SIFF Outside Reading & a Quick Correction
posted by on May 27 at 10:45 AM
First, the correction: An alert SIFF Notes reader noticed that the first date in the capsule review of Manufactured Landscapes is incorrect. The correct date and time is today, Sunday May 26 27 at 7 pm at the Harvard Exit, not Monday. The SIFF Notes grid and website have the correct information.
And some notes for further reading:
The New York Times has a profile today of the unforgettable couple featured in Crazy Love, which plays at the festival Wednesday and Friday.
Also: Not many movies come complete with a director’s statement, but the two movies in SIFF which were commissioned by Peter Sellars’s New Crowned Hope Festival to celebrate the 250th birthday of Mozart are accompanied by elucidating essays. Read about Tsai Ming-Liang’s I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (at the festival Wednesday May 30 and Saturday June 2) and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century (at the festival Monday June 4 and Thurs June 7) at this web page (choose “English,” then “Program”).
Funny, that what I expect to be two of the best films in the fest, by two of Asia's finest new directors come with 'users manuals' for the western world. These be curious times in which we live still when new art needs essays of introduction...
Well, to be fair, these particular films were each also commissioned by the western world. What's really curious is that Tsai's earlier film The Wayward Cloud isn't in the festival and hasn't been seen in Seattle at all.
Yes, good point. Each was in-part funded by French / Austrian production companies. I just wonder about the validity of the 'statement of introduction' still used for any modern art. I'm just of the 'go and experience it and come up with your own relationship w/ the thing' school. Esp in the case of work by directors like these two. Yes, bummer that 'Wayward Cloud' never played in Seattle. It played last year in NY... and of course Scarecrow Video has it.
May 26 is a Saturday, by the way. I hope no one got in their time machine to see Manufactured Landscapes on the wrong day.
Oh, excellent. I love having to correct my corrections. It played yesterday, which was indeed the 27th. SIFF Notes Online and the grid were correct.
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