Slog - Comments on SIFF Hot Tip: Week One Rocks http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/siff_hot_tip_week_one_rocks Our comprehensive guide to the Seattle International Film Festival should go live later this evening, but I've got a few early tips to whet your appetite. From my introduction to the guide: If you’re thinking about a weeklong pass, the first week of the festival seems especially packed with gems, including this year’s low-key Sundance discovery Ballast; The Last Mistress, Catherine Breillat’s exciting venture into period filmmaking; The Edge of Heaven, Fatih Akin’s superb followup to Head-On; Jia Zhang-ke’s semi-recent feature Still Life; and Casting a Glance, a new landscape film by experimental filmmaker James Benning. We also adored the... Copyright 2008 Tue, 20 May 2008 13:27:03 -0800 Tue, 20 May 2008 16:23:42 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle I'd have to agree it's chock full of film goodness this year, and unlike past years where I could spend a day or two at Folklife and not miss much - this year I'm forced to choose between 2 or 3 great film choices at the same time almost the entire Memorial Day weekend ...

Some that my friends concur with you on: The Last Mistress, The Edge of Heaven, Boy A (not my choice, but everyone else wants to see it); Chris & Don: A Love Story; The Fall, The Red Awn, and one I'm really really surprised you missed ... Vexille.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/siff_hot_tip_week_one_rocks#c1028495 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/siff_hot_tip_week_one_rocks#c1028495 SIFF Tue, 20 May 2008 14:02:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle oh, just found out i have an extra ticket for the Opening Night film ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/siff_hot_tip_week_one_rocks#c1028656 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/siff_hot_tip_week_one_rocks#c1028656 SIFF Tue, 20 May 2008 16:23:42 -0800