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