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SIFF

I'm so excited that the Seattle International Film Festival is on again. I'm making my list of films and so far, this is what I'm up to:

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Thursday May 31
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4:45pm Exiled
Egyptian Theatre
EXIL3107A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4052

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Friday June 1
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9:15pm No Regret
Harvard Exit
NORE0107A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4239

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Sunday June 3
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9:15pm Eternal Summer
Pacific Place Cinema
ETER0307A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4242

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Monday June 4
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9:30pm Dasepo Naughty Girls
Neptune Theatre
DASE0407A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4287

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Wednesday June 6
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7:00pm Tugboat Annie
SIFF Cinema
TUGB0607A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4176

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Saturday June 9
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11:00am Sway
Harvard Exit
SWAY0907A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=3829

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Monday June 11
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7:00pm The Big Combo
SIFF Cinema
COMB1107A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4191

9:15pm The Damned Don't Cry
SIFF Cinema
DAMN1107A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4251

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Friday June 15
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10:00pm Confession of Pain
Neptune Theatre
CONF1507A
http://www.seattlefilm.org/rdir.aspx?SID=4361

Inside SAM

Inside SAM
Originally uploaded by brappy!

In the lobby of the Seattle Art Museum is Inopportune: Stage One by 蔡國強　(Cai Guoqiang).. It says a lot about an art museum when its most interesting piece is hanging in the lobby.

Inside, was a typically SAM arrangement: works of art thrown together without a coherent theme in a building that doesn't make much sense (which is funny, because the predecessor also didn't make sense). Most of the collection on display was some really atrocious modern art that would not be out of place on the cover of a Foghat LP. A curator in the 1980s must have had a plastic-and-bright-colors fetish, because that's what you'll see on display.

I much prefer its more logical cousin, SAAM (Seattle Asian Art Museum), which has themes, logical exhibits and is rather quiet inside. The new downtown SAM, co-located in a new Washington Mutual office tower, has the same problems as the old one: it's just not a fun place to go look at art. The galleries were laid out fine, but the atmosphere was spoiled by the mouthbreathing staff who were shouting to talk about bathroom breaks, mothers pushing strollers with loudly chatting kids and slack-jawed suburbanites in flip flops smacking against the hardwood floors, causing an enormous cacophony in the galleries. It was hard to concentrate with that noise, plus projected movies blaring with no one watching (just like every other museum film) and those dumb touchscreens that just sit there, being useless.


Having been to a good number of museums and exhibitions in the past year, I would rate this experience fairly low on the scale. It is expensive ($13 general admission/$7 students), relatively uninteresting and noisy.

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