Our first Saturday at TIFF was rainy. We only had one movie, our second of the festival, at 9:30 in the morning – Palo Alto, directed by Gia Coppola – her directorial debut. I thought she must be Sofia Coppola’s little sister – but instead, Sofia is Gia’s aunt. Gia is the daughter of Sofia’s […]
On Tuesday, I worked at home, got out into the sunshine to walk to campus for a meeting, and the film of the day was Sister. About a 12-year-old boy and a young woman he says is his sister (later in the movie the relationship turns out to be something else). They live in […]
Well, I started this post yesterday evening, when Mark & I were sitting at the Sundance theater, waiting for Mary Poppins to start. They’re doing a series of classics, besides Mary, Gone with the Wind; 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Young Frankenstein, etc. Mark’s ex-wife and her guy were there, too, which was sort embarrassing […]
Somehow, a lot of tomatoes of a variety of types came home with us the last couple of days, and I’ve spent a lot of time processing them. On Wednesday, I went to the little farmers market and got some green and pink tomatoes to make a green tomato mincemeat from the Local Food Journal […]
We turned Sunday into a three movie day, by adding Sightseers (a pick of the day from the TIFF artistic director Cameron Bailey) to the two we already had tickets for, Disconnect and Yellow. It’s already Tuesday and I’m back in Madison, but I’m just too tired to write up these last three – it’ll […]
Friday we had an 11:00 a.m. movie and a 6:00 p.m. movie. The early one was Much Ado About Nothing, modernized, filmed in b&w at Joss Whedon’s (of Avengers & Buffy the vampire killer fame) house in 12 days. We liked it a lot. Came back to the apartment for egg sandwiches, and then Mark […]
As of Thursday, Sept. 13, we’ve been here one week. I still have that “we just got here” feeling, though. Thursday’s movies didn’t start till 3:00. We paid a visit to Bulldog for coffee, and then I came back to the apartment to work, and sent Mark off to shop. He went to the Eaton […]
We’re up to 8 movies. Sunday night, we saw a late show of At any price, a little too melodramatic, but lots of young girl screamers waiting to see Zac Efron. We came back to the apartment and ate our leftover pizza from Saturday – stayed up till 2:00 a.m. Monday was a three movie […]
Yesterday, the rainy Saturday of TIFF 2012 – Johnny Depp was in town but we didn’t see him, even though the theater where the film he supporting – West of Memphis – is probably closest to our apartment – it’s part of Ryerson University. We walked past another (probably not as huge crowd) trying to […]
I got a really funny message from my BFF, Rach, on Tuesday evening about how oh, it’s a Tuesday that feels like a Monday, and even though we had a 3 (or 4, in her case) day weekend, it wasn’t long enough. Lots of cooking fun over the holiday weekend – Baked a peach raspberry […]