TIFF14 wrap up! It’s pretty amazing that another festival has come and gone. I’m always super stressed and busy every time the festival comes around, but I think it comes naturally as part of the whole TIFF experience. =P A first for me this year – I actually saw the same movie twice. It’s pretty ridiculous I had to pay to see the same movie a second time (for a mediocre film nonetheless), but long story short – my need…
I somehow managed to luck out at TIFF this year because all my films were absolutely amazing. In the 10 years I’ve been going to the festival, I’m usually disappointed by at least one film. However, there must be some magic in the air because I really really enjoyed all five of my selections. The first movie I saw at TIFF was Like Father, Like Son. It was by the same director as Nobody Knows, which I had also seen…
With summer just around the corner, there’s more and more events happening in the city as people take advantage of the [supposedly] warmer weather. The weekend before I ventured out to Toronto to catch a screening of A Wedding Invitation at the Yonge Dundas Cineplex. Even though we were on a tight schedule, we managed to grab a bite at Santouka Ramen right before our movie. I haven’t tried many ramen places in Toronto, but this was by far my…
Wrapped up another year at TIFF! I had a really great time at the film fest this year. Lots of great movies from Asia in my line up. I was lucky I got tickets to all my first choices. For the first weekend, I headed downtown on Saturday to watch the red carpet opening for Thermae Romae. Since I didn’t buy tickets to the gala, I had plenty of time to wait for the guests to arrive. I was really…
What another amazing run this year at TIFF! I was really lucky I got all my first choices during the balloting process, because all my movies fell on the weekend. I didn’t have anything in particular I wanted to see this year aside from Smuggler, so I tried to find a mix of movies. I ended up seeing two from Japan, one Korean suspense movie, an Ukrainian movie, a Canadian feature and a documentary. Six is probably the max I…