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June 15, 2007

For Your Consideration: Final Weekend @ SIFF

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It's SIFF's last bleary-eyed, numb-assed, popcorn-butter-fingered weekend, so if you haven't stopped in for some film-festy fun, you gotta act fast. We held Audrey upside-down and shook her until she gave us some selections -- no, no, you deserve the best. There's no telling how far we'd go to make you happy.

Before we get to that, here's some film-related goings-on that you might like: Friday night there's Kinski performs Berlin: Symphony of a City (7pm, $15) at the Triple Door. Then on Saturday, NWFF is hosting some panels: one on digital distribution and the indie-filmmaker (10am, $10) one on how the internet is affecting movie coverage, with an actual Variety deputy editor moderating (11:30am, $10), and The Evolution of Music in Film (4pm, $10), with music supervisor Van Riker, filmmaker Kelly Requa, and composer Josh Myers, moderated by the lovely and talented Sean Nelson.

- Sex and Death 101 It's been a long time since Heathers, but director Daniel Waters and Winona Ryder have reunited for this black comedy about a "successful executive and ladies man whose life is turned upside down by a mysterious email." (Friday, 6:30pm and Sunday, 4pm @ the Egyptian)

- Sweet Crude A Seattle-made documentary explores why the valuable crude oil that flows from the Niger Delta does nothing for the poor villagers who live there. So, the title's probably ironic. (Friday, 7pm and Saturday 11am @ the Neptune)

- One Day Like Rain Two bored suburban girls get metaphysical about the end of the world; they say it's Donnie Darko meets Ghost World. (Friday, 9:30pm and Sunday, 11am @ the Harvard Exit)

- Little Book of Revenge Quebec has sent us yet another black comedy, this one about an accountant at a jewelry store whose constant abuse by his boss inspires him to write a fanciful book about his revenge fantasies. Things get out of hand. (Friday, 9:30pm @ Pacific Place; Sunday, 1:30pm @ Lincoln Square)

- Alien Autopsy This appeal of this Roswell-gone-wrong Brit-com lies in two simple words: Bill Pullman; or if you prefer, three words: Harry Dean Stanton. (Friday, midnight @ the Egyptian; Sunday, 7:15 @ the Neptune)

- Family Picture Show Okay, breeders, time for SIFF’s annual selection of family-oriented shorts! Can't even really say that anymore, so many gay couples have ankle-biters now. Kids! They're our future, aren't they? (Saturday, 11am @ SIFF Cinema)

- Trainwreck: My Life as an Idoit [sic] We don't know anything about this black comedy starring Seann William Scott and Gretchen Mol -- about an dim-bulb attention-deficit disordered recovering alcoholic with Tourette syndrome who falls for a gold-digger -- except that its executive producer (or one of them) is NWFF board member Jennifer Roth. Local color, see. (Saturday, 4pm @ SIFF Cinema)

- Evening Finally! Minot's beloved novel, adapted by Michael Cunningham. Who's Minot? Who's Michael Cunningham? Look, just stay home...and play in the dirt. Philistine! We'll savor this mothers-and-daughters drama on our own. Oh, Claire Danes, you've come back to us! (Rush tickets only: Saturday, 6:30pm @ the Neptune)

- 7 Years This year's "we've all been there" entry from France stars Valérie Donzelli as a woman who becomes involved with a prison guard while visiting her jailed husband, only to find that her husband set it up. (Saturday, 6:30pm @ Pacific Place)

- Interview Steve Buscemi directs and stars (with Sienna Miller) in this movie -- based on a film by famous dead Dutch director Theo van Gogh-- where a veteran political journalist has to do a puff piece interview with a young starlet. (Saturday, 7pm and Sunday, 1:30pm @ the Egyptian)

- Joshua We reviewed this thriller about a bad-seed little boy ("atmospheric and increasingly freaky") when it played the Sundance. (Saturday, 9:30pm @ the Egyptian)

- Moliere SIFF has chosen this French film for its big close, so presumably this "intelligently bawdy romp" doesn't suck. Moliere was a famous French playwright and satirist. All your friends who lunch at Le Pichet or Campagne are going. (Sunday, 6:30pm @ the Cinerama)

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