Seattle International Film Festival 1999 Archive

Seattle International Film Festival 1999

Relive the 25th 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 1999 Seattle International Film Festival.

Dates: May 13–June 6, 1999
Number of Days: 25
Venues: Barnes & Noble Pacific Place, Broadway Performance Hall, Cinerama, Egyptian Theatre, Harvard Exit Theater, Pacific Place Cinemas, Paramount Theatre, Valley Drive-In Theatres

Opening Night: The Dinner Game at Paramount Theatre
Closing Night: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me at Pacific Place Cinemas
Tribute: John Sayles
Emerging Masters: Tom Tykwer, François Ozon, Michael Winterbottom, Dorota Kedzierzawska


FESTIVAL CATALOG


25TH ANNIVERSARY BOOK

On this page: FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Photos

Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violiin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violiin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violiin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violiin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald

Guests gather at the corner of Pine and 9th at the Paramount Theatre for the Opening Night of the 25th Seattle International Film Festival

Guests gather at the corner of Pine and 9th at the Paramount Theatre for the Opening Night of the 25th Seattle International Film Festival

Guests gather at the corner of Pine and 9th at the Paramount Theatre for the Opening Night of the 25th Seattle International Film Festival

Guests gather at the corner of Pine and 9th at the Paramount Theatre for the Opening Night of the 25th Seattle International Film Festival

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, shakes hands with director, Michael Winterbottom, during the Emerging Masters series

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, shakes hands with director, Michael Winterbottom, during the Emerging Masters series

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, shakes hands with director, Michael Winterbottom, during the Emerging Masters series

Festival founder, Darryl Macdonald, shakes hands with director, Michael Winterbottom, during the Emerging Masters series

Writer/Director, Martyn Burke, and actor, Anthony Michael Hall, visit Seattle to show their film, Pirates of Silicon Valley

Writer/Director, Martyn Burke, and actor, Anthony Michael Hall, visit Seattle to show their film, Pirates of Silicon Valley

Writer/Director, Martyn Burke, and actor, Anthony Michael Hall, visit Seattle to show their film, Pirates of Silicon Valley

Writer/Director, Martyn Burke, and actor, Anthony Michael Hall, visit Seattle to show their film, Pirates of Silicon Valley

Actor, Bruce Willis, graces the stage, with director, Alan Rudolph, to celebrate their film, Breakfast of Champions

Actor, Bruce Willis, graces the stage, with director, Alan Rudolph, to celebrate their film, Breakfast of Champions

Actor, Bruce Willis, graces the stage, with director, Alan Rudolph, to celebrate their film, Breakfast of Champions

Actor, Bruce Willis, graces the stage, with director, Alan Rudolph, to celebrate their film, Breakfast of Champions

Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge

Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge

Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge

Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge

Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
The Dinner Game
The Dinner Game
Buena Vista Social Club
Buena Vista Social Club
Drylongso
Drylongso
Head On
Head On
Run Lola Run
Run Lola Run
Chutney Popcorn
Chutney Popcorn

FULL LINEUP DETAILS

Awards

Golden Space Needle Awards

Best Film
Run Lola Run (dir. Tom Tykwer, Germany)

Best Director
John Sayles (Lone Star, USA)

Best Actress
Piper Laurie (The Mao Game)

Best Actor
Rupert Everett (An Ideal Husband)

Best Short
12 Stops of the Road to Nowhere (dir. Jay Lowi, USA)

Best Documentary
Buena Vista Social Club (dir. Wim Wenders, USA)

Juried Competition Awards

New Directors Competition Grand Jury Prize
Rosie (dir. Patrice Toye, 1998, Belgium)

New American Cinema Competition Grand Jury Prize
Dead Dogs (dir. Clay Eide, 1999, USA)

List of Feature-Length Films

12 Storeys - dir. Eric Khoo, 1997, Singapore

A Soldier’s Sweetheart - dir. Thomas Michael Donnelly, 1998, USA

Above Freezing - dir. Frank Todaro, 1998, USA

Actresses - dir. Ventura Pons, 1996, Spain

Adam & Eva - dir. Mans Herngren, Hannes Holm, 1997, Sweden

Un Air de Famille - dir. Cedric Klapisch, 1997, France

Airbag - dir. Juanma Bajo Ulloa, 1997, Spain/Portugal/Germany

Amor Vertical - dir. Arturo Sotto, 1997, Cuba

Around the Fire - dir. John Jacobsen, 1998, USA

The Baby Dance - dir. Jane Anderson, 1998, USA

Backroads - dir. Emilio Martinez- Lazaro, 1997, Spain

Bandits - dir. Katja von Garnier, 1997, Germany

The Beyond - dir. Lucio Fulci, 1981, Italy

Billy’s Hollywood Screen Kiss - dir. Tommy O’Haver, 1997, USA

Black Angel - dir. Ishii Takashi, 1997, Japan

Black Mask - dir. Daniel Lee, 1997, Hong Kong

Blind Faith - dir. Ernest Dickerson, 1998, USA

Blinded - dir. Daniel Calparsoro, 1997, Spain

The Brandon Teena Story - dir. Susan Muska, Greta Olafsdottir, 1998, USA

Broken Vessels - dir. Scott Ziehl, 1998, USA

Brother - dir. Alexei Balabanov, 1997, Russia

Buffalo 66 - dir. Vincent Gallo, 1998, USA

Burn - dir. Scott Storm, 1998, USA

The Campus - dir. Sonke Wortmann, 1998, Germany

Caresses - dir. Ventura Pons, 1997, Spain

Carried Away - dir. Paul Kostick, 1998, USA

The Children of Heaven - dir. Majid Majidi, 1997, Iran

Chile, The Obstinate Memory - dir. Patricio Guzman, 1997, Canada/Chile/France

Claudine’s Return - dir. Antonio Tibaldi, 1998, USA

Cleopatra’s Second Husband - dir. Jon Reiss, 1998, USA

Cloud Capped Star - dir. Ritwik Ghatak, 1960, India

Comedia Infantil - dir. Solveig Nordlund, 1998, Mozambique/Sweden/Portugal

Conceiving Ada - dir. Lynn Hershman Leeson, 1997, USA

Cousin Bette - dir. Des McAnuff, 1998, USA

Dancemaker - dir. Matthew Diamond, 1998, USA

Dark Harbor - dir. Adam Coleman Howard, 1998, USA

Day of the Beast - dir. Alex de la Iglesia, 1996, Spain

Dead Man’s Curve - dir. Dan Rosen, 1998, USA

Dear Jesse - dir. Tim Kirkman, 1998, USA

Deja Vu - dir. Henry Jaglom, 1998, USA

Delivered - dir. Guy Ferland, 1998, USA

Denial - dir. Adam Rifkin, 1998, USA

Digging to China - dir. Timothy Hutton, 1998, USA

Dirty - dir. Bruce Sweeney, 1997, Canada

Doing Time for Patsy Cline - dir. Chris Kennedy, 1997, Australia

Dry Cleaning - dir. Anne Fontaine, 1997, France

Felice...Felice - dir. Peter Delpeut, 1998, Netherlands

Fiber Optics - dir. Francisco Athie, 1997, Mexico

The File of Anna Akhmatova - dir. Semyon Aranovich, 1989, Russia

Firelight - dir. William Nicholson, 1997, Great Britain/USA

First Love, Last Rites - dir. Jesse Peretz, 1997, USA

Floating - dir. William Roth, 1998, USA

Forgotten Light - dir. Vladimir Michalek, 1997, Czech Republic

Frank Lloyd Wright - dir. Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, 1998, USA

Frat House - dir. Todd Phillips, Andrew Gurland, 1998, USA

Full Alert - dir. Ringo Lam Ling-tung, 1997, Hong Kong

Full Tilt Boogie - dir. Sarah Kelly, 1997, USA

Funny Games - dir. Michael Haneke, 1997, Austria

Gadjo Dilo - dir. Tony Gatlif, 1997, France/Romania

Genealogies of a Crime - dir. Raoul Ruiz, 1996, France

Georgica - dir. Sulev Keedus, 1998, Estonia

Girl with Hyacinths - dir. Hasse Ekman, 1950, Sweden

God Said Ha! - dir. Julia Sweeney, 1998, USA

Gods and Monsters - dir. Bill Condon, 1998, USA

The Governess - dir. Sandra Goldbacher, 1998, Great Britain

The Hanging Garden - dir. Thom Fitzgerald, 1996, Canada

Henry Fool - dir. Hal Hartley, 1997, USA

Hero - dir. Corey Yuen Kwai, 1997, Hong Kong

High Art - dir. Lisa Cholodenko, 1998, USA

Hold You Tight - dir. Stanley Kwan, 1998, Hong Kong

Homo Heights - dir. Sara Moore, 1997, USA

Honey and Ashes - dir. Nadia Fares, 1996, Tunisia/Switzerland

How the War Started on My Island - dir. Vinko Bresan, 1997, Croatia

How to Make the Cruelest Month - dir. Kip Koenig, 1998, USA

The Human Race - dir. Bobby Houston, 1998, USA

I Married a Strange Person - dir. Bill Plympton, 1997, USA

I Want to be a Vampire - dir. Ulli Lommel, 1997, USA

I Went Down - dir. Paddy Breathnach, 1997, Ireland

Inspirations - dir. Michael Apted, 1998, USA

Jeanne and the Perfect Guy - dir. Olivier Ducastel, Jacques Martineau, 1998, France

Jour de Fete - dir. Jacques Tati, 1948, France

Jugofilm - dir. Goran Rebic, 1997, Austria

Kiki’s Delivery Service - dir. Hayao Miyazaki, 1998, Japan

Killer Condom - dir. Martin Walz, 1996, Germany

Kingdom I - dir. Lars von Trier, 1995, Denmark

Kingdom II - dir. Lars von Trier, Morten Arnfred, 1997, Denmark

Kisangani Diary - dir. Hubert Sauper, 1997, France/Austria

Kitchen Party - dir. Gary Burns, 1997, Canada

Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door - dir. Thomas Jahn, 1997, Germany

Land of the Deaf - dir. Valery Todorovsky, 1998, Russia

The Last Bus Home - dir. Johnny Gogan, 1997, Ireland

The Last Days of Disco - dir. Whit Stillman, 1998, USA

Late Full Moon - dir. Edward Zahariev, 1997, Bulgaria/Hungary/Canada

Lawn Dogs - dir. John Duigan, 1997, Great Britain/USA

Lea - dir. Ivan Fila, 1996, Germany

The Life of Jesus - dir. Bruno Dumont, 1997, France

Long Twilight - dir. Attila Janisch, 1997, Hungary

Lost and Found - dir. Ron Burrus, 1998, USA

Love Can Seriously Damage Your Health - dir. Manuel Gomez Pereira, 1996, Spain

Love Tangles - dir. Olivier Peray, 1997, France/Spain/Switzerland

Lucky Star - dir. Ricardo Franco, 1997, Spain/France/Italy

The Man in Her Life - dir. Carlos Siguion-Reyna, 1998, Philippines

Manly Love - dir. Mariano Barroso, 1997, Spain

Marie Baie des Anges - dir. Manuel Pradal, 1997, France

Marthe - dir. Jean-Loup Hubert, 1997, France

Melting Pot - dir. Tom Musca, 1998, USA

Memories - dir. Katsuhiro Otomo, Koji Morimoto, Tensai Okamura, 1997, Japan

Metroland - dir. Philip Saville, 1997, Great Britain/France

The Mirror - dir. Jafar Panahi , 1997, Iran

Modulations - dir. Iara Lee, 1998, USA

Motello - dir. Mikael Wikke, Steen Rasmussen, 1998, Denmark

Mothertime - dir. Matthew Jacobs, 1997, Great Britain

Mr. Jealousy - dir. Noah Baumbach, 1998, USA

Mr. P’s Dancing Sushi Bar - dir. Hirotaka Tashiro, 1998, USA/Vietnam

My Secret Cache - dir. Shinobu Yaguchi, 1996, Japan

Next Stop, Wonderland - dir. Brad Anderson, 1998, USA

Nights of Cabiria - dir. Federico Fellini, 1957, Italy/France

Nosferatu - dir. F.W. Murnau, 1922, Germany

The Opium War - dir. Xie Jin, 1997, China

The Opposite of Sex - dir. Don Roos, 1998, USA

Out of the Past - dir. Jeffrey Dupre, 1998, USA

The Oyster and the Wind - dir. Walter Lima Jr., 1997, Brazil

Perfect Circle - dir. Ademir Kenovic, 1997, Bosnia/France

The Pharmacist - dir. Rainer Kaufmann, 1997, Germany

Possums - dir. J. Max Burnett, 1998, USA

Post Coitum - dir. Brigitte Rouan, 1997, France

Postman Blues - dir. Sabu, 1997, Japan

Push! Push! - dir. Park Chul-Soo, 1997, South Korea

Pusher - dir. Nicolas Winding Refn, 1997, Denmark

The Race to Save 100 Years - dir. Scott Benson, 1997, USA

Rashomon - dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1951, Japan

The Red Door - dir. Buddhadeb Dasgupta, 1997, India

Regular Guys - dir. Rolf Silber, 1996, Germany

Relax…It’s Just Sex - dir. P.J. Castellaneta, 1998, USA

Remembering Sex - dir. Julie Lynch, 1998, USA

Reno Finds Her Mom - dir. Lydia Dean Pilcher, 1997, USA

Resurrection Man - dir. Marc Evans, 1997, Great Britain

Road to Nhill - dir. Sue Brooks, 1997, Australia

The Saltmen of Tibet - dir. Ulrike Koch, 1997, Germany/Switzerland

See the Sea - dir. Francois Ozon, 1997, France

Sex/Life in L.A. - dir. Jochen Hick, 1998, Germany

Shooting Fish - dir. Stefan Schwartz, 1997, Great Britain

Six Ways to Sunday - dir. Adam Bernstein, 1998, USA

The Sixth Happiness - dir. Waris Hussein, 1997, Great Britain/India

Smoke Signals - dir. Chris Eyre, 1997, USA

Southie - dir. John Shea, 1998, USA

Stella Does Tricks - dir. Coky Giedroyc, 1997, Great Britain

The Sugar Factory - dir. Robert Carter, 1998, Australia

Surrender Dorothy - dir. Kevin Di Novis, 1998, USA

Thank God He Met Lizzie - dir. Cherie Nowlan, 1997, Australia

The Thief - dir. Pavel Chukhrai, 1997, Russia

Things I Left in Havana - dir. Manuel Gutierrez Aragon, 1997, Spain

This Is My Father - dir. Paul Quinn, 1998, Canada/Ireland

Tic Tac - dir. Daniel Alfredson, 1997, Sweden

Tokyo Lullaby - dir. Jun Ichikawa, 1997, Japan

Tomorrow Night - dir. Louis C.K., 1998, USA

Tonka - dir. Jean-Hugues Anglade, 1997, France/Italy

Tranceformer - dir. Stig Bjorkman, Fredrik Von Krusenstjerna, 1997, Denmark

Uncut - dir. John Greyson, 1997, Canada

Under Heaven - dir. Meg Richman, 1998, USA

Under the Skin - dir. Carine Adler, 1997, Great Britain

The Unknown Cyclist - dir. Bernard Salzman, 1998, USA

Voyage to the Beginning of the World - dir. Manoel de Oliveira, 1997, Portugal/France

Waco: The Rules of Engagement - dir. William Gazecki, 1997, USA

War Zone - dir. Maggie Hadleigh-West, 1998, USA/Germany

The Well - dir. Samantha Lang, 1997, Australia

Whatever - dir. Susan Skoog, 1998, USA

When Trumpets Fade - dir. John Irvin, 1998, USA

White Witch Doctor - dir. Henry Hathaway, 1953, USA

Who the Hell is Juliette? - dir. Carlos Marcovich, 1997, Mexico/Cuba

Wicked - dir. Michael Steinberg, 1998, USA

Wilde - dir. Brian Gilbert, 1997, Great Britain

Wintersleepers - dir. Tom Tykwer, 1997, Germany

Xiu Xiu - The Sent Down Girl - dir. Joan Chen, 1998, USA

Young & Dangerous 5 - dir. Andrew Lau, Wai Keung, 1997, Hong Kong

Yours and Mine - dir. Wang Shaudi, 1997, Taiwan

Special Programs & Events

25th Anniversary Art Auction 

25th Anniversary Gala - included Breakfast of Champions, The Red Violin, The Ideal Husband, To Walk With Lions, At Sachem Farm

The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day One Trade. Business. Art. Industry. Craft - included Truth With An Attitude, The First Rehearsal, A Conversation with…, Screenwriters Salon Presents…

The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day Two Is Digital Video a New Alternative? - included Get Ready to Rumble, From the Basement Up, Flashing 101 - The Art of Exhibition, Pre-Movie Soundtrack - Film Spotting

The 5th Annual Filmmakers Forum Flashback. Fast Forward: Day Three The Art of Audience Participation - included State of the Art - Critical Mass & Independent Film, Lion King, Fly Filmmaking - Cast and Crew Screening, Fly Filmmaking - How the Film Was Done 

Adrenaline Rush - included Angel of the Night, Portland Street Blues, True Mob Story, Unlucky Monkey 

Archival Presentations - included The Hole, Some Like It Hot, The Third Man

CineCafe Discussions with Jennifer Steinberg - included Love At First Sight?, Under One Roof, Love Ain’t Nothing But Sex Misspelled, Manage a Plot, You Lookin’ at Me?, It’s the End of the World as We Know It…, Take Mine Dark, Bad Taste, Black Humor, and More

Documentaries: Truth with an Attitude - included 23 feature films

Drive-In Party - included Pep Squad, Can’t Stop Dancing, Final Rinse, Angel of the Night

Emerging Master–Dorota Kedzierzawska - included Nothing, Devils, Devils 

Emerging Master–François Ozon - included Sitcom, Short Films from François Ozon

Emerging Master–Michael Winterbottom - included I Want You, Welcome to Sarajevo 

Emerging Master–Tom Tykwer - included Run Lola Run, Deadly Maria

Erotic City - included A Glass of Rage, Naughty Bits, Speedy Boys, Thundercrack 

An Evening with John Sayles Limbo

Films 4 Families - included The Basket, Grandma and Her Ghosts, Star Sisters, Tom’s Midnight Garden

Flashback Films: 25 Years of Introducing the Future - included 10 feature films

New Directors Showcase - included 13 feature films  

Poster Auction: Going Once, Going Twice, Going…Online! 

The Secret Festival

Shorts Program - included American Roadway, Boy’s Briefs, International Shorts, Northwest Filmmakers Showcase, Women In Cinema 

Space Needle Awards

Special Benefit Screening Money Buys Happiness 

Special Archival Presentation - included Battleship Potemkin, Porgy & Bess