St. Louis International Film Festival: Prelude
November 13, 2008 11:10 am StLIFF 2008The 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 (Die Herbstzeitlosen)
4:30 - Vanaja
7:00 - Blind Mountain (Mang Shan)
9:30 - The Unknown Woman (La Sconosciuta)
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 (L’inferno)
6:30 - The Grocer’s Son (Le Fils de l’epicier)
9:45 - The Objective
Monday, November 17
2:15 - It’s Hard to Be Nice (Tesko Je Biti Fin)
5:00 - Sinner Come Home
7:00 - Wendy and Lucy
9:15 - Special
Tuesday, November 18
12:30 Let the Wind Blow (Hava Aney Dey)
2:30 Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
4:30 Opera Jawa
7:15 Wonderful Town
9:15 Son of a Lion
Wednesday, November 19
1:30 - The Heartbeat Detector (La Question Humaine)
4:15 - Kontakt
7:00 - The Pope’s Toilet (El Bano del Papa)
9:00 - Stranded: I’ve Come From a Plane That Crashed on the Mountains
Thursday, November 20
12:30 - The Bet Collector (Kubrador)
2:30 - All For Free (Sve Dzaba)
4:30 - The Tiger’s Tail
7:15 - The Wedding Director (Il Regista di Matrimoni)
9:30 - Of Parents and Children (O Rodicich a Detech)
Friday, November 21
2:00 - Ben X
4:45 - The Custodian
7:00 - Days and Clouds (Giorni e Nuvole)
9:15 - Timecrimes (Los Cronocrimenes)
Saturday, November 22
1:15 - The Trap (Klopka)
4:30 - O’Horten
6:30 - The Class (Entre les Murs)
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 (Vals im Bashir)
6:30 - The Wrestler
