For Your Consideration: This Week at SIFF

· Cecil B. DeMented screens Tuesday, timed to coincide with John Waters showing up for a talk at Benaroya Hall (SIFF ticket stub for Cecil B. DeMented nets you $10 off the lecture ticket). (Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. @ the Egyptian)

· For Great Speeches From A Dying World, Linas Phillips (Walking to Werner) interviewed ten street people and also had each of them recite a great speech (MLK, JFK, Chief Sealth). Here's the Real Change interview. (Tuesday, 9:30 p.m. @ Harvard Exit)

· If Linas's jungen Herzog flavor whets your appetite for more, Encounters at the End of the World pits Werner's cold eye against Antarctica's freezing wastes. Not to give anything away, but Herzog said filming this Discovery Channel doc was "easy." (Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. @ the Egyptian)

· Good Food is a short documentary (just 74 minutes) about Washington state family farmers and ranchers who have gone organic. It's both about the food itself and the comeback that family food producers have made, thanks to the growing demand for organic foods. (Wednesday 7 p.m. @ the Egyptian, Saturday, 4:30 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema)

· Late Bloomers is that rarest of rare things: a popular Swiss comedy. The story of a widowed woman who opens a lingerie shop in her small town plays upon the Swiss label of "late bloomers" for post-menopausally-assertive ladies who buck Switzerland's staid culture. (Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. @ Uptown Cinema; Saturday, 6:30 p.m. @ Uptown Cinema)

· Stalags - Holocaust and Pornography in Israel is a brief but controversial documentary about Israel's flirtation with Nazi-themed erotica in the early 1960s. We had no idea that the SS had women soldiers, let alone gave them black leather boots and whips. (Wednesday, 4:30 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema; Sunday, 9 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema)

· A Secret won the Grand Prix of the Americas at the 2007 Montreal Film Festival--a French drama set in post-WWII Paris, it's about a Jewish boy who discovers his family would rather not discuss how they behaved during the Nazi occupation. (Thursday, 4 p.m. @ Uptown Cinema; Saturday, 9 p.m. @ the Egyptian)

· Man on Wire is another kind of French drama entirely: it's a documentary about the French acrobat Philippe Petit, who in 1974 staged a one-hour, guerrilla high-wire walk between the Twin Towers in New York. (Thursday, 7 p.m. @ the Egyptian; Saturday, 11 a.m. @ the Egyptian)

· Finally we come to Anvil! The Story of Anvil, which is called the "real-life Spinal Tap documentary." This buzz-making documentary about the 30-year-old metal band's lack of success might actually launch them...somewhere...up a bit. (Thursday, 9:15 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema; Friday, 4:30 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema)