We watched this documentary at Heartwood Concert Hall last night, thanks to an event coordinated by my neighbour who organizes awesome film screenings periodically throughout the year. It was preambled with local poets and performers and finished off with a Q&A with the director and writer. I feel like this will boost Eric’s ability to pass the Canadian citizenship test, if he ever so desires.
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Fabulous Festival of Fringe Film
Last night we went to see 10 short films at a film festival in Durham co-founded by our neighbour. We wrapped up in blankets and perched at the top of the hill which looked down at the screen. Bugs flying in front of the projector tricked me into thinking they were fireflies. I’m glad I brought tea because the evening felt more like September than August.
The evening’s program was called Swiss Shorts and it was a combination of animations and “video art”. I liked the animations best.
Never Let Me Go
Finally and at long last, the film version of one of my favourite books will be arriving at Guelph’s local cinema, The Bookshelf (also a bookstore): Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go. Maybe I should reread it before next week?
Jim Jarmusch movies make me fall asleep
These photos look like an ode to Coffee and Cigarettes, but they are not. Even with Tom Waits in it, I couldn’t stay awake until the end. (And if had known Broken Flowers was one of his, I wouldn’t have allowed it to be rented: Bill Murray is not funny when he’s just sitting there- or at least that’s all I remember).
Still, aerial views of familiar inanimate objects do look nice.
Tokyo!
E. is a highly reluctant movie-goer, and neither of us are overly motivated to contribute money to Hollywood, so for the first time in years we went to see a movie in the theatre.
What was it? Tokyo! Three short films by three different directors linked mainly by being set in the same city. One of the three is by Korean director Bong Joon Ho, who did Memories of Murder, a creepy film with my favourite Korean actor, Song Kang Ho (also in YMCA Yagudan and Joint Security Area). All three shorts in Tokyo! were mesmerizing, surreal, and disturbing in their own way. Definitely worth seeing on a big screen.
I will be keeping my eye on Cinéma du Parc‘s box office more carefully from now. Hopefully, there will be Korean directors shown at this year’s World Film Festival.