moviesTO: Film Festival 101
moviesTO returns with host Matthew Brown and special guest star Matthew Price, your guides for the Toronto International Film Festival 2008! Join us as we investigate the musts, must-nots, and many madnesses of the movie extravaganza about to lay claim to Toronto for ten star-filled, film-obsessed days in September.
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Thanks Sameer!
I'll take this opportunity to pop in with a correction: there IS a public screening of Che available, contrary to what we ranted about in the podcast. Burn After Reading and the Good, the Bad and the Weird, however, remain publically unavailable.
Any idea why TIFF changed the way it handles ticketing? Sounds like they're really shafting the Toronto cineastes this time.
Funny enough, I also thought that the image for The Ghost was the greatest photo in the book. Listeners that don't have the book can check out the image online here.
Great podcast, by the way. You didn't talk about shorts at all (I love me some shorts) -- planning on catching any of the Short Cuts Canada stuff?
Oh, and only five films a day? That's pretty soft. =)
Sean, I was referring to the fact that the screenings at the Elgin now aren't part of the Festival Pass and require a separate pass. Strange that TIFF would do something like that. Matt and Matt talk about it a lot about it at the start of this podcast.
Six a day is a formidable feat. I bow to your prowess. I doubt I'm going to make more than 20 features this year. I am, however, going to watch EVERY short at the festival. (Already seen half of them.)
Why not just go to the Short film festival Sameer, that is THE place to watch some really great short films.
Hate to burst your bubble, but they've been trying to streamline the Elgin to be a premium theatre like RTH and finally took the plunge this year. I doubt it's ever returning to a regular screening venue. I also prefer the Elgin as you can actually see and enjoy the film..
As box office staff, dealing with the festival pass/daytime pass used to be a nightmare. People would pass them off, attempt to get more than 1 ticket per film that way, shuffle them around, it was insane.
And I'm feeling the same way about the 'warning flags' I have NO IDEA what to see this year.
Great podcast guys.
I usually do Munzz. Just missed it this year because out of the country...next year I'll be there for sure, again.
Great podcast. Totally agree with the Elgin thing. Really bad move for TIFF to not let regular passholders from choosing films there.
Also, I saw Brothers Bloom this morning at a media screening and HATED IT. I don't know where to start. Bad plot. Not funny although I'm thinking it was trying to be a slapstick comedy....Just a disaster all around. A big waste of 2 hours.
Oh. Btw. Che is screening at the Ryerson on Friday the 12th. Unfortunately, it's a 9am screening.
why not make available your schedule (the podcasters) of films that you will be seeing in the festival. it is a much better reference for those of use trying to fill out their advance order book.
@ Tim: sorry to hear that, mate, I'm still looking forward to Brothers Bloom with a fierce passion.
And yes, saw the Friday 9 a.m. Che screening, mentioned it in the comments above.
@ Munzz. A fine idea. Here's my plan:
Thursday:
Soul Power at 6:30
Waltz with Bashir at 9
JCVD at Midnight
Friday:
Achilles and the Tortoise at 9
Delta at 2
C'est pas moi at 4:30
35 rums at 6:30
Derriere moi at 9
Detroit Metal City at midnight
Saturday:
Sauna at 12:30
Vinyan at 3:15
Flame & Citron at 6
Religuolous at 9
Deadgirl at midnight
Sunday:
It Might Get Loud at 10
Blood Trail at 12:45
Knitting at 2:45
The Ghost at 6:30
Zack and Miri at 9:15
Not Quite Hollywood at Midnight
Monday:
Still Walking at 9:15
White Night Wedding at 12:00
Ashes of Time at 3
Hurt Locker at 6
At the edge of the world at 9
Acolytes at midnight
Tuesday:
Wrestler at noon
Of Time and the City at 4
Brothers Bloom at 9
Burrowers at midnight
Wednesday:
Three Wise Men at 2
Medicine for Melancholy at 5:45
Tears for Sale at 9:15
Martyrs at midnight
Thursday:
Gamorrah at 9
Synechdoche at 12:15
Dungeon Masters at 3:15
Acne at 5
Me and Orson Welles at 9
Friday:
Che at 9
Tokyo Sonata at 2:15
Vacation at 6
American Swing at 9
Sexykiller at midnight
Saturday:
Chinese Restaurant at 9
Sky Crawlers at 12;15
Real Shaolin at 3:15
Secret of Moonacre at 6:30
Three Blind Mice at 9
Chocolate at midnight
Tim - you should have skipped The Brothers Bloom screening and checked out Burn After Reading. Best Coen Bros. comedy in my opinion.
My preliminary film list for now:
Everlasting Moments
The Paranoids
Il Divo
Edison & Leo
Slumdog Millionaire
Mothers & Daughters
$9.99
Firaaq
Medicine for Melancholy
Ashes of Time Redux
Deadgirl
Hooked
Passchendaele
Year Ago in Winter
Nuit de Chien
33 Scenes From Life
Still Walking
Acn?
The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond
24 City
Fifty Dead Men Walking
The Ghost
Tears for Sale
Zift
Me and Orson Welles
Gigantic
Barrage Contre le Pacifique
(That's just features. Then I'm going to see all the shorts too.)
Thanks a lot Matt. I chose some of the films based on your recommendations. Hopefully I wont be disappointed.
Thanks for helping out dude.
Is there a way that these can be posted as MP3s also... I would love to be able to listen during my commute instead of listening at my computer
Hey Matt,
I'm a UBC MA student working on the history of podcasting in Canada.
I'm just wondering if you could tell me the date when the FIRST MoviesTO podcast was produced/posted. I'm assuming it was in Sept. 2005, as there was usually 1 podcast per week and #5 was posted on Oct. 16th, 2005.
Also, if you could tell me a bit about how/why the podcast got going I'd love to know who was behind it in the beginning, how it evolved and why it stopped.
Cheers!
-Tracy
Hi Tracy, thanks for writing in. Fascinating subject. Here's how it went down:
You're right that the first moviesTO was in September 2005. At that point, I had been doing another podcast (Mamo: http://mamocast.blogspot.com) with a friend of mine for about six months. Tim Shore, who runs blogTO, posted an ad on Craiglist in August 2005 asking for Toronto-area podcasters, and I responded.
Initially I was just looking for a permanent home for Mamo - I thought I could syndicate the other podcast to this site - but Tim wanted something on blogTO that couldn't be found anywhere else. He offered me the chance to take over the movie podcast (a few stand-alone episodes had been posted by previous podcasters in the past) and basically do whatever I wanted with it. The show didn't get its final name until episode 5, the Domino episode (one of the worst movies I've ever reviewed, by the way).
I kept co-hosting Mamo, and ran moviesTO pretty much solo, not quite weekly (I missed a few) but with weekly being the general plan. I hosted the show through episode 60, which was my last regular episode.
After that, Mohit took over for a while, followed by Andrea. Over time it proved progressively harder to find sponsorship for the podcast. This wouldn't have been so much of a problem in the beginning (I did my shows at home, on my laptop, with a headset) but in the later years the show was being produced out of an actual studio, and ultimately blogTO decided there wasn't enough return on the investment, so moviesTO went into retirement.
Hope I haven't missed anything... thanks again for writing.
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