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If you're an accordion appreciator, you really have to see Accordion Tribe, a documentary that follows the 2001 European tour of five world-class accordion composer/performers. They're mostly from a contemporary classical background, although one plays jazz; folk music inevitably lurks behind all of it, and some of them are quite thoughtful on the relationships between different kinds of music. Oh, and one of them plays "Walking on the Moon".

It's showing again at Cinequest on Friday and Saturday at 1:00 PM. If you're not in San Jose, I don't know where else it'll screen, although apparently it got released in some German-speaking countries last year.

If you're a music fan but you don't think you like accordions, you might want to check this one out anyway. You never know.

if you like __________, you might enjoy ___________.

robots ... Dannybot
Blake's 7 ... Blake's Junction 7
Broken Social Scene ... The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess

That last is a surreal, ironic portrait (think To Die For) of the sex-charged, fame-crazed society we know as Canada. BSS wrote the score, and there's also a fantasy sequence set to Josh Rouse's "Love Vibration." The other two are comedic shorts--you can watch one of them online, and a trailer for the other.