According to Dave

Just a quick rundown - guests arrived late last night and so not much time for writing over the next few days…
First flick was an Irish black comedy, A Film With Me In It - funny as hell - wickedly funny script, great performances by the actors, and a truly dark and absurd plot.  [...]

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So now that the fest has gotten underway, I’m going to try to update this blog as much as I can.  Unfortunately, that’s easier said than done - we’re going to have some pretty late nights and some pretty hectic days and we’ve got guests coming to join us through this weekend so I don’t [...]

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Just released:  the red band trailer for Zack and Miri Make a Porno (links to better quality version than the embed below), and the Canadian version of the poster for the flick (the MPAA banned this poster from distribution in the USA - yay Canada!)

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And here it is, just got word that we got all of our picks, so here’s the final rundown of films we’ll be seeing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival:
Thursday September 4
O’Horten (Bent Hamer, Norway)
JCVD (Mabrouk El Mechri, France/Luxembourg/Belgium)
Friday September 5
A Film With Me In It (Ian FitzGibbon, Ireland)
Me and Orson Welles (Richard Linklater, [...]

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7 days to go!  Since the schedule and programme information went live 2 days ago we’ve just been pouring over the information available, post-it noting the hell out of the program book, and putting together a list of all the films that are remotely interesting to us.  Once that was mostly together (it’s never really [...]

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With the Premium tickets already on sale, the full film list out, and the schedule about to be announced, I’m starting to build out my shortlist of films I’d like to catch at TIFF08 over here.  Currently the list is heavy on Special Presentations and light on World Cinema - will have to work on [...]

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So Gala and Visa Screening Room tickets went on sale this weekend.  We managed to get a pair for the opening of Burn After Reading, the new Coen brothers film starring Brad Pitt, George Clooney, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton and Frances McDormand.  I love the Coen Brothers’ films and we figured this would be a [...]

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A whole bunch more films were announced yesterday - 20 films were added to the Special Presentations programme, including some that I’m really looking forward to:
Me and Orson Welles by Richard Linklater, one of my favourite film makers.  Starring Zac Efron, Claire Danes, Ben Chaplin and Christian McKay.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno by Kevin [...]

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Ok, I’m ridiculously excited about this year’s Toronto International Film Festival.  We’ve got our tickets, we’ve booked our apartment, now all we have to do is wait (augh!) - the full film list won’t be available until August 19th and we won’t be scheduling until August 27th.  In the meantime, the Midnight Madness and Canada [...]

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I just put our order in for our Toronto International Film Festival ticket packages!  We got 5 10-ticket packages (maximum flexibility) and I made a $250 donation to TIFFG to make sure our orders are among the first processed.  It is exciting times indeed.

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