Here’s what I learned last night: Trying to schedule your TIFF selections + Brand new HDTV service = Amazing lack of concentration. I got through it eventually, and find myself rather happy with how everything might play out. As usual there are a handful of conflicts, but in going through the program book and the…
Missing You
Today’s the day I order take-out for dinner and spend a few stressful hours with highlighters scattered across my desk, my outlook working overtime, and working some mad google skills to get the scoop on titles I’ve never heard of. In short, it’s the day I try to draw up my Toronto Film Fest schedule.…
Breakin’ Me
About this time last year, someone in the know told me that The Toronto International Film Festival was getting close to point break (As in the point where the wave breaks…not the lousy movie cited in the photo above). I could follow the logic – galas were getting bigger, guest lists were getting longer, it…
News of The World v
I’m a pretty big fan of Stephen Soderbergh (TRAFFIC is one of my all-time top five movies). So it brought me much movie-geek excitement yesterday to learn that his two part bio-pic CHE, about the life of Che Guevera, will be playing this year’s Toronto International Film Festival! The two parts together will run four…
News of The World iv
I think I’ve made no bones about the fact that BLINDNESS is the movie I’m most looking forward to for the upcoming Toronto International Film Festival. Well, yesterday’s announcement of more titles gave me a clear cut number two. IT MIGHT GET LOUD is a doc celebrating the electric guitar. It’s directed by David Guggenheim,…
Selling the Drama
OK, misery loves company, so please tell me I’m not alone on this… So there’s The Hatter, on a sunny Sunday afternoon approaching the monument to commerce that is his downtown movie theatre. After a week to soak in the goodness that was THE DARK KNIGHT, he felt like seeing it again. This time though,…
News of The World iii
Toronto International Film Fest released its list of titles for the midnight madness programme, and as always they sound suitably disturbing. I must say though, that JCVD might have me staying up past my bedtime! The complete list of the twisted and terrifying midnight tales after the jump. JCVD Mabrouk El Mechri, France/Luxembourg/BelgiumInternational PremiereJean-Claude Van…