Author Archives 
Jeffrey Overstreet is the author of "a memoir of dangerous moviegoing" called Through a Screen Darkly, and two fantasy novels – Auralia's Colors and Cyndere's Midnight. He blogs at LookingCloser.org. Each month he writes about foreign, independent, and overlooked movies at Christianity Today and Image. He received the 2007 Spiritus Award at the City of the Angels Film Festival. Favorite filmmakers: Kieslowski, Malick, PT Anderson, Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Miyazaki, Brothers Dardennes & Coen, Brad Bird & Andrew Stanton. He's the contributing editor for Seattle Pacific University's award-winning Response magazine. When he's not at SPU, or Seattle's $3-ticket arthouse theater (the Crest), he's probably lurking in Shoreline coffee shops. Also on Twitter (jeff_overstreet) and Facebook.
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Michael Stuhlbarg on being cast as a Coen Brothers lead
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Hey, Bill Condon. Have you heard Joe Henry’s song about Richard Pryor?
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Gaiman’s Girls: Part 2 – Mirrormask’s Mysteries
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Gaiman’s Girls: Part One – Coraline’s Dreams
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Earn a film degree at Filmwell.
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Harlan Ellison Performs a Seussian Version of Josh Olson’s Article about.. um, well, Script-reading.
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The End: A trailer for the end of the world by Richard Seitz and Matt Zoller Seitz
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The Class (Cantet, 2008) and To Be and To Have (Philibert, 2002) – Teacher Appreciation Day on DVD
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Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 6 – Orson Welles
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In memory of Andrew Sarris’s New York Observer reviews.
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If Filmwell had an official short film…
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Caille en Sarcophage? Hallelujah! — A Tribute to Films About Feasting
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Where Your Treasure Is: Finding Value in the “Stuff” of Summer Hours
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“…the one issue that really counts…”
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Filmwell’s Book of Filmmaker Wisdom: Excerpt 1 – Bergman
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Which Unlikely Remake is Shooting Right Now?
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A Cinema of Listening and Looking: A Filmwell Conversation with Lee Isaac Chung, Part Two
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A Cinema of Listening and Looking: A Filmwell Conversation with Lee Isaac Chung, Part One
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Retrospectives: an essay by Lee Isaac Chung, director of Munyurangabo
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Three reviews worth noting. (Challenge: There’s an “h” missing from this headline.)
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2009 Cannes Jury Hands Out Surprising Awards
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The Dardennes’ Masterclass at Cannes
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Recycling: Favorite moments from Terminator Salvation
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Scenes from a review of Lake Tahoe
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Matt Zoller Seitz defends Benjamin Button
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Actors, Directors, and Suspension of Disbelief, Part One: Is Michael Caine There?
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A three-star rant about thumbs.
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Ceylan’s Three Monkeys free Sunday on The Auteurs
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Jesus is Hulu-er than thou
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Times and Winds (Erdem, 2006)