Actress, Deborra-Lee Furness, in town for her film, Waiting, poses with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
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Relive the 18th 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 1992 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 14–June 7, 1992
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Broadway Market Cinemas, Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, Factoria Cinema, Harvard Exit Theatre, IMAX, King Cinedome, Metro Cinema, Neptune Theatre, Paramount Theatre
Opening Night: Le Bal Des Casse-Pieds at the Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Equinox at King Cinedome
Tribute: Robert Wise
Photos
Actress, Deborra-Lee Furness, in town for her film, Waiting, poses with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
Actress, Maribel Verdú, and producer, Pedro Costa, discuss their film, Lovers
Tribute guest, director, Robert Wise, discusses his films with festival founder, Dan Ireland
FOURTH ROW: Nancy Kennedy, Sandy Gow, Jim Gibbs THIRD ROW: Helen du Toit, Nick Vroman, Suzie Walls, Ted Fry SECOND ROW: John Teegarden, Amy Bradburd, Deborah Binderman FIRST ROW: Jon Pray, Ruth Hayler, Darryl Macdonald, Deena Juris, Jayne Craig, Annie Wilson
Actor, Tom Skerritt, graced the SIFF stage at the 18th Seattle International Film Festival as part of the New Directors Showcase
SIFFer views the calendar of events of the 18th Seattle International Film Festival from a display window at the Neptune Theatre
Best Film
IP5: L'île aux pachydermes (dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, France)
Best Director
Jean-Jacques Beineix (IP5: L'île aux pachydermes, France)
Best Actress
Marianne Sagebrecht (Martha and I)
Best Actor
Dermot Mulroney (Where the Day Takes You)
Best Short
Anima Mundi (dir. Godfrey Reggio, USA)
Best Documentary
A Brief History of Time (dir. Errol Morris, USA)
Above the Mountains - dir. Digna Sinke, 1992, Netherlands
Adam’s Rib - dir. Viatcheslav Krichtofovitch, 1991, Russia
The Adjuster - dir. Atom Egoyan, 1991, Canada
Adorable Lies - dir. Gerardo Chijona, 1991, Cuba
Alberto Express - dir. Arthur Joffé, 1990, France
American Orpheus - dir. Rick Schmidt, 1992, USA
The Bachelor - dir. Roberto Faenza, 1991, Italy
Because You Are a Woman - dir. Kim Yu-Jin, 1990, South Korea
Betty Blue L’Integral - dir. Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1986/91, France
The Bewildered King - dir. Imanol Uribe, 1991, Spain
Bix - dir. Pupi Avati, 1991, Italy
Black Harvest - dir. Robin Anderson, Bob Connolly, 1991, Australia
The Body Snatcher - dir. Robert Wise, 1945, USA
Boiling Point - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1991, Japan
A Brief History of Time - dir. Errol Morris, 1992, Great Britain
A Brighter Summer Day - dir. Edward Yang, 1991, Taiwan
Brothers - dir. Bakhtiyar Khudoynazarov, 1991, Tajikistan
Brother’s Keeper - dir. Joe Berlinger, Bruce Sinofsky, 1992, USA
Butterfly Wings - dir. Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1991, Spain
Cairo Station - dir. Youssef Chahine, 1958, Egypt
The Case of the Witch Who Wasn’t - dir. Jean Beaudry, 1990, Canada
Children of Nature - dir. Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, 1991, Iceland
Cloud - dir. Ana Luisa Guimarães, 1991, Portugal
Cloud-Paradise - dir. Nikolai Dostal, 1991, Russia
Confessing to Laura - dir. Jaime Osorio Gomez, 1991, Colombia/Cuba/Spain
The Creation - dir. Im Kwon-Taek, 1991, South Korea
Creatures of the Seasons - Japan
Cup Final - dir. Eran Riklis, 1991, Israel
Daddy and the Muscle Academy - dir. Ilppo Pohjola, 1991, Finland
Danzon - dir. Maria Novaro, 1991, Mexico
Days of Being Wild - dir. Wong Kar-Wai, 1991, Hong Kong
Days of Man - dir. Yevgeny Paskevich, 1989/1992, Latvia
The Day the Earth Stood Still - dir. Robert Wise, 1951, USA
Deadly Currents - dir. Simcha Jacobovici, 1991, Canada
The Directors Place - dir. John Boorman, Nagisa Oshima, 1991, Great Britain
Dreaming Filipinos - dir. Manny Reyes, 1990, Philippines
A Dream in the Abyss - dir. Oscal Lucien, 1991, Venezuela
Eight Ball - dir. Ray Argall, 1992, Australia
The Elementary School - dir. Jan Sverak, 1991, Czechoslovakia
Enchanted April - dir. Mike Newell, 1991, Great Britain
The End of the Golden Weather - dir. Ian Mune, 1991, New Zealand
The Enquirers - dir. Rick Barnes, 1992, USA
Equinox - dir. Alan Rudolph, 1992, USA
Events Leading Up to My Death - dir. Bill Robertson, 1991, Canada
The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish - dir. Ben Lewin, 1991, Great Britain/France
Fire - dir. Adamo Drabo, 1991, Mali
Fire and Snow - dir. Claude Pinoteau, 1992, France
Five Girls and a Rope - dir. Yeh Hung-wei, 1991, Taiwan/Hong Kong
Flirting - dir. John Duigan, 1990, Australia
Galaxies are Colliding - dir. John Ryman, 1992, USA
Gas, Food, and Lodging - dir. Allison Anders, 1992, USA
Get Thee Out! - dir. Dmitri Astrakhan, 1991, Russia
Goodbye, Boys - dir. Mikhail Kalik, 1966, Russia
The Gulf War... And After - dir. Borhane Alouie, Nouri Bouzid, Mostfa Darkaoui, Neija Ben Mabrouk, Elia Souleiman, 1991, Tunisia
The Hairdresser’s Husband - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1990, France
Happy Birthday! - dir. Doris Dorrie, 1992, Germany
The Haunting - dir. Robert Wise, 1963, USA
Highway Patrolman - dir. Alex Cox, 1992, Mexico
Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me - dir. Joel Hirshman, 1992, USA
Homework - dir. Jaime Humberto Hermosillo, 1991, Mexico
The Hours and the Times - dir. Christopher Munch, 1991, USA
The Iceman Cometh - dir. Fok Yiu-leung, 1989, Hong Kong
Identification Of Desire / Lord Of Flies - dir. Tolib Khamidov, Vladimir Tyulkin, 1991, Tajikistan/Kazakhstan
Inside Monkey Zetterland - dir. Jefery Levy, 1992, USA
In the Alleys of Love - dir. Khosro Sinaie, 1991, Iran
In the Shadows of the Stars - dir. Irving Saraf, Allie Light, 1991, USA
I Was on Mars - dir. Dani Levy, 1991, Germany
Jericho - dir. Luis Alberto Lamata, 1991, Venezuela
John Lurie and the Lounge Lizards Live in Berlin 1991 - dir. Garret Linn, 1992, USA
Johnny Suede - dir. Tom DiCillo, 1991, USA
La Discrète - dir. Christian Vincent, 1990, France
Le Bal Des Casse-Pieds - dir. Yves Robert, 1992, France
The Legend of a Mask - dir. José Buil, 1990, Mexico
L’Elegant Criminel - dir. Francis Girod, 1990, France
Lessons in Darkness - dir. Werner Herzog, 1992, Germany
The Living End - dir. Gregg Araki, 1992, USA
Love on a Slice of Bread - dir. Garin Nugroho, 1991, Indonesia
Lovers - dir. Vicente Aranda , 1991, Spain
The Lunatic - dir. Lol Creme, 1991, Jamaica
Mad at the Moon - dir. Martin Donovan, 1992, USA
Mama - dir. Zhang Yuan, 1990, China
Martha And I - dir. Jiri Weiss, 1990, Germany/France
Mississippi One - dir. Sarah Moon, 1991, France
Monster in a Box - dir. Nick Broomfield, 1991, USA
Montreal Sextet - dir. Denys Arcand, Michel Brault, Atom Egoyan, Jaques Leduc, Léa Pool, Patricia Rozema, 1991, Canada
Moonrise - dir. David Blyth, 1992, New Zealand
My New Gun - dir. Stacy Cochran, 1992, USA
Naked Making Lunch - dir. Chris Rodley, 1992, Great Britain
Night On Earth - dir. Jim Jarmusch, 1991, USA
Noah’s Ark - dir. Michael Curtiz, 1929, USA
North of Pittsburgh - dir. Richard Martin, 1992, Canada
Not Mozart - dir. Peter Greenaway, Jeremy Newson, Pat Gavin, Barrie Gavin, Margaret Williams, Anthony Garner, Ernst Granits, 1991, Great Britain
Once Upon a Time in China - dir. Tsui Hark, 1991, Hong Kong
On Earth as in Heaven - dir. Marion Hansel, 1992, Belgium
One Full Moon - dir. Endaf Emlyn, 1991, Great Britain
Paris Awakens - dir. Olivier Assayas, 1992, France
Path of the Brave - dir. Euthana Mukdasanit, 1991, Thailand
Peter Pan - dir. Herbert Brenon, 1924, USA
A Question of Attribution - dir. John Schlesinger, 1991, Great Britain
Rampage - dir. William Friedkin, 1991, USA
Reach for the Sky - dir. Elisabeta Bostan, 1991, Romania/Canada
The Red American - dir. Alessandro D’Alatri, 1991, Italy
Revenge of Billy the Kid - dir. Jim Groom, 1991, Great Britain
Riff-Raff - dir. Ken Loach, 1991, Great Britain
The Road to the Racetrack - dir. Jang Sun-Woo, 1991, South Korea
Rocco and His Brothers - dir. Luchino Visconti, 1960, Italy
Roy Rogers, King of the Cowboys - dir. Thys Ockersen, 1991, Netherlands
Samantha - dir. Stephen Larocque, 1991, USA
A Scene by the Sea - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1991, Japan
The Scorpion’s Garden - dir. Oleg Kovalov, 1991, Russia
The Secret Face - dir. Omer Kavur, 1990, Turkey
Secrets - dir. Michael Pattinson, 1991, Australia/New Zealand
The Set-Up - dir. Robert Wise, 1949, USA
Sex and Zen - dir. Michael Mak, 1991, Hong Kong
Shadow on the Snow - dir. Attila Janish, 1991, Hungary
Skinless Night - dir. Rokuro Mochizuki, 1991, Japan
Somebody Up There Likes Me - dir. Robert Wise, 1956, USA
South - dir. Le Trac, Tian Zhuang Zhuang, Jean Marie Teno, Antonio Cecilio Neto, Andres Augusti Gomez, Yang Shu, Ruchir Josh, Nejia Ben Marouk, Pablo Lanvin, Pablo Basulto, Dolly Pussi, Nimal and Ranjani Mendis, Manjira Datta, Licino Azevedo, Bassek Ba Kobhio, Karen Martinez, Balufu Bakupa-Kanyinda, Felix Zurita, Andres Agusti, Nighat Said Khan, Jugnu Ramaswamy, Gaston Kabore, Heiny Srour, Kaveh Golestan, Jorge Denti, Jorge Furtado, 1991, Great Britain
Spotswood - dir. Mark Joffe, 1991, Australia
The Station - dir. Sergio Rubini, 1990, Italy
The Stranger - dir. Satyajit Ray, 1991, India
The Suspended Stride of the Stork - dir. Theo Angelopoulos, 1991, Greece/France/Switzerland/Italy
Swordsman in Double Flag Town - dir. He Ping, 1990, China
This Land is Ours - dir. Saddik Balewa, 1991, Nigeria
Three Days - dir. Sarunas Bartas, 1991, Lithuania
The Tombs - dir. Javier Torre, 1991, Argentina
The Usual - dir. Eric Tretbar, 1991, USA
Vacas - dir. Julio Medem, 1991, Spain
Vegas in Space - dir. Phillip R. Ford, 1992, USA
Vincent and Me - dir. Michael Rubbo, 1990, Canada
Virginia - dir. Srdjan Karanovic, 1991, Yugoslavia/France
Waiting - dir. Jackie McKimmie, 1991, Australia
The Waterdance - dir. Neal Jimenez, Michael Steinberg, 1992, USA
The Wedding - dir. Ismaet Elçi, 1991, Germany
Where the Day Take You - dir. Marc Rocco, 1992, USA
Who Killed the Baby Jesus - dir. Douglas Stefan Borghi, 1992, USA
Wisecracks - dir. Gail Singer, 1991, Canada
A Woman’s Tale - dir. Paul Cox, 1991, Australia
Zazambo - dir. Fumika Watanabe, 1991, Japan
Zebrahead - dir. Anthony Drazan, 1992, USA
Zentropa - dir. Lars von Trier, 1991, Denmark
Actors and Directors Seminar - seminar guests included Martin Donovan, Dani Levy, Maria Schrader, Hart Bochner, Sean Young, Peter Horton, Rob Morrow
Best of the Northwest - included Best of the Northwest Shorts, American Orpheus, The Enquirers, Act Up and Out
Children’s International Film Festival (in association with the Children’s Museum) - included The Case of the Witch Who Wasn’t, Vincent and Me, Creatures of the Seasons, Reach for the Sky, The End of the Golden Weather, Moonrise, The Big Wish and Other Short Tales Documentary Controversies: A Seminar - seminar guests included Michael Moore, Bobby Rock, Amy Taubin, Jack Garner
The Fabulous Poster Auction
Golden Space Needle Awards
Midnight Madness - included Revenge of Billy the Kid, The Iceman Cometh, Sex and Zen, Vegas in Space
New Directors Showcase - included Events Leading Up to My Death, Confessing to Laura, The Elementary School, La Discrète, Skinless Night, Butterfly Wings, The Hours and Times, Who Killed the Baby Jesus, Zebrahead, A Dream in the Abyss
Special Archival Presentations - included Peter Pan, Rocco and His Brothers, Noah’s Ark
The Secret Festival
Special Programs, Video Presentations - included Not Mozart and South
Robert Wise Tribute - included The Body Snatcher, The Day the Earth Stood Still, The Haunting, The Set-Up, Somebody Up There Likes Me