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SIFF 2008: Past evil, fast trains, and other thrills

SIFF 2008: Past evil, fast trains, and other thrills

Per the recommendation of my TIFF’n pals Eric and Vickie, I picked up at ticket to the British drama Boy A (7/8). I didn’t know much about the film...

Linda
SIFF 2008: Sir Ben saves the day

SIFF 2008: Sir Ben saves the day

It was Day Four of the fest, and I had yet to be really impressed by any of the films that had gotten good advance buzz. Sure, Battle in...

Linda
SIFF 2008: Hyped movies don't put out

SIFF 2008: Hyped movies don’t put out

I was pretty excited about the film selections I had lined up for my first couple days of true SIFF’n (Opening Night doesn’t really count). On Friday night after...

Linda
SIFF 2008: A Battle in Seattle for Opening Night freebies

SIFF 2008: A Battle in Seattle for Opening Night freebies

Shoot, it seems like a couple months ago that SIFF just ended, but here we are at the beginning of a new, month-long orgy of movie-ness that is The...

Linda
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): End o’ fest wrap-up.

9-18-2007 Sorry for the delay in posting this – it’s funny how momentum screeches to a halt as soon as TIFF ends. Even the number of hits per day...

Vickie
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): Last day of the fest… Finally!!!!

9-15-2007 At last! The festival is over! I know, shocking that a comment like that would come from me, right? As I’ve said repeatedly during TIFF 2007, I was...

Vickie
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): Bob Dylan(s), Rambow, and a second wind.

9-14-2007 Know what’s SUPER-fun? Know what makes for an excellent movie-watching experience? Standing in line outside during a sudden rainstorm and getting soaked from the knees down (God bless...

Vickie
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): Vickie hits a wall.

9-13-2007 The Wailing Wall. The Great Wall of China. All impressive walls. But the most formidable wall of all is the one into which I ran face-first today: the...

Vickie
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): Losing momentum and experiencing Woody Allen déjà vu.

9-12-2007 I’m having a very hard time maintaining momentum as TIFF 2007 winds down. I find myself increasingly disinterested in my selections this year, and skipping movies rather frequently...

Vickie
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TIFF 2007 (Vickie’s diary): Are the audiences dwindling? (and OW! my neck!)

9-11-2007 Okay, so, somehow and somewhere I must have turned my head in the wrong way and secretly wrenched my neck, because I woke up this morning mostly unable...

Vickie
Religilous

TIFF 2007 (Eric’s diary): A little something extra

This was a very eventful day, in part because it began at a reasonable hour. Dan and I woke up at the crack of 10 AM for a 1...

Eric
Alan Ball

TIFF 2007 (Eric’s diary): Lows and highs

Y’all, it finally happened, and you knew it would. Dan and I caught a major dud at the festival today: Nothing is Private (1/8), the new film written and...

Eric