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Always Crashing In The Same Car

by James McNally on October 23, 2007

in Web Sites

Oh, happy day! Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant are reunited in a short, called “Always Crashing In The Same Car.” If the Bowie song title and the reunited Withnail and I stars appeal to you, it’s freely down­load­able from The Times web site.

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FeedM8

by James McNally on October 10, 2007

in Web Sites

If you have a web-capable mobile phone, you can now sub­scribe to a spe­cial mobile ver­sion of Toronto Screen Shots with the innov­ative FeedM8 ser­vice. Just scroll down and look for the nifty icon in the right sidebar. Or, if you’re lazy:

Of course, if/when you get an iPhone, you can just browse the reg­ular site. But until that day, the Toronto-based FeedM8 ser­vice looks to be a useful resource.

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Still in Motion

by James McNally on May 17, 2007

in Documentaries,Interviews,Web Sites

Pamela Cohn, a film­maker in her own right, has started a blog focussed on doc­u­ment­aries. Still in Motion fea­tures some excel­lent in-depth inter­views with film­makers; in par­tic­ular, check out the inter­view with Pernille Rose Grønkjær, dir­ector of The Monastery: Mr. Vig and the Nun, which I reviewed here. (A tip of the hat to Agnes for the link.)

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TIFF 2006: Preliminaries

by James McNally on August 23, 2006

in Film Festivals,TIFF

It’s almost that time of year again. From September 7–16, Toronto is taken over by celebrities and celebrity hounds, partying into the wee hours and clog­ging up Yorkville with their bling. Oh, and they show a few films as well.

I’ll be attending for the 12th year, though I’m only seeing ten films again. Without taking vaca­tion time off work (which I’m saving for our trip to Slovenia just after the fest­ival ends), ten is about the limit for me.

I was a little bit excited for about thirty seconds when I saw that the offi­cial TIFF web site is offering a fea­ture called “Your Blogs”. That is, until I read part of the lengthy terms and conditions:

You grant to the Toronto International Film Festival Group and its par­ents, sub­si­di­aries, affil­i­ates, employees, officers, dir­ectors, rep­res­ent­at­ives, part­ners, and agents (col­lect­ively, “TIFFG”), a per­petual, royalty-free, trans­fer­able, irre­voc­able right to repro­duce and/or quote from the ori­ginal con­tent that is placed on your blog or that you submit to the Toronto International Film Festival’s web­site. In addi­tion, you waive in favour of TIFFG, all moral rights you may have in or to your con­tent. TIFFG reserves the right to alter, edit, and/or delete any sub­mis­sions you make to Your Blogs.

Uh, no thanks. Instead, I’ll be posting my reviews here as always, and cross-posting them to TIFFReviews, a site which has been cov­ering the fest­ival since 2004.

The com­plete film list was released yes­terday, so now comes the hard job of deciding what to see and when to see it. If I’m careful, I might just be able to avoid anyone famous.

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