Double Reading

An old film noir classic that I saw during SIFF 2006. It wasn’t as great as I hoped…

An awesome documentary at SIFF 2006.

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.

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 [...]

The fact that I cannot really post a picture from the movie Destricted should be the first sign that this is the most sexually explicit film I’ve seen (more so than 9 Songs, even). I don’t think you could see a movie with more penises unless you were watching porn (and this film definitely borders [...]

Keep in mind that the title of this film is 3 Needles and that the movie is about HIV. It seems that in most movies I’ve seen that deal with HIV (with the exception of Trainspotting), the person becomes HIV+ by having unprotected sex or blood transfusions (if it’s a straight person) or something like [...]

Last year’s SIFF film A Hole In My Heart has haunted me more than any of the films last year. I regret only giving it three stars. Although the movie was very fucked up and probably exploitative, it was a great work of filmmaking and definitely deserved five stars.
Unfortunately, I don’t think Container, Lukas Moodysson’s [...]