Slog - Comments on This Weekend at the Movies http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11 First, the news. The Cannes lineup has been announced. We probably won't see these movies for a long time--in most cases, SIFF, which comes right on the heels of Cannes, can't get its hands on anything. Last year, I believe only one film, A Scanner Darkly, showed at both festivals, and at SIFF it was a sneak preview screening. SIFF 2006 did, however, have a handful of Cannes 2005 films, mostly lower-profile or Eastern hemisphere stuff that hadn't opened theatrically. So read it and drool. There's some loud buzzing around the fact that Cho Seung-Hui might have gotten the idea... Copyright 2008 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:05:04 -0800 Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:07:03 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by SeMe A beautiful write up on Loach's new film by Mudede. Its good to see good lefty reviews about this important film maker. Amazingly this film has been playing ON DEMAND at the IFC if you have Comcast. I dont agree with Charles that its Loach's best film. I think his best is Hidden Agenda about the collusion between the British forces in Northern Ireland and the protestant paramilitaries, it is also one of Frances Mc Dormant's best performances. The wind that shakes the barley is indeed a sad film, but the betrayal by the Republican Army and their abandonment of the North of Ireland to the British crown has never been more beautifully and poetically put on film. It is also about the compromises and the cruelty and the ordinary nature of war. It is about how war sometimes compromises things. It is a bit preachy a little like his film on Nicaragua Carla's song. Hell of a review bro Charles.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697358 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697358 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:24:08 -0800 Comment by josh of course, in 2005 SIFF and Cannes both had Me and You and Everyone We Know. How they ever managed to score that is beyond me, but I'm thankful that they did.

]]> josh http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697369 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697369 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 16:39:52 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Hot Fuzz is going to be the untold summer movie hit this year.

But you didn't hear it from me.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697413 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697413 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 17:04:55 -0800 Comment by Maggie Fuzz is great, but yes it just needed to cut out a leeeetle bit. Would have been perfect!

]]> Maggie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697528 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697528 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 18:31:28 -0800 Comment by Fuax Show I loved the Fuzz! I got to attend that premier a few weeks ago and it was great. I agree, it could've cut some parts out and been just fine. But Pegg/Frost are always such a treat to watch!

]]> Fuax Show http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697588 Arts Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:07:30 -0800 Comment by Gabriel I just read Andrew's review of Hot Fuzz, and he really got it backwards. Shaun of the Dead was a fair-to-middling comedy and had some great moments, but petered out at the end and simple became a zombie flick. Hot Fuzz is leaner and better-written, and very hilarious throughout. It didn't bog down for me at all, and it's definitely the superior film of the two.

]]> Gabriel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697791 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/04/this_weekend_at_the_movies_11#c697791 Arts Sat, 21 Apr 2007 03:07:03 -0800