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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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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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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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YouTube – The Dark Knight- Joker Interrogation Scene Spoof.
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YouTube – The Dark Knight Trailer. IN LEGO.
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An old high school friend, Shane Belcourt is off making us all proud and opening his first feature film tonight at The Bytowne in Ottawa. It runs through this weekend and the director and some cast members are going to be around for Q&A after the shows. Below is some press the film is getting…
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Hey PETA, stick with the naked chicks. PETA this week has attempted to run a full page ad with the Portage Daily Graphic that equates the recent bus murder/beheading with the slaughter of animals for human consumption. Bravo to the editor of The Daily Graphic who has refused to run the ad. Full ad here: …
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YouTube – JCVD teaser.
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YouTube – J.C.V.D (teasertrailer.net).