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SIFF 2010: Under the sea and on top of the world

Stephin Merritt of the alt-pop band The Magnetic Fields is one of those musical characters that you either love, or you have simply never heard of him. I adore...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: Washed-up porn stars and a washed-out education system

Whoah. I knew it would all catch up to me. After taking a week off from work (i.e. My Real Job) to go to SIFF last week, I was...

Linda
Worldwide Short Film Festival 2010 Wrap-Up

Worldwide Short Film Festival 2010 Wrap-Up

I went, I saw, I screened… and another WWSFF comes to a close. I’m not sure if it was the nice weather or the economy, but attendance seemed to...

Vickie
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SIFF 2010: Slow buses, crowded trains, and the disappeared

Metro, bless its public transit heart, can be a blessing and the bane of my existence. With the week off, I carefully planned which bus to hop to allow...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: An interview with Ruba Nadda, director of the lovely, languid romance Cairo Time

During the Seattle International Film Festival, I always enjoy asking random people what films they’ve enjoyed at the fest so far. Sometimes answers are all over the map, but...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: Epic journeys, epic drama, and a sweet little romance

Wow. The ‘Pie had some technical difficulties the last couple days, but finally we got it cleared up, and the site is back live! So we’ve got a little...

Linda
Worldwide Short Film Festival 2010 Wrap-Up

Worldwide Short Film Festival 2010 (June 1st – 6th, Toronto, ON)

The 16th edition of North America’s largest short-film festival kicks off today, offering some 281 shorts from 34 countries – among them, 34 world premieres and more than 200...

Vickie
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SIFF 2010: Gay Nazis, Mini Nazis, and intolerable teens

As we here at Moviepie like to say, a film festival ain’t a film festival until you’ve seen at least one gay neo-Nazi film! But more on that later…...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: Older and wiser women, and pretty smart young ones, too

The hot Friday night ticket was the recent Sundance winner (Grand Jury Prize-Narrative) Winter’s Bone, so I decided to catch the film right before it, since I was right...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: Nowhere Boy and the middle of nowhere

After my first-night fiasco of standing in sludgy ticket lines and losing tickets (dang!!!), I vowed to go straight home and sort out at least *some* of my schedule,...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: Splattering blood and sex dolls

My first day of SIFF usually falls on the second day, as I eschew the mobs of folks fighting over tiny cupcakes and the like that is offered at...

Linda
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SIFF 2010: RoboGeisha (Trailer)

OK, before I start blogging about the beginning of the film festival, I just HAVE to share a trailer that I saw tonight on my first full night of...

Linda