Seattle International Film Festival 1985 Archive

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

SIFF staffer, practicing strong eye contact, poses at the theatre box office

SIFF staffer, practicing strong eye contact, poses at the theatre box office

SIFF staffer, practicing strong eye contact, poses at the theatre box office

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

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

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

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

A behind-the-scenes look at a SIFF scheduling board, used to arrange the lineup of the 10th Seattle International Film Festival

A behind-the-scenes look at a SIFF scheduling board, used to arrange the lineup of the 10th Seattle International Film Festival

A behind-the-scenes look at a SIFF scheduling board, used to arrange the lineup of the 10th Seattle International Film Festival

Flesh and Blood
Flesh and Blood
Twice in a Lifetime
Twice in a Lifetime
28 Up
28 Up
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kiss of the Spider Woman

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

List of Feature-Length Films

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

Special Programs & Events

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

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

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)