Dave Samojlenko

August 2008

  • TIFF 08 – Final Schedule

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    dsamojlenko

    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)…

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  • TIFF 08 – 7 Days and Finally, a Final List of First Picks

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    dsamojlenko

    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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  • recently on twitter.com/dsamojlenko

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    dsamojlenko

    TIFF08 schedule drops tomorrow a.m. w00t! # TIFF schedule is out – it’s obsession time… how am I supposed to get any work done today?? # My overlong shortlist of flicks to see at TIFF: http://is.gd/1YeR #

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  • TIFF 08 – Working on the list

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    dsamojlenko

    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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  • TIFF 08 – Gala Tix and other things

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    dsamojlenko

    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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  • More press for Tkaronto

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    dsamojlenko

    Some more great press for Tkaronto which starts its run at The Royal in Toronto tomorrow evening: The Globe and Mail: “I didn’t have time to filter” And one I missed last week: The Ottawa Citizen: Caught between ‘two worlds’

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  • TIFF 08 – Special Presentations Announced

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    dsamojlenko

    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…

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