Film Festival Film #1: To Repel Ghosts: Urban Tales from the African Continent
Another Toronto International Film Festival has started up, and today I not only went in to the box office to grab my tickets, I also had my first film. I probably say this every year, but one of the...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #2: The Square
My second TIFF film was a documentary called The Square (or Al Midan): the titular square being Tahrir Square in Cairo. The film is directed by the woman who directed Control Room, Jehane Noujaim. It’s...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #3: Bad Hair
My third film of the festival is a Venezuelan flick called Bad Hair (or Pelo Malo). Not a very happy-making film, that. It’s funny: after the film ended, I kept comparing it in my mind to Ma Vie En...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #4: Mission: Congo
My fourth TIFF film was a documentary called Mission: Congo. Its opening night was on Friday, but I caught it at its second showing on Saturday night. I caught it immediately after Bad Hair. Mission:...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #5: 1982
My fifth film was a drama called 1982. It’s a small, indie film by a relatively new director named Tommy Oliver. I must confess that I can’t quite remember what lead me to choose this film — it’s not...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #6: The Militant
My sixth film was my first dud. It was the first film where, in the latter part of the showing, I found myself thinking, “Is this going to end soon? My butt hurts.” I have spent a lot of time thinking...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #7: Cristo Rey
Film # 7 was called Cristo Rey, and it’s kinda made around this premise: what would Romeo and Juliet look like if it was set in the modern-day in a dangerous barrio of the Dominican Republic and the...
View ArticleFilm Festival Film #8: iNumber Number
I mentioned in a quick post the other day that iNumber Number has taken the spot as my favourite film of the festival. I see a lot of very serious films at TIFF each year: documentaries about sober and...
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