I experimented with Storify today to collect my #SIFF2017 tweets & Instas before they drift off into the cyber-ether.
Edit 1/6/18: which was foolish, because Storify itself is drifting off into the cyber-ether! I’m going to break it down into four posts for ease of loading.
SIFF2017
Seattle International Film Festival, 2017
This was my 21st SIFF, & I blew past my usual passholder total (low 60s) for a new high of 80. This is a low high, the lowest highest point if you will, but I think about as high as you can get while working full time and occasionally sleeping. Join me on the journey!
Week one tweets & instas after the jump!
A truck took out the overhang and the marquee of the Egyptian in October, and it still hasn’t been replaced. Yay bureaucracy!
Me: I should only see new stuff at #SIFF2017.
Also me: But Maurice! Taste of Cherry! Those Redheads from Seattle! LIVE SCORES. #SIFFproblems
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 14, 2017I took vacation for the week that SIFF started, with the idea that I could catch some press screenings and still do laundry. I also picked up 20+ hours of volunteers shifts that week, which goes to show I don’t understand the meaning of the word “vacation”.
I dug both of today's #SIFF2017 films, btw. Finding Kukan (Chinese-American women in film + preservation, yesss) & Weirdos (obviously).
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 18, 2017Well, it wouldn't be #SIFF2017 if I didn't have at least one day where I'll spend 12 hours straight at the Egyptian.
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 18, 2017If City of Ghosts is on your #SIFF2017 list, think hard about how many on-screen executions you can handle.
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 18, 2017ALSO. I get the Seattle impulse to boo the Amazon Studios logo, I really do, but at least they put movies in actual theaters. #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 18, 2017I got to go to Opening Night, which was a blast. The Big Sick was terrific fun, sweet & hilarious, & made by people who clearly love romantic comedies. I did not go to the party, so I guess that unlimited drinks wristband was kinda wasted on me.
Shout-out to the first wave of folks who recognized the X-Files theme tune last night in The Big Sick; you are my people! #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 19, 2017First full day of camp! My goals today: Death in Sarajevo, Ethel & Ernest, The Nile Hilton Incident, After the Storm, Lake Bodom. #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 19, 2017The volunteer giving me my readmit stamp: "You watched five movies today? That's crazy!"
Yes, yes it is. & I'll do it again! #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 20, 2017#SIFF2017 favorites today: Ethel & Ernest and After the Storm. Lake Bodom worked until it suddenly didn't (pick an ending fer crissakes!)
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 20, 2017Today's #SIFF2017 goals: Chavela, Animal Crackers, The Farthest or The Midwife (feel free to @ me your rec), Dawson City, & Bad Black.
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 20, 2017Playing today at #SIFF2017 I've seen Tea Pets (meh) & After the Storm (lovely, returning soon, but of course Hirokazu Kore-eda is here, so!)
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 20, 2017The origin story of the next movie - reels of nitrate found decades later under a hockey rink - sounds like a Guy Maddin film.
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 21, 2017This may be my 21st festival, but it's also the first time a director has asked me to pretend I'm dying of ebola. #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 21, 2017My #SIFF2017 today: Secret, Beach Rats, The Bar, Yourself & Yours, & Bad Day for the Cut. Allll Egyptian, hope the AC works.
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 21, 2017Also showing today: Ethel & Ernest again, super charming, and The Man, which I liked okay. Plus Menashe & Step looked good to me. #SIFF2017
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jaci dee ☕📽 (@letterboxed) May 21, 2017Part two, part three, & part four.
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