sunny_stace....How was Toronto?
I'm gonna go totally off-topic here so if you don't want to read it, just skip over it!
Thank you for asking, Toronto was great!
I saw 5 films over friday and saturday from the film festival. So far I've liked 3 out of the 5 so not bad! And even out of the 2 I didn't care for, only 1 of them I really disliked. And I got to hear a lot of directors and cast members speak about their films...I'll be back up there on Friday for my last 5 films! So far I've seen (in my ranking order):
1. The Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best - Ryan O'Nan, Michael Weston, Jason Ritter, Arielle Kebbel, Andrew McCarthy, etc. About a musician who travels across the USA with his "band" to all these random places and learns about himself and love. Comedy/drama. Very sweet and funny and touching. (American)
2. Hick - Chloe Grace Moretz, Blake Lively, Eddie Redmayne, Alec Baldwin, etc. About a young girl (13)from Nebraska who decides to run away to Las Vegas. She meets a few drifters along the way and things don't go as planned. It gets pretty dark but there's some comedy in there too. The acting was super. (American)
3. 360 - Anthony Hopkins, Jude Law, Rachel Weisz, Ben Foster, etc. This is about a bunch of different people from all over the world dealing with personal relationships and their bumps in the road. It's quite serious but very touching in places and really makes you think about your own relationships and for me, how grateful I am that my life isn't super complicated! Ben Foster blew me away in his role. Drama. (Austria, UK, America) It would have ranked higher except that it was very very heavy.
4. Elles - Juliet Binoche, etc. Juliet Binoche plays a magazine reporter who is interviewing young "working women" (Can I say that on the dis?
). It was quite graphic of course, but it was also told in a non-linear fashion which I found kind of confusing. There was also this sub plot with Juliet Binoche's family which took things off-course. It wasn't bad, just not what I expected it to be. I think if it had been done differently it would have been much more moving. Drama (French)
5. Summer Games - I don't know any of the cast's names. This was about a couple of families in Italy on summer holidays. They're all staying at this campground and it's about the drama that comes up amongst the kids and parents. I expected more light-hearted scenes and beautiful Italian coastal imagery and instead I got mental health problems, violence and animal cruelty. If the director hadn't been sitting nearby I may have gotten up and left. Some scenes were good but they weren't worth it IMHO. Drama (Italian)
Friday I have Hysteria, The Day, Friends With Kids, Violet and Daisy and A Happy Event. Should be good!
I expect to like them all! I love movies so I'm not hard to please! Now back to the topic at hand...
here's my ipod mix for today:
1. Next To Me - Gavin DeGraw
2. Main Street Electrical Parade - Classic Disney
3. Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo - Cinderella
4. That's The Way I Like It - Backstreet Boys
5. Who Knows - Natasha Beddingfield