DAY 3
Saturday September 8, 2007
Just a brief runthrough for now of what happened on Day 3 because we have to wake up in four hours to get ready for the TTC Yonge bus downtown [ everyone can say ewww! now ]
Today was nigh the best day we have ever spent at TIFF - rivalling the day we got to rivalling the day we saw Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon for the first time at TIFF with director Ang Lee in attendance at the Uptown theatre one - it heralded an age of martial art movies that had never been seen before by the mass Toronto audience - the crowd was dazzled by the fight sequences set to the tempo of the incessant drumbeat and flying through the forest treetops or over the rooftops - after one fighting sequence the crowd gave a loud applause.
Woke up got out of bed dragged a comb across my head
CONTROL
SCOTIABANK 1
9:00 a.m.
Early morning Saturdays starting off at 9 in the morning with Control - the biography of Ian Curtis and Joy Division directed by their photographer Anton Corbijn [ who happens to shoot all the good U2 stuff amongst other things ]. As soon as Sam Riley had Ian Curtis's signature stage moves locked in we were hooked. It is rather odd that Corbijn does not reference his own photos of Joy Division but his eye and treatment of black and white is everywhere in how the movie is lensed.
CAPTAIN MIKE ACROSS AMERICA
SCOTIABANK 3
11:45 a.m.
At 11:45 we had the second to next world premiere of Captain Mike Across America - with Michael Moore there - it's a great great Michael Moore concert film documenting his 2004 Slacker tour to rally the student vote - so he gets a standing ovation at the end - then Q&A
BATTLE OF SEATTLE
RYERSON
world premiere
3:00 p.m.
3:00 p.m. brought Stuart Townsend's project Battle in Seattle to TIFF at Ryerson theatre for its world premiere - and many of the lead cast were there : Andre Benjamin Michelle Rodriguez Martin Henderson Woody Harrelson and someone sleeping with the director by the name of Charlize Theron who claims "I only wanted to sleep with the director" - then the Q&A followed
The cast and executives all sat in their own row in the theatre amongst the audience and were watching it - The Battle of Seattle is a project of passion like Bobby was last year for Emilio Estevez, and it succeeds on every level - bringing back to life the battle in Seattle which turned into a war during the WTO talks in 1999 - very moving, and action packed police brutality abounding - the compassion and the spirit - with the ending of the movie everyone cheered and gave the cast a standing ovation - haven't seen that quite before at TIFF
Thanks WTO - it's been a riot.
JUNO
RYERSON
world premiere
6:00 p.m.
Two years to the day of Thank You For Smoking and at the same 6 p.m. timeslot director Jason Reitman comes back with the world premiere of Juno - even more brighter and funnier and virtually the whole leading cast was there in support - J.K. Simmons aka Jonah Jameson, Alison Janney, Jason Bateman, Jennifer Garner, Michael Cera and *Ellen Page* as Juno / "Junebug" to her dad - and they were all sitting in their reserved row - the movie couldn't be heard half the time for all the laughter coming from the audience due to the smart and very arrested devlopment script - and once again by the end everyone around them was giving the cast a standing ovation. The whole cast was introduced back one by one stage and another standing ovation for Ellen Page - and another Q&A
and it all ended off at 9:45pm back to Scotiabank 1 came Chrysallis - a smart French science fiction movie with martial arts and guns, lots of guns
as we said - it was like one of the best days ever at TIFF and this was only Day 3
now we have to get up by 6 a.m. to catch Lust, Caution because the TTC subway does not run until 9 a.m.
... Rule #15 : Sleep, the final frontier - you can only dream about it
We have to ask ourself do we want to see Juno yet again or Elizabeth in the same timeslot - can we recapture the Juno magic ? [ obviously seeing Juno at 6 today meant we had to eat our ticket for In Bloom at 7 with Evan Rachel Wood ]
Does TIFF get any better than this?
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