A funny thing happened on the way to EVERY LITTLE STEP, the doc about the revival of the 1970’s Broadway hit A Chorus Line. As the filmmakers set out to show what went into creating the musical, and detailed the casting and creation of the revival, they managed to tell the story of struggling to…
TIFF Reaction: YOUSSOU NDOUR – I BRING WHAT I LOVE
Every once in a while, you have to go in blind. At the risk of sounding culturally sheltered, I knew precious little about Youssou Ndour before this afternoon. To be specific, I knew his name, and that he was a world renowned tenor. That’s it – I couldn’t tell you where he was from, couldn’t…
TIFF Reaction: IT MIGHT GET LOUD
Back when this selection was first announced as being part of TIFF ’08, I had one immediate thought: “I’m there!”. For those of you who don’t know me, if there’s anything I love as much as movies, it’s music. And when you cue up songs by U2, The White Stripes, and Led Zeppelin, you are…
Rich Girl
Can’t say I had any interest in attending the TIFF screening of the doc PARIS, NOT THE CITY. The subject of the doc is celebutante Paris Hilton, who I don’t care very much for in any way shape or form. But mysteriously, the doc was scuttled from three screenings down to one. What happened?? Well…
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,…
The Seeker
Last night my home PC started making an unruly death rattle of a noise (likely the hard drive), so there might be a slight slow-down on this site for a few days. As it slowly rattled and clunked it’s way off this mortal coil, I managed to say a few prayers to the Gods of…
Pretty Hate Machine
Saturday night I happened upon a documentary that I’d been meaning to see. The film is called MANUFACTURING DISSENT, and is a Canadian documentarian’s look at how over the years Michael Moore has skewed the facts in his films to present his own agenda. I finished the film very disappointed. Let it be known that…