August 2005

It’s that time of year again. This year will the 11th year that I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival. Brooke and I are splitting a 30-film coupon book, so I’ll probably end up with somewhere between 15 and 18 films. The full list of films was just released yesterday, and I’m beginning to get excited. I try to see a mixture of “Hollywood” films that will get released and smaller foreign films that may not. Here are a few that look interesting so far:

• Wah-Wah (dir. Richard E. Grant)
• Everything is Illuminated (dir. Lieb Schrieber)
• The Squid and The Whale (dir. Noah Baumbach)
• Shopgirl (dir. Anand Tucker)
• Capote (dir. Bennett Miller)
• Why We Fight (dir. Eugene Jarecki)
• Thumbsucker (dir. Mike Mills)
• Elizabethtown (dir. Cameron Crowe)
• Citizen Dog (dir. Wisit Sasanatieng)
• Tsotsi (dir. Gavin Hood)
• Tideland (dir. Terry Gilliam)
• Bubble (dir. Steven Soderbergh)
• The Heart Of The Game (dir. Ward Serrill)
• A Little Trip to Heaven (dir. Baltasar Kormákur)

Of course, this is all preliminary. We don’t get the actual schedule and full programme book until next week, so I’ll have to see what fits. I don’t take any days off work, and in addition, this year Brooke and I are taking a Spanish class twice a week in preparation for our trip to Uruguay in November. Hope I can squeeze everything in!

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