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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

So there is a St. Louis International Film Festival coming up (god I am overloading myself!) and I want to go to at least one film but I have been so out of the loop that only a very few names ring a bell.

Any one else who is more into the scene than I am care to help me out with recommendations on one or two that look the most promising? Here's the list.
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Mister Toups · Posted: Thu Nov 02, 2006 11:47 am Post subject:

TIdeland is the new Terry Gilliam film and will probably be very good.
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dark steve · . Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 1110

http://cinemastlouis.org/MoviePages.cfm?&MovieId=222
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

simplicio · . Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 1091

Yeah, I looked and the list and was about to scream "THE HOST!" before I looked at dark steve's link. But it bears repeating:

"THE HOST!"

Oh shit, INVISIBLE WAVES!

Pen-Ek Ratanaruang is fantastic; go watch 6ixtynin9 and Last Life In the Universe and you'll see; he seems to have a great range of ideas, and Christopher Doyle on the cameras is never a bad thing either. And Bong Joon-Ho's Memories of Murder while you're at it. I downloaded his Barking Dogs Never Bite (no domestic release yet) and that was great as well.

I envy you for those two (well, they've probably already come to NYC and I just never found out about them in time).

EDIT: And if you're only going to 2, take those. Gilliam is assured of a DVD release at least.