<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541</id><updated>2012-02-16T03:42:54.793-08:00</updated><category term='Toronto Film Festival'/><category term='Schedule'/><category term='2007'/><title type='text'>Bentclouds @ TIFF</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>33</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-4709007289297676157</id><published>2009-08-25T19:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-25T19:28:06.037-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIFF 2009 is coming to get you.</title><content type='html'>&lt;span class="postbody"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;My TIFF Schedule before the lottery decides my fate...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9-10 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;6:00 – An Education (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – Antichrist (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-11 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 – The Happiest Girl in the World (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;12:15 – Huacho (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;2:30 – I Am Not Your Friend (AMC 6)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 – Hadewijch (Varsity 8 )&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – Fish Tank (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-12 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 – Broken Embraces (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;12:45 – Independencia (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;2:30 – Irene (AMC 4)&lt;br /&gt;5:15 – The White Ribbon (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – Wild Grass (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 – Survival of the Dead (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-13 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:15 – Father of My Children (AMC 5)&lt;br /&gt;12:15 – Dogtooth (AMC 5)&lt;br /&gt;4:00 – At the End of Daybreak (AMC 4)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 – A Prophet (Visa)&lt;br /&gt;9:30 – Accident (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 – The Loved Ones (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-14  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – A Serious Man (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;12:00 – Get Low (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;3:00 – The Road (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 – Soul Kitchen (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – Leaves of Grass (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-15  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12:00 – Enter the Void (Scotiabank)&lt;br /&gt;3:15 – Applause (AMC 5)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 – White Materials (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;9:15 – Vengeance (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 – Rec 2 (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-16 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 - Front Line (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;12:30 - Mother and Child (Winter)&lt;br /&gt;3:00 – Life During Wartime (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 – Mother (Visa)&lt;br /&gt;9:00 – My Son, My Son, What Have ye Done (Visa)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-17 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:15 – Ajami (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;12:00 – Micmacs (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;2:30 – Police, Adj (AMC 6)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 – Deliver Us From Evil (Scotiabank 3)&lt;br /&gt;8:45 – Face (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-18 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:30 – Vincere (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;12:30 – To Die Like A Man (Varsity 6)&lt;br /&gt;4:30 – I Killed My Mother (Varsity 5)&lt;br /&gt;6:15 – L’Enfer de Henri-Georges Clouzot (Varisty 4)&lt;br /&gt;8:00 – Ondine (Varsity 8 )&lt;br /&gt;10:30 – Like You Know It All (Isabel Bader)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;9-19 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 – Spring Fever (AMC 9)&lt;br /&gt;12:30 – Air Doll (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;3:45 – The Hole (AMC 9)&lt;br /&gt;7:30 – Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (AMC 6)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 – Ong Bak 2 (Ryerson)&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-4709007289297676157?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/4709007289297676157/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=4709007289297676157' title='6 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4709007289297676157'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4709007289297676157'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2009/08/tiff-2009-is-coming-to-get-you.html' title='TIFF 2009 is coming to get you.'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-1659487268669403592</id><published>2007-09-16T09:11:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T09:19:07.193-07:00</updated><title type='text'>(My Own Personal) Festival Awards</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-size:100%;"&gt;Best Movie: No Country For Old Men&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Director: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style=";font-family:Helvetica;font-size:100%;"  &gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Helvetica;"&gt;José Luis Guerín - In The City of Sylvia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Actor: Josh Brolin - No Country For Old Men&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Actress: Anna Faris - Smiley Face&lt;br /&gt;(runner up: Asia Argento - The Last MIstress)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Best Scene: Cafe Faces - In The City of Sylvia&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest Surprise: Stuck&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Biggest Disappointment: Redacted&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-1659487268669403592?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/1659487268669403592/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=1659487268669403592' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1659487268669403592'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1659487268669403592'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/my-own-personal-festival-awards.html' title='(My Own Personal) Festival Awards'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-3992021551166983643</id><published>2007-09-15T11:09:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-16T07:31:02.848-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Last Day: Grades</title><content type='html'>Smiley Face (2007, Gregg Araki) &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 153, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007, Sidney Lumet) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;44&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The Edge of Heaven (2007, Fatih Akin)&lt;/span&gt; 42&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;It's a Free World ... (2007, Ken Loach)&lt;/span&gt; 56&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Inside (2007, Alexandre Bustillo &amp;amp; Julien Maury)&lt;/span&gt; 61&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-3992021551166983643?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/3992021551166983643/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=3992021551166983643' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3992021551166983643'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3992021551166983643'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/last-day-grades.html' title='The Last Day: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-7631330688825536403</id><published>2007-09-14T08:47:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-14T21:03:53.106-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Nine: Grades</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Back on track after a couple days sick:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Glory to the Filmmaker! (2007, Takeshi Kitano) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;53&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;In The City of Sylvia (2007, José Luis Guerín)&lt;/span&gt; 87&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;A Girl Cut in Two (2007, Claude Chabrol)&lt;/span&gt; 66&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Son of Rambow (2007, Garth Jennings)&lt;/span&gt; 37&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Good Riddance (1980, Francis Mankiewicz) &lt;/span&gt;62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-7631330688825536403?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/7631330688825536403/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=7631330688825536403' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7631330688825536403'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7631330688825536403'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-nine-grades.html' title='Day Nine: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-5222158756079848277</id><published>2007-09-13T11:03:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-13T23:30:50.268-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Eight: Grades</title><content type='html'>Water Lilies (2007, Celine Sciamma) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;67&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Margot at the Wedding (2007, Noah Baumbach)&lt;/span&gt; 64&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;You, The Living (2007, Roy Andersson)&lt;/span&gt; 80&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-5222158756079848277?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/5222158756079848277/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=5222158756079848277' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5222158756079848277'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5222158756079848277'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-eight-grades.html' title='Day Eight: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-5968193651677377415</id><published>2007-09-12T13:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-12T21:44:32.883-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Seven: Grades</title><content type='html'>Cassandra's Dream (2007, Woody Allen) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;52&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Redacted (2007, Brian De Palma) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;40&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Import/Export (2007, Ulrich Seidl)&lt;/span&gt; 42&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-5968193651677377415?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/5968193651677377415/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=5968193651677377415' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5968193651677377415'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5968193651677377415'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-seven-grades.html' title='Day Seven: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-3250385254008705141</id><published>2007-09-11T13:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-11T23:37:52.479-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Six: Grades</title><content type='html'>Silent Light (2007, Carlos Reygadas) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;67&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Paranoid Park (2007, Gus Van Sant)&lt;/span&gt; 47&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Sukiyaki Western Django (2007, Takashi Miike)&lt;/span&gt; 54&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-3250385254008705141?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/3250385254008705141/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=3250385254008705141' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3250385254008705141'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3250385254008705141'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-six-grades.html' title='Day Six: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-1231504949661260333</id><published>2007-09-10T09:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-10T23:46:40.223-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Five: Grades</title><content type='html'>No Country For Old Men (2007, Joel and Ethan Coen) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;88&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Sad Vacation (2007, Shinji Aoyama)&lt;/span&gt; W/O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I had a headache and I needed new shoes (oh, and it kinda sucked).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The Last Mistress (2007, Catherine Breillat)&lt;/span&gt; 71&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Stuck (2007, Stuart Gordon)&lt;/span&gt; 82&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-1231504949661260333?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/1231504949661260333/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=1231504949661260333' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1231504949661260333'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1231504949661260333'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-five-grades.html' title='Day Five: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-7518280105678591103</id><published>2007-09-09T17:18:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T22:41:52.919-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Four: Grades</title><content type='html'>Secret Sunshine (2007, Lee Chang-dong) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;63&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Love Songs (2007, Christophe Honore) &lt;/span&gt;46&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The Girl in the Park (2007, David Auburn) &lt;/span&gt;57&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Shadows (2007, Milcho Manchevski)&lt;/span&gt; 34&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-7518280105678591103?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/7518280105678591103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=7518280105678591103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7518280105678591103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7518280105678591103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-four-grades.html' title='Day Four: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-6627382087761830226</id><published>2007-09-09T01:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T01:50:28.459-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301423521386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301423521386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Man From London (2007, Bela Tarr) &lt;/span&gt;43&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Tarr's style in service of material that doesn't really call for it, with long takes expressing little beyond their own technical accomplishment.  There is nothing here that even approaches the solar system sequence that opens &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Werckmeister Harmonies&lt;/span&gt; and instead of finding purpose for his long takes here he just lands on faces for several minutes without having them express anything notable (though some of them are great faces).  I like the black and white photography with its beautiful chiaroscuro and certain shots have the Tarr magic to them, but this is a major disappointment considering how often Tarr makes films.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-6627382087761830226?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/6627382087761830226/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=6627382087761830226' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6627382087761830226'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6627382087761830226'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/man-from-london-2007-bela-tarr-43-tarrs.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-4160585190401978038</id><published>2007-09-09T01:37:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T01:42:55.062-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301735331386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301735331386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007,  Hou Hsiao-Hsien) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;57&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;A mediation of innocence of the past clashing with the realities of today; video games replacing more innocent child's play, working mothers replaced by nannies, divorce and other such adult troubles.  This is just too loose for my taste and it floats around its point without force, while a little more force and rigor might have really touched a nerve.  Instead Hou never really seems to say anything with much coherence and the film feels very flabby as a result.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-4160585190401978038?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/4160585190401978038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=4160585190401978038' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4160585190401978038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4160585190401978038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/le-voyage-du-ballon-rouge-2007-hou.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-7100340430225248376</id><published>2007-09-09T01:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T01:35:06.862-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301211321386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705301211321386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;The Mourning Forest (2007, Naomi Kawase) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I never really bought the central relationship between the two grievers and that they would be drawn to each other and eventually to their adventure and so, while I admired the photography and the way Kawase sought to express her characters' sadness, I never felt much resonance from their emotional outpourings.  Also, I am not convinced that mourning is an interesting enough note to play at such a deliberate pace and with such little variation (both characters get to express a variety of emotion, but they are always just negotiating with their loss).  Kawase seems worthy of future investigation though, so I will probably look at &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Shara&lt;/span&gt; sometime in the immediate future.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-7100340430225248376?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/7100340430225248376/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=7100340430225248376' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7100340430225248376'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7100340430225248376'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/mourning-forest-2007-naomi-kawase-48-i.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-5064172536871588314</id><published>2007-09-09T00:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T01:22:02.027-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/706271800211386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/706271800211386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Les Amours D' Astree et de Celadon (2007, Eric Rohmer) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;72&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This joins Rohmer's other adaptation films: &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Lady and the Duke&lt;/span&gt;, &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Perceval le Gallois&lt;/span&gt; and &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;The Marquise of O&lt;/span&gt;; and like those films, this one pays close and respectful attention to the style, period and location of the original works.  Rohmer tells us as much in the opening text scroll which tells us that Rohmer's experiment is to tell the story as it would be imagined by someone reading the text in the 17th century, which creates a strange temporal dislocation to the charming and humorous story, which is not far from Rohmer's previous morality tales in terms of Celadon's dilemma.  I think this is a minor Rohmer work but it is also fascinatingly rich and warmly entertaining, we should all be so lucky to have minor works as major as this.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-5064172536871588314?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/5064172536871588314/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=5064172536871588314' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5064172536871588314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/5064172536871588314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/les-amours-d-astree-et-de-celadon-2007.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-645903570620540087</id><published>2007-09-09T00:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T00:56:47.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/motheroftears.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/motheroftears.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007, Dario Argento) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;A mostly enjoyable Argento horror entry that earns some goodwill just because it is the first Argento film in six years that was watchable (Sleepless in 2001).  This one shows that while his flamboyant visual imagination may not be what it used to be (possibly due to lack of budget), his imagination for creative violence and expressive gore is completely intact.  The reaction from the enthusiastic midnight crowd probably helped carry this one past the lulls that would standout more at home and, more importantly, I certainly can't pan Argento's film on his birthday&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-645903570620540087?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/645903570620540087/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=645903570620540087' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/645903570620540087'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/645903570620540087'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/mother-of-tears-third-mother-2007-dario.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-9179882492600910544</id><published>2007-09-09T00:26:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-09T00:45:16.452-07:00</updated><title type='text'></title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705141703131386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705141703131386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Starting Out in the Evening (2007, Andrew Wagner) &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;39&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The above image (from the festival catalog) just about does justice to how terrible the HDTV photography looks in this film, especially the dark interior scenes which have distracting waves, which is especially surprising because a quick look at Harlan Bosmajian's filmography on IMDB reveals he has worked in this format before and would likely be aware of the limitations of his equipment.  I don't want to just pick on the look of the film though because it is actually dead in the water with a (mostly) poorly written script and mismatched performance styles (Langella is theatrical and proud, &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span id="ctl00_maincontent_FCnews_Repeater1_ctl00_principalCastLabel"&gt;Ambrose  not really doing anything interesting).  Adam Gorgoni's score is also notably weak; a syrupy Thomas Newman ripoff.  There is very little to like here but every now and then a scene will find some truth or an emotional pay-off will strike you  offguard but mostly this is very predictable fare and offers very little indication of the talent given to Andrew Wagner.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0); font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-9179882492600910544?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/9179882492600910544/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=9179882492600910544' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/9179882492600910544'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/9179882492600910544'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/starting-out-in-evening-2007-andrew.html' title=''/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-6142242178506072858</id><published>2007-09-08T11:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-08T23:48:01.001-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Three: Grades</title><content type='html'>The Banishment (2007, Andrei Zvyaginstev) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;54&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My Kid Could Paint That (2007, Amir Bar-Lev) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;65&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (2007, Cristian Mungiu) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;68&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Ploy (2007, Pen-Ek Ratanaruang) &lt;/span&gt;26&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Happiness (2007, Hur Jin-ho)&lt;/span&gt; 70&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Diary of the Dead (2007, George A. Romero) &lt;/span&gt;74&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-6142242178506072858?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/6142242178506072858/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=6142242178506072858' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6142242178506072858'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6142242178506072858'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-three-grades.html' title='Day Three: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-4890100261391377121</id><published>2007-09-07T13:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T21:58:41.381-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day Two: Grades</title><content type='html'>Les Amours D' Astree et de Celadon (2007, Eric Rohmer) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;72&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Mourning Forest (2007, Naomi Kawase) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;48&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (2007,  Hou Hsiao-Hsien) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;57&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The Man From London (2007, Bela Tarr) &lt;/span&gt;43&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;The Visitor (2007, Thomas McCarthy) &lt;/span&gt;22&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Frontière(s) (2007, Xavier Gens)&lt;/span&gt; W/O&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-4890100261391377121?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/4890100261391377121/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=4890100261391377121' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4890100261391377121'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4890100261391377121'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-two-grades.html' title='Day Two: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-3442446993556106284</id><published>2007-09-06T19:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-07T13:58:29.533-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Day One: Grades</title><content type='html'>Starting Out in the Evening (2007, Andrew Wagner) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;39&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Mother of Tears: The Third Mother (2007, Dario Argento) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-3442446993556106284?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/3442446993556106284/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=3442446993556106284' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3442446993556106284'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3442446993556106284'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/day-one-grades.html' title='Day One: Grades'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-4128743399087760912</id><published>2007-09-05T02:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T02:42:45.467-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pre-Fest: Lars and the Real Girl</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705011424401345.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705011424401345.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;LARS AND THE REAL GIRL (2007, Craig Gillespie) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;51&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The version I saw was a work print with a temp score and without final color timing. Grade obviously doesn't reflect the final product but it would take a lot of work to get me out of mixed territory because of its tonal inconsistency and the general feeling that the film was making fun of a character that is more tragic than comic, echoes of my arch-enemy Mike White. Terrific performances by Emily Mortimer and Paul Schneider.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-4128743399087760912?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/4128743399087760912/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=4128743399087760912' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4128743399087760912'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/4128743399087760912'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/pre-fest-lars-and-real-girl.html' title='Pre-Fest: Lars and the Real Girl'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-2623341189158717738</id><published>2007-09-05T02:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T02:40:52.380-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pre-Fest: Flash Point</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/flashpoint.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/flashpoint.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;FLASH POINT (2007, Wilson Yip) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;52&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hot Fuzz&lt;/span&gt; was just making fun of this kind of movie earlier this year, except clearly here when shit gets real it does so in beautifully brutal martial arts. Over-stylized and hyper-kinetic to disguise how little happens for the first hour and then the film finds its purpose with a climactic eight-minute fight scene that is fairly spectacular. A film for the DVD age because there is no reason to watch the entire running time but you might want to look at the final fight again, especially while among friends.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-2623341189158717738?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/2623341189158717738/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=2623341189158717738' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/2623341189158717738'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/2623341189158717738'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/pre-fest-flash-point.html' title='Pre-Fest: Flash Point'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-1402114078923467241</id><published>2007-09-05T02:12:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-05T02:40:24.761-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Pre-Fest: Chacun Son Cinema</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705291532441386.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px;" src="http://www.tiff07.ca/images/films2007/705291532441386.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_0"&gt;CHACUN&lt;/span&gt; SON CINEMA (2007, A Bunch of People) &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The one I was really stoked for was inexplicably missing from this collection (The &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_1"&gt;Coens&lt;/span&gt; Bros). Far to many of these shorts tread similar ground and very few actually distinguished themselves from the others.  &lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_2"&gt;Youssef&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_3"&gt;Chahine&lt;/span&gt; either misunderstood the assignment or simply thinks that he is cinema, but his short was a hilarious misfire.  &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong style="font-weight: normal;"&gt;Michael &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_4"&gt;Cimino&lt;/span&gt; is also in his own world and will hopefully just disappear without another filmed effort.  The &lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;41 &lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;is for the overall experience, but here is the breakdown for the individual shorts:&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Recommended&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;DIARY OF A MOVIEGOER (Nanni &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_5"&gt;Moretti&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE ELECTRIC PRINCESS PICTURE HOUSE (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_6"&gt;Hsaio&lt;/span&gt;-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_7"&gt;hsien&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_8"&gt;Hou&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_9"&gt;ARTAUD&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_10"&gt;DOUBEL&lt;/span&gt; BILL (Atom &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_11"&gt;Egoyan&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;OCCUPATIONS (Lars Von Trier)&lt;br /&gt;CINEMA &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_12"&gt;EROTIQUE&lt;/span&gt; (Roman Polanski)&lt;br /&gt;AWKWARD (Elia Suleiman)&lt;br /&gt;HAPPY ENDING (Ken &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_13"&gt;Loach&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Indifferent&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;ONE FINE DAY (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_14"&gt;Takashi&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_15"&gt;Kitano&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;DANS LE &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_16"&gt;NOIR&lt;/span&gt; (Andrei &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_17"&gt;Konchalovsky&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;DARKNESS (Jean-Pierre and &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_18"&gt;Luc&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_19"&gt;Dardenne&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;UPSURGE (Olivier &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_20"&gt;Assayas&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE CINEMA AROUND THE CORNER (Claude &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_21"&gt;Lelouch&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;AT THE SUICIDE OF THE LAST JEW IN THE WORLD IN THE LAST CINEMA IN THE WORLD (David &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_22"&gt;Cronenberg&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;I TRAVELLED 9000 KM TO GIVE IT TO YOU (Wong &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_23"&gt;Kar&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_24"&gt;Wai&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(204, 0, 0);"&gt;Not Recommended&lt;/span&gt;:&lt;br /&gt;OPEN AIR CINEMA (Raymond &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_25"&gt;Depardon&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_26"&gt;TROIS&lt;/span&gt; MINUTES (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_27"&gt;Theodoros&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_28"&gt;Angelopoulos&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;ANNA (Alejandro Gonzalez &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_29"&gt;Inarritu&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;MOVIE NIGHT (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_30"&gt;Zhang&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_31"&gt;Yimou&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;LE &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_32"&gt;DIBBOUK&lt;/span&gt; DE HAIFA (Amos &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_33"&gt;Gitai&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE LADY BUG (Jane &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_34"&gt;Campion&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE FOUNDRY (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_35"&gt;Aki&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_36"&gt;Kaurismaki&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;47 YEARS LATER (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_37"&gt;Youssef&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_38"&gt;Chahine&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;IT'S A DREAM (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_39"&gt;Tsai&lt;/span&gt; Ming-&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_40"&gt;liang&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE GIFT (Raoul Ruiz)&lt;br /&gt;FIRST KISS (Gus Van &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_41"&gt;Sant&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;NO TRANSLATION NEEDED (Michael &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_42"&gt;Cimino&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;WHERE IS MY ROMEO (Abbas &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_43"&gt;Kiarostami&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;THE LAST DATING SHOW (Billie August)&lt;br /&gt;SOLE MEETING (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_44"&gt;Manoel&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_45"&gt;de&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_46"&gt;Oliveira&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;A 8 944 KM DE CANNES (Walter &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_47"&gt;Salles&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;WAR IN PEACE (&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_48"&gt;Wim&lt;/span&gt; &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_49"&gt;Wenders&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_50"&gt;ZHANXIOU&lt;/span&gt; VILLAGE (Chen &lt;span class="blsp-spelling-error" id="SPELLING_ERROR_51"&gt;Kaige&lt;/span&gt;)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-1402114078923467241?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/1402114078923467241/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=1402114078923467241' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1402114078923467241'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/1402114078923467241'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2007/09/pre-fest.html' title='Pre-Fest: Chacun Son Cinema'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-1759504347373292947</id><published>2007-08-28T17:02:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-09-01T16:09:32.223-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Schedule'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='2007'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Toronto Film Festival'/><title type='text'>TIFF 2007 Schedule</title><content type='html'>Here is how my festival is shaping up this year:&lt;br /&gt;(EDIT TO REPLACE ATONEMENT WITH M)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 6&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;8:00 STARTING OUT IN THE EVENING (Varsity 6)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 THE MOTHER OF TEARS (Ryerson)&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 LES AMOURS D’ASTREE ET DE CELADON (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;12:00 THE MOURNING FOREST (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;2:45 LE VOYAGE DU BALLON ROUGE (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 THE MAN FROM LONDON (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;9:15 VISITOR (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 FRONTIERE(S) (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 8&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 THE BANISHMENT (Scotiabank 14)&lt;br /&gt;12:15 MY KID COULD PAINT THAT (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;4:30 4 MONTHS, 3 WEEKS AND 2 DAYS (Wintergarden)&lt;br /&gt;7:00 PLOY (Scotiabank 14)&lt;br /&gt;9:45 BOY A (Cumberland 3)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 DIARY OF THE DEAD (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:30 XXY (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;11:45 SECRET SUNSHINE (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;3:30 LES CHANSONS D’AMOUR (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;6:00 THE GIRL IN THE PARK (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;9:30 SHADOWS (Isabel Bader)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 10&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;12:00 WHEN DID YOU LAST SEE YOUR FATHER? (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;2:30 SAD VACATION (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 UNE VIEILLE MAITRESSE (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;9:15 M (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 STUCK (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 11&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12:15 SILENT LIGHT (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;4:15 THE BAND’S VISIT (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 CONTRE TOUTE ESPERANCE (Cumberland 2)&lt;br /&gt;9:15 PARANOID PARK (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 SUKIYAKI WESTERN DJANGO (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;11:00 CASSANDRA’S DREAM (Visa)&lt;br /&gt;3:00 REDACTED (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 MISTER LONELY (Scotiabank 1)&lt;br /&gt;9:45 IMPORT EXPORT (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 THE DEVIL’S CHAIR (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 13&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 NAISSANCE DES PIEUVRES (Scotiabank 14)&lt;br /&gt;12:00 MARGOT AT THE WEDDING (Visa)&lt;br /&gt;3:30 HELP ME EROS (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;6:30 WOLFSBERGEN (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;8:45 YOU, THE LIVING (Varsity 1)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 14&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER (Varsity 8)&lt;br /&gt;12:30 I’M NOT THERE (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;3:15 LA FILLE COUPEE EN DEUX (Scotiabank 2)&lt;br /&gt;6:45 SON OF RAMBOW (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;9:30 WEIRDSVILLE (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Sept 15&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;9:00 ALEXANDRA (Scotiabank 4)&lt;br /&gt;11:45 SMILEY FACE (Isabel Bader)&lt;br /&gt;2:45 BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU’RE DEAD (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;5:15 THE EDGE OF HEAVEN (Varsity 3)&lt;br /&gt;9:15 IT’S A FREE WORLD (Ryerson)&lt;br /&gt;11:59 A L’INTERIEUR (Ryerson)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-1759504347373292947?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-3039036472509379831</id><published>2006-09-17T17:57:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-17T17:58:39.116-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIFF Day Ten</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saturday Sep 16&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White Palms (Szabolcs Hajdu) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;64&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flanders (Bruno Dumont) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;67&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invisible Waves (Pen-ek Ratanaruang) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ZZZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big Bang Love, Juvenile A (Takashi Miike) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lights in the Dusk (Aki Kaurismaki) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;62&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Black Dahlia (Brian de Palma) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;61&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-3039036472509379831?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/3039036472509379831/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=3039036472509379831' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3039036472509379831'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/3039036472509379831'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;45&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syndromes and a Century (Apichatpong Weerasethakul) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;65&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Belle Toujours (Manoel de Oliverira) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fantasma (Lisandro Alonso) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;W/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-2177979511789163552?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/2177979511789163552/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=2177979511789163552' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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Book (Paul Verhoeven) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;66&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fountain (Darren Aronofsky) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colossal Youth (Pedro Costa) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;53&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Exiled (Johnnie To) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;63&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-5050600685026010015?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/5050600685026010015/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=5050600685026010015' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' 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/&gt;Mon Meilleur Ami (Patrice Leconte) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;41&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bliss (Sheng Zhimin) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;40&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Golden Door (Emanuele Crialese) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;66&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nue Propriété (Joachim Lafosse) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;76&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;MAN (JT Petty) &lt;span style="font-style: italic; color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;56&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-3543050433806387855?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/3543050433806387855/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' 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src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-7027252560270559823</id><published>2006-09-13T19:56:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-13T19:56:48.629-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIFF Day Six</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Tuesday Sep 12&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer ’04 (Stefan Krohmer) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;71&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indigènes (Rachid Bouchareb) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;ZZZ&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Coeurs (Alain Resnais) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;83&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamaca Paraguaya (Paz Encina) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;W/O&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I needed to stand in the rush line for Still Life and I think I had gotten a good feel for what the film was trying to accomplish. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Still Life (Jia Zhang-ke) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;50&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-7027252560270559823?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/7027252560270559823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=7027252560270559823' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7027252560270559823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/7027252560270559823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' 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&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;57&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Don’t Want to Sleep Alone (Tsai Ming-liang) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;24&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-2541844399774275583?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/2541844399774275583/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=2541844399774275583' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/2541844399774275583'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/2541844399774275583'/><link 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rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Offside (Jafar Panahi) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;78&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cashback (Sean Ellis) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;51&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-8315331555165628899?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/8315331555165628899/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=8315331555165628899' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/8315331555165628899'/><link 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0);"&gt;67&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This film is about the divide between history in a broad sense and the person narratives of those that inhabited and took place in that history.  The first half of the film establishes the characters with incidental details of their lives leading up to (SPOILER!) a television broadcast that comprises the entire second half, structurally resembling the revolution that it is main focal point of the broadcast.  The unique structure allows the broadcast to be both very funny and moving because it builds upon the characters and their relationships that comprised the previous reels.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taxidermia (György Pálfi) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;62&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This film has a bold and uncompromising vision, somewhat reminiscent of Lynch or Barney or even Francis Bacon but always totally owned by Pálfi (a filmmaker that is previously unknown to me even though &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hukkle&lt;/span&gt; has a following – I plan to catch it after the fest).  However, even while I admired its vision and was certainly affected by it on a visceral level I never came to terms with it on an emotional or intellectual level.  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climates (Nuri Bilge Ceylan) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;38&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ceylan’s style stopped me from caring about this film or the characters within it; the compositions are either flashy or remote static shots that are not particularly motivated by the scenes, themes, or characters.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bamako (Abderrahmane Sissako) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;34&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This critically acclaimed Cannes film felt more like an intellectual exercise than an approachable film and I just completely disengaged from the endless courtroom essays. The very occasional musical performances were a welcomed reprieve and make me think I should perhaps not write off Sissako at this point.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chronicle of an Escape (Israel Adrián Caetano) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;40&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;No surprises in this political thriller from this year’s Cannes Competition.  It is even done in the de-saturated, handheld style that is currently in fashion for this type of film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Host (Bong Joon-ho) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;66&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This is not quite up to the deafening buzz from Cannes and it runs about twenty minutes too long but it is still a very enjoyable monster movie with some fresh ideas on how to approach a genre that is in dire need of fresh ideas.  It’s just too bad that most of the film’s surprises and subversive genre twists are contained in the first 40 minutes of the film.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Saturday Sep 9&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wind That Shakes the Barley (Ken Loach) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;68&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Very lean for the first hour or so, with a few exaggerated instances of abuse from the British troops standing in as shorthand for what was probably a lifetime of more subtle abuse and then we are quickly thrown in with the rebel troops.  It does get a bit too bogged down in the last act with some heavy-handed (though still dramatically compelling) debate scenes but this is still very strong material, a worthwhile choice for the Palme D’or at Cannes.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fall (Tarsem) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;32&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Tarsem created some arresting images as a music video director but he has still not managed to come up with narrative ideas to support his visual sense or allow his creativity to really blossom.  This is even less successful than the fairly worthless The Cell because the material is so trite that Tarsem just spins his wheels visually; style without substance made worse because the style isn’t even compelling on a scene-by-scene basis and diminished more as overall storytelling.  Also, the little girl we are stuck with is the worst child actor in recent memory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;WAVELENGTH #2:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;v-r (Kyle Canterbury) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;18 Videos: #8 (Kyle Canterbury) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;These were both alright.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;PSA. 9 body count (Cynthia Madansky) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;PSA. 10 occupation (Cynthia Madansky) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;PSA. 14 target (Cynthia Madansky) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;These were dumb.  The style was far from relevant to the content.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Hysteria (Christina Battle) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;I barely remember this one.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Kristall (Christoph Girardet and Matthias Muller) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This one was actively annoying because of the abrasive sound design and overall lack of focus to the clips chosen.  I am not a fan of these found footage montage bits anyways.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Nackstuck (Peter Tscherkassky) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;R&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Afraid So (Jay Rosenblatt) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;R&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;These were the two best and also the two funniest (well, intentionally funny).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Memo to Pic Desk (Chris Kennedy and Anna van der Meulen) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;This one had its moments.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Roads to Kiarostami (Abbas Kiarostami) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Unintentionally hilarious and a document that will surely be used against Kiarostami after he is submitted to the mental hospital.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Tsuioko (Yuiko Matsuyama) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;NR&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;I think I was still laughing about the exploding dog at the end of the Kiarostami while this short was playing.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rescue Dawn (Werner Herzog) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;42&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Herzog is still an interesting and compelling documentary filmmaker but his narrative features just seem off; more polished than his peak 70’s period but polished in a rather style-less manner, like a TV movie with the camera placed in the most obvious position.  I haven’t seen his documentary about the same subject matter but I’m fairly sure that its existence makes this film superfluous.  I don’t usually care for Jeremy Davies but he was especially wretched here and the usually reliable Christian Bale seemed to go too big for the character he was playing and the situations he was in (though he sure is fearless as far as leading men go).&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-6520127830255932926?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/6520127830255932926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=6520127830255932926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6520127830255932926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/6520127830255932926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2006/09/tiff-days-two-and-three.html' title='TIFF Days Two and Three'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-9065465829805686188</id><published>2006-09-07T23:15:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-07T23:20:02.848-07:00</updated><title type='text'>TIFF Day One</title><content type='html'>&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;Thursday Sep 7&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Lives of Others (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck) &lt;span style="color: rgb(255, 0, 0);"&gt;52&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;Unremarkable spy drama finds a strange middle ground between forceful crowd pleasing and boring historical recreation, without enough style or energy to support the two-hour plus running time.  Some fine performances and nice subtle character touches make this somewhat worthwhile but hardly explain the overwhelmingly positive buzz.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-9065465829805686188?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/9065465829805686188/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=9065465829805686188' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/9065465829805686188'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/9065465829805686188'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2006/09/tiff-day-one.html' title='TIFF Day One'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-259231105418392640</id><published>2006-09-03T19:20:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-09-03T19:26:38.331-07:00</updated><title type='text'>The Films That Got Away</title><content type='html'>The lottery results are in and I missed a few:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Page Turner - Thu Sep 7, 8:30 PM (I might try to see the theatrical run of &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Idiocracy&lt;/span&gt; or just get some all-important sleep.)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brand Upon the Brain! - Fri Sep 8, 6:00 PM (Got my Back-up &lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Bamako&lt;/span&gt; so no huge loss here)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HANA - Sat Sep 9, 9:00 AM (This one stings,  I will try to rush it)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STRIKE - Wed Sep 13, 9:15 AM (This was a dead slot and will now allow me to sleep in a little.)&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-259231105418392640?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/259231105418392640/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=259231105418392640' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/259231105418392640'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/259231105418392640'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2006/09/films-that-got-away.html' title='The Films That Got Away'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7901089559414388541.post-910100548936323503</id><published>2006-08-29T16:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2006-08-29T16:58:25.946-07:00</updated><title type='text'>My Schedule</title><content type='html'>--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Page Turner&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 7, 8:30 PM - VARSITY 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;12:08 East of Bucharest&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 9:00 AM - PARAMOUNT 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Taxidermia&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 11:15 AM - PARAMOUNT 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Climates&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 3:00 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Brand Upon the Brain! (Back-up: Bamako)&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 6:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Chronicle of an Escape&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 9:15 PM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Host&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 8, 11:59 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;HANA&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 9, 9:00 AM - PARAMOUNT 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Wind That Shakes the Barley&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 9, 12:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fall&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 9, 3:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;18 Videos: #8&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 9, 6:30 PM - AL GREEN THEATRE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Rescue Dawn&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 9, 9:00 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Palimpsest&lt;br /&gt;Sun Sep 10, 10:00 AM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;L' Homme de sa vie&lt;br /&gt;Sun Sep 10, 1:00 PM - PARAMOUNT 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Born and Bred&lt;br /&gt;Sun Sep 10, 3:15 PM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Offside&lt;br /&gt;Sun Sep 10, 6:30 PM - PARAMOUNT 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cashback&lt;br /&gt;Sun Sep 10, 8:45 PM - VARSITY 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Woman on the Beach&lt;br /&gt;Mon Sep 11, 9:15 AM - CUMBERLAND 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span class="postbody"&gt; Chacun Sa Nuit&lt;br /&gt;Mon Sep 11, 1:45 PM PARAMOUNT 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cages&lt;br /&gt;Mon Sep 11, 4:14 PM PARAMOUNT 3 &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Fay Grim&lt;br /&gt;Mon Sep 11, 6:00 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I Don't Want to Sleep Alone&lt;br /&gt;Mon Sep 11, 9:00 PM - ISABEL BADER THEATRE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer '04&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 8:45 AM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Indigènes&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 11:15 AM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Cœurs&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 3:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hamaca Paraguaya&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 7:30 PM - CUMBERLAND 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Half Life of Timofey Berezin&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 9:00 PM - ISABEL BADER THEATRE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Trapped Ashes&lt;br /&gt;Tue Sep 12, 11:59 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;STRIKE&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 9:15 AM - VARSITY 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Mon Meilleur Ami&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 12:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Bliss&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 3:15 PM - CUMBERLAND 1&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Golden Door&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 6:00 PM - VISA SCREENING ROOM (ELGIN)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nue Propriété&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 8:30 PM - PARAMOUNT 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;S&amp;amp;MAN&lt;br /&gt;Wed Sep 13, 11:59 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Daratt&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 9:15 AM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Black Book&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 12:00 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The Fountain&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 3:00 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Colossal Youth&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 5:15 PM - VARSITY 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Red Road&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 9:30 PM – ISABEL BADER THEATRE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Severance&lt;br /&gt;Thu Sep 14, 11:59 PM – RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Day Night Day Night&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 15, 9:15 AM - CUMBERLAND 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;August Days&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 15, 12:30 PM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Summer Palace&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 15, 2:30 PM - CUMBERLAND 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Syndromes and a Century&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 15, 6:00 PM - VARSITY 3&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Belle toujours&lt;br /&gt;Fri Sep 15, 9:00 PM - CUMBERLAND 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;--------------------------------------------------------------------&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;White Palms&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 16, 9:30 AM - VARSITY 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Flanders&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 16, 11:45 AM - ISABEL BADER THEATRE&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Invisible Waves&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 16, 2:45 PM - PARAMOUNT 4&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Big Bang Love, Juvenile A&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 16, 6:15 PM - CUMBERLAND 2&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Lights in the Dusk&lt;br /&gt;Sat Sep 16, 9:00 PM - RYERSON&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bentclouds.com/"&gt;Back to Main Site&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7901089559414388541-910100548936323503?l=tiffclouds.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/feeds/910100548936323503/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7901089559414388541&amp;postID=910100548936323503' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/910100548936323503'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7901089559414388541/posts/default/910100548936323503'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://tiffclouds.blogspot.com/2006/08/my-schedule.html' title='My Schedule'/><author><name>bentclouds</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/10729389969066551645</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry></feed>
