A packed house at the 19th Seattle International Film Festival await the next film of the day
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Relive the 19th 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 1993 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 14–June 6, 1993
Number of Days: 24
Venues: Broadway Market Cinemas, Egyptian Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Metro Cinema, Neptune Theatre
Opening Night: Much Ado About Nothing at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: King of the Hill at Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: John Schlesinger
Photos
A packed house at the 19th Seattle International Film Festival await the next film of the day
SIFFer planning his film schedule, currently open to page 76-77 in the program, a spread that included the World Premiere of Dazed and Confused
The cast and crew of the film, Twenty Bucks, including director, Keva Rosenfeld (far right) and actor, Brendan Fraser (far left)
Left to right, back to front: Lucinda Payne, Nick Vroman, Jayne Craig, Ruth Hayler, Sandy Gow, Pascale Anziani, Nancy Kennedy, Annie Wilson, Jim Gibbs, Darryl Macdonald, Judy Koven, Ted Fry, Molly Brick, Deena Juras, Helen du Toit, Rose Custer, John Teegarden, Deb Mayo. Not Pictured: Amy Fritz
Actor, Russell Crowe, pictured with the cast and crew of their film, Romper Stomper at the steps to the Egyptian stage
Candid shot of tribute guest, director, John Schlesinger, being escorted throught the doors of the Egyptian by festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
Best Film
The Wedding Banquet (dir. Ang Lee, Taiwan/USA)
Best Actress
Tilda Swinton (Orlando)
Best Actor
Russell Crowe (Romper Stomper / Hammers over the Anvil)
Best Short
The Fairy Who Didn't Want To be a Fairy Anymore (dir. Laurie Lynd, Canada)
Best Documentary
Road Scholar (dir. Roger Weisberg, USA)
About Love, Tokyo - dir. Mitsuo Yanagimachi, 1992, Japan
The Abyss–Special Edition - dir. James Cameron, 1989/1993, USA
Accion Mutante - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 1992, Spain
Acla - dir. Aurelio Grimaldi, 1992, Italy
Acting It Out - dir. Sonke Wortmann, 1992, Germany
Acting on Impulse - dir. Sam Irvin, 1993, USA
Al Lupo Al Lupo - dir. Carlo Verdone, 1992, Italy
Alone Among Women - dir. Sonke Wortmann, 1992, Germany
Amazing Grace - dir. Amos Gutman, 1992, Israel
An Ambush Of Ghosts - dir. Everett Lewis, 1993, USA
Amongst Friends - dir. Rob Weiss, 1993, USA
Angel of Fire - dir. Dana Rotberg, 1992, Mexico
As In Heaven - dir. Kristin Johannesdottir, 1992, Iceland
Autumn Moon - dir. Clara Law, 1992, Hong Kong/Japan
Bad Behaviour - dir. Les Blair, 1992, Great Britain
Baraka - dir. Ron Fricke, 1992, USA
Betty - dir. Claude Chabrol, 1992, France
Billy Liar - dir. John Schlesinger, 1963, Great Britain
Bohemian Life - dir. Aki Kaurismaki, 1992, Finland/France
Bound by Honor - dir. Taylor Hackford, 1992, USA
The Boys from St. Petri - dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, 1991, Denmark
Cadillac Girls - dir. Nicholas Kendall, 1993, Canada
Careful - dir. Guy Maddin, 1992, Canada
Chain of Desire - dir. Temistocles Lopez, 1992, USA
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker - dir. Richard Kurt Schmiechen, 1992, USA
Children of Fate: Life and Death in a Sicilian Family - dir. Michael Roemer, Susan Todd, Andrew Young, Robert M. Young, 1993, USA
The Clean Machine - dir. Jean Beaudry, 1992, Canada
The Conjugal Bed - dir. Mircea Daneliuc, 1992, Romania
Un Coeur En Hiver - dir. Claude Sautet, 1992, France
Crush - dir. Alison Maclean, 1992, New Zealand
Dark at Noon - dir. Raul Ruiz, 1992, France
Dazed and Confused - dir. Richard Linklater, 1993, USA
Dead Alive - dir. Peter Jackson, 1992, New Zealand
Don’t Call Me Frankie - dir. Thomas Fucci, 1993, USA
Eight-Tray Gangster: The Making of a Crip - dir. Thomas Lee Wright, 1993, USA
An Englishman Abroad - dir. John Schlesinger, 1983, Great Britain
Family Prayers - dir. Scott Rosenfelt, 1993, USA
Far From The Madding Crowd - dir. John Schlesinger, 1967, Great Britain
The Fencing Master - dir. Pedro Olea, 1992, Spain
Flaming Ears - dir. Angela Hans Scheirl, Ursula Purrer, Dietmar Schipek, 1992, Austria
Fly By Night - dir. Steve Gomer, 1992, USA
The Flying Sneaker - dir. Bretislav Pojar, 1992, Czechoslovakia/Canada
For A Lost Soldier - dir. Roeland Kerbosch, 1992, Netherlands
Forbidden Love - dir. Aerlyn Weissman, Lynne Fernie, 1992, Canada
Fortress - dir. Stuart Gordon, 1992, USA/France
The Games Teachers Play - dir. Hideyuki Hirayama, 1992, Japan
Hammers Over the Anvil - dir. Ann Turner, 1993, Australia
The Harvest - dir. David Marconi, 1993, USA
Heart Strings - dir. Sun Zhou, 1993, China
Hercules Returns - dir. David Parker, 1992, Australia
Heresay! - dir. Will Berlinger, 1993, USA
House of Angels - dir. Colin Nutley, 1992, Sweden
House of Cards - dir. Michael Lessac, 1992, USA
Hyenas - dir. Djibril Diop Mambety, 1992, Senegal
I Kiss Your Hand, Madame - dir. Robert Land, 1929, Germany
In Advance of Landing - dir. Dan Curtis, 1992, Canada
Into the West - dir. Mike Newell, 1992, Great Britain
I Wanted to See Angels - dir. Sergei Bodrov, 1992, Russia
Jacquot - dir. Agnes Varda, 1991, France
Jamon, Jamon - dir. Bigas Luna, 1992, Spain
King of the Hill - dir. Stephen Soderbergh, 1993, USA
Kitchen and Other Rooms - dir. Philippe Muyl, 1992, France
La Carpa - dir. Carlos Avila, 1992, USA
La Sentinelle - dir. Arnaud Desplechin, 1992, France
Last Call At Maud’s - dir. Paris Poirier, 1993, USA
La Vie de Boheme - dir. Aki Kaurismaki, 1992, Finland/France
Letters from Paris - dir. Ugo Fabrizio Giordani, 1992, Italy
Le Zebre - dir. Jean Poiret, 1992, France
The Long Day Closes - dir. Terence Davies, 1992, Great Britain
Man Bites Dog - dir. Remy Belvaux, Andre Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde, 1992, Belgium
Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media - dir. Mark Achbar, Peter Wintonick, 1992, Canada
Mary From Beijing - dir. Sylvia Chang, 1993, Hong Kong
Me And Veronica - dir. Don Scardino, 1992, USA
Menace II Society - dir. Allen Hughes, Albert Hughes, 1993, USA
Midnight Cowboy - dir. John Schlesinger, 1969, USA
Milena - dir. Vera Belmont, 1992, France
Much Ado About Nothing - dir. Kenneth Branagh, 1993, Great Britain/USA
The Music of Chance - dir. Philip Haas, 1993, USA
The Mystery of Edwin Drood - dir. Timothy Forder, 1993, Great Britain
Mystery of Edwin Drood - dir. Timothy Forder, 1993, Great Britain
National Velvet - dir. Clarence Brown, 1945, USA
No Place Like Home - dir. Katherine Hunt, , USA
The Northerners - dir. Alex van Warmerdam, 1991, Netherlands
Night and Day - dir. Chantal Ackerman, 1991, Belgium
The Nun and the Bandit - dir. Paul Cox, 1992, Australia
The Oak - dir. Lucian Pintilie, 1992, Romania/France
Off Season - dir. Daniel Schmid, 1992, Switzerland/Germany/France
The Olympic Summer - dir. Gordian Maugg, 1992, Germany
On My Own - dir. Antonio Tibaldi, 1992, Canada
Original Sin - dir. Takashi Ishii, 1992, Japan
Orlando - dir. Sally Potter, 1992, Great Britain/Russia/Italy/France/Netherlands
Our Twisted Hero - dir. Park Chong-Won, 1992, South Korea
Outback - dir. Bogdan Dumitrescu, 1991, Romania
Passin’ It On - dir. John Valadez, 1992, USA
The Peach Blossom Land - dir. Stan Lai (Lai Shengchuan), 1992, Taiwan
Peter in Magicland - dir. Wolfgang Urchs, 1992, Germany
Phantom of the Opera - dir. Rupert Julian, 1925, USA
A Place in the World - dir. Adolfo Aristarain, 1992, Argentina/Uruguay
Port of Seven Seas - dir. James Whale, 1938, USA
Quick - dir. Rick King, 1993, USA
The Red Squirrel - dir. Julio Medem, 1993, Spain
Ripples Across Stagnant Water - dir. Ling Zifeng, 1992, China
Road Scholar - dir. Roger Weisberg, 1992, USA
Romper Stomper - dir. Geoffrey Wright, 1992, Australia
Running Late - dir. Udayan Prasad, 1992, Great Britain
Savior of the Soul ‘92 - dir. David Lai, Corey Yuen, 1992, Hong Kong
Schtonk - dir. Helmut Dietl, 1991, Germany
The Scorpio Eats the Gemini for Breakfast - dir. Gardos Peter, 1992, Hungary
Seven Songs for Malcolm X - dir. John Akomfrah, 1993, Great Britain
Sex Is... - dir. Marc Huestis, 1993, USA
Shelf Life - dir. Paul Bartel, 1993, USA
Shirtless Soul - dir. Kyle Bergerse, 1992, USA
The Silent Touch - dir. Krzysztof Zanussi, 1991, Great Britain/Poland/Denmark
Silverlake Life: The View From Here - dir. Tom Joslin, Peter Friedman, 1993, USA
Snakes and Ladders - dir. Busi Cortes, 1992, Mexico
Sofie - dir. Liv Ullman, 1992, Denmark
Soft Top, Hard Shoulder - dir. Stefan Schwartz, 1992, Great Britain
South Bound - dir. Pasquale Pozzessere, 1992, Italy
Stepping Razor–Red X - dir. Nicholas Campbell, 1992, Canada
The Story of Qiu Ju - dir. Zhang Yimou, 1992, China
Sunday, Bloody Sunday - dir. John Schlesinger, 1971, Great Britain
Sweet Emma, Dear Bobe - dir. Istvan Szabo, 1992, Hungary
Tango Argentino - dir. Goran Paskaljevic, 1992, Serbia
The Three Best Things in Life - dir. Ger Poppelaars, 1992, Netherlands
Time Indefinite - dir. Ross McElwee, 1993, USA
Tom and Jerry...The Movie - dir. Phil Roman, 1993, USA
Trouble Bound - dir. Jeff Reiner, 1992, USA
Twenty Bucks - dir. Keva Rosenfeld, 1993, USA
Twist - dir. Ron Mann, 1992, Canada
Vermont is for Lovers - dir. John O’Brien, 1992, USA
Verso Sud - dir. Pasquale Pozzessere, 1992, Italy
Les Visiteurs - dir. Jean-Marie Poire, 1992, France
Walt Disney Before Mickey Mouse - dir. Walt Disney, 1924-1927, USA
The Warrior’s Heart - dir. Leidulv Risan, 1992, Norway/Finland/Sweden
The Wedding Banquet - dir. Ang Lee, 1992, Taiwan/USA
The Well - dir. Docho Bodjakov, 1990, Bulgaria
Where is Memory - dir. Chris Gallager, 1992, Canada
White Badge - dir. Chung Ji-Young, 1992, South Korea
White Marriage - dir. Magdalena Lazarkiewicz, 1992, Poland
Wild West - dir. David Attwood, 1992, Great Britain
Best of the Northwest - included Best of the Northwest: Shorts, Eight-Tray Gangster: The Making of a Crip, Shirtless Soul
Celebration of Film Preservation - included I Kiss Your Hand, Madame, Phantom of the Opera, Port of Seven Seas, Walt Disney in the Jazz Age
Children’s Museum Film Festival - included The Clean Machine, The Flying Sneaker, National Velvet, Peter in Magicland, Tom and Jerry…The Movie, Walt Disney Before Mickey Mouse, Finding Your Place (Shorts Program)
Golden Space Needle Awards
John Schlesinger Tribute - included Midnight Cowboy, Billy Liar, An Englishman Abroad, Far From the Maddening Crowd, Sunday, Bloody Sunday
The Midnight Zone - included Accion Mutante, Dead Alive, Don’t Call Me Frankie, Hercules Returns, Savior of the Soul ‘92, Stepping Razor–Red X
New Director’s Showcase - included Menace II Society, The Northerners, Outback, The Peach Blossom Land, Romper Stomper, Schtonk, Sofie, Soft Top, Hard Shoulder, Verso Sud, Le Zebre
Poster Auction
Secret Festival
Seminar: Actors and Directors - seminar guests included Steven Soderbergh, Richard Linklater, Tilda Swinton, Les Blair
Seminar: Computer Animation with Bill Kroyer
Seminar: Screenwriting
Walt Disney in the Jazz Age (collection of silent cartoons) - dir. Walt Disney, 1921-1928, USA