Yup. It’s back. The film fest. And I’ve got the fever.
My short list of movies to see
Thursday, Sept. 9th
RYERSON
11 :59pm Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence, Japan, p.397
Friday, Sept. 10th
VISA SCREENING ROOM @ ELGIN THEATRE
6:30pm Childstar, Canada, p.133 (Don McKellar, Dave Foley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Thicke, Eric Stoltz)
ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
6:30pm I (heart) Huckabees, USA, p.39 (Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg)
Saturday, Sept. 11th
ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
1:30pm 5 Children and It, UK, p.43 (Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, based on the novel by E. Nesbit that I loved as a child)
9:30pm House of Flying Daggers, China, p.47 (astounding martial arts epic)
Sunday, Sept. 12th
ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
1:30pm Shark Tale, USA, p.49 (animated underwater gangster film DreamWorks feature, Will Smith, Robert DeNiro, Renee Zellweger, Angeline Jolie, Jack Black)
Monday, Sept. 13th
CUMBERLAND
5:30pm Anatomie de l’enfer, France, p.119 (about female sexuality and knowledge)
Tuesday, Sept. 14th
RYERSON THEATRE
6:30pm 9 Songs, UK, p.109 (music concerts and sexual deviance, incl. Michael Nyman)
ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
6:30pm Imaginary Heroes, USA, p.59 (Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams – Dawson’s Creek meets Aliens, what’s up! The director co-wrote X-Men 2)
Wednesday, Sept. 15th
VARSITY CINEMAS
6:15pm Low Life, South Korea p.101 (gangster film and Korean historical docudrama)
PARAMOUNT
6:00pm Café Lumiere, Japan p.90 (homage to Yasujiro Ozu’s ‘Tokyo Story’)
ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
6:30pm Stage Beauty, UK, p.63 (starring Claire Danes & Rupert Everett, set in the English Restoration, about Shakespearean actors and gender roles)
9:30pm A Good Woman, UK/Italy, p.65 (starring Helen Hunt & Scarlet Johansson based on Oscar Wilde’s “Lady Windemere’s Fanâ€)
Thursday, Sept. 16th
VARSITY CINEMAS
6:00pm Cinevardaphoto, France p.98 (Ydessa Hendeles, filthy rich weirdo Toronto contemporary art curator and child of Holocaust survivors = cool)
ELGIN THEATRE
9:30pm Eros, Hong Kong (3 short films on sex; Wong Kar-wai! He did ‘Chungking Express’, ‘Fallen Angels’, ‘In the Mood for Love’ etc. and Steven Soderberg! He’s done ‘Erin Brockovitch’, ‘Traffic’, ‘Ocean’s Eleven’, etc.) p.97 *Warning: may be “steamyâ€
Friday, Sept. 17th
VARSITY CINEMAS
10:00pm The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, Canada, p.105 (Directed by Bruce McDonald, who brought us ‘Hard Core Logo’, featuring a jury member who falls for the accused in a high-profile murder case: allusions to Hitchcock and Doris Day films)
Saturday, Sept. 18th
VARSITY CINEMAS
3:00pm Sucker Free City, USA p.99 (Spike Lee’s latest joint, a pilot for a TV series on Showtime, about multicultural life in San Francisco)
7:00pm Primer, USA p.125 (pulp sci-fi film about a box in which time folds in on itself)
ELGIN THEATRE
9:30pm Trauma, UK, p.121 (mmm… Colin Firth and Mena Suvari in a Stephen King-style horror flick with creepy hobbies and morgue-like dwelling)
I have the order in for some tickets, so we’ll see on Tuesday morning how many of my picks I get. I hope to take my Mum to see the Kenneth Branagh adaptation of E. Nesbit’s “The Five Children and It”, and I want to take
Anyone else want to see some movies with me?
If I hit the film fest at all it’s usually a Midnight Madness & industry parties-only thing for me, which means I’ll probably see you at GITS2 (heh heh, “gits”). TRAUMA is another possibility though — Joyce loves her Colin Firth, and while I think Mena Suvari is creepy (and not in a good way) the movie might be halfway interesting.
I head up the Midnight Madness volunteer team, so perhaps I’ll see you there!
The one based on Lady Windemere’s fan would be cool… I loved the play, plus, hello cast! And while we’re on it, I’m a total Clare Danes whore, WITH Rupert Everet???
I totally do, especially Ghost in the Shell 2… teensy weensy problem being i Live in fucking Denver.
I will see this movie alone, sobbing into my popcorn, extra greasy and criminally salty.
-caellum
*sob*
There, there. *pet*
Whenever you chop your way free from the constricting conifers that are suffocating your tiny encampment in the heavily forested and totally uncivilized mini-Hamlet of Denver, you can begin the long foot-trek up to Toronto to VISIT US, and then we can introduce you to such wonderments as living quarters made of steel and glass and concrete, combustion engines in moving carriages, electric lighting and best of all, moving pictures with full audiophonic sound! Or – and I’m just wildly throwing this out there – you could use those newfangled air-displacing winged flight modules called AEROPLANES.
Yes, the film festival would have been an ideal time for a wee visit from you. There’s also a new animated feature by the fellow who did “Akira”, called “Steamboy”. It’s set in Victorian England, but with rocketships. Looks excellent.
Criminally salty,
M.