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SIFF: Protektor

Sunday, June 13th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy For the last day of SIFF I spent a beautiful Seattle afternoon inside the Egyptian Theatre to watch Protektor, which was actually the Czech Republic’s 2009 Foreign Language Oscar submission. For those of you not familiar with history: in 1938, France, England, and Italy decided to allow Nazi Germany to […]

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SIFF: The Sentimental Engine Slayer

Saturday, June 12th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy Thursday night, I rolled down to SIFF Cinema for The Sentimental Engine Slayer, a film I’ve been looking forward to for weeks. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, the guitarist who formed Mars Volta, makes his feature film debut with a story he wrote, directed, produced, and acted in. He plays Barlam, a young […]

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SIFF: Cargo

Wednesday, June 9th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy For a change of pace today, instead of driving 25 minutes to Seattle for an SIFF viewing, I drove 25 minutes to the Kirkland Performance Center to watch Cargo, a sci-fi flick from Switzerland. Directors Ivan Engler, and Ralph Etter decide not to break new science fiction ground (I don’t […]

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SIFF: Cell 211

Monday, June 7th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy After a week and a half at SIFF, I’ve almost achieved notoriety. That’s right, I’m on my way to being mayor of the Neptune Cinemas on Four Square. Bow to me. Today I fought a bit of good ol’ fashioned Seattle traffic to see Cell 211, one of the films […]

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SIFF: Ondine

Monday, June 7th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy After a lazy Sunday afternoon, I headed back downtown to SIFF to catch Neil Jordan’s new film, Ondine at Uptown Cinemas. I feel like I owe Colin Farrell an apology. Maybe not as a person, but definitely as an actor. For some reason, I have an immediate and unavoidable inclination […]

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SIFF: Morning

Monday, June 7th, 2010

by The Great White Gypsy So after a whole week of slacking (and having my wisdom teeth removed), I regrouped for the home stretch of the SIFF. I decided to get some local flavor with Morning at the Harvard Exit. Set in and shot all over Seattle, Morning deals with some heavy subject matter. Michael […]

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