• September 9, 2008
• Film Festivals

I have so much to tell you about, I don’t even know where to begin. I guess I could start by saying our first movie was called Uncertainty (1/8),...

• September 8, 2008
• Film Festivals

Okay, I want to start by thanking Eric for a nice, beefy entry yesterday, because I am so seriously wiped that I don’t want to blog at all and...

• September 8, 2008
• Film Festivals

I mean that title literally and figuratively, if you know what I mean, although I don’t mean any offense towards Mississaugans just because our first dud of the festival...

• September 7, 2008
• Film Festivals

Our streak of wildly good fortune at this year’s TIFF continued, beginning with this morning’s film, The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World (7/8), a documentary whose subject may...

• September 7, 2008
• Film Festivals

I like to believe that the universe tries its best to maintain balance at all times, so that whenever something crappy happens somewhere, something amazing might happen somewhere else....

• September 6, 2008
• Film Festivals

It may be impossible to put your finger on just one reason why it’s such a valuable experience to attend an international film festival, but the films we saw...

• September 6, 2008
• Film Festivals

Let me preface this entry by saying: I am a crotchety TIFF veteran. I will fully cop to whining and complaining about how things have changed for the worse,...

• September 4, 2008
• Film Festivals

Today we kicked off the first day of TIFF with a little tourism, hitting something called Casa Loma. It’s a mansion (which felt more like a castle) built by...

• September 4, 2008
• Film Festivals

Today is the first official day of TIFF 2008, when screenings (though still limited at this point) get underway and the world waits in breathless anticipation for a sighting...

• August 31, 2008
• Film Festivals

Oh. Hey. Guess what? It’s *yawn* film festival time again and… blah blah blah… film festival DOs and DON’Ts blah blah. What’s that, you say? You’re wondering if there’s...

• June 16, 2008
• Film Festivals

Some overall comments about SIFF 2008. Maybe it was just me, but were the films actually better this year? I know that SIFF was tightening its belt–for the first...

• June 16, 2008
• Film Festivals

Best Film Golden Space Needle Award: Cherry Blossoms – Hanami, directed by Doris Dörrie (Germany) The remaining top ten audience favorites (in order) Frozen River, directed by Courtney Hunt...