Festivals
Toronto Film Fest Day Four: Seen and Heard
I think they should change the name of this festival to the Toronto Carb Fest because that it all there is to eat here. Remembering 9–11Flowers in front of the US Consulate Here’s a quote from a...
Toronto Day 3- We Need to Talk About Kevin and Think of Me
I woke up thinking about Tilda Swinton’s blank face from We Need to Talk About Kevin. It is amazing how much expressiveness there can be in a blank stare. The movie directed bravely by Lynne Ramsey...
Images from Day 2
I’m going to try and take some pictures to help supplement my writings. Picture 1 The lines of folks waiting to get in at the Lightbox Picture 2 Nadine Labaki — writer and director of Where...
Toronto Film Festival — Day 2
The thing that I’ve gotten from this festival so far is that this is a festival really about buying and selling. The cool thing for me is to look at all the great European films for sale and try...
Toronto Film Festival — Day 1
It didn’t look like I was going to make it this morning because the day started with a monsoon and my flight out of NY was cancelled which of course I wasn’t notified about until I was at the...
Sexism Watch: NY Times Piece on Toronto Docs Includes No Women Directed Films
It’s so fascinating how a genre supposedly equally divided between males and females can be made to seem so completely dominated by men. For those people who don’t know much about documentaries...