archives: Becky Sharp
A Tribute to Ann-Margret - included A Streetcar Named Desire
A Tribute to Nicolas Roeg - included Insignificance, Bad Timing, Don’t Look Now, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Performance, Walkabout
Best Film
Kiss of the Spider Woman (dir. Hector Babenco, Brazil)
Best Director
Krzysztof Zanussi (Power of Evil, Poland)
Best Actress
Rene Soutendijk (The Fourth Man)
Best Actor
William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
Best Short
Frankenweenie (dir. Tim Burton, USA)