Slog - Comments on This Weekend at the Movies http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/this_weekend_at_the_movies_58 No news, SIFF is keeping me too busy! But here's what we've got in the paper this week. Sandi Cioffi writes about being detained in Nigeria during the filming of a documentary about oil production there. (Sweet Crude screened in a work-in-progress version at last year's SIFF.) From her feature: At one point, after sleeping for two hours, I was woken for interrogation. I was questioned four times total—once for six hours. A constant feature of interrogation is the fear of what might come if I failed to give them what they wanted, though I never knew what that actually... Copyright 2008 Fri, 30 May 2008 15:35:38 -0800 Fri, 30 May 2008 20:48:16 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle You said it true - "thanks to torture-averse Seattle filmgoers" ... look, I don't care how good Errol Morris is, I'm not going to watch that movie.

The Fall was good.

The films that I think are good this weekend are: Captain Ahab, Idiots and Angels (Plimpton, need I say more ...), Young Adam, Evangelion 1.0, Kung Fu Panda (yes, I know, you too cool for school SLOG people don't love Jack Black in an animated flik, but you should), Fighter, Waking Dreams (shorts package), Rare Gems from Pilot Studios (shorts package), and Blind Mountain.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/this_weekend_at_the_movies_58#c1036517 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/this_weekend_at_the_movies_58#c1036517 Film Fri, 30 May 2008 15:47:58 -0800 Comment by ellarosa too bad. errol morris is a man of true integrity. a rare person, artist, champion of the underdog. and he gets so little in return. and no, i can't stand to watch or contemplate torture. so i won't be watching the abu graib movie either. i'm morally tortured by this fact.

]]> ellarosa http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/this_weekend_at_the_movies_58#c1036979 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/this_weekend_at_the_movies_58#c1036979 Film Fri, 30 May 2008 20:48:16 -0800