My seventh experience at the Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close. I had a pretty good experience numbers-wise, matching my 2007 numbers. However, I do have to say last year had more enjoyable films for me. Here is my wrap up: Top Three Favourite Films Suck The Disappearance of Alice Creed The […]
It was the final day of the festival and I squeezed in another four films. Here we go. Solitary ManThis was a comedy/drama staring Michael Douglas as a man that gets into a bit too much trouble do to is womanizing ways. It was a decent enough film and it was a good way to
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It’s always weird putting on the volunteer t-shirt for one final shift after I spent most of the week as a festival attendee. This was actually the most low-key of my final festival shifts. I started off tearing tickets for a public screening of Partir before I was positioned at the final P&I screening of
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This film opens tomorrow, so this can also be considered a normal review. The big thing that is apparent about this film is that it is more dark comedy than horror. There were a lot of parts in the film that caused people to laugh, but I considered them more bad puns than anything. The
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It was a busy day for me at the Toronto Film Festival and I saw four films within the day. Here are some brief thoughts on the films. Leslie, My Name is EvilStarting off day was this dark comedy about a boy that becomes infatuated with one of the members of the Manson Family, while
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With the exception of some last minute tickets on Saturday, the entire remainder of my film festival experience is now planned. Tomorrow will be a busy day as I see a whopping four films. I will begin with the Manson-family comedy (that description sounds weird), Leslie, My Name is Evil. I will then proceed to
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For my first day of film viewing I checked out George A. Romero’s Survival of the Dead, as well as a presentation called Origins of Factum. Survival of the Dead is, of course, the latest zombie film my Romero and loose follow-up to Diary of the Dead. The film centers around two feuding families on
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My shift started off with my first position inside the theatre. The screening was for the Canadian film A Gun to the Head, which I thought was decent enough that I didn’t mind standing through it. However, my busiest position today was manning the P&I screening for the film Lebanon, fresh from winning the Golden
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In what ended up being my longest shift in the history of my time volunteering for the festival, today I ended up changing locations halfway through my shift, from Varsity to Ryerson, to help out with the craziness happening at the screening for Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air. The screening had a big red
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Last year, I really thought I finished on a high note as a normal volunteer and I was ready to move up and become a captain. Sadly those captain ambitions never turned out and I was back in the peon role for my fourth year as a volunteer. It is probably fitting that this ended
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