Around this time last week, I feigned shock upon hearing that some fellow movie lovers hadn’t seen titles that I consider “essential viewing”. Even today, I was stunned to learn that a fellow cinephile had never seen IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE. I’m sure in every case, these titles are, as I always say, “on the…
Break the Cycle
The clock on my computer says 4pm. It might as well say 8:35 as it really feels like this work day has dragged on like no other – even though it’s been a productive one. Go figure.Fletch listed his top fifty films yesterday, and such listmaking might indeed provide a small releif to the tedium…
That Voice Again
Saturday night, it happened again. A few times in my life, when I’m in a theatre watching a movie, a line will strike me as laugh-out-loud funny. Let me be more specific – a line will strike only me as laugh-out-loud funny. My booming laugh, or immature snickers will echo out from the back corner…
The Waiting
So my envelope containing my TIFF schedule selections has been handed in, nothin’ to do for the next three days but sit back and wait. It’s kind of a nice moment actually…the calm before the storm. In less than a week, I’ll be running all over town, staying up too late, waking up too early,…
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.…
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,…
How Soon is Now?
I have three hours and forty five minutes to go until my screening begins…and I’m starting to believe this is the most ramped up I’ve been for a movie in a long long time. Today has been an endless hive of anticipation… …overhearing a girl’s conversation about the movie in a coffee shop…thinking back to…