For Your Consideration: This Weekend at SIFF
Has it been a week already? SIFF is in full effect, so it's time to take another look at upcoming films. If you're looking for even more opinions on the films that are showing during the fest, check out the Northwest Film Forum's picks, or the picks of some SIFF programmers themselves. For all film screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $11/$9 (and matinees $8/$7), except for gala screenings and other special events, which of course 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:
· Miao Miao In this coming-of-age flick, teenage Japanese transfer student Miao-Miao arrives in Taiwan and struggles to make friends and flirt with boys, but all the while her best friend Xiao-Ai is falling in love with her. Love triangle alert! (tonight, 4:30 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema; Tuesday, 7 p.m. @ the Egyptian)
· City of Borders This documentary captures the colorful characters--both Israelis and Palestinians--who frequent a Jerusalem gay bar. (tonight, 4:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place; Saturday, 1:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place)
· The Headless Woman This drama from Argentina follows an affluent woman involved in a hit and run and her subsequent breakdown. Part of the Emerging Masters series honoring writer-director Lucrecia Martel. (tonight, 7 p.m. @ Harvard Exit; tomorrow, 1:30 p.m. @ Harvard Exit)
· Know Your Mushrooms That's a command, buddy. This mycophilic documentary aims to give you all the fungi facts. (tonight, 9:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place; Sunday, 1:30 p.m. @ the Uptown)
· Daddy Cool An absentee microbiologist father tries to reconnect with his now fifteen-year-old daughter. Generation gap wackiness (of the French variety) ensues. (tonight, 9:30 p.m. @ the Uptown; Tuesday, 4:30 p.m. @ the Uptown)
· The Family Picture Show This short film collection is for kids and parents alike. Plus this is your one chance to see the new Wallace and Gromit adventure (A Matter of Loaf and Death). Only a few tickets left, so grab 'em now. (tomorrow, 11 a.m. @ SIFF Cinema)
· Food Inc. Do you want to know where your food comes from? Filmmaker Robert Kenner brings to light the unsavory practices of the food industry, showing how corporate interests have trumped the environment and public health. If you're a fan of Eric Schlosser or Michael Pollan, this documentary is for you. (Saturday, 4:15 p.m. @ the Egyptian; Sunday, 7 p.m. @ the Egyptian)
· Icons Among Us Jazz is a living thing, and this documentary combines interviews and live recordings of many of today's jazz greats, including Herbie Hancock, Terence Blanchard, Ravi Coltrane, Medeski Martin & Wood, and the Bad Plus. Following the world premiere Saturday night, head to Neumo's for a special Face the Music celebration featuring the 22-piece daKAH Chamber Hip Hop Orchestra. (Saturday, 6:30 p.m. @ the Egyptian)
The rest of the weekend after the jump.
· La Mission Benjamin Bratt has gone loco, esse! (tomorrow, 9 p.m. @ the Egyptian; Sunday, 1:45 p.m. @ the Egyptian)
· Downloading Nancy We only mention this film to tell you not to see it. Really. We saw it a year and a half ago so you don't have to. Unless you're a misogynist and/or masochist--in that case, be our guest. (tomorrow, 9:30 p.m. @ Harvard Exit; Sunday, 4 p.m. @ Harvard Exit)
· The Maid This Chilean drama won the World Cinema Grand Jury Prize at Sundance this year. It's the story of a family maid and how she fits (or doesn't fit) with the family she works for and the new help they've hired. Hellooo, class warfare! (tomorrow, 9:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place; Sunday, 1:15 p.m. @ Pacific Place)
· Telstar Biopic on the gay, tone-deaf, Buddy Holly-idolizing uber-prolific songwriter-producer Joe Meek. Based on writer Nick Moran’s West End play, and starring Con O’Neill as Meek. (tomorrow, 9:30 p.m. @ the Uptown)
· Cloud 9 Spoiler alert: Old German people have sex. (Sunday, 11 a.m. @ the Uptown; Tuesday, 7 p.m. @ the Uptown)
· School Days with a Pig In this Japanese comedy (based on a true story), a schoolteacher gets a piglet to teach his sixth-grade class about where their food comes from. Unfortunately, the kids get increasingly attached to the animal that they're going to end up eating! (Sunday, 9:15 p.m. @ Pacific Place)
