SIFF movies this year
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jinianSex Is Comedy
About a movie crew, mostly the director and lead actors, and their struggles to get the snogging and sex parts right in the movie. Charming and fun to watch, adequately silly, touching in places (good touching). 4/5.
Reconstruction
A little on the disturbing side: a man forsakes his girlfriend to chase another woman, and then finds his life isn't there for him to go back to. Interestingly framed as a story written by the other woman's husband. Some very attractive moments. Gave me a headache, which may have affected its rating of 4/5.
Zatoichi
RULES ALL. Most people reading have probably heard of Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. Here he fights injustice with some other great characters and lots of CGI blood. Several fantastic scenes of fieldworkers dancing to rhythmic percussion, and the culmination of the musical trend in an ending scene that three out of four moviegoers called Bollywood-style. 5/5. Go see this.
Legend of the Sacred Stone
Extremely silly fantasy/wu-xia movie made with --> puppets. This leads to incredibly funny effects when the puppets are flung about, or when they laugh, and the voice acting is really something too. 5/5 when seen at midnight preceded by bad previews for 80s movies.
Hero
Excellent wu-xia movie set in warring-states-era China, told mostly in flashbacks. Visually gorgeous. Try to avoid spoilers. 5/5.
Tamala 2010
Mostly black-and-white animated movie about rebellious cat teenager-equivalent Tamala, who smokes, swears, and leaves CatEarth to go to Orion for no apparent reason, and her mysterious relation to a big computer-animated cat-person robot. Mind-bending in a good way, for the most part. 4/5.
And that's it except for the Secret Fest, which will be done after Sunday morning. So far it's been a great run for them. We'll see how they finish it up.
About a movie crew, mostly the director and lead actors, and their struggles to get the snogging and sex parts right in the movie. Charming and fun to watch, adequately silly, touching in places (good touching). 4/5.
Reconstruction
A little on the disturbing side: a man forsakes his girlfriend to chase another woman, and then finds his life isn't there for him to go back to. Interestingly framed as a story written by the other woman's husband. Some very attractive moments. Gave me a headache, which may have affected its rating of 4/5.
Zatoichi
RULES ALL. Most people reading have probably heard of Zatoichi, the blind swordsman. Here he fights injustice with some other great characters and lots of CGI blood. Several fantastic scenes of fieldworkers dancing to rhythmic percussion, and the culmination of the musical trend in an ending scene that three out of four moviegoers called Bollywood-style. 5/5. Go see this.
Legend of the Sacred Stone
Extremely silly fantasy/wu-xia movie made with --> puppets. This leads to incredibly funny effects when the puppets are flung about, or when they laugh, and the voice acting is really something too. 5/5 when seen at midnight preceded by bad previews for 80s movies.
Hero
Excellent wu-xia movie set in warring-states-era China, told mostly in flashbacks. Visually gorgeous. Try to avoid spoilers. 5/5.
Tamala 2010
Mostly black-and-white animated movie about rebellious cat teenager-equivalent Tamala, who smokes, swears, and leaves CatEarth to go to Orion for no apparent reason, and her mysterious relation to a big computer-animated cat-person robot. Mind-bending in a good way, for the most part. 4/5.
And that's it except for the Secret Fest, which will be done after Sunday morning. So far it's been a great run for them. We'll see how they finish it up.
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Date: 2004-06-11 11:54 pm (UTC)I liked Reconstruction a whole lot. Will have to write a blurb.
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Date: 2004-06-12 03:46 pm (UTC)