I can’t believe I made it to the end of the festival and, more impressively, the end of chronicling every single damn film I saw, good, bad and boring, with an illustration and a short write up. Thanks for hanging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
I can’t believe I made it to the end of the festival and, more impressively, the end of chronicling every single damn film I saw, good, bad and boring, with an illustration and a short write up. Thanks for hanging[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
For our last week stretch of SIFF, the schedule worked out to basically one movie a day, plus two a day on the weekend, which was fine by us. By the last week, we’re usually reaching maximum viewing capacity and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Another super solid entry in the Secret Festival. Good variety and high quality this year. Definitely the “something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue” theme that we’ve decided is often how the festival goes. No, I’m not saying which[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was one of the most diverse couple of days at SIFF for us. From all over the world, in a variety of genres, films both educational and entertaining: just what we love about the festival. I would recommend all[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was a solid block of films. Napping Princess was confusingly surreal but charming and beautifully animated. God of War was a solid entry in the historical battle epic genre that Hong Kong directors excel at and the lead actor[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Man, seriously, I would eat the hell out of those little spoons of delicious bites that Chef Nobuo puts out. Who wants to spot me a plane ticket to Arizona?
Today was a bit of a recovery day from the previous five movie grind. The Secret Festival film was great and, no, I can’t say what it was. Zip and Zap and the Captain’s Island was not as good as[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was our only five movie day. And we’ve done six movie days in the past. It’s not pretty, but sometimes, for the sake of scheduling around work, it’s gotta happen.
I definitely recommend the Shortsfest weekend for folks who just want to dip a toe into the waters of the festival. In addition to a couple general packages at the beginning and end, there are genre and topic specific collections[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
So Bad Black was totally the poster film for why film festivals like SIFF are amazing opportunities to see films that you truly cannot see in any other format. Nabwana Isaac Godfrey Geoffrey is an incredibly prolific filmmaker who, with[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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