All afternoon I’d been wondering about what sort of TIFF update I wanted to write today. In the end, indecision has won out. So rather than give you a few hundred words on my experiences over the last day, I figured I’d let the pictures do the talking for once. First from last night’s premiere…
TIFF Reaction: COOPER’S CAMERA
Yesterday I wrote about not believing the hype. This afternoon, my theme could be don’t believe the trash. Of all the movies I picked to see, two of them snagged bad press before the festival started: I ended up loving them both. Then there was the flick I chose for today – COOPER’S CAMERA –…
TIFF Reaction: SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK
First things first: it’s pronounced sin-ECK-DA-key. Now that I have that out of the way, I’ll try to talk about this amazingly odd movie from the go-to-guy for amazingly odd, Charlie Kaufman. For those of you who don’t know, Kaufman wrote such strange stories as ADAPTATION, BEING JOHN MALKOVICH, AND ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS…
Ocean of Noise (Thoughts on TIFF Day 6)
While it slightly saddens me to realize that I’m on the back nine of this year’s Toronto Film Fest, I’m sure my eyes and body will be happy to know that only four more days of this crazy abuse remain. As you might have read below, this afternoon brought me to Darren Aronofsky’s THE WRESTLER…
TIFF Reaction: THE WRESTLER
I approached my screening of THE WRESTLER with a lot of hope and expectations. It seems as though with every week that goes by, another glowing bit of info about this movie hit the fan. expectations climbed a few rungs over the weekend when the movie won The Golden Lion which is the top prize…
TIFF Reaction: TEARS FOR SALE (ČARLSTON za OGNJENKU)
I came amazingly close to ditching out on my Monday night screening, but looking back I’m glad I went. TEARS FOR SALE won’t go down as the best TIFF movie I’ve ever seen, but it will certainly rank as one of the most memorable. To paraphrase late night’s Craig Ferguson, this is 12 hours of…
TIFF Reaction – APRON STRINGS
After three whole days of home runs, I found myself watching what was more of a single to the opposite field. This, of course is to be expected, since nobody out there falls deeply in love with every movie they see at these film festivals. This isn’t to say that APRON STRINGS wasn’t a good…