SIFF: the end
The end is near — tonight is the final night of the Seattle International Film Festival. Wrap up the 25 days of theater takeover with a gala screening of the Science of Sleep or watch the winner of the Golden Space Needle. OSS 117: Nest of Spies [siff], a late addition to the festival, took the audience top prize, which gets it an encore screening and a funny statue. (6:30, Broadway Performance Hall)
The rest of the award winners were also announced this morning [siff]. What was your favorite?
It’s over? Oh, good. Not that I have anything against SIFF, but I’m really looking forward to the return of midnight movies at the Egyptian.
You mean besides the midnight movies at the Egyptian shown during SIFF? I mean, it isn’t like there weren’t any midnight movies there…
Please don’t interrupt my pissiness.
SIFF also had midnight movies running at the Neptune throughout the festival, too. While there’s something to be said for bringing out the classics for late night viewing, it’s also kind of fun to see crazy new things for a month. I only saw a couple of the “Midnight Adrenaline” series, but Isolation (about bovine bioengineering gone bad) was fantastically scary.
I thought Frostbite was better than Isolation, but Evil Aliens was the pick of the litter. Well, that and A Scanner Darkly.
Isolation and A Scanner Darkly were the only SIFF midnights I saw (there was also X3, but that doesn’t count). I was just too tired and had maybe a few too many gala beverages to pay enough attention to the rotoscope drama to stay awake long enough to appreciate it.