Old, new, major, minorâhereâs our city, and sometimes our state, on the screen.
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A pan across lake union. Then we plunge into a tugboat s engine room, where we meet the married, middle-aged couple who own it. They ll spend the next hour and a half engaged in bouts of slapstick bickering. Thatâs how Seattle first hit cinema screens, in 1933, in
Tugboat Annie. It s not exactly a must-see, but since then, the city and the state around it have been portrayed in hundreds of movies (many shot in Vancouver, BC). Below are brief reviews of films that are significantly set here, divided alphabetically into three categories: Definitely Watch, Worth a Watch, and Skip. Weâll keep adding as we keep watching.
It’s in our blood: Thoughts on watching 50/50, and being by a friend s side through cancer Cancer, by nature, lacks the fullness of a film. It is in fact the intermission of other films of family dramas, workspace comedies, psychological thrillers.and silent bromances. Rahul Desai January 22, 2021 09:55:02 IST Seth Rogen and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in a still from 50/50
The Viewfinder is a fortnightly column by writer and critic Rahul Desai, that looks at films through a personal lens.
One morning last November, the pandemic became the least of my fears. One of my oldest friends informed me that he had been diagnosed with leukemia. I’m resisting reductive labels like ‘best friend’ and ‘closest friend’ here. For raging introverts like me, every friend is a best friend and closest friend at different points in time. This includes dogs and imag