I honestly barely read the description of the film before I picked it. (They had me at Skarsgård.) But now that I have, it does sound interesting with a similar storytelling style to Magnolia, Babel or Crash. Excited!
With the aid of a first-rate cast — including Jason Bateman, Hope Davis, Paula Patton (Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol) and Alexander Skarsgård (Melancholia) — director Henry Alex Rubin (Murderball) explores the impact of the internet on our daily lives through a series of gripping, cunningly interwoven parallel narratives.
I'm seeing fewer films this year and not the ones that already have Oscar buzz, but still, I think I have an interesting lineup.
Another one I'm excited about and didn't read the description until after I picked it is Byzantium.
A pair of female vampires (Saoirse Ronan and Gemma Arterton) wreaks havoc on an unsuspecting English seaside community in this deliciously depraved supernatural drama from Academy Award® winner Neil Jordan.I'm not sure how I missed that it was a vampire movie when I was first skimming the description! This wasn't the photo in the programme book and I honestly thought it was going to be a dour story about working class English people. Not sure why I got that idea.
I'm slightly frightened about another one of my picks... It's called Painless and it's a Spanish film about kids who are experimented on because they can't feel pain.
In this fascinating allegorical horror-thriller, a brilliant young neurosurgeon emerges miraculously unharmed from a devastating car crash — only to discover a dark secret about his origins that stretches back to a series of bizarre experiments conducted at the dawn of the Spanish Civil War.Creepy, right?
I'll try to blog next week, maybe with pictures of Stephanie's boyfriend!
7 comments:
Oh My God. Jealous isn't a powerful enough word for what I am.
Just that picture of him in the rain....
Tell him I love him. And ask him to take off his shirt before you take a picture. :)
OMG! Eric is going to be in Toronto??? I'm in the Niagara Region. Perhaps a stalking trip is in order. But since I probably won't, please take LOTS of pictures and share with the poor saps who'll be living vicariously through you.
This is one that I plan to line up for early to get choice seat. But I don't imagine I'll be the only one who does that...
A line ups. What TIFF is really about.
I meant: Ah, line ups.
My keyboard is getting touchy. Mamma needs a new macbook.
So jealous too and even though I love Eric, the one I'm the most jealous about it Byzantium...
oh my god - those sound awesome! I like the spanish civil war one.
I think you should do a tiff in pictures post...
I'm jealous that you get to go to TIFF at all, much less sit in the front row with a shirtless Skaarsgard. Can't wait to hear what you think about the films!
Post a Comment