The 2008 St. Louis International Film Festival is here at long last! This year I’m taking my vacation time to attend as many films as possible in the Festival. How many films? Forty-three feature films in eleven days. You read that right. Every morning throughout the Festival, I’ll be posting my thoughts on the films I saw the previous day. Check back every day for oodles of commentary on a whole mess of international cinema. The Festival features some marquee names in independent film, whose work I don’t intend to neglect, but my itinerary is slanted a bit towards Asian and Eastern European/Balkan films. You’ll find the complete itinerary below the fold.
Thursday, November 13
7:00 - Humboldt County
Friday, November 14
2:15 - Late Bloomers
4:30 - Vanaja
7:00 - Blind Mountain
9:30 - The Unknown Woman
Saturday, November 15
12:30 - Of Time and the City
2:15 - Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
5:15 - Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
8:00 - Slumdog Millionaire
10:15 - Alone (Faet)
Sunday, November 16
11:30 - That All May Be One
3:00 - The Inferno
6:30 - The Grocer’s Son
9:45 - The Objective
Monday, November 17
2:15 - It’s Hard to Be Nice
5:00 - Sinner Come Home
7:00 - Wendy and Lucy
9:15 - Special
Tuesday, November 18
12:30 Let the Wind Blow
2:30 Luxury Car
4:30 Opera Jawa
7:15 Wonderful Town
9:15 Son of a Lion
Wednesday, November 19
1:30 - The Heartbeat Detector
4:15 - Kontakt
7:00 - The Pope’s Toilet
9:00 - Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Thursday, November 20
12:30 - The Bet Collector
2:30 - All For Free
4:30 - The Tiger’s Tail
7:15 - The Wedding Director
9:30 - Of Parents and Children
Friday, November 21
2:00 - Ben X
4:45 - The Custodian
7:00 - Days and Clouds
9:15 - Timecrimes
Saturday, November 22
1:15 - The Trap)
4:30 - O’Horten
6:30 - The Class
9:30 - Yesterday Was a Lie
Sunday, November 23
12:00 - Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, the Mistress, and the Tangerine
3:15 - Waltz with Bashir
6:30 - The Wrestler