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ironymaidenah, i had good intentions about writing reviews. i've been favoring sleep and C over internet time.
so here's the quick and dirty about things that have showings left that i have already seen:
do not see Expired or I Really Hate My Job. both films have the same problem - the characters' journey is nonexistent or short. no one is substantially changed by events, and the events aren't interesting enough to make up for the lack on the character front. if i hadn't seen them as previews they would have been walkouts. (and the staying to the end of the second was only due to a lack of aggressiveness on my part.)
much better than i expected - The Bubble (go!), Sons, and Little Book of Revenge.
The Banquet is more for theatre nerds than wuxia nerds. it's a sharp adaptation of Hamlet and features mask work. (i imagine my friends from Dell'Arte would be creaming over the wire-assisted movement in the theatre scenes.) relating it to Hamlet was a great deal of the pleasure of viewing for me, but it also comes with sumptuous costumes and Yuen Wo Ping choreography.
not as good as i hoped based on the SIFF writeup: The Art of Crying, Interview, Nomadak Tx, Angels In the Dust.
ETA: 51 features, 1 short, one week to go.
so here's the quick and dirty about things that have showings left that i have already seen:
do not see Expired or I Really Hate My Job. both films have the same problem - the characters' journey is nonexistent or short. no one is substantially changed by events, and the events aren't interesting enough to make up for the lack on the character front. if i hadn't seen them as previews they would have been walkouts. (and the staying to the end of the second was only due to a lack of aggressiveness on my part.)
much better than i expected - The Bubble (go!), Sons, and Little Book of Revenge.
The Banquet is more for theatre nerds than wuxia nerds. it's a sharp adaptation of Hamlet and features mask work. (i imagine my friends from Dell'Arte would be creaming over the wire-assisted movement in the theatre scenes.) relating it to Hamlet was a great deal of the pleasure of viewing for me, but it also comes with sumptuous costumes and Yuen Wo Ping choreography.
not as good as i hoped based on the SIFF writeup: The Art of Crying, Interview, Nomadak Tx, Angels In the Dust.
ETA: 51 features, 1 short, one week to go.
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Date: 2007-06-11 09:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-06-12 06:07 am (UTC)Today I saw Evening and The Paper Will Be Blue. The latter worked for me, but some knowledge of recent Romanian history probably helped. I heard a mother and daughter complaining that they had trouble tracking who was on what side. The regular army and the local militia wore similar uniforms.
Are you going to see Black White + Gray? I'd be curious to hear what you think.
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Date: 2007-06-12 09:52 pm (UTC)Little Book of Revenge sounds cool too. It clashes with Walk the Talk and Kinski, but now that you mention it it sounds better than Walk the Talk anyway.
Interview stays on the list because of the Steve Buscemi appearance, assuming the press screening announcement means he'll be doing a personal appearance, as opposed to just meeting with press only. (Slipstream was only on our list because of the Anthony Hopkins appearance, but it was really cool.)
The thumb down for Angels in the Dust helps settle a Thursday question in favor of Expired. On the other hand, The Bubble is also in that time slot, if my wife decides it sounds OK, and it's possible traffic-wise.
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Date: 2007-06-12 10:04 pm (UTC)