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SIFF 2007

SIFF 2007

405 films. Record ticket sales with a 5% year-over-year revenue increase. And one very tired imaginary boy. SIFF '07: it's a wrap.

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Saturday, June 23, 2007
by imaginary embracey
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Latest comment by: imaginary embracey: "Ahh, The Bothersome Man. Definitely in my SIFF top 5 this year, and I'd love to see it get more exposure. No plans for a US release that I know of, though. It's been on the festival circuit for a while (it premiered at Cannes 2006), and it got a ...

SIFFlog, days 21-23: a mixed bag of local produce

Made in China and Cthulhu are opposite ends of the quality spectrum in the mixed bag of local offerings this year.

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Friday, June 15, 2007
by imaginary embracey
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Latest comment by: Grant Cogswell: "OK, folks: Look at DreadCentral.com, a major and respected horror website, where David Bostaph gave the film 5 stars. Creep-a-Go Go gave it four and a half. S.T. Joshi (the world's foremost expert on HPL, his biographer and most authoritative editor of his ...

Tonight's Recommended Show: Viva Voce, Jesse Sykes and the Sweet Hereafter, Siberian at Neumo's

Speaking of popcorn(!) and music... we love it when folks combine our favorite things into one night of fun. The super-cool SIFF folks have taken their pledge to Find True Film out of the theater and into the rock club with their Face the Music program.

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Thursday, June 14, 2007
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SIFFlog, days 16-20: the century mark

I've seen 100 films at SIFF. As such, it's possible that this blog entry makes no logical sense at all.

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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
by imaginary embracey
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Latest comment by: imaginary embracey: "Yes, 2 Days in Paris is great, and very funny, and that's totally her dad. I wonder if he keys random cars like that in real life? The thing about Goya's Ghosts is that it's not to be taken seriously. It's good trash. A Swede playing Goya? I hate to ...

Tonight's Recommended Show: "Out of Time" at Pacific Place Cinema

This moving, melancholy little Austrian documentary about four old-world businesses struggling to survive gentrification is my favorite non-fiction flick of SIFF '07.

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Monday, June 11, 2007
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SIFFlog, days 11-15: feeling animated

SIFF 2007's animated shorts program was the best in years.

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Thursday, June 7, 2007
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240 dollars worth of puddin' will make it all better

We had the 240, we had to have the puddin'.

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Wednesday, June 6, 2007
by imaginary char
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Latest comment by: imaginary char: "You know what goes really well with bacon? 240 dollars worth of puddin'."

SIFF 2007 highlights: week 3

The Bet Collector

The Bet Collector

Highlight films from Germany, Greece, Iran, France, Japan, and Austria put the "I" in SIFF's final week/ends (6/8-17).

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
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Tonight's Recommended Show: Sean Nelson and Julien Temple @ SIFF Cinema

Musician, critic, and all-around Renaissance man Sean Nelson chats with director Julien Temple about Joe Strummer at this Face the Music event tonight at SIFF Cinema.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007
by imaginary embracey
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Latest comment by: imaginary dana: "Exciting news! Sean himself just offered up four tickets to the event tonight. He happily offered them up, with the caveat that we "promise to give them to people who will come." Wanna go??? It's first come, first serve: shoot us an email and we'll get ...

SIFFlog, days 8-10: the unmissable "Emma's Bliss"

The brilliant, heartfelt, masterfully produced German film Emma's Bliss is my favorite of the 60ish films I've seen at SIFF '07 thusfar.

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Saturday, June 2, 2007
by imaginary embracey
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Latest comment by: ladyiha: "Hi there, I was lucky enough to catch this gem of a movie this evening at the German Film Festival right here in Singapore! Luckily I managed to compose myself before the music credits came on. :P The name of the last song sung by a female voice is "Safe and ...