September 11, 2004
Comedy n' tragedy
by: ThirteenDamnDollars
at: 04:37 PM
Missed Ferpect Crime
So I tried to rush Ferpect Crime this morning. I was 45th in the rush line, and 42 people got in. I woulda got to the line earlier, but this morning I somehow got the idea that there were 3 hours between 10:30 and 12:30.Our fearless leader
In the front of the festival programme book every year, there are these short messages from various federal, provincial and municipal politicians, as well some TIFF pooh-bahs, all the messages have a head-shot. This is the one for our Prime Minister, Paul Martin. One assumes that this was the best picture of him they could get. Look at it. It looks like someone just made him watch one of the European neo-realist gay porno films or something.
Pretension
So, before each film, there's a little TIFF trailer, I guess to remind you that you're at the film festival. Every year these seem to get more pretentious and self-important. This year there's even a couple of screens of credits for the thing. The TIFF people responsible for the graphic design each year really need to get the stick outa their collective buts. Anyway, the lesson from this years theme seems to be that great cinema will make a small tree grow out the bridge of your nose.Posted by ThirteenDamnDollars at September 11, 2004 04:37 PM