Archive for August, 2009
Festival Drinking Prep
Drink with festival friends on Thursday (I’ll be the one screaming “box 48 baby!!!”) http://bit.ly/JPKki
Box 48
They drew box 48
Blank Schedule
Uploading a blank copy of the Myers festival excel sheet. To download, right-click and ‘save link as’.
World Enough and Time
This is the full list of movies I would see if I had unlimited funds, time and could control the schedule – or managed to get my hands on one of those time-turner thingies that Hermione has in the Prisoner of Azkaban.
Bold movies are the ones I really want to see, ‘g’ next to the page number means I want to see it more than a ‘y’ (corresponds to green or yellow post-it flags)
Masters
Antichrist – Lars von Trier, y95
Special Presentation
Up in the Air – Jason Reitman g144
Soul Kitchen – Fatih Akin y155
Cracks – Jordan Scott g118
Mr. Nobody – Jco Van Dormael g121
The Joneses – Derrick Borte y123
Triage – Danis Tancovic g127
The Vintner’s Luck y130
The Boys Are Back g131
Valhalla Rising – Nicolas Winding Refn g135
The Good Heart – Dagur Kari y136
Leaves of Grass – Tim Blake Nelson g138
Partir – Catherine Corsini y141
Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel y144
Life During Wartime – Todd Solondz p149
The Road – John Hillcoat g154
A Single Man – Tom Ford y158
Kamui Gaiden – Yoichi Sai y159
Defendor – Peter Stebbings y160
Vengeance – Johnnie To g164
Good Hair – Jeff Stilson g166
The Waiting City – Claire McCarthy y170
My Son, My Son, What HaveYe Done – Werner Herzog y174
Discovery
Beautiful Kate – Rachel Ward y190
The Disappearance of Alice Creed – J Blakeson y192
Heliopolis – Ahmad Abdalla y201
Last Ride – Glendyn Ivin g204
My Tehran for Sale – Granaz Moussavi g205
Samson & Delilah – Warwich Thornton y207
Gama no Abura – Koji Yakusho y210
Chamesh Shaot MeParis – Leon Prodovsky g212
My Dog Tulip – Paul/Sandra Fierlinger g215
Vanguard
Bunny & the Bull – Paul King y222
Stilyagi – Valery Todorovsky y227
Fish Tank – Andrea Arnold g230
Yi Ngoi – Soi Chang g234
The White Stripes Under Great White Norther Lights – Emmett Malloy g235
Visions
Morrer como um hommem – Joao Pedro Rodrigues y247
Mavericks
An Afternoon with Chris Rock – g260
City to City
Korot – Danny Lerner y65
Contemporary World Cinema
Balibo – Robert Connolly y289
Cole – Carl Bessai y291
Same Same but Different y295
Down for Life – Alan Jacobs y299
The Time That Remains – Elia Suleiman y304
Celda 211 – Daniel Monzon y307
My Year Without Sex – Sarah Watt y315
Tanner Hall – Francesca Gregorini, Tatiana von Furstenberg y321
Bran Nue Dae 0 Rachel Perkins g323
Reel to Reel
Schmatta:Rags to Riches to Rags – Marc Levin y346
Cleanflix – Andrew James, Joshua Ligairi g362
Waking Sleeping Beauty – Don Hahn g365
Year of the Carnivore – Sook-Yin Lee g379
Midnight Madness
Jennifer’s Body – Karyn Kusama y433
Bitch Slap – Rick Jacobson g437
Programme Book Pick-Up
They are totally letting us in early. Good news, I get to work on time. Bad news. I get to work on time. As of 8:51 AM they moved us up to the front of the tent. Waiting…
Front of the line
The line today started at around 6:30 AM (for an advertised 10:00 AM opening time) and at around 8:00 AM a nice festival line marshall came out to tell us the line breakdown for coupon holders vs people coming to buy a programme book. It’s easy to distiguish the older employees from the new ones as the newbies pass the line of people with incredulous looks – you can hear them thinking ‘why are they here so early – and why do they look so peaceful?’
I can only wonder at what time the line for pick up next Thursday September 2 will start. With a posted opening time of 7:00 AM I fear it may be a 5:00 AM start time.
To paraphrase Murtaugh, I may be getting to old for this shit.
Programme Book Pick-Up
Programme Books
Don’t forget your coupons, it’s programme book pick up day August 25th.
Her Favourite Things
Oprah’s coming. http://bit.ly/8WTlH. Precious went from being a hot ticket to totally impossible.
For Your Consideration
With the full list of films available you can go through and select the movies you want to see, you need to re-evaluate when it comes time to make your selections. Whether you are seeing one movie or 40 there will always be tough choices – and odds are you will occasionally end up on the wrong side of the coin toss. So go back and think about what your priorities are based on what you know. Some of the things I take into consideration are listed below.
-the actors (like realizing that Amanda Seyfried is in Jennifer’s Body, and totally changing my mind about trying to get into that movie after watching the last episode of season 1 of Veronica Mars again)
-the director (you may hear Jason Reitman and think ‘Juno backlash’ but I will always remember is the way I felt during the opening credits of Thank You For Smoking)
-the programmer (yes I will always for for Jane Schoettle over anything else when it comes to a scheduling conflict, and if I end up having a slot where it’s Jane against Jane – well there are worse problems that I could have)
-the theatre (not a factor until the schedule comes out on Tuesday, but never underestimate the appeal of the Scotiabank and it’s indoor lineups after wading through a thunderstorm to see Alatriste at the Ryerson)
-the release date (the onerous process of cross-referencing with the published release dates so that I have to consider that while I do love Amanda Seyfried, Jennifer’s Body is scheduled to be released in September)
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