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Bumbershoot 2013 Day 2: Music and Comedy

Audrey — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 20:30:29 +0000

At Bumbershoot 2013, some wily musical vets have stolen the show. Who knew that Gary Numan had other songs and an awesome set still in him, up to and including "Cars"? Or that Eric Burdon would turn in a hoodie-clad performance with The Animals?

Day 1 Comedy: Bumbershoot 2013

Audrey — Mon, 02 Sep 2013 00:30:53 +0000

Or if you can’t resist your cattle inclinations, walk down towards the stage and then over to the left. Whatever you do, DO NOT suddenly stop walking and hold up the entire line behind you or change seats four times. The selection of seats at Bumbershoot comedy shows is not like being gay--it doesn't get any better. So just sit down.

Bumbershoot 2013 Pro-Tips

Audrey — Sat, 31 Aug 2013 01:00:24 +0000

"I find it mentally healthiest to pick 2 to 4 must-see things per day, get there with time to spare, and then just browse around in between. Sprinting through crowds and zombies to stick to a rigorous schedule of seeing absolutely everything gets exhausting too fast and robs the festival of surprise discoveries."

Post-SIFF 2013 Reflections, or Suggestions for SIFF 2014

Audrey — Tue, 18 Jun 2013 17:30:18 +0000

"From a consumer standpoint, SIFF 2013's consistency was a great thing. But that consistency almost became numbing sometimes. Very few of the films disappointed, but conversely that meant fewer surprises, pleasant or otherwise, for me."

SIFF What We Saw (The End)

Audrey — Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:15:20 +0000

Without ever making the criminals sympathetic, Sofia Coppola nevertheless captures the way that the heady romance of new friendship, hunger for thrills among the entitled rich (but not super-rich), and a lack of impulse control combine to almost make their actions understandable. Even though it’s based on a true story and is told in interviews and flashbacks, The Bling Ring still held plenty of suspense, particularly as the clique of Hollywood strivers get more and more brazen with their string of celebrity robberies.

SIFF 2013: What We Saw (Part 3)

Audrey — Thu, 06 Jun 2013 03:30:01 +0000

MvB: For sheer cinema, Laurence Anyways from Xavier Dolan takes the SIFF 2013 cake, so far as I’m concerned. At 160-some minutes, it’s a grand opera of a film, replete with arias from leads Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément, enacting an amour fou. Dolan tells a gripping, affecting story about the costs of being true to thine ownself — if a quirk of nature has mismatched your gender identity with secondary sexual characteristics — but he also tries his hand at motion portraiture