Visual Art Apr 14, 2010 at 10:36 am

Nine Hours at SIFF Cinema

Jen Graves
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Cremaster is the Finnegans Wake of cinema
wormletter on April 14, 2010 at 11:07 AM Report this
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I agree, I loved #4 the most too. This is the one that really captured the vision.

That said, I'm glad I'm getting my tax refund - under President Obama it went up so much I can finally pay off my Platinum Lifetime SIFF membership and go see some really cool films.
Will in Seattle on April 14, 2010 at 11:17 AM Report this
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I saw the peripheral exhibit at the Guggenheim several years ago. I was confused in general, but struck by the meticulousness of the photos and sculptures. Ultimately I decided I didn't have 9 hours for the cycle itself but I liked the distillation.
nixor on April 14, 2010 at 11:40 AM Report this
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boooorring, Sydney, booooooorrrrrring.
teagirl71 on April 14, 2010 at 11:47 AM Report this
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Five is for me the most significant of the cycle, Ursula Andress as the Queen of Chains was beautifully over the top
Steven Vroom on April 14, 2010 at 12:28 PM Report this
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I love Matthew Barney and his weird fixations. His films are definitely impenetrable at times, but I don't care. I could meditate to that woman cutting potatoes with her shoes.
thom on April 14, 2010 at 2:39 PM Report this
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Small correction: Part 3's giant was not filmed on the moors, but rather the east coast of Northern Ireland, in an incredible natural rock formation called "The Giant's Causeway", which figures in the irish legends of Finn MacCool, a giant.
Ms_Emme on April 14, 2010 at 3:03 PM Report this
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Much of Cremaster is a rip-off of Jodorowsky's "Holy Mountain" which has the added bonus of actually being a watchable work of cinema.
on April 14, 2010 at 3:10 PM Report this
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@7 - good to know. Thanks.

Never watched it @8.
Will in Seattle on April 14, 2010 at 3:19 PM Report this
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@7: Thanks. Sorry for failing on the moor front. Never was quite sure what a moor was, etc. Now I shall look it up.
Jen Graves on April 14, 2010 at 4:39 PM Report this
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@8 HM = GREAT fillum. But to call CM "rip-off"... Can't go with you there. Care to be specific?
derkle on April 14, 2010 at 5:01 PM Report this
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Okay... so this film is how many years old already? And why is it that we still care enough about it to give it a suggests this week? I mean it only shows up in town every three years or so.
oldmanandthesea on April 14, 2010 at 5:30 PM Report this
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Matthew Barney was a J Crew model as an undergraduate at Yale. For his final project he invited the whole school to a performance where he stripped naked and climbed the flag pole, only after it had been covered with Vasiline. True story.
HuskyQuaker on April 15, 2010 at 6:14 PM Report this
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Don't forget the hershey-syrup monkey poop lube for camshaft humper! I overheard audience memebers near me who were there for the whole marathon say (after the relief of laughter that seemed to sweep through the theater when the new peice was over) "ummm, he's definitetly slipping."
jamey marie braden on April 16, 2010 at 12:07 PM Report this

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