Director, François Girard, and screenwriter, Don McKellar, in town for their film, The Red Violiin, in conversation with festival founder, Darryl Macdonald
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
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
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
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
Director, Julia Sweeney, in action as she participates in the Fly Filmmaking Challenge
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)
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)
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
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