For Your Consideration: SIFF Selections for Wednesday and Thursday

As SIFF marches into its final week, the festival continues pulling out all of the stops as we all barrel toward a manic finale. Tonight a live musical score to Captain Nemo competes with a former Facts of Life star in the Gay-la spotlight. Eastsiders will be pleased to know that festival stays in Kirkland for a few more days. 

Scour these selections for some ideas of filling the remaining slots on your SIFF dance card and let us know if we've missed any highly recommendable films. For all film screenings, the general/member ticket prices are $11/$9 (and matinees $8/$7), except for special presentations, which cost more.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea Stephin Merritt (of Magnetic Fields fame) and friends (including Daniel Handler, or Lemony Snicket to your kids) composed an original soundtrack to the 1916 film version of Jules Verne's undersea adventure. They'll perform it live tonight in the grandeur of the Paramount with accompaniment on the venue's infamous organ. (7:30 p.m. @ the Paramount)

Violet Tendencies Natalie from Facts of Life all grown up. She's surrounded by loving gays, but needs a little male companionship of her own. Get ready for an exploration of emerging language life "fruit fly" and "fag stag". Tonight's showing is followed by a gay gay gay-la at Re-bar with DJs, cocktails, dancing, and mingletime; you'll have to make your own afterparty for Thursday's showing. (June 9, 7:00 p.m. @ Egyptian; June 10, 4:00 p.m.) 

Monogamy A bored Brooklynite's art project goes too far when his filmmaking uncovers obsessionworthy depravity. (June 9, 7:00 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema; June 10, 4:00 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema)

The Dancer and the Thief One of those "let's get the gang back together for one last heist", this time in the wake of and as vengeance against the brutalities of the Pinochet regime. (June 9, 2010 9:15 p.m. @ Neptune; June 13, 2010 9:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place)

William S. Burroughs: A Man Within Dozens of celebrity "comrades" filtered out of the woodwork in support of this documentary about the legendary author's life. With a soundtrack by Sonic Youth, and revealing interviews with Gus Van Sant, Laurie Anderson, John Waters, and others influenced by Burroughs's writing and activism. (June 10, 4:00 p.m. @ Neptune; June 12, 2010 6:30 p.m. @ Harvard Exit)

I Kissed a Vampire Love at first bite? A dozen song and dance numbers in service of teen love, bloodthirsty style. (June 10, 7:00 p.m. @ Neptune; June 12, 4:30 p.m. @ Egyptian)

Hipsters Not a documentary about Capitol Hill denizens, but a Russian musical about ass-shaking Moscow youths in the 1950s. Technicolor costumes, blinding pompadours, and scandalous hip-shaking await. (June 10, 6:30 p.m. @ Egyptian; June 12, 2:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place)

American: The Bill Hicks Story It took two British filmmakers to take the deep dive into the wealth of videos, photos, and unfinished film projects in this documentary about the comedian who railed hilariously against hypocrisy, government, and monolithic media. (June 10, 6:30 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema; June 12, 11:00 a.m. @ Egyptian)

Crossing Hennessy Uncoordinated efforts to derail parental meddling might have unexpected failures in this story of a Hong Kong underachiever pushed into a blind date. (June 10, 7:00 p.m. @ Pacific Place; June 11, 1:30 p.m. @ Pacific Place)

Patagonia An inadvertent Trading Spaces as a Welsh couple retreats to Argentina to spice up their marriage and an elderly Argentinian plots a return to Wales to understand  her distant ancestry. All set against the vibrant Patagonian landscape. (June 10, 7:00 p.m. @ Uptown; June 12, 2010 3:45 p.m.@ Uptown)

Miss Nobody Justine Bibb climbs the corporate ladder comedic homicide by comedic homicide. World premiere! (June 10, 9:15 p.m. @ Harvard Exit; June 12, 1:15 p.m. @ SIFF Cinema) 

Some previous recommendations with repeat showings include: Peruvian village toxicity drama Altiplano (June 9, 4:00 p.m. @ the Egyptian); Beautiful people brood on the road to the beach in Going South (June 10, 9:30 PM @ the Egyptian); Estonian culture vultures of Disco and Atomic War (June 9, 7:00 p.m. @ Kirkland); Desaparecido sibling drama I Miss You (June 10, 9:15 p.m. @ Kirkland)