Yup. It’s back. The film fest. And I’ve got the fever.<\/p>\n
My short list of movies to see<\/strong><\/p>\n Thursday, Sept. 9th<\/b> Friday, Sept. 10th<\/b> ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS Saturday, Sept. 11th<\/b> Sunday, Sept. 12th<\/b> Monday, Sept. 13th<\/b> Tuesday, Sept. 14th<\/b> ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS Wednesday, Sept. 15th<\/b> PARAMOUNT ROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS Thursday, Sept. 16th<\/b> ELGIN THEATRE Friday, Sept. 17th<\/b> Saturday, Sept. 18th<\/b> ELGIN THEATRE I have the order in for some tickets, so we’ll see on Tuesday morning how many of my picks I get. I hope to take my Mum to see the Kenneth Branagh adaptation of E. Nesbit’s “The Five Children and It”, and I want to take Anyone else want to see some movies with me?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yup. It’s back. The film fest. And I’ve got the fever. My short list of movies to see Thursday, Sept. 9th RYERSON 11 :59pm Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence, Japan, p.397 Friday, Sept. 10th VISA SCREENING ROOM @ ELGIN THEATRE 6:30pm Childstar, Canada, p.133 (Don McKellar, Dave Foley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Thicke, […]<\/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-724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-consciousness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"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=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2351,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/2351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pipesdreams.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nRYERSON
\n11 :59pm Ghost in the Shell 2 : Innocence, Japan, p.397<\/p>\n
\nVISA SCREENING ROOM @ ELGIN THEATRE
\n6:30pm Childstar, Canada, p.133 (Don McKellar, Dave Foley, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Alan Thicke, Eric Stoltz)<\/p>\n
\n6:30pm I (heart) Huckabees, USA, p.39 (Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Lily Tomlin, Mark Wahlberg)<\/p>\n
\nROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
\n1:30pm 5 Children and It, UK, p.43 (Kenneth Branagh, Zoe Wanamaker, based on the novel by E. Nesbit that I loved as a child)
\n9:30pm House of Flying Daggers, China, p.47 (astounding martial arts epic)<\/p>\n
\nROY THOMPSON HALL GALA SCREENINGS
\n1:30pm Shark Tale, USA, p.49 (animated underwater gangster film DreamWorks feature, Will Smith, Robert DeNiro, Renee Zellweger, Angeline Jolie, Jack Black)<\/p>\n
\nCUMBERLAND
\n5:30pm Anatomie de l\u00e2\u20ac\u2122enfer, France, p.119 (about female sexuality and knowledge)<\/p>\n
\nRYERSON THEATRE
\n6:30pm 9 Songs, UK, p.109 (music concerts and sexual deviance, incl. Michael Nyman)<\/p>\n
\n6:30pm Imaginary Heroes, USA, p.59 (Sigourney Weaver, Jeff Daniels, Michelle Williams \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Dawson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Creek meets Aliens, what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s up! The director co-wrote X-Men 2)<\/p>\n
\nVARSITY CINEMAS
\n6:15pm Low Life, South Korea p.101 (gangster film and Korean historical docudrama)<\/p>\n
\n6:00pm Caf\u00c3\u00a9 Lumiere, Japan p.90 (homage to Yasujiro Ozu\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTokyo Story\u00e2\u20ac\u2122)<\/p>\n
\n6:30pm Stage Beauty, UK, p.63 (starring Claire Danes & Rupert Everett, set in the English Restoration, about Shakespearean actors and gender roles)
\n9:30pm A Good Woman, UK\/Italy, p.65 (starring Helen Hunt & Scarlet Johansson based on Oscar Wilde\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Lady Windemere\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Fan\u00e2\u20ac\u009d)<\/p>\n
\nVARSITY CINEMAS
\n6:00pm Cinevardaphoto, France p.98 (Ydessa Hendeles, filthy rich weirdo Toronto contemporary art curator and child of Holocaust survivors = cool)<\/p>\n
\n9:30pm Eros, Hong Kong (3 short films on sex; Wong Kar-wai! He did \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcChungking Express\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcFallen Angels\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIn the Mood for Love\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 etc. and Steven Soderberg! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcErin Brockovitch\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcTraffic\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcOcean\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Eleven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, etc.) p.97 *Warning: may be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153steamy\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n
\nVARSITY CINEMAS
\n10:00pm The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess, Canada, p.105 (Directed by Bruce McDonald, who brought us \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcHard Core Logo\u00e2\u20ac\u2122, featuring a jury member who falls for the accused in a high-profile murder case: allusions to Hitchcock and Doris Day films)<\/p>\n
\nVARSITY CINEMAS
\n3:00pm Sucker Free City, USA p.99 (Spike Lee\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s latest joint, a pilot for a TV series on Showtime, about multicultural life in San Francisco)
\n7:00pm Primer, USA p.125 (pulp sci-fi film about a box in which time folds in on itself)<\/p>\n
\n9:30pm Trauma, UK, p.121 (mmm\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 Colin Firth and Mena Suvari in a Stephen King-style horror flick with creepy hobbies and morgue-like dwelling)<\/p>\n