Attendees of the annual film poster auction bid on the poster for 1986 film featuring David Bowie, Absolute Beginners
Relive the 14th 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 1988 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: April 28–May 22, 1988
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Egyptian Theatre, Fifth Avenue Theatre, Market Theatre
Opening Night: The Moderns at Egyptian Theatre
Closing Night: Tucker: The Man and His Dream at Egyptian Theatre
On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS
Photos
Attendees of the annual film poster auction bid on the poster for 1986 film featuring David Bowie, Absolute Beginners
Gary Graver, director and Orson Welles collaborator, shares his experiences from the stage during The Unseen Welles program
Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams, on stage during the screening of their film, Sticky Fingers
Undeterred by the Seattle rain, SIFFers stand in line at the Egyptian
Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams of Sticky Fingers, pose with director, Alan Rudolph of The Moderns, the Opening Night film
Best Film
Bagdad Café (dir. Percy Adlon, West Germany)
Best Director
Alan Rudolph (The Moderns, United States)
Best Actress
Deborrah-Lee Furness (Shame)
Best Actor
Tom Hulce (Dominick and Eugene)
Best Short
Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall (dir. Jonathon Sanger, USA)
'38 - dir. Wolfgang Gluck, 1986, Austria
The Angelic Conversation - dir. Derek Jarman, 1985, Great Britain
Around the World in 80 Ways - dir. Stephen Maclean, 1986, Australia
The Assam Garden - dir. Mary McMurray, 1985, Great Britain
Astonished - dir. Travis Preston, Jeff Kahn, 1988, United States
Baby Face - dir. Alfred E. Green, 1934, United States
Bagdad Cafe - dir. Percy Adlon, 1987, West Germany
The Bat Whispers - dir. Roland West, 1930, United States
Beatrice - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1987, France
Bellman and True - dir. Richard Loncraine, 1987, Great Britain
The Belly of an Architect - dir. Peter Greenaway, 1987, Great Britain/Italy
Ben Hur - dir. Fred Niblo, 1925, United States
The Big Parade - dir. Chen Kaige, 1985, China
Border Radio - dir. Allison Anders, Dean Lent, Kurt Voss, 1987, United States
Born to Be Bad - dir. Lowell Sherman, 1934, United States
Brain Damage - dir. Frank Henenlotter, 1988, United States
Brightness - dir. Souleymane Cissé, 1987, Mali
Broken April - dir. Liria Begeja, 1987, Albania/France
Broken Noses - dir. Bruce Weber, 1987, USA
Butterfly and Flower - dir. Euthana Mukdasanit, 1985, Thailand
Cannibal Tours - dir. Dennis O'Rourke, 1987, Australia
A Chinese Ghost Story - dir. Ching Siu-Tung, 1987, Hong Kong
Cœurs Flambés - dir. Helle Ryslinge, 1988, Denmark
Consuming Passions - dir. Giles Foster, 1988, Great Britain
Count Your Blessings - dir. Pieter Verhoeff, 1988, Netherlands
The Courier - dir. Frank Deasy, Joe Lee, 1988, Ireland
Cry of the Owl - dir. Claude Chabrol, 1987, France
Da - dir. Matt Clark, 1988, United States
Deaths in Tokimeki - dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, 1985, Japan
The Decline of Western Civilization Part II: The Metal Years - dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1988, United States
Desire - dir. Frank Borzage, 1936, United States
Diary For My Loves - dir. Marta Meszaros, 1987, Hungary
Divorce Italian Style - dir. Pietro Germi, 1961, Italy
Dominick and Eugene - dir. Robert M. Young, 1988, United States
Dragon Chow - dir. Jan Schutte, 1987, Switzerland/West Germany
The Dressmaker - dir. Jim O'Brien, 1987, Great Britain
Dudes - dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1987, United States
Epidemic - dir. Lars von Trier, 1987, Denmark
The Essence - dir. Shyam Benegal, 1987, India
Family Viewing - dir. Atom Egoyan, 1987, Canada
Los Ambiciosos (La Fièvre Monte à El Pao) - dir. Luis Buñuel, 1959, Mexico/France
Girl From Hunan - dir. Xie Fei, 1987, China
Hawaiian Rainbow - dir. Robert Mugge, 1987, United States
Home Remedy - dir. Maggie Greenwald, 1987, United States
Horse Thief - dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1986, China
A Hungry Feeling: The Life and Death of Brendan Behan - dir. Allan Miller, 1987, United States
I Don’t Give a Damn - dir. Shmuel Imberman, 1987, Israel
I Hate Actors - dir. Gerard Krawczyk, 1986, France
Iguana - dir. Monte Hellman, 1988, United States
It Happened One Night - dir. Frank Capra, 1934, United States
It’s Alive III: Island of the Alive - dir. Larry Cohen, 1987, United States
A Killing Affair - dir. David Saperstein, 1987, United States
A Kiss Before the Mirror - dir. James Whale, 1932, United States
The Kitchen Toto - dir. Harry Hook, 1987, Great Britain
Life is a Dream - dir. Raul Ruiz, 1986, France
The Lighthorsemen - dir. Simon Wincer, 1987, Australia
Lonely Woman Seeks Lifetime Companion - dir. Vyacheslav Krishtofovich, 1987, U.S.S.R.
Long Live the Lady! - dir. Ermanno Olmi, 1987, Italy
Loose Connections - dir. Richard Eyre, 1984, Great Britain
Loose Ends - dir. David Burton Morris, 1975, United States
Made In Argentina - dir. Juan José Jusid, 1987, Argentina
Maine-Océan Express - dir. Jacques Rozier, 1986, France
Mandala - dir. Im Kwon-taek, 1981, South Korea
Max Mon Amour - dir. Nagisa Oshima, 1986, France
The Method - dir. Joseph Destein, 1987, United States
Midnight Crossing - dir. Roger Holzberg, 1988, United States
The Moderns - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1988, United States
My Life for Zarah Leander - dir. Christian Blackwood, 1985, United States
Ngati - dir. Barry Barclay, 1987, New Zealand
The Night Is Young - dir. Leos Carax, 1986, France
Night Nurse - dir. William Wellman, 1931, United States
Night Zoo (Un Zoo, La Nuit) - dir. Jean-Claude Lauzon, 1987, Canada
On the Brink: An A.I.D.S. Chronicle - dir. Gregory Colbert, 1988, France /United States
One Hour With You - dir. Ernst Lubitsch, assisted by George Cukor, 1932, United States
One Month Later - dir. Nouchka van Brakel, 1987, Netherlands
Ophelia Comes To Town - dir. Jon Bang Carlsen, 1987, Denmark
Our Sweet Days of Youth - dir. Bae Chang-Ho, 1987, South Korea
Peking Opera Blues - dir. Tsui Hark, 1987, Hong Kong
The Place at the Coast - dir. George Ogilvie, 1987, Australia
Playing Away - dir. Horace Ové, 1986, Great Britain
The Possessed - dir. Andrzej Wajda, 1988, France
Powaqqatsi - dir. Godfrey Reggio, 1988, United States
The Pursuit of Happiness - dir. Martha Ansara, 1987, Australia
A Quiet Happiness - dir. Dusan Hanak, 1985, Czechoslovakia
Rachel River - dir. Sandy Smolan, 1987, United States
The Realm of Fortune - dir. Arturo Ripstein, 1986, Mexico
Salome’s Last Dance - dir. Ken Russell, 1988, Great Britain
Same To You - dir. Anja Franke, Dani Levy, Helmut Berger, 1986, West Germany
Saturday Night at the Palace - dir. Robert Davies, 1987, South Africa
Scarecrow - dir. Rolan Rykov, 1983, U.S.S.R.
The Sea and Poison - dir. Kei Kumai, 1987, Japan
Second Wind - dir. Gerrard Verhage, 1985, Netherlands
Shame - dir. Steve Jodrell, 1988, Australia
Signed, Lino Brocka - dir. Christian Blackwood, 1987, United States
Silence at Bethany - dir. Joel Oliansky, 1987, United States
Singing the Blues in Red - dir. Ken Loach, 1986, Great Britain/West Germany
South of Reno - dir. Mark Rezyka, 1987, United States
Souvenir - dir. Geoffrey Reeve, 1987, Great Britain
Spices - dir. Ketan Mehta, 1986, India
Sticky Fingers - dir. Catlin Adams, 1988, United States
Stormy Monday - dir. Mike Figgis, 1988, Great Britain
The Story of Temple Drake - dir. Stephen Roberts, 1933, United States
Suburban Angels - dir. Carlos Reichenbach, 1987, Brazil
Subway to the Stars - dir. Carlos Diegues, 1987, Brazil
Summer Nights on the Planet Earth - dir. Gunnel Lindblom; based on a play by Agneta Pleijel, 1987, Sweden
Surrogate Mother - dir. Im Kwon-t’aek, 1987, South Korea
The Tale of Ruby Rose - dir. Roger Scholes, 1987, Australia
A Taxing Woman - dir. Juzo Itami, 1987, Japan
The Terrorizer - dir. Edward Yang, 1986, Taiwan
Three Strange Loves - dir. Ingmar Bergman, 1949, Sweden
Time Out - dir. Jon Bang Carlsen, 1988, Denmark
To Sleep So As To Dream - dir. Kaizo Hayashi, 1986, Japan
Tucker - dir. Francis Ford Coppola, 1988, United States
Two Moon Junction - dir. Zalman King, 1988, United States
Under the World - dir. Beda Docamp Feijoo and Juan Bautista Stagnaro, 1987, Argentina
The Unseen Welles (The Filming of Othello) - dir. Orson Welles, 1978, West Germany (Othello) - dir. Orson Welles, 1952, Italy/Morocco (The Fountain of Youth) - dir. Orson Welles, 1957, USA
Vincent: The Life and Death of Vincent Van Gogh - dir. Paul Cox, 1987, Australia
Where The Heart Roams - dir. George Paul Csicery, 1987, United States
White Mischief - dir. Michael Radford, 1987, Great Britain
White of the Eye - dir. Donald Cammell, 1987, Great Britain
Who Killed Vincent Chin? - dir. Christine Choy, Renee Tajima, 1988, United States
Whoops Apocalypse - dir. Tom Bussmann, 1986, Great Britain
Window Shopping - dir. Chantal Akerman, 1986, Belgium/France/Switzerland
Wings of Desire - dir. Wim Wenders, 1987, West Germany
Wives Under Suspicion - dir. James Whale, 1938, United States
A Woman's Pale Blue Handwriting - dir. Axel Corti, 1984, Austria
Yellow Earth - dir. Chen Kaige, 1984, China
Zelly and Me - dir. Tina Rathborne, 1988, United States
The All-Nighter: Cinemascope - included The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly, The Parallax View, It’s Always Fair Weather, The Hidden Fortress
The Best of the Hawaii International Film Festival - included Yellow Earth, Spices, Mandala, Our Sweet Days of Youth, Butterfly and Flower
Censorship - included Baby Face, Born to Be Bad, A Kiss Before the Mirror, Wives Under Suspicion, The Story of Temple Drake, Night Nurse, Desire
Coping with the Production Code: William K. Everson Presents Hollywood in the Age of
Film Poster Exhibition and Auction
Golden Space Needle Awards
Peter Greenaway: The Early Works
The Seattle International Film Festival Salutes the Seattle Foundation For the Motion Picture Arts: It Happened One Night at the Fifth Avenue Theatre
The Secret Festival
Seminar–From Script to Screen - panelists included Stewart Stern, Monte Hellman, Alan Rudolph, Robert M. Young, David Blocker, Jeff Dowd, Dan Ireland
The Unseen Welles - included The Filming of Othello, Othello, The Fountain of Youth