The Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) ended two weeks ago, I know, but I gave up six weeks of my life to the festival and had some catching up to do!

SIFF started a little rough for me, as I was embroiled in an effort to get SIFF to release a privacy policy for data it claimed it didn’t collect, then said it wouldn’t use but did. This issue was covered by The Seattle Weekly, mostly from my point of view.

I also had a front-row view of a patron who sat in the wrong seat at Pacific Place, virtually dared management to toss him and then was (tossed). Finally, I was at a benefit screening of DECODING ANNIE PARKER, when the projector at The Egyptian broke down about a third of the way through the film. In retrospect, this was a signal of things happening behind the theater’s impending closing.

That all said, I saw more screenings (111, including Smoke Screenings and a couple duplicates) than ever, but also a higher percentage of films I really enjoyed. I offer this list because it might help you decide when some/many of these become available at the theater, Netflix, iTunes, etc. My tolerance of films usually is pretty high; if I find one aspect (story, direction, acting, cinematography) that is redeeming, I will have considered myself entertained. However, seeing this many films in such a compressed period of time also gives me a lot more context.

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