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Film list is out:
http://www.tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/default.aspx

Thinking bout watching these ones..

Appaloosa – Ed Harris, Viggo
Burn after Reading – Coen Bros
The Duchess – Keira Knightley
Ghost Town – Ricky Gervais
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist – Michael Cera
Pride and Glory – Colin Farrell, Ed Norton
Religulous – Bill Maher
RocknRolla – Guy Ritchie
Synecdoche, New York – Charlie Kaufman
Zack and Miri Make a Porno – Kevin Smith

Tickets go on sale for Galas and Visa Screening room on Saturday
All other tickets go on sale Sept. 3
What will you be trying to watch?
 
Got myself a 10 ticket package this year. :D

Will definitely watch:

Still Walking
Detroit Metal City
Ashes of Time Redux
The Sky Crawlers
The Good, the Bad, the Weird
Ghost Town

Thinking about:

Daytime Drinking
Three Monkeys
Burn After Reading
Appaloosa
Gomorrah
Adoration
Miracle at St. Anna
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
Thinking bout watching these ones..
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I don't get it. You're going to TIFF and then making a point to see standard multiplex fare? Go see some of the most interesting offerings that won't end up playing everywhere else: 24 City, Waltz with Bashir, Of Time and the City, Three Monkeys, Soderbergh's Che films, the new Claire Denis and Dardenne brothers pictures...

I'd kill to be able to see this stuff!
 
Cosmic Bus said:
I don't get it. You're going to TIFF and then making a point to see standard multiplex fare? Go see some of the most interesting offerings that won't end up playing everywhere else: 24 City, Waltz with Bashir, Of Time and the City, Three Monkeys, Soderbergh's Che films, the new Claire Denis and Dardenne brothers pictures...

I'd kill to be able to see this stuff!
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meh Cumberland here plays a lot of those limited releases anyways..
Three Monkeys I'll definetely be watching though.
 
Sweeeet, got all my 1st choices. Will be picking up the tickets on monday :D

Detroit Metal City SAT 09/06/2008 12:00pm 1 $0.00

Faubourg 36 SUN 09/07/2008 09:00am 1 $0.00

Waltz with Bashir SUN 09/07/2008 04:00pm 1 $0.00

Still Walking MON 09/08/2008 09:15am 1 $0.00

Ashes of Time Redux MON 09/08/2008 03:00pm 1 $0.00

Tokyo Sonata TUE 09/09/2008 05:30pm 1 $0.00

A Year Ago in Winter WED 09/10/2008 12:00pm 1 $0.00

Daytime Drinking FRI 09/12/2008 03:30pm 1 $0.00

The Sky Crawlers SAT 09/13/2008 12:15pm 1 $0.00

All Around Us SAT 09/13/2008 09:30pm 1 $0.00
 
Just got some tickets:

The Sky Crawlers 09/06/2008 09:00am
(2) General Admission

Goodbye Solo 09/06/2008 03:15pm
(2) General Admission

Before Tomorrow 09/07/2008 02:30pm
(2) Scotiabank 4

Slumdog Millionaire 09/07/2008 06:00pm
(2) General Admission

The Wrestler 09/13/2008 09:00am
(2) General Admission

RocknRolla 09/13/2008 02:45pm
(2) General Admission

What Doesn't Kill You 09/13/2008 05:45pm
(2) General Admission

Miracle at St. Anna 09/13/2008 08:30pm
(2) General Admission
 
DanielPlainview said:
I go to University at Buffalo and went last year. it was a great time! I'm going to try and go again.
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lol ... I live down the street from you.




Anyway, they picked box 9 ... so me and my buddies won! Got all our first picks!
 
definitely want to see Burn After Reading and RocknRolla.


Kak.efes said:
The new Fincher movie looks .. whimsical, not being shown though, shitty.
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Fincher has a new movie coming out? shit after Zodiac I totally lost track of him for a while.
 
DevelopmentArrested said:
tried to get three monkeys. religulous.. sold out
will wait for saturday and try rush and advance
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Three Monkeys (Uc Maymun), that's the new Nuri Bilge Ceylan movie right. I am really curious how that turned out. I liked the trailer, it seemed more accesseble then his previous movies Uzak and Iklimler (both classics imo, but sooo fucking sloooow).
 
Jason said:
Sweeeet, got all my 1st choices. Will be picking up the tickets on monday :D

Detroit Metal City SAT 09/06/2008 12:00pm 1 $0.00

Faubourg 36 SUN 09/07/2008 09:00am 1 $0.00

Waltz with Bashir SUN 09/07/2008 04:00pm 1 $0.00

Still Walking MON 09/08/2008 09:15am 1 $0.00

Ashes of Time Redux MON 09/08/2008 03:00pm 1 $0.00

Tokyo Sonata TUE 09/09/2008 05:30pm 1 $0.00

A Year Ago in Winter WED 09/10/2008 12:00pm 1 $0.00

Daytime Drinking FRI 09/12/2008 03:30pm 1 $0.00

The Sky Crawlers SAT 09/13/2008 12:15pm 1 $0.00

All Around Us SAT 09/13/2008 09:30pm 1 $0.00
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Nice choices!
 
Ah, lame! I just found out about this now and thought it was fate... but no one I know has a VISA card to order tickets online. If I show up Sunday, think Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist would be sold out?

Damn VISA and their lame sponsorships!
 
No love for JCVD? Great film that I already want to see again. I have a new-found respect for the man, he clearly put his heart into this one.
 
Saw JCVD @ midnight madness on thursday and The Wrestler gala screening today...both incredible movies.

No celebs at JCVD except the director, but at The Wrestler there was Mickey Rourke, Evan Rachel Wood, Marilyn Manson, Darren Aronofsky, Rachel Weisz, Mark Ruffalo and I saw the Weinsteins drive by so maybe they're gonna buy it.

Hoping to see another 1 or 2 movies before tiff is over, I was gonna see Appaloosa and Burn After Reading but I think I'll just wait a couple weeks and see them at a regular theater. Thinking about seeing Synecdoche New York or The Hurt Locker.
 
Saw:

The Sky Crawlers (3/10. Absolute shit except for the plane fight scenes and one good monologue)
Goodbye Solo (7/10)
Tale 52 (6/10. Great style and idea, but should have ended at least 10 times)
Before Tomorrow (6/10. Good, but soooo slow)
Slumdog Millionaire (9/10. Real winner here. Can't say enough good things about the film. Look at it come Oscar nominee time. Must see)

Seeing Next Sat:
The Wrestler
RocknRolla
What Doesn't Kill You
Miracle at St. Anna
 
Detroit Metal City - Over the top but fun. 7.5/10

Faubourg 36 - Too long. Nice music, though. 6.5/10

Waltz with Bashir - Fuuuuck. 9/10
 
Please go see Lovely, Still. My best friend growing up wrote and directed it. It has 2 Oscar winners in it and the story, from the screenplay I read, is pretty touching and creative.

Go see it and tell me about it.

The screenings for it are:

Friday September 05 09:00PM ISABEL BADER THEATRE
Saturday September 06 01:00PM AMC 2
Saturday September 13 09:00AM VARSITY 8
Saturday September 13 05:45PM AMC 2
 
Today was pretty awesome. Got to see Hirokazu Kore-eda and Wong Kar-wai talk about their respective films. Managed to get Kore-eda to sign my ticket but Kar-wai left the theatre so damn fast. :lol
 
Anybody here go see The Lucky Ones? :( I want to see it so badly. Heard McAdams was worth keeping an eye on come Oscar season. Didn't need to be told really. The trailer speaks for itself. :D

The Lucky Ones Trailer

Did I convince anyone to go see it?
 
DanielPlainview said:
Saw:

The Sky Crawlers (3/10. Absolute shit except for the plane fight scenes and one good monologue)
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I spent the whole week thinking it couldn't be that bad but damn you were right. This film was downright torturous. Outside of the CG and the dogfights there are no redeeming qualities.

As for the rest of the films I saw:

Loved:
Daytime Drinking (opening scene and the horse shit subtitles made it painfully obvious that this was shot for $10,000 but I'll be damned if this wasn't one of the funniest films I've seen in a while. Probably my fave out of all the films.)
A Year Ago in Winter (Karoline Herfurth was a nice surprise. Great performances overall.)
Ashes of Time Redux (Leslie Cheung was awesome)
Still Walking (knocks off After Life as my favourite from Kore-eda)
Waltz with Bashir (left me in a daze for 5 minutes :lol)

Decent:
Faubourg 36 (meh)
Detroit Metal City (liking the anime more)

Not sure:
Tokyo Sonata (really, really enjoyed the first half but then it trailed off into wtf territory. The situations they got themselves in......ehhhhhhhh)

Didn't see due to laziness:
All Around Us (I'll buy the dvd or something)
 
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