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SIFF 2013 Week 3 Picks

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Here we are, in the final full week of SIFF 2013. Among this week’s special events are a long-on-standby-only Evening with Kyle MacLachlan followed by a screening of the Twin Peaks pilot (tonight, 7:30 PM), a “Gay-La” presentation of G.B.F. followed by a dance party at Q (June 5, 7:00 PM, Egyptian), and two benefit screenings of Decoding Annie Parker, about current UW (then Cal) geneticist Mary-Claire King’s discovery of the BRCA1 gene’s role in breast cancer. Helen Hunt takes on the role of the scientist and Samantha Morton plays the title role patient. Tickets cost $25 and benefit the King Lab at the University of Washington.

  • June 6, 2013 7:00 PM Egyptian Theatre
  • June 8, 2013 1:30 PM Egyptian Theatre

Also close to home, the Sonicsgate team give last year’s marijuana legalization campaign the big-screen documentary treatments with Evergreen: the Road to Legalization in Washington, putting the recent political news on film while its still fresh in our memories.

  • June 6, 2013 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
  • June 8, 2013 12:00 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

Sadourni’s Butterflies: Dario Nardi’s melodrama about a circus dwarf enduring incarceration for a crime of passion reportedly draws from German expressionism and film noir. Whether that means it’s pretentious twaddle or something magical will be in the beholder’s eye, but one thing’s for sure: It certainly doesn’t look dull.

  • June 3, 2013 4:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
  • June 5, 2013 6:30 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

Here Comes the Devil: Two kids lost in some mysterious caves in Tijuana come back not quite the same, to menacing effect. The newest directorial effort from Adrian Garcia Bogliano promises eerie atmosphere and visceral shocks in a stew that hearkens back to the dead-serious, boundary-pushing genre cinema of the 1970s.

  • June 4, 2013 9:30 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
  • June 9, 2013 9:00 PM Pacific Place Cinemas

Flicker: All of Sweden wants you to go see Patrik Eklund’s “Coens-ish comedy” (Hollywood Reporter) about a telecom giant that’s trying to modernize, if they can just keep the power on. (SPOILER: They cannot.)

  • June 3, 2013 6:00 PM Kirkland Performance Center
  • June 6, 2013 9:30 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
  • June 9, 2013 9:00 PM Egyptian Theatre

Improvement Club: All you On the Boards fans may want to show up for a fictionalized “making of” film directed by Dayna Hanson as she went about creating her real-life work, Gloria’s Cause, reviewed here. It’s shot by Ben Kasulke.

  • June 4, 2013 7:00 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown
  • June 5, 2013 4:30 PM Harvard Exit

Unhung Hero: Local boy Patrick Moote has some massive cojones, as exhibited in this doc. Moote gets dumped by his girlfriend because of his penis size, but that rejection fuels an exploration of how the world views male sexual ideals. Does size matter? In a world that has no qualms about picking apart women’s bodies and sexuality, it’s refreshing to see a doc that even begins to put that question to males.

  • June 4, 2013 6:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas
  • June 5, 2013 4:30 PM Pacific Place Cinemas

Aayna Ka Bayna: In this “mash-up of the Step Up films and the musical Moulin Rouge” — we know, you’re sold, right?  We’re told it gets predictable later on, as nine Marathi Indian boys from a juvenile home dance their way into a national competition, but the choreography and music carry the day.

  • June 5, 2013 9:30 PM Egyptian Theatre
  • June 7, 2013 6:00 PM Kirkland Performance Center

The Forgotten Kingdom: Buzz is good for this meditative story about young Atang Mokoenya’s travels with his father’s body, from South Africa’s Joburg back to their homeland, Lesotho. City-raised Atang is a fish out of water, but neither do tribal customs know what to do about AIDS.

  • June 5, 2013 9:00 PM SIFF Cinema Uptown

Note on the food-front: this week includes a second screening of More Than Honey, the Swiss honeybee documentary that enchanted MvB and Josh last week (June 4, 4:30 PM, Egyptian Theatre). For oenophiles and the people who love them, there’s a near-impossible pairing of sommelier certification-as-sport documentary SOMM (June 4, 7:30 PM, Kirkland Performance Center) and Red Obsession (June 4, 6:00 pm, SIFF Cinema) which looks at the beverage from the point of view of the insatiable Chinese market for coveted varietals. There’s also Putzel (June 3, 7:00 PM and June 7, 1:00 PM, Pacific Place) an quirky fish-shop romance vs. L’Amour des moules (June 3, 7:00 pm, Harvard Exit), where the shellfish themselves are the objects of affection.

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