Monday, October 9, 2006

I chose the new theme at OutOf5 this week. My song, "Food Fight," is a thrashy new-wavy song by the Village People. Yes, those Village People.

Here's a recap of the Film Fest things I've seen so far, making this Movie Log 2006: #78-83:
The three shorts presentations were hit/miss. The local filmmakers' program was refreshingly free of students bitching about how their parents ruined their lives, so that's something.

As for features, Summercamp! was a documentary about a session at a nature camp (note that you have to specify "nature camp" now, in the age of "computer camp" and other specializations) in Wisconsin. It was in the vein of Mad Hot Ballroom and I suppose Spelllbound, in that a gaggle of middle school kids goofing off for 90 minutes can make for an entertaining movie.

Street Thief had me really pissed off at the Festival programmers. It's a fakeumentary, but the CIFF listed it in the documentary category. The film itself has its merits: it generates a good level of suspense, and the lead (the director) is a decent enough actor. But that sort of marketing deception for a film festival is lame. I don't want to have to second-guess the entire documentary category.

The best thing I've seen so far was Day Night Day Night. A young woman of undeterminable ethnicity or ideology trains to be a suicide bomber. Very tense; essentially one big slow build. The lead, Luisa Williams, was terrific.

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