Sometimes movies are more than just movies.
Roger Ebert wrote a scathing review of a sadistic horror film called “Chaos”. The creators responded, and then Ebert wrote this stirring response. (via tbit)
Author: James McNally
TIFF 2005: Getting Excited
It’s that time of year again. This year will the 11th year that I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival. Brooke and I are splitting a 30-film coupon book, so I’ll probably end up with somewhere between 15 and 18 films. The full list of films was just released yesterday, and I’m beginning to get excited. I try to see a mixture of “Hollywood” films that will get released and smaller foreign films that may not. Here are a few that look interesting so far:
- Wah-Wah (dir. Richard E. Grant)
- Everything is Illuminated (dir. Lieb Schrieber)
- The Squid and The Whale (dir. Noah Baumbach)
- Shopgirl (dir. Anand Tucker)
- Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
- Why We Fight (dir. Eugene Jarecki)
- Thumbsucker (dir. Mike Mills)
- Elizabethtown (dir. Cameron Crowe)
- Citizen Dog (dir. Wisit Sasanatieng)
- Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood)
- Tideland (dir. Terry Gilliam)
- Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
- The Heart Of The Game (dir. Ward Serrill)
- A Little Trip to Heaven (dir. Baltasar Kormákur)
Of course, this is all preliminary. We don’t get the actual schedule and full programme book until next week, so I’ll have to see what fits. I don’t take any days off work, and in addition, this year Brooke and I are taking a Spanish class twice a week in preparation for our trip to Uruguay in November. Hope I can squeeze everything in!
World Track and Field Championships 2005
One of several observations I’ve made so far: Heptathletes are HOT! That’s Canadian Jessica Zelinka in the top left corner. She finished 12th in her first international competition.
Cam and Damien, BloggerTwins!
Cameron Barrett and his twin brother Damien are auditioning for the CBS reality show The Amazing Race. They’ve even gone so far as to start a blog dedicated to the effort. Check out BloggerTwins, and show your support! Reality TV needs more geeky bloggers!
As a side note, they have links to the web sites of several former contestants, including the notorious Jonathan and Victoria.
Milan, We Hardly Knew Ye
This is it, folks. My first football-related fan post. Liverpool striker Milan Baroš is in talks with German club Schalke, despite his desire to stay with Liverpool. I’ve grown to like the happy-looking Czech, especially after two impressive goals in Liverpool’s 4-3 win over Olympiacos in Liechtenstein last weekend (a game I saw only through the magic of BitTorrent). But Liverpool now has four strikers, with the recent acquisition of storky Peter Crouch, and that’s probably one too many.
So, Liverpool is one of my Premiership favourites, mostly due to their perennial underachievment (notwithstanding their fantastic come from behind victory over AC Milan in the Champions League final in Istanbul a few months ago). My other favourites for this season will be Manchester City (shadow-dwellers) and recently promoted Sunderland (giant-killers?).