Police Beat (2005)ĭirector Robinson Devor’s film follows a Seattle police bike cop Z (Pape Sidy Niang) through a week of surreal calls: having to throw away a dead goose, telling a man not to sharpen a machete in front of his neighbor.
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The martial arts action here is played both for spectacle and laughs, and the movie overall is a goofy, charismatic comedy with some serious undertones and deep ties to the Chinatown–International District. Nevertheless, the trio reunites to sleuth out their master’s killer. Danny is now a lackluster divorced father, and Hing has a bad knee from a workplace injury and rocks a mighty dad bod. Then their former rival insinuates that the death may be no accident. Twenty-five years later, they find out Cheung has died. They grew up together in Seattle as gung fu hotshots training under their master Sifu Cheung (Roger Yuan). This action comedy centers on three friends: Danny (Alain Uy), Jim (Mykel Shannon Jenkins), and Hing (Ron Yuan). This is a careful, compassionate look at how tragedy echoes through lives, galvanized by smart performances, particularly Duplass who plays Chris as if his demeanor-a guarded hope-had paused in adolescence, a case of literal arrested development. She’s unhappily married, with a teenage daughter, whom Chris befriends. As she fought for his release, they developed an ambiguous bond, which he now wants to turn into a real relationship. Carol (Edi Falco), a Granite Falls high school teacher, has worked for years to get her former student Chris (Jay Duplass) released from prison after years of being locked up for a murder he didn’t commit.
Lynn Shelton’s final Washington-state film-filmed on location in Granite Falls, all gray skies and verdant foliage-is also her finest. For proof of the film’s persisting relevance, you need only know that it ends with people complaining about condo construction.
But Hype! smartly looks at how grunge was as much a feat of marketing (especially by Sub Pop) as of art. Hype! (1996)Ī grunge documentary could easily become another part of the brouhaha around early ’90s Seattle. What could just yuk it up for bromance laughs instead becomes a tender, intelligent take on sexual identity, masculinity, and progressive Seattleite inclusiveness. The late writer-director Lynn Shelton’s breakthrough piece remains a vital work of local moviemaking, following two straight male friends who decide to have sex with each other on camera. The story is well worn, but even three decades after its release, the chemistry between the three leads feels brand-new. Though set in the late 1980s, this calls back to 1940s Hollywood romance and glamour-all pianos and innuendo, cigarettes and bad behavior. When they bring a singer into the fold-a former escort played by Michelle Pfeiffer-things get romantically and filially complicated. Beau is the dorky, married businessman Jeff is the louche, laconic, gifted artist. Real-life brothers Jeff and Beau Bridges star as the Baker boys, a piano jazz duo who slink around Seattle playing small-time lounges. And it’s “just the right amount of pretentious.” The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) “It’s less superficial than other drag scenes I’ve seen,” Hoffer says, noting that here drag cross-pollinates with other art forms. Told through interviews with Hoffer, friends, and family, the movie offers a funny and holistic look at Hoffer’s life on stage and off, as well as what sets the Seattle drag scene apart. This documentary traces the life of Seattle’s Jerick Hoffer (the person behind the Jinkx persona) as they grow up, start doing drag at 15, head to Cornish College of the Arts, become Monsoon, win that season of Drag Race, and have their career blossom. Jinkx Monsoon was the first queen from the Pacific Northwest to appear on RuPaul’s Drag Race. Image: Tim Evanson / CC Drag Becomes Him (2015)
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