For Your Consideration: This Weekend at SIFF
Here we are at Day 16 of the Festival. If by now you're long tired of SIFF, you're in luck: STIFF starts tonight. And if you're tired of our takes on this year's festival films, check out reviews by Blue Scholars' MC Geologic. In addition to everything below, this weekend also offers the last chance to hit up two great documentaries, both of which we've previously mentioned, and both of which deserve another shout-out. Anvil! The Story of Anvil is a crowd-pleaser on the "real-life Spinal Tap" (today, 4:30pm @ SIFF Cinema). Meanwhile, Man on Wire, an unexpectedly moving doc about the French tightrope walker (and his friends) who conquered the WTC's Twin Towers, is the best thing we've seen at the fest so far (tomorrow, 11am @ the Egyptian).
For all SIFF screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $11/$9 (and matinees $8/$7), except for gala screenings and other special events, which cost more. Seattlest applies our well-honed knowledge of all things cinema to the SIFF catalogue in order to point out some notable films playing this weekend:
· The Wave Oh Nazis. A high school teacher plots a nasty little experiment in autocracy when his students are apathetic about German history. (tonight, 6:30pm @ Pacific Place; tomorrow, 1:30pm @ Pacific Place)
· Phoebe in Wonderland Dakota Fanning's sister Elle stars as the title character, who escapes into her own fantasy world. (tonight, 7pm @ the Uptown; Sunday, 1:30pm @ the Egyptian)
· The Great Buck Howard Tonight's the SIFF Centerpiece Gala, featuring this comedy-drama about a law school dropout who ends up as a personal assistant to a washed-up magician. We've heard it's "meh," but actor Colin Hanks (not daddy Tom) is expected to attend. (tonight, 7pm @ the Egyptian; Sunday, 11am @ the Uptown)
· Be Like Others The theocrats in Iran condemn homosexuals, but have no beef with gender-reassignment surgery. What gives? This documentary examines the seeming contradiction. (tonight, 9:15pm @ the Harvard Exit; tomorrow, 1:30pm @ the Egyptian)
· Stranded: I've Come From a Plane that Crashed on the Mountains Yet another movie about the rugby team that crashed in the Andes and ate each other. (tonight, 9:15pm @ the Egyptian; Tuesday, 9:30pm @ SIFF Cinema)
The rest of the weekend after the jump.
· Christopher Columbus, the Enigma A Portuguese thinkpiece on the fictionalized examination of the explorer's background. (tonight, 9:30pm @ SIFF Cinema)
· Otto; or, Up With Dead People Bruce LaBruce's big gay zombie flick is actually a movie within a movie.
Zombie + Meta = Even more brains! (tonight, 11:55pm @ the Egyptian; tomorrow, 7pm @ SIFF Cinema)
· When Did You Last See Your Father? Everybody loves Jim Broadbent. Adding Colin Firth as his beleaguered son only sweetens the deal. (tomorrow, 6:30pm @ the Egyptian; Sunday, 4pm @ the Egyptian)
· Erik Nietzsche The Early Years In which Danish director/monster Lars von Trier kinda plays himself. (tomorrow, 9pm @ the Uptown; Sunday, 4:15pm @ the Uptown)
· Timecrimes This Spanish sci-fi thriller has it all: murder, doppelgangers, and time travel. See the original before the American remake is filmed. (tomorrow, 9:30pm @ Pacific Place; Sunday, June 15th, 7pm @ the Egyptian)
· Sukiyaki Western Django Another midnight movie, this one a gory Japanese Western care of Takeshi Miike. (tomorrow, 11:55pm @ the Egyptian; Monday, 9:45pm @ the Uptown)
· Baghead Mumblecore meets low-budget thriller. Maybe that'll keep the Duplass Brothers (The Puffy Chair) from being so self-absorbed (Sunday, 6:30pm @ the Egyptian; Monday, 4:30pm @ the Egyptian)
