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Friday, June 1, 2007

SIFF 2007: Fri Highlights

posted by on June 1 at 9:45 AM

The Stranger’s recommendations for every slot in SIFF continue below and at SIFF Notes Online: www.thestranger.com/siff.

FRIDAY JUNE 1:

Pacific Place, 2 pm: Yet again, you only have one choice for the afternoon slot in the festival. And yet again, this is one choice you can’t mess up. Brendan Kiley adores The Cloud, a nuclear teen romance from Germany. (That’s right, Germany, my dear haters.)

The Cloud

The second slot is full of riches. Eagle vs. Shark (Neptune at 4 pm) will be coming out later this summer (and I’ll actually be interviewing the director as this post goes up), but if you liked Napoleon Dynamite, you should not miss this goofy New Zealand romance. It’s completely derivative, but I very much enjoyed myself. There’s another screening of the excellent acid disfiguration romance Crazy Love (Pacific Place at 4:30 pm). Also recommended for politicos and film buffs, respectively: the Ukrainian doc Orange Revolution (Harvard Exit at 4 pm), the made-for-Polish TV doc Still Alive: A Film About Krzysztof Kieslowski (Egyptian at 5 pm). I don’t recommend Armin (Lincoln Square, 4 pm), a PTSD-epilepsy mashup about a Bosnian child actor, but if you’re on the Eastside and have no other choice, a mildly intriguing Romanian short by the assistant director of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu is screening in front of it.

Pacific Place, 7 pm: I’m definitely most excited about Protagonist, the new experimental doc by In the Realms of the Unreal director Jessica Yu. It’s been picked up by IFC for theatrical distribution, however, so we should see it in Seattle soon.

Protagonist

Another excellent option is Life on the Edge (Harvard Exit at 7 pm), a jazz-infused Catalan drama.

Egyptian, 9:30 pm: Megan Seling digs Doug Pray’s new trucker doc Big Rig. Also splendid: the French mystery-action film Tell No One (Neptune, 9:45 pm). You can watch a trailer at this website. And here is an awesome production still:

Filming _Tell No One_

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A friend who say Crazy Love says it as a wonderful and amazing film.

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