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siff day 6
May. 29th, 2008 08:50 amC picked me up from work today and we had a nice dinner. i had last seen him on Monday. it's likely that the next time i see him awake will be Saturday morning.
Katyń
this is the story of a warcrime and its politicization. the film has a weight of inevitability: it opens with a title card that tells us the history. what follows seems to exist to make the world witness and not forget.* excellently done. the end is unflinchingly brutal and not for the squeamish. more on the Katyń massacre at wikipedia
after that i really needed some mental floss. since the next film was preceded by Burlesque go-go dancers instead of the usual round of SIFF ads, i didn't end up with nightmares. but boy, if i hadn't been so exhausted they would have been extra-surreal.
A Wink and a Smile
this local documentary follows a class of Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque from inspiration to graduation, and weaves their stories together with a sort of best-of the Seattle scene narrated by Miss Indigo Blue. this was the premiere, complete with most of the performers who appeared in the film in the audience. (i regretfully turned down an invite to the after party with Circus Contraption since it was around midnight when we got out of the theater and i still have work this week. stupid responsibility. thanks for nothing, Mom and Dad!) while a certain part of the pleasure was the rowdy crowd and the local sights on screen, this is a genuinely good documentary and i will be very surprised if it does not get distribution. (very much unlike last year's Blood on the Flat Track, which came with the fun crowd but without the good film.) it's hard to believe that this is a first-time director and the project was done in fifteen months start to finish. there's another showing left - definitely worth seeing since it may be years before it comes around if ever.
*seeing a Nazi propaganda film about discovering mass graves that are proof of murder on an industrialized scale is chilling...especially since they were telling the truth.
Katyń
this is the story of a warcrime and its politicization. the film has a weight of inevitability: it opens with a title card that tells us the history. what follows seems to exist to make the world witness and not forget.* excellently done. the end is unflinchingly brutal and not for the squeamish. more on the Katyń massacre at wikipedia
after that i really needed some mental floss. since the next film was preceded by Burlesque go-go dancers instead of the usual round of SIFF ads, i didn't end up with nightmares. but boy, if i hadn't been so exhausted they would have been extra-surreal.
A Wink and a Smile
this local documentary follows a class of Miss Indigo Blue's Academy of Burlesque from inspiration to graduation, and weaves their stories together with a sort of best-of the Seattle scene narrated by Miss Indigo Blue. this was the premiere, complete with most of the performers who appeared in the film in the audience. (i regretfully turned down an invite to the after party with Circus Contraption since it was around midnight when we got out of the theater and i still have work this week. stupid responsibility. thanks for nothing, Mom and Dad!) while a certain part of the pleasure was the rowdy crowd and the local sights on screen, this is a genuinely good documentary and i will be very surprised if it does not get distribution. (very much unlike last year's Blood on the Flat Track, which came with the fun crowd but without the good film.) it's hard to believe that this is a first-time director and the project was done in fifteen months start to finish. there's another showing left - definitely worth seeing since it may be years before it comes around if ever.
*seeing a Nazi propaganda film about discovering mass graves that are proof of murder on an industrialized scale is chilling...especially since they were telling the truth.
