It never fails.
Hours... even days (!) go by without anything that I really want to see. And then there's just a glut of films all starting at the same time or a half hour apart.
It then becomes my task to sort out the mess -- trying to find films to fill the holes and then deciding, "Will I be able to see this in a mainstream theater back home in a few months? Will this be on DVD in Malaysia in a few weeks? Has this director let me down before?"
That said, here's my very rough schedule for Toronto. There are still a few holes to fill and still a few times that I need to eliminate. This definitely doesn't accurately express everything I want to see at TIFF08!
| Pre-Festival Pick | ||
| Either Hamlet 2 or The House Bunny | ||
September 4, 2008 | ||
| RocknRolla | 9:00 AM | VARSITY 8 |
| Ghost Town | 2:30 PM | VARSITY 8 |
| Two-Legged Horse | 4:00 PM | VARSITY 2 |
| Paranoids | 8:00 PM | VARSITY 5 |
September 5, 2008 | ||
| Good, the Bad, the Weird | 11:15 AM | VARSITY 1 |
| Krabat | 2:30 PM | VARSITY 4 |
| Witch Hunt | 5:00 PM | VARSITY 7 |
| Edison & Leo | 7:45 PM | VARSITY 7 |
September 6, 2008 | ||
| JCVD | 10:30 AM | CUMBERLAND 1 |
| 7915 KM | 2:45 PM | VARSITY 5 |
| Sunshine Barry & the Disco Worms | 5:15 PM | VARSITY 5 |
| Empreinte de l'ange | 6:15 PM | VARSITY 2 |
September 7, 2008 | ||
| Me and Orson Welles | 10:00 AM | AMC 2 |
| Deadgirl | 1:15 PM | AMC 10 |
| Plastic City | 3:45 PM | AMC 10 |
| Good | 6:00 PM | VARSITY 3 |
| Peace Mission | 7:45 PM | VARSITY VIP 3 |
September 8, 2008 | ||
| Adam Resurrected | 9:00 AM | VARSITY 6 |
| Brothers Bloom | 10:00 AM | CUMBERLAND 3 |
| Dungeon Masters | 12:00 PM | VARSITY VIP 3 |
| Burrowers | 3:15 PM | VARSITY 4 |
| Sauna | 4:45 PM | VARSITY 6 |
| Detroit Metal City | 7:45 PM | VARSITY 5 |
September 9, 2008 | ||
| American Swing | 9:15 AM | VARSITY 8 |
| Hurt Locker | 12:00 PM | CUMBERLAND 3 |
| Martyrs | 3:15 PM | VARSITY 3 |
| Acolytes | 3:45 PM | VARSITY 2 |
| Religulous | 5:45 PM | VARSITY 3 |
September 10, 2008 | ||
| Not Quite Hollywood | 9:00 AM | CUMBERLAND 4 |
| Sexykiller | 12:15 PM | VARSITY 2 |
6 comments:
Man, I'd love to go to one of these festivals some day. I see they're showing Ed Harris' Appaloosa. I'd see that if I were there.
Have fun.
It is there, but it's playing too close to "The Good, the Bad, the Weird" to make. I have a feeling Appaloosa will come to theaters while the Korean film...
And I can't believe you're not seeing The Wrestler.
The Christopher Walken film, $5 a Day , filmed a scene here in Jenkintown at our IHOP, so I'd like to see that (and it IS Walken).
Here's my list of TIFF stuff I'd really like to see:
Appaloosa
The Wrestler
Passchendaele
JCVD
Me and Orson Welles
Vinyan
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29
It Might Get Loud
Sauna
Dean Spanley
Flame & Citron
Flammen & Citronen
$5 a Day
The Ghost
Religulous
Hunger
Real Time
The Duchess
Deadgirl
Cooper's Camera
Miracle at St. Anna
The Hurt Locker
The Narrows
Acolytes
Birdsong
El Cant dels Ocells
Pride and Glory
The Dungeon Masters
The Burrowers
RocknRolla
Now all I need is a plane ticket and some time to burn.
I already saw GHOST TOWN. I didn't like it. I don't have my schedule handy, but I had the same problem of too many films I want to see showing at the same time, but then there's other times where there's nothing I want to see.
There are a bunch of movies that I'm not seeing on the P/I schedule and The Wrestler is one of those. I'm not pleased. I may have to wait until I get the proper schedule booklet on Wednesday before I settle on what I'm seeing and when.
I found out the problem. There's a secondary schedule called "Priority Press." I'm not sure what that entails.
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