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Review of The Brothers Bloom
The Brothers Bloom at TIFFThis is my biggest disappointment of the film festival thus far. Not the worst I've seen, though not far off. Dammit, The Brothers Bloom should have been great. I am a big fan of all the leads (Adrian Brody, Rachel Weisz, and the underused Mark Ruffalo) and this was Rian ... read morePosted on 09/19/2008 by Aaron 
Review of Wendy and Lucy
Wendy and Lucy at TIFF 2008This is a contemporary American take on the British Kitchen Sink movies of the late fifties and early sixties. And it is terrific. Michelle Williams is Wendy, a young woman traveling to Alaska for work with her dog, Lucy. Wendy and Lucy catches up with the pair during a stop-over ... read morePosted on 09/19/2008 by Aaron 
Review of Dreams with Sharp Teeth
My Hot Docs adventure continues.This is only one movie I bothered leaving my house for today. Going anywhere other than my kitchen seemed like a daunting experience, so I put off several films until I felt guilty at the prospect at ditching a friend I agreed to meet at this Harlan Ellison doc. Leaving ... read morePosted on 04/26/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day Six. No more exclamation points.Okay, I am quite sure I will hate documentaries by next week. I cannot take it anymore. I have now missed several films that I was very excited about at this time last week. I am very fickle! At the Death House Door looks at the life of Carroll Pickett, ... read morePosted on 04/25/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day Five!I am already feeling Doc Fatigue. That shit can get heavy, yo. So today i forego my original plan of a brutal death and war double bill in favour of checking out Man on Wire, the film about Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk between the twin towers of the World Trade ... read morePosted on 04/24/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day Four!I start my day by discovering I have spilled a large bottle of citrus oil degreaser in my courier bag. The contents of this waterproof bag have soaked up so much of this junk that I find a Slayer sweatshirt weighing about ten pounds and my Hot Docs program and ... read morePosted on 04/24/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day Three!Considering this is only the first weekend and third full day of screenings at Hot Docs, the Sunday schedule is remarkably weak. Or perhaps my taste is terrible? Either way, instead of going to screenings I spent the day drinking vodka and lemonade with a friend, then vodka and whatever ... read morePosted on 04/23/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day Two!My festival going is off to a quiet start. It takes a while for me to get revved to see ten hours of movies a day, so today I am only catching two joints: Nursery University and Beautiful Losers. Since 9/11 the population of pre-school age children in New York ... read morePosted on 04/22/2008 by Aaron Hot Docs Day One!Today was the first full day of Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest documentary film festival in North America. This is the fifteen year of the festival and Hot Docs is celebrating the achievement by screening over 170 documentaries from 36 countries. Big time stuff! I kicked off my slate ... read morePosted on 04/22/2008 by Aaron Peter Greenaway being boring.This past fall, Peter Greenaway took time out of his busy schedule of steadily re-treading the same aesthetic ground to announce the death of cinema at the Pusan Film Festival in Korea. He blames the 'remote-control zapper' for its demise, a term which pretty well manages to paint him ... read morePosted on 03/28/2008 by Aaron |
