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The Culturepin Gets a Facelift
If you haven’t been to the main site for a while, or have been following along on my rants via an RSS feed, I invite you to come back and take a look at the new layout which also features a new comprehensive archive page with collapsible thumbnails by month. Now you can explore two…
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TIFF’08 – Exploitation Movies, Over-packed Ska shows and Ecstasy- ho!
Sunday night was all about celebrating blood, boobs and bombs as the Midnight Madness pirates stormed the bastilles, er, whatevs, and we were introduced to Mark Hartley’s self-proclaimed “rockumentary” Not Quite Hollywood – about Ozploitation cinema – that is to say – the non-existent Australian film industry doing whatever it could, back in the late…
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TIFF’08 – How To Get Tickets You Want – in layman’s terms
Even a TIFF veteran tends to find the process of getting tickets to the screenings they want daunting, and the cryptic instructions provided by the festival itself are of little help, that is, when you can find them. This year I wanted to make sure I spared myself wiling away some of my fading years…
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The unexpected arrival
Josh and I realized that before we release the full-blown supersonic miasma that is my “solo debut” we had to record some of the acoustic stuff that is floating around, and if not released now, may never find a home, short of some awful “b sides and collectibles” nonsense that I would have to go…
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TIFF ’07 – Fest Updates -Sept 8th
My friend Emanuel Pereira came into Toronto from Vancouver to see two films on which he was post-supervisor working with Brightlight Pictures who, consequently, have their first two films ever in the Toronto Film Festival. Tonight we saw “American Venus” starring Rebecca de Mornay as a freakishly control-crazy mother and Jane McGregor who plays her…
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TIFF 2007
Ah delicious. I have returned to Toronto for my annual pilgrimage to the Mecca of movies. I have noticed some interesting changes this year – the 30-coupon book has been scrapped, there are 200 more films screening than there were last year (where there used to be roughly 310-325 this year there are over 500).…