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Checking this documentary out at SIFF tomorrow. I hear it's one of India's stronger entries, curious to see it...

Quoted: “What sin did I commit to be born a woman?” These chilling words of 21-year-old housemaid Lakshmi reverberate throughout Mumbai-based filmmaker Nishtha Jain’s extraordinary documentary. Jain turns the camera on her part-time maid, and in the process illuminates the complex relationship between employer and servant, filmmaker, and subject.

Jan and I are going to see this tonight at 9:30. Anyone else in the mood for a SIFF film?

Seeing this tonight.

The Life of Reilly
USA, 2006, 89 Minute Running Time
Genres: Comedy, Drama

Television icon Charles Nelson Reilly performs his one-man show, "Save It For the Stage." Over the unexpectedly riveting course of recounting his life, from the darkly tragic to the triumphantly comic, he reveals new depths into his craft, life and the time a pelican landed at Burt Reynolds’ beach house.

Director Barry Poltermann is scheduled to attend the June 4 screening.

Wow, this movie sounds intense. Also, Charlize Theron is in it and she's going to be at the opening night gala for the Seattle International Film Festival! Can't believe it's coming up again so soon, better get my membership card...

Quoted: "Battle in Seattle" is the story of a handful of characters who find themselves thrust into the chaos of the infamous anti-globalization protests against the WTO that shook Seattle in the fall of 1999.

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Hilarious teaser for tonight's movie at SIFF.

Quoted: Trailer for the motion picture "The Life of Reilly", starring "Match Game" fixture Charles Nelson Reilly. From www.charlesnelsonreilly.com

Or...might go see this tuesday evening

Quoted: Lady Chatterley
France, 2006, 168 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: UK
Genres: Drama, Romance
Language: French
English Sub-Titles

or this....

Quoted: Spider Lilies
Ci-Qing
Taiwan, 2006, 94 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: China
Genres: Drama, Gay/Lesbian
Language: Mandarin
English Sub-Titles

This looks amazing...also on tuesday evening

Quoted: Opera Jawa
Indonesia, 2006, 120 Minute Running Time
Additional Countries: Austria
Genres: Music, Musical
Language: Javanese
English Sub-Titles

Checking this documentary out tomorrow. It seems like such a universal, bittersweet story about "progress"... hopefully it'll live up to this great SIFF review!

Quoted: Ostensibly a look at four old-world Austrian businesses that won’t survive gentrification, this rewarding documentary is really about the quiet moments and the banter that takes place among the aging proprietors. Beautifully shot and absolutely charming, it recalls of a time when community was more important than consumerism.