SIFF 2006

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 [...]

Films Today: 2 (counting the shorts program)
Running Total: 20
Man I am officially two weeks behind on my SIFF blogging. I got off to such a good start too. However I guarantee to you, my 3 dedicated readers, that I will put down some mediocre rantings about every day and every film of the fest [...]

Films Today: 1
Running Total: 18
I was totally fried today as predicted. I ended up taking off a bit early from work so I could beat the traffic to Bellevue, and since I got there a couple hours before the movie I took a little nap in my car. Ah yes, the glamorous film festival lifestyle.
Speaking [...]

Films Today: 2
Running Total: 17
I knew we were entering a tough stretch here. Two movies tonight at 7 and 9, then work in the morning, then across the great beyond to the Eastside for another movie tomorrow night. Life’s tough, I know.
Today was Rossellini day - The Flowers Of St Francis and Rome, Open City [...]

Films Today: 3
Running Total: 15
It was another long walk to NWFF from work today. No pre-show excitement like yesterday thankfully. The lineup was two shorter features - 42 and 50 minutes each. The first was How Little We Know Of Our Neighbors, an interesting look at a movement in Britain called Mass Observation. These guys [...]

Films Today: 1
Running Total: 12
Sadly the long weekend is over, and its back to work and even worse only one or two movies a day. It will make these entries easier to write though. So today’s only showing is a Darkness Swallowed at NWFF. This is only 1.2 miles from work so I figured I [...]

Films Today: 3
Running Total: 11
5/29 was to be our first four movie day. We started at Neptune to see Princess Raccoon. Man everyone is playing Sudoku in line this year. There was a guy behind me playing this handheld Sudoku game in line. This thing is bigger than a PDA and he’s carrying it around [...]