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ironymaiden) wrote2021-04-11 08:09 pm
ironymaiden) wrote2021-04-11 08:09 pm
SIFF day four
streaming film festival isn't film festival and deciding to watch feels like an obligation. i don't grudge SIFF the money (that was spent long ago for the 2020 festival, and there's still some left over to kick into 2022) but yeah this kind of sucks.
today when i woke up i wanted two things: to spend time with C and soak up sun on the balcony. i did both of those things and didn't start watching movies until sometime in the afternoon, and then i had a social date and walked the dog and i'm not feeling like watching another today.
Conductivity
doc that follows three students at the Sibelius Academy learning to be conductors. this was very much a Sunday afternoon SIFF experience in that i was tired and there was a lot of nice symphony music and i nodded off a little. it was a fly-on-the-wall piece and it was pretty cool, just not gripping per se. i found myself more caught up in the details of life in Finland (double revolving doors, folks in a swimming hole that seemed to be cut out of the ice) than the actual conducting story.
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
it turns out two popular gay American writers from the 50s were friends. the doc is a narrative of their friendship told by interview footage and audio of actors reading their letters and diaries. as a Theatre Person i wanted to like this more than i did, i found myself most fascinated by seeing Capote age from an ethereally beautiful young man into a bulgy-headed troll.
today when i woke up i wanted two things: to spend time with C and soak up sun on the balcony. i did both of those things and didn't start watching movies until sometime in the afternoon, and then i had a social date and walked the dog and i'm not feeling like watching another today.
Conductivity
doc that follows three students at the Sibelius Academy learning to be conductors. this was very much a Sunday afternoon SIFF experience in that i was tired and there was a lot of nice symphony music and i nodded off a little. it was a fly-on-the-wall piece and it was pretty cool, just not gripping per se. i found myself more caught up in the details of life in Finland (double revolving doors, folks in a swimming hole that seemed to be cut out of the ice) than the actual conducting story.
Truman and Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation
it turns out two popular gay American writers from the 50s were friends. the doc is a narrative of their friendship told by interview footage and audio of actors reading their letters and diaries. as a Theatre Person i wanted to like this more than i did, i found myself most fascinated by seeing Capote age from an ethereally beautiful young man into a bulgy-headed troll.