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,…
Rock With You
This afternoon I’ll take my lunch hour to run my selections over to the Dundas Square box office. Say a little prayer to the gods of Random Selection that I get at least half my choices OK? One of my choices was this film, Guy Ritchie’s ROCKNROLLA. Has it really been eight years since this…
Putting It Together
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,…