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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Spoofing Around
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Sunday, June 7, 2009. I need to be up in a little less than five hours so this is going to be brief. I’ve just returned home from watching director Scott Sanders’ blaxploitation spoof. And I feel the need to relate a couple of immediate observations. 2 I can’t help but wonder why Michael Jai White, who stars as the title character and also co-wrote the screenplay, never became a star. I get that 1997’s. Ever since that superhero spectacular bombed at the box office.
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: ...And the Winners Are
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Tuesday, June 16, 2009. And the Winners Are. I apologize for being a little behind this year, but the following is the list of all the winners as announced during the SIFF Awards Brunch at the Space Needle for the 35th Annual Seattle International Film Festival. Also, I’ll be back a little later today with my personal favorite ten pictures from this year’s event. With that – on with the award announcements! Best Film Golden Space Needle Award. This is just wrong.
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: A Tale Worth Following
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Thursday, June 11, 2009. A Tale Worth Following. My guess is that this isn’t a coincidence, but Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1952 film. The Tales of Hoffman. Was broadcast on Turner Classic Movies the other night. The reason I bring this up is that this film plays central significance in Frances Ford Coppola’s latest opus. And having never seen it (let alone heard of it) I can’t begin to tell you how excited I was to DVR the darn thing. After all, we can n...
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Recollecting About the Hump
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Saturday, June 6, 2009. Recollecting About the Hump. Just a quick post before I head out to see Guillermo Arriaga’s. But I feel a little remiss for not including Lynn Shelton’s. Yet, as much love and discussion as this movie has generated since its Sundance debut, I found the first half more than a little bit frustrating. It’s a talk-heavy film and that’s an understatement, and I kept getting a Kevin Smith. Like feeling from it all I had trouble embracing. SIFF 2009 ...
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: My Personal Top Ten
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Tuesday, June 16, 2009. My Personal Top Ten. If you’ve been following this Blog there are not going to be a lot of surprises as to what I think were the best SIFF had to offer this year. To my way of thinking, if I can come out of the festival jazzed and excited about two or three titles (last year. The Edge of Heaven. Hopefully I’ll get another chance before they year is out), so this list obviously reflects that fact. (For the record, I saw 84 films this ...8211; N...
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Getting My 'Justin' Deserts
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Friday, June 12, 2009. Getting My 'Justin' Deserts. The thing about writing this Blog and the uneasy relationship between it and SIFF is such that it becomes virtually impossible to write about everything you want to because, the moment one movie captures your imagination, you’ve got another three or four you’ve suddenly got to find away to fit in pretty much immediately. And the puzzle box black comedy thriller. The film takes a rather darkly comic turn in the final...
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Best of Week Two
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Friday, June 5, 2009. Best of Week Two. Back during that first week of the festival when I was sitting down with TCM host Robert Osborne, I asked him about what I see as our current obsession with lists. Ever since that first AFI Top 100 list a little over a decade ago, it seems like you can’t go to a website or look at a newspaper without seeing that someone has another one. Zack Snyder is one of the top 25 working directors? In what world is that even remotely true?
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Pressure
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Wednesday, June 10, 2009. While sitting at the downtown Seattle W Hotel and chatting with a trio of my favorite local publicists waiting for actor Paul Giamatti. To return from a quick cigarette break, the diminutive writer-director of his quirky new science fiction dramatic comedy. Of them going so well she just had to come out and let the three ladies know about it. The questions there were horrible! Granted, there was always the chance the director was exaggeratin...
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters: Gender War
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SIFF 2009 with Sara Michelle Fetters. Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Last night was the local Seattle press screening for the much-hyped R-rated Summer comedy. The studio had absolutely no faith that a small, hugely inexpensive dumb comedy starring three women (Parker Posey. 8217;t see a juvenile farce starring women, and for some reason that gets under my skin and chaps my hide to absolutely no end. Do not misunderstand. Neither film is high art. Both are extremely stupid (the former following four guys...So hy...