Double Reading

I didn’t even finish compiling my SIFF Stats during 2006…
Total money spent on tickets:
$133

Total money spent on SIFF membership (which is why I spent less money this year than last year):
$100 (benefactor level)

Total time spent standing in line:
15+5+10+10

Total movies seen:
…

Languages:
English, Icelandic, Afrikaans, Mandarin, Xhosa, French, Spanish

Documentaries:
1+1+1+1+1

Movies about movies:
1+

Movies about music:
1+1

Times the director was in the [...]

A documentary about The Pixies that I saw during SIFF 2006.

This was an awesome movie I saw at SIFF during the summer of 2006. Probably one of my favorite documentaries ever. I only got as far as finding a pic for it…

A pretty funny/campy midnight movie I saw during SIFF 2006.

I cannot help but think of the ship of fools (which I first learned about while reading Foucault’s Madness and Civilization) while watching Pirates of the Caribbean — especially the second one, Dead Man’s Chest when they go to the Tortuga Port to find the “99 souls” to give to Davy Jones.
I think Captain Jack [...]

After seeing Children of Men the other month (a film which really deserves its own post and analysis…), I decided that I needed to see more movies by Alfonso Cuarón, which meant that I needed to break down and finally see the “darker” Harry Potter movie Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which I’ve [...]

I’m sad to report that I was pretty disappointed with Brian de Palma’s The Black Dahlia. He’s one of my favorite directors (Femme Fatale is one of my all-time favorite movies and I also love Snake Eyes, Body Double [though I'm not sure it warrants a special edition], Scarface [which has an awesome special edition], [...]

Every few months I end up posting a sort of “calendar” of events/things that I am looking forward too (it seems that last fall was good, too). Eventually I do intend to write or find some sort of WordPress plugin that makes this easier and less table/post-ish, but there are just so many things on [...]

For the first time ever in my life (I’m 90 percent sure, at least), I saw the top two weekend movies. I saw Superman Returns on Wednesday night and The Devil Wears Prada on Saturday afternoon. Am I falling deeper and deeper into the sell-out/becoming mainstream pit?

From the description on the SIFF web site, I was very excited to see 20 Centimeters:

Reminiscent of the Almodovar style and grounded by an amazing performance by Mónica Cervera, this bittersweet musical comedy is about a narcoleptic transvestite prostitute who longs to rid herself of the 20 centimeters hanging between her legs. She finds a [...]