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SIFF day one
Apr. 8th, 2021 09:01 pmother passholders started watching at midnight; i started when i got off work. i'm planning to do two films most weeknights and as much as i can stand on the weekends.
Riders of Justice
my pick of the festival, did not disappoint. i fell in love with Mads Mikkelsen + Anders Thomas Jensen with Adam's Apples. i would honestly probably watch Mads Mikkelsen read the phone book, but this one is what i come to the festival for - found family, black humor, meticulous structure, and murder, all in one glorious package. Mads is rocking a glorious beard and at one point an ugly Christmas sweater complete with bells around the neck. yay.
Super Frenchie
this year's extreme sports biopic, a genre which i am a total sucker for. dude is a ski base-jumper. yes, that is just as crazy as it sounds. watch him do insane shit! watch him get hurt just like you knew he would from the trailer! watch him come back because that's what movies are made of! he's charming, they appear to live in Oregon, and there's so much gopro happening. (i was fascinated by how many cameras were coming off of his body and all the different places to mount them.) i would have liked it more if i had seen it on a movie screen, there's something about that vertiginous helicopter footage of mountains when the images are actually towering above you. worth an afternoon on the couch sometime, but you should just watch The Dawn Wall, a much better example of the genre.
Riders of Justice
my pick of the festival, did not disappoint. i fell in love with Mads Mikkelsen + Anders Thomas Jensen with Adam's Apples. i would honestly probably watch Mads Mikkelsen read the phone book, but this one is what i come to the festival for - found family, black humor, meticulous structure, and murder, all in one glorious package. Mads is rocking a glorious beard and at one point an ugly Christmas sweater complete with bells around the neck. yay.
Super Frenchie
this year's extreme sports biopic, a genre which i am a total sucker for. dude is a ski base-jumper. yes, that is just as crazy as it sounds. watch him do insane shit! watch him get hurt just like you knew he would from the trailer! watch him come back because that's what movies are made of! he's charming, they appear to live in Oregon, and there's so much gopro happening. (i was fascinated by how many cameras were coming off of his body and all the different places to mount them.) i would have liked it more if i had seen it on a movie screen, there's something about that vertiginous helicopter footage of mountains when the images are actually towering above you. worth an afternoon on the couch sometime, but you should just watch The Dawn Wall, a much better example of the genre.
