SIFF Thursday 2
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ironymaidenat the Uptown for this evening.
a Swedish comedy about synchronized swimming is up first, iirc. i grabbed a burger at Dick's, thinking that i would get in early and sit in the theater ac. ended up line waiting instead. my book is good, so i don't mind much except for the heat. (one can say that we are whiners, but yesterday and today were record highs, to show how unusual 90 degrees is in Seattle.) big crowd. don't know if it's because it's a comedy, because it's Swedish, or both. maybe this is all the synchronized swimming aficionados of Seattle. i bet there is a theater-worth here. i mean, there's apparently a group of people who meet every week to hula-hoop in Cal Anderson park, so why not synchronized swimming?
(turns out a good chunk of the crowd were from elderhostel.) Swimsuit Issue was a charming film. it was a sports movie meets The Full Monty with a daddy-daughter thing. (the lead really looks like Christian Bale and i kept expecting him to whip out the Batman growl.) i gained a little respect for the sport, and i was delighted to recognize neighborhoods and U-bahn stations when they traveled to Berlin. i predicted most of the plot points, but i never knew *exactly* how it was going to go. worth seeing if you're up for a comedy this weekend (it will be at the Admiral on Saturday), would also make a nice Scarecrow rental.
this one is a science-fiction film from Japan. description includes the term "philosophical" which is sometimes code for crashing bore, so i have an end seat in case i'd rather sleep. (day off tomorrow, so i'll be starting at 11. it lets me get in three films and still play D&D.)
The Clone Returns Home was my first walkout of the festival. the description led me to believe that the story was about an astronaut who is cloned in case of accidental death, is thought dead, and returns home to discover his clone in his place. who has a soul? sounded interesting to me. started out slowly but okay. but then everything ground to a halt for an interminable backstory with a dead twin (the asshole twin is the one who lived) that includes a scene overlaid with the piercing tone of a rubbed glass rim from the previous scene and the sound turned entirely off through the finding of the body. i held on until we returned to the present, but then mom was dying and they started doing arty shit with the hospital room and i was out of there because they were obviously going to beat this life and death stuff TO DEATH. i was far from the first to leave. (i see from reading the website that the editing of the Times blurb was what really led me astray. the website description would have told me to skip it.)
a Swedish comedy about synchronized swimming is up first, iirc. i grabbed a burger at Dick's, thinking that i would get in early and sit in the theater ac. ended up line waiting instead. my book is good, so i don't mind much except for the heat. (one can say that we are whiners, but yesterday and today were record highs, to show how unusual 90 degrees is in Seattle.) big crowd. don't know if it's because it's a comedy, because it's Swedish, or both. maybe this is all the synchronized swimming aficionados of Seattle. i bet there is a theater-worth here. i mean, there's apparently a group of people who meet every week to hula-hoop in Cal Anderson park, so why not synchronized swimming?
(turns out a good chunk of the crowd were from elderhostel.) Swimsuit Issue was a charming film. it was a sports movie meets The Full Monty with a daddy-daughter thing. (the lead really looks like Christian Bale and i kept expecting him to whip out the Batman growl.) i gained a little respect for the sport, and i was delighted to recognize neighborhoods and U-bahn stations when they traveled to Berlin. i predicted most of the plot points, but i never knew *exactly* how it was going to go. worth seeing if you're up for a comedy this weekend (it will be at the Admiral on Saturday), would also make a nice Scarecrow rental.
this one is a science-fiction film from Japan. description includes the term "philosophical" which is sometimes code for crashing bore, so i have an end seat in case i'd rather sleep. (day off tomorrow, so i'll be starting at 11. it lets me get in three films and still play D&D.)
The Clone Returns Home was my first walkout of the festival. the description led me to believe that the story was about an astronaut who is cloned in case of accidental death, is thought dead, and returns home to discover his clone in his place. who has a soul? sounded interesting to me. started out slowly but okay. but then everything ground to a halt for an interminable backstory with a dead twin (the asshole twin is the one who lived) that includes a scene overlaid with the piercing tone of a rubbed glass rim from the previous scene and the sound turned entirely off through the finding of the body. i held on until we returned to the present, but then mom was dying and they started doing arty shit with the hospital room and i was out of there because they were obviously going to beat this life and death stuff TO DEATH. i was far from the first to leave. (i see from reading the website that the editing of the Times blurb was what really led me astray. the website description would have told me to skip it.)
