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Thursday, May 31, 2007

SIFF 2007: Thurs Highlights

posted by on May 31 at 12:07 PM

The Stranger’s suggested viewing for every slot in the festival continues below and at SIFF Notes Online: www.thestranger.com/siff. There’s a new venue, starting today: way out in Bellevue, you can enjoy the cushy, independently owned seats at Lincoln Square Cinemas.

THURSDAY MAY 31:

Pacific Place, 2 pm: The first movie of the day is again decided for you. The dreamy Spanish epilepsy tale Doghead is the only thing in this slot. But hooray, it’s excellent.

Doghead

In the mood for an elaborate Hong Kong spaghetti western homage? Johnny To’s Exiled (Egyptian at 4:45 pm) is where it’s at. Documentary aficionados should check out Crossing the Line (SIFF Cinema at 4 pm), a North Korea curio about an AWOL American soldier from the director of the excellent A State of Mind.

Northwest Film Forum, 7 pm: Stranger art critic Jen Graves has a NEW REVIEW of Lynn Hershman Leeson’s nonfiction film Strange Culture, about government paranoia and political art:

Strange Culture
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Steve Kurtz has his own personal 9/11: 5/11/2004, when his wife Hope died of heart failure. FBI agents subsequently found in his house harmless bacteria he was using for an artwork in a museum show, and the government began to stalk him as a bioterrorist. The bioterrorism charge had no legs, but the government has continued its attack on Kurtz, whose work is critical of the government’s lack of regulation on the big business of genetically modified foods. (Kurtz is awaiting trial on mail fraud, which could carry a sentence of 20 years in prison.) Artist and filmmaker Lynn Hershman Leeson’s forays into identity get heavy-handed (when Tilda Swinton, for instance, remarks ponderously on the implications of the death of Hope, who she has just played in earlier scenes), but they’re a side show anyway to the main event: a portrait of what happens when your own paranoid government gets into your house. JEN GRAVES

Lincoln Square, 9:45 pm: First, I must point out that Jennifer Aniston’s Seattle directorial debut is happening tonight. Surely someone out there is grateful for this information. (It’s okay—you don’t have to admit it.) If, on the other hand, you absolutely must be the first on your block to see the newest horror comedy—or you’re totally averse to staying up late (it screens again Saturday at midnight)—now’s the time to make the trek out to Bellevue to see Black Sheep. Here’s the trailer:

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I haven't seen it, but I've read about it. I could swear Doghead was a German film. I might be wrong, I haven't checked, I'm just assuming you're being the typical dumb bitch that you are and changing the films region to match your distaste for German cinema.

Posted by Anti-Annie | May 31, 2007 12:37 PM
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Um, you know, I provide links to the relevant film capsule, which in turn links to the SIFF website. It really isn't so hard to check your facts before spewing unwarranted vitriol.

Doghead (original title Cabeza de Perro) is indeed a Spanish film, by Santi Amodeo.

As for my supposed distaste for German cinema... I just pointed out that there were more interesting countries to spotlight this year. Go ahead and look up the German films I have reviewed, and I assure you you'll find no pattern of prejudice.

xo, Annie Wagner (if you're curious, in addition to that one, I've got another grandparent named Kreuzter, and another named Peitz)

Posted by annie | May 31, 2007 12:58 PM
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I don't have a problem with German cinema in general, but I do have a problem with an anonymous SLOGer assigning the moniker of "dumb bitch" to someone because they think some trickster reviewer is trying to fool them into thinking a film titled CABEZA DE PERRO (including a photo of a beautiful young Spanish couple for fuck's sake) is GERMAN.

Posted by Dougsf | May 31, 2007 2:03 PM
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Doghead I've heard is good.

But I'll be seeing The Ten tonight.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 31, 2007 2:18 PM
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One more thing... There's been a few weeks of "Seattle sucks" talk here lately, much of which I've indulged in, but it's important I mention that SEATTLE, YOU KICK OUR (SF) ASS film festival-wise.

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