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SIFF 2008 at Scarecrow - UPDATED!

  • Jun. 20th, 2008 at 11:24 PM
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Hi all! Here is the new list of movies from SIFF 2008 that we have at Scarecrow for rent. Everything that is new from the previous list I've gone ahead and made bold. :) Per usual, if the movie has anything odd about (PAL and Codes) it's noted after the title. Anything that is PAL only you can play on a computer or a special DVD player. Anything that is marked with a Code needs a special all-code DVD player or a computer that will allow you to play other codes. Be careful if you don't know you can play other codes safely though.

Enjoy!

Alexander Nevsky
Alexandra (PAL - Code 5)
Becky Sharp
Blind Mountain (Code 3)
Blood Brothers (Code 3)
Breakfast With Scot
Brick Lane (PAL - Code 2)
Cecil B. DeMented
Chysalis (PAL - Code 2)
Continental
The Drummer
Epitaph (Code 3)
Faces (1968)
Five Senses (1999)
Games of Love & Chance
Head On
Heavy Metal in Baghdad
The Home Song Stories (PAL)
In the Land of the War Canoes (aka, In the Land of the Headhunters)
Island Etude (Code 3)
It Always Rains on Sunday (PAL - Code 2)
Katyn
Love & Honor (Code 2)
Mad Detective
The Mother of Tears (PAL - Code 5)
Night Tide
Romeo and Juliet
Saga of Anatahan
Seachd: the Inaccessible Pinnacle listed in the Times as Seachd: the Crimson Snowdrop (PAL Code 2)
Sexy Beast
Still Life (PAL Code 6)
Sukiyaki Western (Code 2)
Sunset
Triangle (Code 3)
Vexille (Code 3)
XXY
Young Adam
Young Master

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[info]steve98052 wrote:
Jun. 21st, 2008 06:50 am (UTC)
Thanks. If I dig back in your journal, will I find a similar list of things from previous SIFF selection lists?
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[info]media_babe wrote:
Jun. 21st, 2008 07:14 am (UTC)
Ummmm, yes and no. I don't think I started keeping track of what we had at Scarecrow before last year or 2006, not sure. The other thing to keep in mind is that those lists were posted at the beginning and then again at the end of the festival - but over the years we naturally pick up more and more movies, which I don't generally bother to track. So, for example, if you were to check out the list of SIFF 2007 at Scarecrow, it was accurate at the time it was posted, but will likely be grossly inaccurate now.

Right now we actually have up two sections of SIFF at Scarecrow. One is a highlights section of movies shown from all the years at SIFF (though I doubt all the movies we have that have been shown) and then there's the 2008 section.

Maybe someday when I'm feeling obsessive compulsive, I'll go through all my SIFF books and make a detailed listing of which movies Scarecrow Video has for rent. ;-)
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[info]steve98052 wrote:
Jun. 21st, 2008 09:03 am (UTC)

It would be particularly interesting to find whether anything on recent Fools' favorite lists were available from Scarecrow, particularly those I haven't seen. Maybe you can look them up more effectively than I can, and look up ones I skipped because I've seen them. I only looked at the previous two years, because that's when we became Fools.

2007 (Most liked in order, then most favorite not on the most liked list):
Emma's Bliss - not in stock
Sounds of Sand - not in stock
La Vie en Rose - I saw at SIFF
Four Minutes - one in stock isn't the right one
Getting Home - looks like the right one is in stock
Paris je t'aime - I saw at SIFF
Tell No One - looks like the right one is in stock (PAL)
Vitus - I saw at SIFF
Prague - ones in stock aren't the right one
The Life of Reilly - not in stock
The Man of My Life looks like the right one is in stock
Fido - I saw at SIFF and on a friend's DVD
Strike - looks like the right one is in stock

Off topic, I see that Aachi & Ssipak is on the Fools' 2007 least-liked lists. It was hilarious, and should not be missed, if the tag line "scatological pandemonium" sounds at all entertaining.

2006 (same order):
Elsa & Fred - not in stock
Mother of Mine - in stock
I Am - *
Iberia - *
The Hidden Blade - *
Snow Cake - I saw at SIFF
So Close, So Far - *
The Cave of the Yellow Dog - I have on DVD, so I assume Scarecrow does too
Secret Festival #2 - I saw at SIFF, but I don't remember which film it was
Adam's Apples - I saw at SIFF, and have on DVD
House of Sand - I saw at SIFF
C.R.A.Z.Y. - I saw at SIFF
The Prince Contemplating his Soul - *

Off-topic, I see more films I've seen on the Fools' 2006 least-favorite lists. Wild Tigers I Have Known was tedious; I saw at Northwest Film Forum in limited release, rather than at SIFF. A Side, B Side, Seaside was tedious. Strangers with Candy was fairly entertaining; I saw it at the Varsity in limited release, rather than at SIFF. The District! (Hungary) was hilarious, and should not be missed.

* I can't look up any of these, because Scarecrow's database burped while I was writing this message, and doesn't seem to want to wake up again right now.

Edited at 2008-06-21 09:04 am (UTC)

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[info]media_babe wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2008 04:28 pm (UTC)
I can't look them up any easier than you can - which is to say I either do it online or in the store, the same as everybody else. Generally looking up stuff in the store is more effective and accurate. Sometimes we have stuff that we're technically not suppoooooosed to. So we don't list them in the online database to protect ourselves from getting caught with our hands in the cookie jar.

Seems like the website is still acting up pretty badly, which is never good. That said, here's the ones I know we have that you missed or didn't look up:

Paris Je'Taime - we had this during the festival
Vitus
La Vie en Rose
Fido
C.R.A.Z.Y
Adam's Apples
Cave of the Yellow Dog
Snow Cake
House of Sand
Hidden Blade (we have all three of the trilogy already)
Prince Contemplating - I didn't find this online, but I have a strong recollection of seeing it in the store, so I don't know what it up with that.

Edited at 2008-06-22 04:29 pm (UTC)
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[info]steve98052 wrote:
Jun. 22nd, 2008 09:02 pm (UTC)

Good work. It would be clever to post these lists to the FoolSerious.org bulletin board. Do you have a user name there yet?

The database burps now and then. Sometimes it wakes up after a moment, but sometimes not until someone kicks it.

Also, I had a notification from a different user name. Do you have an alternate user name here?

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[info]king_chiron wrote:
Jun. 21st, 2008 07:00 am (UTC)
Good stuff, very handy for catching those film I missed at SIFF, thanks!
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