This morning "J" and I started the day with SIFF's Secret Festival #2. The film was a real treat. Most of the time it was excellent, flawed by occasional moments of unintentional laughter. Very good. Our brunch friend "N" sat with us.
After the film, we had a choice between seeing a short film series ("Episodic 2 - Connection : Available" or " ( Read more... )

SIFF's capsule summary: "Seattle's most exclusive film club. See movies that no other audience (anywhere!) can watch."
SIFF link: Secret Festival #2
The whole point of the Secret Festival is that people who see them sign a pledge not to discuss the films with anyone except others who have signed the pledge. So I'm not telling what film showed.
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Much of today was an errand day for me. One errand was a visit to a post office. Because "T" had the day off from school, he came along for the ride. The postal worker saw him, and apparently had some free time, and offered T a brief tour behind the scenes. T enjoyed it. I did too; it brought back memories of when I had a post office tour as an ( Read more... )

Today, "J" and I went to three more SIFF press screenings. The third was a dud, and worse, it overlapped just enough with something that sounded better that we weren't able to go to the (presumably) better film. We've seen all of the other early evening shows, and didn't want to wait around for any of the middle or late evening shows, so we called ( Read more... )

This morning I went to see the first of four films in SIFF's "Secret Festival". "J" heard great buzz about another film, Sibel, and decided to skip the Secret for it. I was initially tempted to walk out of the Secret, but about a third of the way into it my patience paid off. But I don't think J would have liked it much, and she thought Sibel was ( Read more... )

SIFF's capsule summary: "Seattle's most exclusive film club. See movies that no other audience (anywhere!) can watch."
SIFF link: Secret Festival #1
The whole point of the Secret Festival is that people who see them sign a pledge not to discuss the films with anyone except others who have signed the pledge. So I'm not telling what film showed.
( Read more... )

This morning, I gave "J" a ride to a short meeting - short enough that I just waited outside while she attended. She was pleased with the results of the meeting.
Later, I took "T" to an indoor playground, where he had a lot of fun, and pretty well wore himself out for the day.
Back at home, J had a phone meeting. She said it was really long, but ( Read more... )

Today was a busy day. "J" and I started with the 10 am press screening of The Woman Who Loves Giraffes, which is the best documentary I've seen in several years. It's about a woman who was the first person to scientifically study wild animals in the wild (with the exception of someone who had studied red deer in Europe), and she was a woman in her ( Read more... )

SIFF's capsule summary: "In local filmmaker Lynn Shelton's latest, two women (Jillian Bell and Michaela Watkins) attempt to unload an inherited Civil War sword onto a curmudgeonly pawnshop owner (Marc Maron) and reluctantly enter a world of conspiracy theory and Southern disillusionment." (US, 2019, 89 minutes)
SIFF link: Sword of Trust
Cynthia ( ( Read more... )

Update: I removed the cut after removing the sticky status.
While I have this index set as a sticky message, I'll hide the bulk of the message behind a cut.
Note that due to a quirk in ( Read more... )