Hey everyone!
Over the past week I finally got our TIFF tickets (after someone screwed up my order for one of the movies) and had a chance to watch half of them.
Well, Black Swan, Womb, and I Saw The Devil are Ada and Peter’s movies. I got to watch Return of the Fist (with Max), Bunraku, and Vanishing on 7th St. This first half are actually movies I want to see. Carmen’s picks are this week, so we will be watching Norwegian Wood, All About Love, and Confessions. Then on Saturday I’m finishing it off with Stake Land with Max.
Return of the Fist was so-so. I mean, why ruin a good thing? So basically they took Bruce Lee’s character in Fist of Fury (in which he imminently died at the end), made it so that he DIDN’T die, took him to France to fight in WW1, then brought him back to Shanghai to don on a mask to look like Kato and become a superhero (WHAT?). Also, too much talking….everyone just wanted to see Donnie fight. Also, Donnie didn’t even come to the screening. In fact, no one did except for the director Andrew Lau. Boo!
Carmen really liked Bunraku. It was actually quite an interesting style for a movie. Basically the premise is that the world is set during an undisclosed timeline, but I would assume it to be anywhere from an alternate 50s-present. The story is about a time where guns were outlawed so everyone was just butchering one another with knives, swords, axes, etc. There was a crime lord who had 9 killers work under him conveniently numbered 2-10. Then, a drifter (Josh Hartnett), a samurai (Gackt), and a bartender (Woody Harrelson) joined forces to them down. Each had their own reasons to fight him. The backdrop was a weird red all over. This is because by definition Bunraku is a puppet theatre, so the entire background looks fake and sort of like a pop-up book. Even the moon looks like it was made from origami. Pretty cool indeed. In fact, all the main characters were at the opening (except Demi Moore).
The Vanishing on 7th St was my favourite movie for this year’s TIFF and it didn’t disappoint (at least not a whole lot). The story revolved around the fact that one day everyone vaporized. There were only a few people left, and the reason why they were still alive was they were in the company of some sort of light when all the lights went out everywhere. So the story is about people vaporizing because the “shadows” took them. Mind you, it was actually quite haunting and foreboding. So kudos to the director Brad Anderson. But the really bad part was the imminent demise of everyone. I mean….you could see it coming since the beginning of the movie. You can’t make something this big and expect people to survive it. Well, at least he didn’t try to explain it (which would have totally ruined the movie). Hayden Christensen and Thandie Newton were there and sat a few rows behind us.
Next was Patricia and Alex’s wedding on September 12th. Carmen helped out Stella as co-GMs and I took polaroids of everyone. Here are some pics from the wedding:
With the beauty of the iPhone 4′s iMovie App, I was able to create a decent movie clip summary of the wedding (all on my phone!)
Here is the final clip. Hey, I know it’s amateurish, but it only took me 5 mins to make it!
by ProjectMoonlightCafe
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