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 day – Thanks for Sharing, Writers, and A Late Quartet. We had yogurt & fruit for breakfast, came home for sandwiches for lunch, and finally ended up at the brew pub for late dinner – Mark got the burger & I had a pulled pork. On nice little brioche buns, with chips & green salad. Sitting outside, the table slanted down towards me, but fun conversations all around. I think Thanks for Sharing is both of our faves, with maybe Writers as Mark’s second fave, and Late Quartet for me. Writers was just too glossy – made the suburban life look too good; writing life too easy. Here’s what the Toronto paper said:
Endearing performances buoy predictable film about love in the wake of divorce.
In similar fashion to how Writers annoyed me, Mark was too annoyed by the actors pretending to play in their instruments in Late Quartet. he also allowed as how, although it’s the height of music snobbery, Brentano Quartet, who really played the music, is not one of his favorites. Getting in to the theater was also annoying – it was in the Elgin, beautiful, historic place in Toronto, but there was a VISA VIP line, and the director, some cast, and must’ve been a ton of people from the production companies, from the cheering – so too many celebs to get in the door, and held everything up.
Tuesday we started with vampires at an English seaside town at 11:00 a.m. – Byzantium. They grew long pointy thumbnails to poke holes in their victims, instead of fangs. Directed by Neil Jordan, who also did The Crying Game, and Interview with the Vampire, and starring Gemma Arterton, who’d we last seen as Tamara Drewe, and Saoirse Ronan, from Lovely Bones, a little more grown up. Then we had enough time to grab Starbucks, and in to an indie film in a commercial theater, an AMC in a shopping mall, Detroit Unleaded – really funny, and they gave us temporary tattoos on the way in.
Detroit Unleaded temporary tattoo
