{"id":1300,"date":"2006-08-31T22:51:00","date_gmt":"2006-09-01T02:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1300"},"modified":"2006-08-31T22:51:00","modified_gmt":"2006-09-01T02:51:00","slug":"toronto-international-film-stresstival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1300","title":{"rendered":"Toronto International Film Stresstival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aaaargh. AAAHHHHHH!!!! Why do there have to be so many motherf(*@&amp;$ films I want to see? I know I bought 30 tickets for a reason, but I can&#8217;t actually AFFORD to use all 30 tickets, and plus I have about 30 people who want to get tickets from me for themselves and their significant others. And I&#8217;m not talking one or two. I mean like, six.<\/p>\n<p>Shit.<\/p>\n<p>Here is my tentative list of movies that I would like to see this year:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday September 7, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tHANA<\/u>, Hirokazu Kore-eda, 2006\tVARSITY 8\t6:00 PM (Samurai film by the director of Maboroshi and After-Life)<br \/><u>\tFido<\/u>, Andrew Currie, 2006\tRYERSON\t9:15 PM (Canadian zombie film with Carrie-Ann Moss and Billy Connoly as the pet zombie)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday September 8, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tPenelope<\/u>, Mark Palansky, 2006\tROY THOMSON HALL\t6:30 PM (fairy tale about pig-snouted girl starring Christina Ricci and Reese Witherspoon)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday September 9, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tBorat Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan<\/u>, Larry Charles, 2006\tPARAMOUNT 2\t1:15 PM (Sasha Baron Cohen aka Ali G. Respekt.)<br \/><u>\tStranger than Fiction<\/u>, Marc Forster, 2006\tVISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)\t6:00 PM (Will Ferrell in some weird dramedy about writers and books and stuff)<br \/><u>\tBabel<\/u>, Alejandro Gonz\u00c3\u00a1lez I\u00c3\u00b1\u00c3\u00a1rritu, 2006\tROY THOMSON HALL\t9:30 PM (cool crossover film between Spain and Japan with Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt) <\/p>\n<p><strong>Sunday September 10, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tNever Say Goodbye<\/u>, Karan Johar, 2006\tROY THOMSON HALL\t1:30 PM (Bollywood film &#8211; nobody will want to see this but me and every ex-pat Indian in the GTA)<br \/><u>\tParis, je t&#8217;aime<\/u>, Bruno Podalyd\u00c3\u00a8s, Gurinder Chadha, Gus Van Sant, Joel and Ethan Coen, Walter Salles, Daniela Thomas, Christopher Doyle, Isabel Coixet, Nobuhiro Suwa, Sylvain Chomet, Alfonso Cuar\u00c3\u00b3n, Olivier Assayas, Oliver Schmitz, Richard LaGravenese, Vincenzo Natali, Wes Craven, Tom Tykwer, Fr\u00c3\u00a9d\u00c3\u00a9ric Auburtin, G\u00c3\u00a9rard Depardieu, Alexander Payne, 2006\tRYERSON\t3:00 PM<br \/><u>\tThe Last Kiss<\/u>, Tony Goldwyn, 2006\tRYERSON\t6:00 PM (Zach. Braff.)<br \/><u>\tCashback<\/u>, Sean Ellis, 2006\tVARSITY 1\t8:45 PM (starring Sean My-staff-is-Bigger-than-your-Staff, aka the hottie Quidditch team captain of Harry Potter fame)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Monday September 11, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tFay Grim<\/u>, Hal Hartley, 2006\tRYERSON\t6:00 PM (Parker Posey and Jeff Goldblum&#8230; I dunno, it looks interesting)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tuesday September 12, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tThe Fountain<\/u>, Darren Aronofsky, 2006\tVISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)\t6:00 PM (this is the guy who directed Pi and Requiem for a Dream; I am prepared for weeks of nightmares. Also, for the ladies, HUGH JACKMAN is in it with Rachel Weiss as his romantic interest. Hot.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wednesday September 13, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tBreaking and Entering<\/u>, Anthony Minghella, 2006\tROY THOMSON HALL\t6:30 PM (Again, I don&#8217;t strictly speaking NEED to see this, but it stars Jude Law, Juliette Binoche and Robin Wright Penn. Also, Minghella directed Truly, Madly, Deeply.)<br \/><u>\tBugmaster<\/u>, Katsuhiro Otomo, 2006\tPARAMOUNT 3\t9:30 PM (Otomo is king. Otomo directed Akira. This movie sounds extremely cool to anyone who likes Japanese legends. And I do.)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thursday September 14, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tJade Warrior<\/u>, Antti-Jussi Annila, 2006\tVARSITY 4\t8:45 PM (Inspired by the Kalevala, this is a Finnish film with a Finn dude fighting an ancient Chinese demon. Helloooo martial arts epic set in Helsinki)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Friday September 15, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tThe Banquet<\/u>, Feng Xiaogang, 2006\tROY THOMSON HALL\t6:30 PM (Okay, I suppose I don&#8217;t NEED to see this either, but it has Ziyi Zhang, and some swords, and a Shakespearean plot, and I&#8217;m in.)<br \/><u>\tThe Magic Flute<\/u>, Kenneth Branagh, 2006\tVARSITY 8\t8:30 PM (Branagh sucks for ditching Emma Thompson, but I like Opera, and I like historical romances, so there you have it)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday September 16, 2006<\/strong><br \/><u>\tThe Banquet<\/u>, Feng Xiaogang, 2006\tVISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)\t12:00 PM (if I can&#8217;t see this on Friday, maybe I&#8217;ll see it Saturday?)<br \/><u>\tLove and Other Disasters<\/u>, Alek Keshishian, 2006\tRYERSON\t12:15 PM (Ooh! Ooh! A hidden chick-flick lovers gem! Brittany Murphy and Matthew Rhys, but but BUT also DAWN FRENCH. And some Orlando Bloom, for those that like that sort of thing&#8230;)<br \/><u>\tMacbeth<\/u>, Geoffrey Wright, 2006\tROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM\t7:45 PM (Shakespeare done in old language with new guns, Aussie-rules gangsta-style. Sounds promising, no?)<\/p>\n<p>You see what I mean? DO YOU SEE?!?! I can&#8217;t be watching this many movies in one week. I&#8217;ll go batty. (More batty.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaaargh. AAAHHHHHH!!!! Why do there have to be so many motherf(*@&amp;$ films I want to see? I know I bought 30 tickets for a reason, but I can&#8217;t actually AFFORD to use all 30 tickets, and plus I have about 30 people who want to get tickets from me for themselves and their significant others. <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/archives\/1300\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}