Seattle International Film Festival 1997 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1997

Relive the 23rd 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 1997 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 15–June 8, 1997
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Alibi Room, Broadway Performance Hall, 5th Avenue Theatre, Egyptian Theatre, Guild 45th Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, King Cat Theater

Opening Night: Addicted to Love at 5th Avenue Theatre
Closing Night: Mrs. Brown at Egyptian Theatre


FESTIVAL CATALOG

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Director, Peter Greenaway, on stage discussing his film, The Pillow Book, which won him a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director

Director, Peter Greenaway, on stage discussing his film, The Pillow Book, which won him a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director

Director, Peter Greenaway, on stage discussing his film, The Pillow Book, which won him a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director

Director, Peter Greenaway, on stage discussing his film, The Pillow Book, which won him a Golden Space Needle Award for Best Director

Guests engaged in discussion during the filmmakers forum of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival

Guests engaged in discussion during the filmmakers forum of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival

Guests engaged in discussion during the filmmakers forum of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival

Guests engaged in discussion during the filmmakers forum of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival

Guests in line for the opening night of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival, Addicted to Love at the 5th Avenue Theatre

Guests in line for the opening night of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival, Addicted to Love at the 5th Avenue Theatre

Guests in line for the opening night of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival, Addicted to Love at the 5th Avenue Theatre

Guests in line for the opening night of the 23rd Seattle International Film Festival, Addicted to Love at the 5th Avenue Theatre

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses in the theatre projection booth

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses in the theatre projection booth

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses in the theatre projection booth

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, poses in the theatre projection booth

Jeff Dowd, film producer and former SIFF staffer, poses on the streets of Seattle with film cans

Jeff Dowd, film producer and former SIFF staffer, poses on the streets of Seattle with film cans

Jeff Dowd, film producer and former SIFF staffer, poses on the streets of Seattle with film cans

Jeff Dowd, film producer and former SIFF staffer, poses on the streets of Seattle with film cans

Mrs. Brown
Mrs. Brown
Addicted to Love
Addicted to Love
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Comrades: Almost a Love Story
Captain Conan
Captain Conan
The Pillow Book
The Pillow Book
Cure
Cure

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Comrades: Almost a Love Story (dir. Peter Chan, Hong Kong)

Best Director
Peter Greenaway (The Pillow Book, UK)

Best Actress
Robin Wright-Penn (Loved)

Best Actor
Brendan Fraser (Still Breathing)

Best Short
Ballad of the Skeletons (dir. Gus van Sant, USA)

Best Documentary
Licensed to Kill (dir. Arthur Dong, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Engelschen (dir. Helke Misselwitz, Germany)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Eye of God (dir. Tim Blake Nelson, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

Addicted to Love - dir. Griffin Dunne, 1997, USA

Alive & Kicking - dir. Nancy Meckler, 1996, Great Britain

Angelou on Burns - dir. Elly Taylor, 1996, Scotland

Anthem - dir. Shainee Gabel, Kristin Hahn, 1997, USA

Battle for the Minds - dir. Steven Lipscomb, 1996, USA

Best of Erotic Tales II - dir. Various, 1996, Germany

Between Marx and a Naked Woman - dir. Camilo Luzuriaga, 1996, Ecuador

Between Pancho Villa and a Naked Woman - dir. Sabina Berman, Isabella Tardan, 1996, Mexico

Beyond Barbed Wire - dir. Steve Rosen, 1996, USA

Beyond Silence - dir. Caroline Link, 1996, Germany

The Big Heat - dir. Andrew Kam, Johnny To Kei-fung, 1988, Hong Kong

A Bit of Scarlet - dir. Andrea Weiss, 1997, Great Britain

Bitter Sugar - dir. Leon Ichaso, 1996, Cuba

Black Circle Boys - dir. Matthew Carnahan, 1997, USA

Bleached - dir. Tom Danon, 1997, USA

Bob’s Weekend - dir. Jevon O'Neill, 1996, Great Britain

Bolshe Vita - dir. Ibolya Fekete, 1995, Hungary

Box of Moonlight - dir. Tom DiCillo, 1996, USA

Brassed Off - dir. Mark Herman, 1996, Great Britain

Breaking Up - dir. Robert Greenwald, 1997, USA

Broadway Damage - dir. Victor Mignatti, 1997, USA

Brother’s Kiss - dir. Seth Zvi Rosenfeld, 1997, USA

Can't You Hear the Wind Howl? - dir. Peter W. Meyer, 1997, USA

Captain Conan - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1996, France

A Chef in Love - dir. Nana Djordjadze, 1996, Georgia/France

The Cherry Pick - dir. Arno Kranenborg, 1996, Netherlands

Childhood's End - dir. Jeff Lipsky, 1996, USA

Children of the Revolution - dir. Peter Duncan, 1996, Australia

Christmas Oratorio - dir. Kjell-Ake Andersson, 1996, Sweden

Chronicle of a Disappearance - dir. Elia Suleiman, 1996, Palestine

Colin Fitz - dir. Robert Bella, 1997, USA

Companions: Tales From the Closet - dir. Cecilia Neant-Falk, Nina Bergstrom, 1997, Sweden

Comrades: Almost a Love Story - dir. Peter Chan, 1996, Hong Kong

Conspirators of Pleasure - dir. Jan Svankmajer, 1996, Czech Republic/Switzerland/Great Britain

Coup de Torchon - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1981, France

The Cow’s Orgasm - dir. Olga Malea, 1997, Greece

Crocodile Tears - dir. Ann Coppel, 1997, USA

Defying Gravity - dir. John Keitel, 1997, USA

The Delta - dir. Ira Sachs, 1997, USA

Different for Girls - dir. Richard Spence, 1996, Great Britain

The Disappearance of Finbar - dir. Sue Clayton, 1996, Ireland/Great Britain/Sweden

Dogs are Colour Blind - dir. Orna Raviv, Johanan Raviv, 1996, Israel

Dream with the Fishes - dir. Finn Taylor, 1997, USA

The Dress - dir. Alex van Warmerdam, 1996, Netherlands

Dr. Wai in “the Scripture with No Words” - dir. Ching Siu-tung, 1996, Hong Kong

Earth - dir. Julio Medem, 1995, Spain

East Side Story - dir. Dana Ranga, 1996, Germany

Ecstasy - dir. Mariano Barroso, 1996, Spain

Eight Days a Week - dir. Michael Davis, 1997, USA

The Elevator - dir. Arthur Borman, Rafael Zelinsky, Nigel Dick, 1997, USA

The Emperor's Shadow - dir. Zhou Xiaowen, 1996, China

Every Sunday - dir. Sandor Simo, 1997, Hungary

Eye of God - dir. Tim Blake Nelson, 1997, USA

Eye of the Eagle - dir. Peter Flunth, 1996, Denmark

Fall - dir. Eric Schaeffer, 1997, USA

Familia - dir. Fernando León de Aranoa, 1997, Spain

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary - dir. Laura Angelica Símon, 1996, USA

Fire - dir. Deepa Mehta, 1996, Canada/India

Fistful of Flies - dir. Monica Pellizzari, 1996, Australia

Flight of the Albatross - dir. Werner Meyer, 1996, New Zealand/Germany

Floating Life - dir. Clara Law, 1996, Australia

Forbidden City Cop - dir. Stephen Chiau Shing-chi, Kuk Tak-Chiu, 1996, Hong Kong

Forgotten Silver - dir. Peter Jackson, 1996, New Zealand

For Roseanna - dir. Paul Weiland, 1996, USA

Franchesca Page - dir. Kelley Sane, 1997, USA

Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Masks - dir. Isaac Julien, 1996, Great Britain

The Full Monty - dir. Peter Cattaneo, 1996, Great Britain

Gabbeh - dir. Mohsen Makhmalbaf, 1996, Iran

The Garden of Redemption - dir. Thomas Michael Donnelly, 1997, USA

Glastonbury: The Movie - dir. Robin Mahoney, Matthew Salkeld, Willliam Beaton, 1997, Great Britain

The God of Cookery - dir. Stephen Chiau, Li Likchi , 1996, Hong Kong

Gonin II - dir. Ishii Takashi, 1996, Japan

Guantanamera - dir. Tomas Gutierrez Alea, Juan Carlos Tabio, 1996, Cuba

A Gun, a Car, a Blonde - dir. Stefani Ames, 1997, USA

Guy - dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, 1997, Great Britain

Hard Core Logo - dir. Bruce McDonald, 1996, Canada

The Headhunter's Sister - dir. Scott Saunders, 1997, USA

Hu-Du-Men - dir. Shu Kei, 1996, Hong Kong

Hysteria - dir. Réne Daalder, 1997, Canada/Great Britain

Idiot Box - dir. David Caesar, 1996, Australia

In Full Gallop - dir. Krzystzof Zanussi, 1996, Poland

Inside Out: Portraits of Children - dir. Joanna Lipper, 1996, USA

In the Company of Men - dir. Neil Labute, 1997, USA

Irma Vep - dir. Olivier Assayas, 1997, France

The Island on Bird Street - dir. Soren Kragh-Jacobsen, 1997, Denmark

It's in the Water - dir. Kelli Herd, 1996, USA

Joe's So Mean to Josephine - dir. Peter Wellington, 1996, Canada

The Journey - dir. Harish Saluja, 1997, USA

Kids Return - dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1996, Japan

L.627 - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1992, France

Labyrinth of Dreams - dir. Sogo Ishii, 1996, Japan

Libertarias - dir. Vicente Aranda , 1995, Spain/Belgium

Licensed to Kill - dir. Arthur Dong, 1997, USA

Life and Nothing But - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1990, France

Lifebreath - dir. P. J. Posner, 1997, USA

Like Grains of Sand - dir. Ryosuke Hashiguchi, 1996, Japan

Lilian's Story - dir. Jerzy Domaradzki, 1995, Australia

Lilies - dir. John Greyson, 1996, Canada

Little Angel - dir. Helke Misselwitz, 1996, Germany

The Long Way Home - dir. Mark Jonathan Harris, 1997, USA

Loved - dir. Erin Dignam, 1997, USA

Love God - dir. Frank Grow, 1997, USA

Lovelife - dir. Jon Harmon Feldman, 1997, USA

Love Serenade - dir. Shirley Barrett, 1996, Australia

Mandela - dir. Jo Mennell, Angus Gibson, 1996, South Africa

Marian - dir. Petr Vaclav, 1996, Czech Republic/France

The Matinee Idol - dir. Frank Capra, 1928, USA

Medea - dir. Lars von Trier, 1988, Denmark

Mendel - dir. Alexander Rosler, 1995, Norway/Denmark/Germany

Milk & Money - dir. Michael Bergman, 1996, USA

Moebius - dir. Students of Gustavo Mosquera, 1996, Argentina

Mondo - dir. Tony Gatlif, 1995, France

Mon Homme - dir. Bertrand Blier, 1996, France

Mrs. Brown - dir. John Madden, 1997, Great Britain

My America…or Honk if You Love Buddha - dir. Renee Tajima-Pena, 1997, USA

The Myth of Fingerprints - dir. Bart Freundlich, 1996, USA

Never Met Picasso - dir. Stephen Kijak, 1996, USA

Nitrate Base - dir. Marco Ferreri, 1996 , Italy/France

Nothing Sacred - dir. David Elliot, Mark Huppin, 1997, USA

Not Love, Just Frenzy - dir. Alfonso Albacete, Miguel Bardem, David Menkes, 1996, Spain

Ocean Tribe - dir. Will Geiger, 1997, USA

One of Those Nights - dir. Lina Shanklin, 1997, USA

One Summer in La Goulette - dir. Ferid Boughedir, 1996, Tunisia/France

Ordet (The Word) - dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1955, Denmark

The Other Side of Sunday - dir. Berit Nesheim, 1996, Norway

Out at Work - dir. Kelly Anderson, Tami Gold, 1996, USA

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End - dir. Monte Bramer, 1997, USA

Pedale Douce - dir. Gabriel Aghion, 1996, France

Piccadilly - dir. E.A. Dupont, 1929, Great Britain

The Pillow Book - dir. Peter Greenaway, 1996, Great Britain

Pizzicata - dir. Edoardo Winspeare, 1996, Italy/Germany

Ponette - dir. Jacques Doillon, 1996, France

Pousse Cafe - dir. Susan Winter, 1997, USA

Pretty Village, Pretty Flame - dir. Srdjan Dragojevic, 1996, Serbia

Pride Divide - dir. Paris Poirier, 1997, USA

La Promesse - dir. Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 1996, Belgium/France/Luxembourg

A Queer Story - dir. Shu Kei, 1997, Hong Kong

The Quiet Room - dir. Rolf de Heer, 1996, Australia/Italy

Raroia, The Paradise Island - dir. Torgny Anderberg, 1997, Sweden

Riding the Rails - dir. Michael Uys, Lexy Lovell, 1996, USA

The River - dir. Tsai Ming-liang, 1997, Taiwan

Rough Magic - dir. Clare Peploe, 1995, Great Britain

Round Midnight - dir. Bertrand Tavernier, 1986, France/USA

Salut Cousin! - dir. Merzak Allouache, 1996, Algeria/France

A Saturday on Earth - dir. Diane Bertrand, 1996, France

Scratch the Surface - dir. Tara Fitzpatrick, 1997, USA

Secrets of the Heart - dir. Montxo Armendariz, 1997, Spain/France/Portugal

A Self-Made Hero - dir. Jacques Audiard, 1996, France

Shall We Dance? - dir. Masayuki Suo, 1997, Japan

Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist - dir. Kirby Dick, 1997, USA

The Small Hours - dir. Derek Dunsay, 1997, USA

Somewhere in the City - dir. Ramin Niami, 1997, USA

Star Maps - dir. Miguel Arteta, 1996, USA

Steaming Milk - dir. Rodney Lee Rogers, 1997, USA

Still Breathing - dir. James F. Robinson, 1997, USA

Strawberry Fields - dir. Rea Tajiri, 1997, USA

Such is Life- dir. Colin Nutley, 1996, Sweden

Sunday - dir. Jonathan Nossiter, 1996, USA

Supermarket Woman - dir. Juzo Itami, 1997, Japan

The Super Wife - dir. Sonke Wortmann, 1996, Germany

Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse - dir. Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson, 1996, USA

Temptress Moon - dir. Chen Kaige, 1996, China/Hong Kong

Three Friends - dir. Yim Soon-Rye, 1996, South Korea

Tieta - dir. Carlos Diegues, 1995, Brazil

Timothy Leary's Dead - dir. Paul Davids, 1997, USA

The Tit and the Moon - dir. Bigas Luna, 1995, Spain

To Have and To Hold - dir. John Hillcoat, 1996, Australia

Tonight Nobody Goes Home - dir. Sylvia Chang, 1996, Taiwan

Tramway to Malvarosa - dir. Jose Luis Garcia, 1996, Spain

Tumult - dir. Yemane I. Demissie, 1996, Ethiopia/USA

Twin Town - dir. Kevin Allen, 1996, Wales

Twisted - dir. Seth Michael Donsky, 1996, USA

Ulysses' Gaze - dir. Theo Angelopolos, 1995, Greece/France/Italy

The Unfish - dir. Robert Dornhelm, 1996, Austria

The Unknown - dir. Todd Browning, 1927, USA

The Van - dir. Stephen Frears, 1996, Great Britain

The Village Has No Walls - dir. Amol Palekar, 1995, India

Viva Erotica - dir. Derek Yee, Lo Chi Leung, 1996, Hong Kong

Warshots - dir. Heiner Stadler, 1996, Germany

The Watermelon Woman - dir. Cheryl Dunye, 1996, USA

Wednesday - dir. Victor Kossakovsky, 1997, Russia, Germany/Great Britain/Finland

When the Cat’s Away - dir. Cedric Klapisch, 1996, France

The Witman Boys - dir. Janos Szasz, 1996, Hungary

Wives III - dir. Anja Breien, 1996, Norway

Wonderland - dir. John O'Hagan, 1996, USA

Young and Dangerous III - dir. Andrew Lau Wai-keung, 1996, Hong Kong

Special Programs & Events

Archival Presentations - included Ordet, The Matinee Idol, Piccadilly 

Bedtime Stories: The Midnight Series - included Franchesca Page, Love God, Hysteria, Best of Erotic Tales II, Young and Dangerous III, Big Heat, Gonin II, Timothy Leary’s Dead

Bernard Tavernier Tribute - included Captain Conan, Coup de Torchon, Round Midnight, L.627, Life and Nothing But

Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 19 feature films and 9 short films 

Films 4 Families - included Eye of the Eagle, Flight of the Albatross, Inside Out: Portraits of Children, The Journey

Filmmakers Forum: Day 1: The Beginning - included When Harry Met Sal: Romantic Comedy in an Age When Anything Goes, “Once More With Feeling”, Classics Out of Context: A Screenplay Reading of Rebel Without a Cause

Filmmakers Forum: Day 2: The Middle - included Wow & Flutter, The Light Motif, Reality Bites, Completing Your Thought

Filmmakers Forum: Day 3: The End - included The Fine Print: A Special Screening and Panel Discussion of The Designated Mourner, Fly Filmmaking 

Golden Space Needle Awards

New Directors Showcase - included 13 feature films

Poster Auction

Secret Festival

Shorts Programs - included How I Got Through Childhood and Other Horror Tales, North x Northwest, The Rules of Romance, Erotic Tales II, Part A, Erotic Tales II, Part B, Beyond Gravity, Malice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Special Archival Presentation The Unknown with live accompaniment by the Alloy Orchestra

The Writers Guild of America-West and SIFF present the second annual Screenwriters Salon