Sound Visions offers eight shorts from Washington State filmmakers in Seattle International Film Festival’s ShortsFest.
Tag Archives: Musical
A Little Night Music (1977)
It is never a good idea to approach a film with preconceived notions of its awfulness. That is not easy when the film in question of the 1977 “A Little Night Music,” which has a reputation for being something of a mess.
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Mother Mary [2026]
A pop star meets with her estranged best friend to try to reconnect with herself and their shared past in David Lowery’s beautifully designed but muddled Mother Mary.
Little Shop of Horrors (1986)
It is impossible to make an intentionally campy film. The whole point of camp is that it never realizes that it is camp. For example, “Valley of the Dolls” is genius camp because it is so wonderfully wrong at every imaginable turn, with the gifted cast trying and cluelessly failing to create alchemy with their material. If the actors started winking at the audience or smirking at their material, then it is not camp – it is just plain dumb.
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Good Manners (2017) [Women In Horror Month 2026]
When Clara takes a nanny job with a soon-to-be mother, her life spirals into a dark fairy tale.
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Merrily We Roll Along [2025]
A composer’s rise to success and the loss of everything else is followed backwards in time in Merrily We Go Along, directed by Maria Friedman in a proshot of the 2023 Tony Award-winning Sondheim musical (originally produced in 1981).
Wicked: For Good [2025]
Elphaba, “The Wicked Witch of the West”, is hunted by various forces, including The Wizard of Oz and her BFF Glinda the Good, in John M. Chu’s Wicked: For Good, the lesser second half of the Broadway adaptation.