SIFF 2014: Last weekend coming up

It’s Wednesday, and after a fairly pleasant drive across the state, I’m sitting in a Seattle hotel room waiting to attend two movies at the 2014 Seattle International Film Festival. I’m at the Mediterranean Inn, which sits next door to the SIFF Uptown Cinemas , so I’ll just head over there to see movies at 6 (or 6:30) and 8:30 p.m.

(I haven’t made my mind up which of two earlier films I will see. “Longwave,” a Swiss narrative film about a radio crew covering a story in Portugal during that country’s 1974 “Carnation Revolution” plays at 6; “The Breach,” a Pacific Northwest-made documentary about salmon, plays at 6:30.)

At 8:30, I’ll watch “Macondo,” an Austrian film about a boy’s coming of age following his father’s murder.

This is the last weekend for SIFF 2014. You can still catch a number of good movies ( get box-office info here ). One added benefit to that five-hour drive: At the top of the Vantage hill, we saw a magnificent view of Mount Rainier.