My Journal of the 2001 Seattle International Film Festival…
Seattle, Washington USA, May 24 through June 17
Jumping the gun (festival films seen prior to the festival)
Borstal Boy – seen 23 December in County Mayo, Ireland (US premiere)
Press screening of My First Mister – 14 May
Press screening of O – 15 May (world premiere)
Press screening of Kyua (Cure) – 16 May
Press screening of Lift – 17 May
Press screening of Liam – 21 May (US premiere)
Press screening of The King Is Alive – 22 May
Press screening of Sangue vivo (Life Blood) – 23 May
Thursday 24 May
Press screening of La Virgen de los sicarios (Our Lady of the Assassins)
Friday 25 May
Press screening of Bartleby
Press screening of Lost and Delirious
Press screening of Bangkok Dangerous (US premiere)
Saturday 26 May
Iedereen beroemd! (Everybody’s Famous!)
Monday 28 May
101 Reykjavik
Tuesday 29 May
Press screening of Korei (Seance) (US premiere)
Press screening of Will Full (world premiere)
Press screening of Gaudi Afternoon
Thursday 31 May
Press screening of Canone inverso – making love
Press screening of La Moitié gauche du frigo (The Left Side of the Fridge) (US premiere)
Press screening of O Fantasma (Phantom)
Friday 1 June
Press screening of Drole de Felix (The Adventures of Felix)
Press screening of Startup.com
Press screening of The Young and the Dead
Sunday 3 June
Coronacion (Coronation)
Monday 4 June
Press screening of Les Rivieres pourpres (The Crimson Rivers)
Tuesday 5 June
Sexo, pudor y lagrimas (Sex, Shame & Tears)
Wednesday 6 June
Press screening of Le Placard (The Closet)
Born Romantic
Thursday 7 June
Press screening of Mortel transfert (Mortal Transfer) (US premiere)
Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures
Wednesday 13 June
Press screening of Plata quemada (Burnt Money)
Thursday 14 June
Press screening of Second Coming (world premiere)
Peaches (US premiere)
Friday 15 June
Disco Pigs (US premiere)
Better late than never (festival films seen after the festival)
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
Jalla! Jalla!
My Commentaries
24 May 2001: It is unseasonably warm in Seattle, perhaps making up for the fact that I am once again not on the French Riviera [Cannes do]
31 May 2001: So what wonderful, obscure flick will I be missing when Moulin Rouge opens in Seattle? [Bombing out of the festival]
7 June 2001: Well, at least the lady who kept changing seats and walking into walls wasn’t talking on a cell phone [Magic moments]
14 June 2001: So, Quentin, how about making a movie about visionary Catholic lovers who fight with each other and then get shot? [Making (non)sense of it all]
21 June 2001: They say you should avoid discussing politics and religion, so in this commentary I will wisely avoid politics [Putting words in Jesus’s mouth]
Links to official film festival sites