She's Lost Control

What means to you, what means to me, and we will meet again
I'm watching you, I'm watching her, I'll take no pity from you friends
Who is right, who can tell, and who gives a damn right now
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know
Until the spirit new sensation takes hold, then you know
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
I've got the spirit, but lose the feeling,
Feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling, feeling.
Disorder - Joy Division, Unknown Pleasures


So here we are and here's our schedule brimming with the promise of TIFF magic in the dark and shadows. Will there be another Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie, a groundbreaking Lola Rennt, a sublime Dekalog, an artistic achievement along the lines of The Cremaster Cycle or Beowulf and Grendel? Will some film match personal favourites Somersault or In My Father's Den or Mysterious Skin? Or will you be crushed by Orlando Bloom fans at the red carpet for Elizabethtown? What will be this year's Brown Bunny? Is there a Cache or L'Enfant or Summer of Love or Spun? [Mickey Rourke, you da man!] Have you had enough of sex at TIFF? 29 palmes, Where The Truth Lies, Lie With Me, 9 Songs? Can you ever have enough of TIFF? We'll find out in the next 10 days starting with these almost 50 selections anguished and debated over and chosen and culled with curses thrown at the TIFF programmers? There will be lineups, oh there will be lineups. Lineups and waiting is the motif du jour. It will be too hot during the day, it will be cold at night. There will be hunger, there will be dashes to Tim Hortons for black goodness. Then the golden hour comes, the stars arrive, the red carpet is walked, the camera flashes blind. There will be the scramble for seats. There will be more waiting. Then the lights go out - and the magic begins.


THURSDAY SEPT 7
2006 HANA THU 09/07/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8
2006 Ten Canoes THU 09/07/2006 09:15pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 2
FRIDAY SEPT. 8
2006 Big Bang Love, Juvenile A FRI 09/08/2006 09:15am
FESTIV (1) Paramount 1
2006 Lights in the Dusk FRI 09/08/2006 12:30pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 2:37 FRI 09/08/2006 02:30pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 1
2006 The Silence FRI 09/08/2006 05:45pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8
2006 CANDY FRI 09/08/2006 08:30pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8

SATURDAY SEPT. 9
2006 Volver SAT 09/09/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) RYERSON
2006 The Wind that Shakes the Barley SAT 09/09/2006 12:00pm
FESTIV (1) RYERSON
2006 Penelope SAT 09/09/2006 12:45pm
RYERSON
2006 The Fall SAT 09/09/2006 03:00pm
FESTIV (1) VISA
2006 Cages SAT 09/09/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 4
2006 Rescue Dawn SAT 09/09/2006 09:00pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson

SUNDAY SEPT. 10
2006 A Good Year SUN 09/10/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Babel SUN 09/10/2006 11:30am
FESTIV (1) VISA
2006 Paris, Je T'aime SUN 09/10/2006 03:00pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 The Last Kiss SUN 09/10/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 D.O.A.P. SUN 09/10/2006 08:30pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 3

MONDAY SEPT. 11
2006 Love and Other Disasters MON 09/11/2006 09:45am
FESTIV (1) Paramount 1
2006 Stranger Than Fiction MON 09/11/2006 12:30 PM
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 The Last Kiss MON 09/11/2006 01:15pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 2
2006 All the Boys Love Mandy Lane MON 09/11/2006 02:45pm
FESTIV (1) Royal Ontario Museum
2006 Fay Grim MON 09/11/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Out Of The Blue MON 09/11/2006 8:30 PM PARAMOUNT 4

TUESDAY SEPT. 12
2006 Away From Her TUE 09/12/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Macbeth TUE 09/12/2006 01:30pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 2
2006 Black Sheep TUE 09/12/2006 04:45pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 1
2006 Prague TUE 09/12/2006 06:45pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 3
2006 El Cantante TUE 09/12/2006 09:00pm
FESTIV (1) General Admission

WEDNESDAY SEPT. 13
2006 Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing WED 09/13/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Pan's Labyrnth WED 09/13/2006 11:45am
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8
2006 Little Children WED 09/13/2006 02:30pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8
2006 The Abandoned WED 09/13/2006 05:00pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 3
2006 Jindabyne WED 09/13/2006 09:00pm
FESTIV (1) General Admission

THURSDAY SEPT. 14
2006 This is England THU 09/14/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Renaissance THU 09/14/2006 12:45pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 2
2006 The Fountain THU 09/14/2006 03:00pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Kurt Cobain About A Son THU 09/14/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 7
2006 Coeurs THU 09/14/2006 08:45pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 1

FRIDAY SEPT. 15
2006 Bobby FRI 09/15/2006 09:30am
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 Suburban Mayhem FRI 09/15/2006 12:15pm
FESTIV (1) Ryerson
2006 The Hottest State FRI 09/15/2006 03:00pm
FESTIV (1) Paramount 3
2006 The Silence FRI 09/15/2006 06:00pm
FESTIV (1) Royal Ontario Museum
2006 The Magic Flute FRI 09/15/2006 08:30pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8

SATURDAY SEPT. 16
2006 Red Road SAT 09/16/2006 09:00 am
FESTIV (1) Varsity 8
2006 The Banquet SAT 09/16/2006 12:00pm
FESTIV (1) VISA
2006 Candy SAT 09/16/2006 1:15 pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 2
2006 After the Wedding SAT 09/16/2006 03:00pm
FESTIV (1) VISA
2006 Election / Election 2 SAT 09/16/2006 3:45pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 2
2006 London to Brighton SAT 09/16/2006 08:00pm
FESTIV (1) Varsity 6


That's it!

September 1, 2006

It's the final countdown
12:58 pm
TWO MINUTES !
the mayhem at College Park is on ... the mad scramble
to the sounds of The Who Can't Explain [ how appropo ] over my iRiver headphones it's TWO MINUTES to the 1 pm !!!! advance drop off deadline and we can't find our *********** Drop Off coupon !
30 seconds !
Drop off coupon located - try to put in glass window of big white envelope - and voila !
We are in box 40 !
The staff are in a cheery mood as they count down the
15 seconds !
10
9
3
2
1
The advance drop off is over !
Final number of boxes : 41
Now onto the lottery - have to wait for that magic number
we are so dead
[ cue Garden State soundtrack : Coldplay - Don't Panic - how perfect ]
Choices ?
Can we remember the last hour ? the blind panic ? TIFF gives away a handy dandy two ended magic marker : Yellow highliter for first choice ; Green highliter for second choice.
Trick remembered from last year : make everything first choice - it's safer to get too many first choices than not to get it at all and hope for second choices - of course the conflicts make for some interesting running around to come.
Congrats ! The first hurdle is over.
What did we choose ? Next time [ we are still trying to remember what madness and x's and o's we played with the schedule as we tried to fill out the book with our final choices ] [ silly conflicts left right and centre ] [ The Last Kiss ends at 7:59 pm - Transylvania begins at 8 - that's so not going to work ]
Next important date: Sept 4 for the pick-up.
The Quiet opens in T.O. today at Canada Square - a very dark sexual entry at last year's 05 Toronto International Film Festival featuring our very own very hot Elisha Cuthbert [ of course Kim Bauer on 24 ] and a very disturbing Camilla Belle as Dot along with Shawn Ashmore - the dark side of life as a high school teenager - and Martin Donovan and Edie Falco as some very odd parents and some nudity you should never have to see ...