Behind-the-scenes where the magic happens (in the projection booth)
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Relive the 20th 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 1994 Seattle International Film Festival.
Dates: May 20–June 12, 1994
Number of Days: 24
Venues: Broadway Market Cinemas, Broadway Performance Hall, Egyptian Theatre, 5th Avenue Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Neptune Theatre
Opening Night: Little Buddha at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Barcelona at Egyptian Theatre
Tribute: Bernardo Bertolucci
Photos
Behind-the-scenes where the magic happens (in the projection booth)
Actresses, Victoria Abril and Rossy de Palma, discuss their film, Kika, from the stage
Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald (far right) poses with cast and crew from the film, Clerks
Candid shot of director, David O. Russell, in town for his film, Spanking The Monkey
Director, Jennifer Warren, and actor, Rutger Hauer, in town for the World Premiere of their film, The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Actress, Mimi Rogers, accepts her Golden Space Needle Award for Best Actress for her film, Reflection on a Crime
Best Film
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (dir. Stephan Elliott, Australia)
Best Director
Rolf de Heer (Bad Boy Bubby, Australia)
Best Actress
Mimi Rogers (Reflection on a Crime)
Best Actor
Terence Stamp (Priscilla, Queen of the Desert)
Best Short
The Wrong Trousers (dir. Nick Park, UK)
Best Documentary
The Wonderful, Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl (dir. Ray Müller, Germany)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea - dir. Richard Fleischer, 1954, USA
Anchoress - dir. Chris Newby, 1993, Great Britain
As an Eilean - dir. Mike Alexander, 1993, Scotland
Bad Boy Bubby - dir. Rolf de Heer, 1993, Australia
Barcelona - dir. Whit Stillman, 1994, USA
The Beans of Egypt, Maine - dir. Jennifer Warren, 1994, USA
Because Why - dir. Arto Paragamian, 1993, Canada
Benny’s Video - dir. Michael Haneke, 1992, Austria
Betrayal - dir. Radu Mihaileanu, 1993, France/Romania
Blessing - dir. Paul Zehrer, 1993, USA
The Blue Kite - dir. Tian Zhuangzhuang, 1993, China/Hong Kong
Boatman of the River Padma - dir. Goutam Ghose, 1992, India
Bread and Roses - dir. Gaylene Preston, 1993, New Zealand
Bui Doi: Life Like Dust - dir. Ahrin Mishan, Nick Rothenberg, 1994, USA
Capture the White Flag - dir. Alex Zedicoff, 1994, USA
Century - dir. Stephen Poliakoff, 1993, Great Britain
Child Murders - dir. Ildikó Szabó, 1993, Hungary
Clerks - dir. Kevin Smith, 1993, USA
Colorado Cowboy: The Bruce Ford Story - dir. Arthur Elgort, 1993, USA
The Conformist - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970, Italy
The Cow - dir. Karel Kachyna, 1993, Czech Republic
Crime Story - dir. Kirk Wong, 1993, Hong Kong
Darkness in Tallinn - dir. Ilkka Jarvilaturi, 1993, Estonia/Finland
The Days - dir. Wang Xiaoshuai, 1993, China
Digger - dir. Robert Turner, 1993, Canada
Don Quijote - dir. Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón, 1992, Spain
Dreaming of Rita - dir. Jon Lindström, 1993, Sweden
Eagle Scout: The Story of Henry Nicols - dir. Michael Ryan, Ellen Stokes, 1994, USA
The East is Red - dir. Ching Siu-Tung, Raymond Lee, 1993, Hong Kong
Eat Drink Man Woman - dir. Ang Lee, 1994, Taiwan/USA
Encore, Once More Encore! - dir. Pyotr Todorovsky, 1993, Russia
Erotique - dir. Lizzie Borden, Monika Treut, Clara Law, 1994, USA
Femme Fatale - dir. Udayan Prasad, 1993, Great Britain
First Love - dir. Lee Myung-Se, 1992, South Korea
For the Moment - dir. Aaron Kim Johnston, 1993, Canada
Freedom on my Mind - dir. Connie Field, Marilyn Mulford, 1994, USA
Fresh - dir. Boaz Yakin, 1994, USA
Friends - dir. Elaine Proctor, 1993, South Africa/Great Britain/France
Full Contact - dir. Ringo lam, 1992, Hong Kong
The Ghost Ship - dir. Mark Robson, 1943, USA
Go Fish - dir. Rose Troche, 1994, USA
Going Home - dir. Hans Hylkema, 1993, Netherlands
Golden Balls - dir. Bigas Luna, 1993, Spain
The Great Pumpkin - dir. Francesca Archibugi, 1993, Italy
Green Henry - dir. Thomas Koerfer, 1993, Switzerland
Grief - dir. Richard Glatzer, 1993, USA
The Grim Reaper - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1962, Italy
The Groundhogs - dir. Elie Chouraqui, 1993, France
Handgun - dir. Whitney Ransick, 1994, USA
Hedd Wyn - dir. Paul Turner, 1992, Wales/United Kingdom
Hélas Pour Moi - dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1993, Switzerland/France
Homelands - dir. Tom Zubrycki, 1992, Australia
How to Be Miserable and Enjoy It - dir. Enrique Urbizu, 1993, Spain
Hwaomkyung - dir.Chang Sun-Woo, 1993, South Korea
I Don’t Want to Talk About It - dir. Maria Luisa Bemberg, 1993, Argentina
Inside the Goldmine - dir. Josh Evans, 1994, USA
In The Name of Christ - dir. Roger Gnoan M'Bala, 1993, Ivory Coast
I Only Want You to Love Me - dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder, 1976, Germany
Ivan & Abraham - dir. Yolanda Zauberman, 1993, France
I Was Born, But... - dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1932, Japan
Johnny 100 Pesos - dir. Gustavo Graef Marino, 1993, Chile
Justiz - dir. Hans W. Geissendörfer, 1993, Germany/Switzerland
Just Like A Woman - dir. Christopher Monger, 1991, Great Britain
Kaspar Hauser - dir. Peter Sehr, 1993, Germany
Kika - dir. Pedro Almodóvar, 1993, Spain
Killing Granddad- dir. Luis Cesar D’Angiolillo, 1993, Argentina
Knocks at My Door - dir. Alejandro Saderman, 1993, Venezuela/Argentina
A La Belle Etoile - dir. Antoine Desrosieres, 1994, France
La Scorta - dir. Ricky Tognazzi, 1993, Italy
The Last Emperor - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1987, Italy/Hong Kong/USA
The Last Lieutenant - dir. Hans Petter Moland, 1993, Norway
The Last Seduction - dir. John Dahl , 1994, USA
Last Tango in Paris - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1972, France/Italy/USA
Legend of Fong Sai Yuk II - dir. Corey Yuen, 1993, Hong Kong
The Legend of Fong Sai Yuk - dir. Yuen Kwai, 1992, Hong Kong
Legend of La Rose Noire - dir. Jeffrey Lau, 1992, Hong Kong
Le Journal de Lady M. - dir. Alain Tanner, 1993, Switzerland
Le Sexe Des Etoiles - dir. Paule Baillargeon, 1993, Canada
Little Buddha - dir. Bernardo Bertolucci, 1993, Great Britain/France
Living With an Idiot - dir. Aleksandr Rogoschkin, 1993, Russia
The Long Silence - dir. Margarethe von Trotta, 1993, Italy
Love and a .45 - dir. C.W. Talkington, 1994, USA
Love and Human Remains - dir. Denys Arcand, 1993, Canada
Lucky Star - dir. Frank Borzage, 1929, USA
Making Up! - dir. Katja von Garnier, 1993, Germany
A Man in Uniform - dir. David Wellington, 1993, Canada
Married Life - dir. Luis Carlos Carrera, 1992, Mexico
Me, Let’s Hope I Make It - dir. Lina Wertmuller, 1993, Italy
Minbo-Or The Gentle Art of Japanese Extortion - dir. Jûzô Itami, 1992, Japan
Mi Vida Loca - dir. Allison Anders, 1993, USA
My Life’s in Turnaround - dir. Eric Schaeffer, Donal Lardner Ward, 1993, USA
My Name Is Victor - dir. Guy Jacques, 1993, France
Myth of the Male Orgasm - dir. John Hamilton, 1993, Canada
Nina Takes a Lover - dir. Alan Jacobs, 1994, USA
No Smoking - dir. Alain Resnais, 1993, France
Oblivion - dir. Sam Irvin, 1994, USA
Once Upon a Time: The Cinema - dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1992, Iran
One Foot on a Banana Peel, the Other Foot in the Grave - dir. Juan Botas, Lucas Platt, 1994, USA
Paul Bowles: The Complete Outsider - dir. Catherine Warnow, Regina Weinreich, 1993, USA
Pigs - dir. Wladyslaw Pasikowski, 1992, Poland
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert - dir. Stephan Elliott, 1994, Australia
The Pros and Cons of Breathing - dir. Robert Munic, 1993, USA
Quartier Mozart - dir. Jean-Pierre Bekolo, 1992, Cameroon
Raining Stones - dir. Ken Loach, 1993, Great Britain
Rebels of the Neon God - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1992, Taiwan
Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker - dir. He Ping, 1994, China/Hong Kong
The Red Squirrel - dir. Julio Medem, 1993, Spain
Reflections on a Crime - dir. Jon Purdy, 1994, USA
Remote Control - dir. Óskar Jónasson, 1993, Iceland
Ripa Hits the Skids - dir. Christian Lindblad, 1993, Finland
Russian Pizza Blues - dir. Steen Rasmussen, Michael Wikke, 1992, Denmark
Safe - dir. Antonia Bird, 1993, Great Britain
Savage Capitalism - dir. André Klotzel, 1993, Brazil
The Sea Hawk - dir. Frank Lloyd, 1924, USA
The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb - dir. Dave Borthwick, 1993, Great Britain
Secret of Roan Inish - dir. John Sayles, 1994, Ireland/USA
Sex, Drugs & Democracy - dir. Jonathan Blank, 1994, Netherlands/USA
Shopping - dir. Paul Anderson, 1993, Great Britain
Silver Stallion, King of the Wild Brumbies - dir. John Tatoutis, 1993, Australia
Sleep With Me - dir. Rory Kelly, 1994, USA
The Slingshot - dir. Åke Sandgren, 1993, Sweden
Smoking - dir. Alain Resnais, 1993, France
The Son of the Shark - dir. Agnes Merlet, 1993, France
Sopyonje - dir. Im Kwon-Taek, 1993, South Korea
A Soul Split in Two - dir. Silvio Soldini, 1993, Italy
Spanking The Monkey - dir. David O. Russell, 1993, USA
Stalingrad - dir. Joseph Vilsmaier, 1993, Germany
Stand Up, Don’t Grovel - dir. Huang Jianxin, 1993, China
Stefano! - dir. Maurizio Nichetti, 1993, Italy
Sunday’s Children - dir. Daniel Bergman, 1992, Sweden
Talk - dir. Susan Lambert, 1993, Australia
Tango - dir. Patrice Leconte, 1993, France
Tango Feroz - dir. Marcelo Piñeyro, 1993, Argentina/Spain
Three Colors: White - dir. Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1994, Poland/France
Totally F**ked Up - dir. Gregg Araki, 1993, USA
A Touch of Fever - dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 1993, Japan
Trading Mom - dir. Tia Brelis, 1994, USA
Two Small Bodies - dir. Beth B, 1993, USA/Germany
Up, Down and Sideways - dir. Michael Cacoyannis, 1992, Greece
The Wedding Gift - dir. Richard Loncraine, 1994, Great Britain
What Happened Was... - dir. Tom Noonan, 1994, USA
When I Close My Eyes - dir. Franci Slak, 1993, Slovenia
Where the Rivers Flow North - dir. Jay Craven, 1993, USA
Why Wasn’t He There? - dir. András Jeles, 1993, Hungary
Widows’ Peak - dir. John Irvin, 1993, Great Britain
The Wild East - dir. Rashid Nougmanov, 1993, Kazakhstan
Women from the Lake of Scented Souls - dir. Xie Fei, 1992, China
The Wonderful Horrible Life of Leni Riefenstahl - dir. Ray Müller, 1993, Germany
The Young Americans - dir. Danny Cannon, 1993, Great Britain
Zeram - dir. Keita Amemiya, 1991, Japan
Archival Presentations - included 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, The Ghost Ship, I Was Born, But…, Lucky Star, The Sea Hawk, Social Guidance Classics
Best of the Northwest - included Capture the White Flag, Best of the Northwest: Shorts
Bernardo Bertolucci Tribute - included The Conformist, The Grim Reaper, Last Tango in Paris, The Last Emperor
Children’s Film Festival - included Digger, Secret of Roan Inish, Silver Stallion, King of the Wild Brumbies, Trading Mom
Closing Night Special Presentation Three Colors: White
Critic’s Panel Beyond Thumbs Up: The State of American Film Criticism - seminar guests included Jay Carr, Owen Gleiberman, Len Klady, Peter Rainer, Richard Shickel
Golden Space Needle Awards
The Midnight Zone - included The East is Red, Full Contact, Oblivion, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, Zeram
New Directors Showcase - included Because Why, Fresh, Go Fish, Inside the Goldmine, Ivan & Ibraham, The Last Lieutenant, Safe, Shopping, The Son of the Shark, Sunday’s Children, Tango Feroz, A Touch of Fever
Poster Auction
Secret Festival
Seminar: Independent Directions - seminar guests included Allison Anders, Marcus Hu, Jeff Lipsky, Tom Noonan, Arto Paragamian, David O. Russell
Seminar: Sexual Ethics on Screen - seminar guests included Gregg Araki, Andres Vincente Gomez, Alan Jacobs, Myriam Mezieres, Monika Treut
Shorts Programs: Brief Encounters - included Best of the Brits, Family Portraits, L’Amour Fou Shorts, Oscar Shorts, Out and About: Queer Short Cinema, Shooting Stars, Strange Trips, Worlds of Wonder: International Short Films
Special Presentation Smoking/No Smoking