Sep 25, 03
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Film Festival
The film festival starts tomorrow! I just got the guide from Chapters the other day, and there are quite a few good films listed in there that I want to check out. If anybody's interested in going, holla at me and we'll make plans! :)
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Sep 25, 03
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ooh..i saw so many that i wanted to take a look at...i need to get myself a schedule thingy~
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Sep 25, 03
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yeah, i'm down for saturday afternoon if you are! esi, you should come as well if you're free. i'll skim saturday's films and get back to you on what looks good. what kinda films are you interested in? there's such a wide variety...
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Sep 25, 03
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alrighty. i'll take a look at the schedule tonite before i head to sleep, and i'll send you a pm w/ a few flick suggestions with short descriptions and we'll choose one. from what i've seen so far, most of them are either at granville 7 or the vogue theater.
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Sep 25, 03
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I found 3 flicks on Sat that I'm interested in seeing. Let me know what you think. :) They're all around the same time...I was thinking that we could get together a bit earlier and grab some dinner.
I'll give you a description of each from the guide (I cut them shorter cause some of the descriptions are quite long). 1. Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself - 9:30pm @ The Vogue Denmark/Scotland, Dir. Lone Scherfig With a deft hand and continuing feel for humour-laced ensemble drama, Danish director Lone Scherfig follows Italian for Beginners with an ultimately life-affirming course in suicide for non-majors in Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself, her first film in English. Beautifully scripted, the Glasgow-set tale centres on two brothers and a mousy but endearing single mother whose fortunes gravitate around an old bookshop and local hospital. The screenplay -- which feels almost effortlessly plotted, even though what happens is extreme -- is noteworthy for its stoic wit, to which the actors do complete justice. Although the themes are universal -- juggling sexual attraction, resolving feelings of residual guilt, making sacrifices, parenting under adverse conditions -- the film weaves a specific reality in which what happens here could only befall these precisely drawn characters.
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Sep 25, 03
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2. Mutt Boy - 9:30pm @ The Ridge
South Korea, DIR. KT Kwak A father-son story with shaggy dog characteristics which explores the gap between parental expectations and filial achievements. Dad is a small-town police chief in Gyeongsang Province; his wife died when their only son Cheol-Min was still a boy. Cheol-Min is a seemingly slow-witted longer-slacker, nicknamed "Mutt Boy" for his early attachment to a mongrel from the police pound. Worried that he hasn't b*onded with his incipiently criminal son, dad "adopts" woman offender Jeong-Ae, hoping that her presence will civilize Cheol-Min. But the son goes his own way, fighting crime while coming to terms with his inner macho. Often riotously funny (the climatic fight has to be seen to be believed), this puts character above plot and local flavuor above spectacle. Great performances animate a cherishably idiosyncratic movie.
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Sep 25, 03
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3. Grimm - 9:15pm @ Granville
Netherlands, DIR. Alex van Warmerdam One winter's day Jacob and his sister Marie are left behind in the woods by their unemployed father. In his coat Jacob finds a note from his mother urging them to go to their uncle in Spain. They arrive in Spain only to find that their uncle has died. Marie meets Diego, a rich surgeon, and falls in love with him. Diego lives with his domineering sister Teresa. Marie marries Diego. Marie and Jacob move into Diego's isolated mansion, where they are introduced to his withdrawn, mysteriously ailing sister, his trusted butler and Sofia, his servant girl. Jacob keeps jealously trying to tear his sister away from Diego. His efforts are in vain and Jacob starts to provoke Diego by starting an affair with Sofia. It soon becomes clear that Jacob's defiance won't go unpunished... Typically absurd and hilarious, iconoclastic Dutch writer, actor, and director Alex van Warmerdam continues his pursuit of a fully modern form of storytelling. Rather than adapt the fable of Hansel and Gretel, he has infused this innovative thriller with the mystery and portentous atmosphere of such fairy tales. Darkly humorous and expertly scripted, it is also filled from beginning to end with arresting images. Halina Reijn and Jacob Derwig, the super-due from the Oscar-nominated Zus & Zo, play their roles as siblings with a deviant delight, while popular leading man Carmelo Gomez plays brilliantly against type as the diabolical Diego. Ingenious...
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Sep 25, 03
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I'm excited to go see the films!! I even get to claim it's for school. (I'm taking film studies.)
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Sep 27, 03
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