TIFF 2010

ayo so

still figging out my schedjy. any ilxors going?

Okay so this isn't about a retro file format revival.

i'm attending vicariously? :(

Okay so this isn't about a retro file format revival.

I was about to say, someone is feeling incredibly techy today!

hey guys i thought i'd start this thread to talk about the use of the .TIFF file format in 2010

how can we push the state of the art forward in the new year

(http://tiff.net btw)

I guessed that after thinking about it a little longer than like 5 seconds, but I seriously was going "ugh I come here to ESCAPE my day job" for those 5 seconds

Okay so this isn't about a noun (informal) a trivial quarrel.

xpost -- Hahah.

So s1ocki, have you brought your own personal supply of DDT to fight off THE BEDBUG PLAGUE

I'm going. My wallet hurts.

So s1ocki, have you brought your own personal supply of DDT to fight off THE BEDBUG PLAGUE

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, September 1, 2010 3:55 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

so effing scared

simon who do u write for again?

I write reviews/host podcasts for s0und 0n s1ght. We got some love from them last year but none this year, which is perplexing for a number of reasons, but we're still going for some public screenings.

you got accredited last year but not this year? that sucks dude!

basically. we got some vouchers for press screenings last year, this year nada. that will not stop me from seeing 3D Herzog.

ah cool. well let's keep track of what we see and what's good on this thread...

My friend gets a pass through her job, and she always passes one or two tickets along to me. So I'm going to see the Frederick Wiseman film on boxing clubs, hopefully the screening where he's there.

Some interesting TIFF-related conversation here (and in the comments): http://girishshambu.blogspot.com/2010/08/film-festivals.html

I saw Wiseman's Boxing Gym this afternoon. I didn't love it the way I do Welfare or Near Death--at least half the film is club members pummelling the practice bag--but it very much fits into Wiseman's body of work. The Q&A afterward was great. Three or four times, but not in any way that was mean, Wiseman cut people off at the knees. The funniest was a guy who asked about the "behaviouralist tendencies" in his films. Wiseman (paraphrase): "I don't know what behaviouralist tendencies are...so I can't really answer you."

did yall see 'super'

I wish I was there =/

i did not see super, i am no longer interested in seeing movies with that premise

oh man that premise.

yeah I'm hearing good things and James Gunn seems like a bro, but there's real fatigue there.

seeing random-ass pick "Black Ocean" tonight, four more tomorrow.

If anyone present goes to see "Curling", I would be interested in what you think of it

were you at venice adam?

Haha, I wish! No, the only festival I was going to try to make it to this year was London, but flights are too much and I am trying to get my own film done for the end of the year. Everyone I know that goes to a lot of festivals just seems to complain about them? Spoiled brats

your movie was in a bunch though, right? incl. venice?

Ha, it isn't exactly "my" movie, but no not Venice. It showed at Locarno and TIFF and will be in Vancouver, New York, London and Vienna.

damn son

ha, i knew it was one of the "V"s

I'm looking fwd to curling. used to work with denis. he is the real deal

You did? You never told me that. I really liked Carcasses, but with some unfortunate and predictable reservations.

You can tell him that if you like

ya he did my job at our French sister paper (RIP)

So he's like...your nemesis?

Also - I was in Toronto just a few days ago. I missed my connection at Pearson. I should have left the airport and stayed for festival instead of drinking Creemore surrounded by wall-mounted hockey masks.

liked the Hänsel. tomorrow = new Koen Morter, new Herzog, new Brad Anderson and Never Let Me Go.

hope yr face is ok slock1

thanks it's more my side all bruised up, my face aka "the moneymaker" aka "my secret weapon" is ok

norwegian wood more like norwegian GOOD btw

s1ocki will you see submarine y/n?

norwegian GOOD really?? was wondering abt that

ya. amazingly shot, music by jonny greenwood (and a bunch of CAN songs), really nice sustained tone. norwegian great maybe!

is submarine any good?

the description starts "The world hadn’t been waiting for the Welsh Rushmore, which makes Submarine that much more of a thrill," which didn't exactly get me...

paddy considine is awesome

haven't seen the film, js

no idea if it's any good, sounds like the kind of thing tape store would like, but i will probably end up watching it

worried about another eagle versus shark 'scenario'

i thought old joy was interesting and i liked w&l a bit more, and this is a western which i like more than slocki's mum and the reviews are generally a+, http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/2231

this one is written by john raymond again

when does Boonmee screen?

I think there will be rush tix for Reichardt at NYFF.

i saw it yday

i need to see it again tbh.

when does Boonmee screen?

going tomorrow iirc.

u in to lampz? did i know that already or

yah im going to school here~~

are you going to the meek's cutoff showing @ ryerson tomorrow? drinks afterwards???

i think i might be!! totes!!

what time is it? 3pm? it might better to grab a beer before, let me check my schedjy

All of your mums, btw

All of your mums with a cherry on top

u in to lampz? did i know that already or

― how to train your dagon (s1ocki)

you should know he's into them by his name

s1ocki did you see "Neds"?

no a documentary about ned raggett cosplayers just seemed too weird

heavens!

so, who saw the Herzog????

I did! it was sort of herzog-lite, with a few good moments. worth it to see herzog hand ebert a copy of his OTHER new film while I sat 2 ft. away.

i need to see it again tbh.

well, that's how his stuff always hits me.

debating getting up early to see the herzog tomorrow morning.

I wouldn't lose sleep over it unless you're a giant Herzog fanboy. (I am, but even I'll admit it's no Encounters.)

even encounters was a bit... not first-tier

holy shit bang bang club was so bad btw

so far norwegian wood is my fave

This has less hilarious/profound philosophical musing than Encounters in it though, as a lot of it is given over to people who are not Herzog, and not as interesting.

Kicking myself for missing Norwegian Wood, hoping it'll be at FNC. (god I love FNC.)

did u see meek's lamp

yah! did you? are you still in town?

i am - a little busy with yom kippur stuff - anything cool going on

and i dug meek's. awesome aspect ratio!

that feels like damning with technical praise or something. i didnt love it but thought it was 'arresting' still processing i guess.

yah will probably go out after theres a funk night @ the g4arrison that shld be good. friends are having a postfast dinner as well which im going to try to go to - im sure youd be welcome if you dont have other plans.

lol The King's Speech

lol audience award?

thanks for the invite lamp! sorry but i had family plans. then saw fire of conscience (which sucked ass)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival#People.27s_Choice_Award

The Hanging Garden?!

I don't think your editor will go with that

xp

i am my editor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7_a2wa2dd4

― the milagro-beanfield war criminal (s1ocki), Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:13 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto_International_Film_Festival#People.27s_Choice_Award

The Hanging Garden?!

― Eric H., Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:15 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

canadians love movies about people returning to their hometowns to work out issues with their families.

not even joking

Do Canadians like the movie Beautiful Girls?

this canadian does

Oh, right, I actually forgot that movie was Canadian.

canadians in general totally love this theme. more specifically, quebeckers are kinda obsessed with it.

i would like these movies more if the hometowns they were going back to were IN OUTER SPACE

Do Canadians love the movie Festen aka The Celebration?

rrrobyn likes science (fiction?)

the celebration was a euro-version of our beloved awkward, dark-but-not-too-dark, somewhat plotless family dramedy. no we did not like it. it made us feel more alone.

(i kinda liked it, but maybe i was going through a phase)

canadians in general totally love this theme. more specifically, quebeckers are kinda obsessed with it.

― obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Sunday, September 19, 2010 10:32 PM (15 minutes ago) Bookmark

anglos especially tho- like 40% of movies telefilm finances are mandated to be on this theme

I don't care about the Film Festival, but its flagship theatre, the Lightbox, was one of my two main venues before leaving Toronto in the fall.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/tiff-layoffs-1.5623910

I had been looking forward to going back there for a screening of Zodiac in May, obviously never happened.

ooof

if I'd stuck with film as A Career I'd have certainly tried to jockey for one of those slots at some point. though I often heard they were not great to work with/for.

I haven't checked twitter yet but I'm assuming I have personally met at least one of the ppl who've lost their jobs. this fuckin blows

I think about how Cameron Bailey started at the same free monthly I wrote for in the mid-'80s...He makes, what, a quarter of a million a year now, and what did I get? A one-way ticket to Palookaville.

at least we got to see each and every Dolan film