Seattle International Film Festival 1988 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1988

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


FESTIVAL CATALOG

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

Attendees of the annual film poster auction bid on the poster for 1986 film featuring David Bowie, Absolute Beginners

Attendees of the annual film poster auction bid on the poster for 1986 film featuring David Bowie, Absolute Beginners

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

Gary Graver, director and Orson Welles collaborator, shares his experiences from the stage during The Unseen Welles program

Gary Graver, director and Orson Welles collaborator, shares his experiences from the stage during The Unseen Welles program

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

Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams, on stage during the screening of their film, Sticky Fingers

Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams, on stage during the screening of their film, Sticky Fingers

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

Undeterred by the Seattle rain, SIFFers stand in line at the Egyptian

Undeterred by the Seattle rain, SIFFers stand in line at the Egyptian

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

Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams of Sticky Fingers, pose with director, Alan Rudolph of The Moderns, the Opening Night film

Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams of Sticky Fingers, pose with director, Alan Rudolph of The Moderns, the Opening Night film

Writer, Melanie Mayron, and writer and director, Catlin Adams of Sticky Fingers, pose with director, Alan Rudolph of The Moderns, the Opening Night film

Tucker
Tucker
The Moderns
The Moderns
Wings of Desire
Wings of Desire
Bagdad Cafe
Bagdad Cafe

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

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)

List of Feature-Length Films

'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

Special Programs & Events

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