Festival Time
Monday, July 26, 2004I picked up my 30-film coupon book for the Toronto International Film Festival today. Every year I tell myself I’m going to do the festival proper, but every year I forget until the last minute and then passes are sold out.
But not this year! I’ve got my coupons, and am patiently awaiting the release of the festival guide so I can choose my movies. I even took the full week off from work so instead of sitting on my ass in front of a screen all week I can sit on my ass in front of a big screen.
However, the window of opportunity from the moment the film schedule goes public and the day that advance ticket orders goes in is from the 31st of August to the 3rd of September, so I now have to endure a full month of anticipation for 4 hurried days of frantic movie-picking.
Of the films I know will be playing that I want to check out are Todd Solondz’s new flick and Ray, the Ray Charles biopic (I know I originally poo-pooed the idea of Jamie Foxx as Ray in a previous post, but after seeing the trailer I think he may be the perfect choice, and the movie actually looks worth watching).
So watch out, theatre seats of Toronto! My butt is on its way!
Evan says:
Hahah, I always mean to go to film festivals around my area but never have the chance or time. Luckily, I did manage to get my holidays to coordinate with a fringe festival in my area.
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Jessie says:
nice website, its very interesting
ocortez says:
I don’t know if Napoleon Dynamite would be playing at the TIFF, but if it so, it’s worth the watching!
I was able to make it to several free screenings in my neighborhood and it just seems to get better each time.
“Tina, come and get some ham!”
james says:
Got my (er, “our") 30-coupon book today too. I’m splitting with Brooke and our friend Brent. We’re going on vacation the week after, and we’re both working the week of the festival, so we’re just trying to cram ten films each in before the last weekend. It’s our tenth year attending. Wow!
Zombie Claire says:
You forgot to mention you are are going with.
Maktaaq says:
I would have never thought to take a week off work to go to a film festival. But it makes sense.
In 1999, at the first Taipei Documentary Film Festival, I got about twenty free tickets because I went directly to their offices and asked them (and maybe because I was an exotic novelty). Between work and university, I would be at the cinema all day. Met lots of the directors, listened to a lot of informative talks, made a cool high school history teacher friend, ate lots of bad food. All in all, it made me a die-hard documentary fan.
Ah, the memories.