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TIFF – Day 7
Last night, stood in the rain for forty-five minutes waiting to get into “Trapped Ashes”. The usual trenchcoat crowd showed great enthusiasm for the nostalgic 80’s “Tales From The Crypt” setup that framed five horror shorts by five different directors. The wraparound, directed by Joe Dante drew me back to the days of campy horror…
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TIFF – Day 5
Saw the world premiere of “Sharkwater” at Ryerson which was received with a unanimous standing ovation. What began as an endeavour to shoot sharks in all their splendour quickly turned into a much greater story, a pro-active document that goes so far as to show the documentarian alongside a fellow Canadian ship captain ramming into…
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TIFF ’06 – Day 2
After much traffic and strange ego battles on street corners (of which neither I nor Sage were a part) we made our way into the Isabel Bader theater for the 4:45PM tribute to Norman McLaren, the person who created the animation department at the National Film Board of Canada back in the 40’s. The Governor…
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TIFF – Day 1
Sage arrived from LA last night and we are gearing up. This is her first TIFF. Having a had a little more time to look over the spectrum of films for this year there are some astounding surprises that suddenly remind me why every time I attend I have this Do-Or-Die feeling as I try…
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Toronto International Film Festival 2006
TIFF 2006 – Here We Go Around Again Well, the last time I was at TIFF was 2004. Highlights included seeing The Company, House of Flying Daggers (where the audience laughed at the endingitis, nonetheless it looked gorgeous), going to the Holt Renfrew party with Heather Graham, Nisha Ganatra (we had just wrapped “Cake”) and…
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Observations From the Cultural Frontier…