This week the annual Natfilm Festival (translates into Nightfilm Festival) begins here and so far I’m going to see the following movies:

Wednesday:
14:00 Things Behind The Sun
19:00 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
21:30 The Royal Tenenbaums
Thursday:
14:00 The Business of Strangers
16:00 Pollock
Friday:
16:00 Waking Life
24:00 Hedwig & The Angry Inch
Saturday:
22:00 L.I.E.
24:00 Cecil B. Demented
Sunday:
14:00 Storytelling

I might not see all the movies, or maybe friends of mine will want to see something else and we’ll do that. But this is the movies I plan on seeing.

I saw Hedwig last year in New York and I thought it was so good that I’m going to see it again. I didn’t really know a lot about the movie before I saw it, so I was totally blown away by the weird story, the characters, and the music. Oddly enough, besides Tenenbaums, it’s probably the movie I’m most excited about seeing. Most of the movies are chosen mainly because of the directors (Anders, Allen, Anderson, Linklater, Waters, and Solondz), but also because a fair share of them received favourable reviews. I rarely watch movies because of actors, but I often watch movies because of directors (in the same way I also try to avoid movies made by certain directors... Michael Bay, I'm looking in your direction). And I usually prefer dialogue driven movies as opposed to action driven movies, which I guess is obvious since my list doesn’t include Panic Room, We Were Soldiers, and The Mothman Prophecies, which were also on the programme. So it looks like I’m heading into a pretty great week although The Curse of the Jade Scorpion is on at the same time as Denmark plays their last friendly before the World Cup.

Posted by John Fogde at April 15, 2002 06:27 PM | TrackBack