Category Archives: Tiff 2008

TIFF ’08 | Sept. 4-13, 2008

The Toronto International Film Festival is finally happening… It always seems to me that Toronto has a totally different atmosphere in September when the crowds of film lovers spread around in the city… I also love the experience of setting up your alarm to wake up early in the morning, getting your coffee on your way to the box office, chatting with total strangers in the line-up (mostly about the festival, though random chit-chat does happen too!) and finally picking up your long-anticipated tickets, which are often overpriced but for a good reason! And that, my dear readers, is what this very morning was like for me once again… All for the love of cinema!

I’ll be sharing the films I’m going to watch in the next 10 days…

Stay tuned darlings…

S

Summer Time…

My rainy summer has so far been close to wicked!

Seeing Coldplay on the big stage for the fourth time brought a sense of “hmmm, not-sure” compared to previous shows… Chris Martin is the male version of Tori Amos for me, though… Call me biased or whatever, but I did, and will, go to all his live performances if I can… It’s clearly become a personal cultural thingy… The recent Counting Crows gig, on the other hand, was my first time seeing them live… As much as I like their music, I don’t know them too well… The open air concert last night at the Molson Amphitheatre was cool… Made me feel like I was listening to an old friend telling me his secret love stories with nice music in the background… Alas, despite being a Brit fan for life, I missed my beloved Thom Yorke this year… Apparently, there was a big rainbow across the theatre after the heavy rain on Friday, which made it a magical night at their “In Rainbows” tour!

Woody Allen’s new film “Vicky Cristina Barcelona” was another story which made you smile, but at the same time made you miss his oldies… I would give this one a 3 or 4 out of 5 stars… However, watching Mr. Bardem for more than an hour is nothing to complain about!

What else? Oh, I’m looking forward to the Tiff 08… I will keep you posted on the films I get a chance to see and other experiences of the festival, say having a coffee with one of the cover page celebrities at a corner café in Yorkville! Yeah, right…

S