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Yes, as per usual I’m a week behind on my SIFF rantings. Will try and get caught up here over the weekend. Anyone looking for ratings of the films I’ve seen can peek at my listology list for a rundown.
One of the nice things about being a passhole is that you get access to all [...]

Yes, it’s true. This year, I am a passhole.

Yeah, my ass did kind of hurt for a couple days afterwards.
But seriously folks, I did really enjoy my viewing of Bela Tarr’s infamously long epic. It was different than I expected in a few ways. First off, I really expected sort of a Hungarian Hou Hisao-hsien or Tsai Ming-liang film, with very long and [...]

It is only slightly over 20 years ago that I saw Naked Raygun for the first time, an event of such enormous and life-changing proportions that it is almost impossible to begin to capture it. At some point after I get back from Chicago I will try. However, here is a taste. One of [...]

Last Thursday, October 19, Naked Raygun played a semi-unannounced warmup show at a small club in Chicago. I was bummed I couldn’t go, this was the first Chicago performance of Naked Raygun I’ve missed since September of 1986. Thank you, however, to the kind soul who posted this video on YouTube. The sound is for [...]

Holy shit Greg’s blogging. So, uh, yeah. 5 months between posts. How about that. You know what it is? I get all up in arms about how everything has to be “written” so that it “makes sense” and you know “has a grand statement” or some shit. I’m done, I’m just gonna blurt and maybe [...]

Films Today: 3
Running Total: 30
Had some schedule changes today, but it was all for the best it seems. First went to the Chuck Chaplin classic The Gold Rush. Most of my silent comedy time has been spent on Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, this was only the second Chaplin I’ve seen and I didn’t like [...]

Films Today: 1
Running Total: 27
I forgot to mention in the entry on The Puffy Chair that there was a short preceding it that was very good called I Am (Not) Van Gogh by David Russo. It was largely filmed at Bumbershoot last year, and it contains some really cool and fascinating stop motion animation done [...]

Films Today: 2
Running Total: 26
6/5 was a day off, with no films. Urban Scarecrow was scheduled but we couldn’t face a 9:30 showing. If there’s one lesson learned from this SIFF it is to ease off on the late night showings on weekdays.
6/6 we had two screenings. First was Hell, directed by Danis Tanovic (who [...]

Films Today: 4
Running Total: 24

Second Sunday of SIFF, and the second Secret Fest film. No real comments, but the film was fun and entertaining. Secret Fest has far surpassed last year already and we’re only two films in. Thumbs up SIFF programmers.
Second film was a Roya pick - The Puffy Chair. Now I wil say [...]