{"id":5350,"date":"2006-06-09T11:04:43","date_gmt":"2006-06-09T15:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/09\/silverdocs-2\/"},"modified":"2006-12-23T12:21:21","modified_gmt":"2006-12-23T16:21:21","slug":"silverdocs-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/ceerock\/2006\/06\/09\/silverdocs-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Anticipating Silverdocs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/images\/films\/Walking-to-Werner.jpg\" \/>I was most disappointed to have to miss <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/walki.aspx\"><em>Walking to Werner<\/em><\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iffboston.org\/\">IFFBoston<\/a>, but am happy to see it&#8217;s on the schedule at Silverdocs, so I&#8217;ll get a second chance. There are quite a few docs in the lineup that were also at IFFBoston, which shows how impressive the Boston fest has become. In addition to <em>Werner, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/ameri.aspx\">American Blackout<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/fuck.aspx\">Fuck<\/a><\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/fuck.aspx\">, <\/a>and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/trial.aspx\"><em>The Trials of Darryl Hunt<\/em><\/a> all played at IFFBoston. And somehow I managed to miss every single one. Here are some of the others I&#8217;m looking forward to: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/great.aspx\">The Great Happiness Space<\/a>, about a strange brothel in Japan where the clients are women and the service they pay for from their male prostitutes is attention and &#8220;love&#8221; behavior, not sex. Also looking forward to <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/onlyb.aspx\">Only Belle<\/a>, a terrifying-sounding film about a female serial killer I never heard of (just look at that frickin&#8217; image via the link..*shudder*),  <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/chair.aspx\">Chairman George<\/a>, about a Greek-Canadian statistican who sings in perfect Mandarin Chinese and who follows his dream by taking off to China to try to perform at the Olympics, <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/railr.aspx\">Railroad All-Stars<\/a>, about a soccer team of prostitutes in Guatemala City, <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/paper.aspx\">Paper Dolls<\/a>, about four Philipino transvestites who move to Israel and start a drag show, <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/bloo2.aspx\">Blood of the Yingahou District<\/a>, about HIV-infected children in China, a place not usually associated with the disease, and <a href=\"http:\/\/silverdocs.com\/2006\/films\/muskr.aspx\">Muskrat Lovely<\/a>, about the &#8220;Miss Outdoors Pageant&#8221; in my beloved home state of Maryland.<\/p>\n<p>Also looking forward to lots of great parties and food, if this year is anything like last year&#8217;s festival&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was most disappointed to have to miss Walking to Werner at IFFBoston, but am happy to see it&#8217;s on the schedule at Silverdocs, so I&#8217;ll get a second chance. There are quite a few docs in the lineup that were also at IFFBoston, which shows how impressive the Boston fest has become. 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