Toronto International Film Festival 2005 (30th edition)

[bellhop]

sau adevaratul TIFF :) ;

Septembre 8-17, editie aniversara, multe nume grele...

335 filme in 10 zile, din care 109 premiere mondiale!!!

omagiu adus cinematografiei chineze care celebreaza 100 de ani this year, incluzind in program Seven Swords de Tsui Hark (back in action), ultimul film al lui Wilson Yip, Sha Po Lang plus alte cateva titluri si nume de care nici n-am auzit; alte asiatice koreene doua da' buune: Lady Vengeance si Duelista 8), ultimul Miike/japan, The Great Yokai War (aka The Great Spooky War) si un thailandez tare bengos, Bangkock Loco; indienele nu se pune...

Puiu si Mihaileanu in sectiunea Contemporary World Cinema;

printre premiere absolute, Oliver Twist de Roman Polanski, Tideland de Terry Gilliam, Revolver de Guy Ritchie si Martin Scorsese cu un documentar despre Bob Dylan's early years;

lista completa (just released), feel free to scroll up & down, book tickets, BYOB, etc... :D :

http://www.e.bell.ca/filmfest/2005/films_filmList.asp

[christi]

"Lazarescu" i-a impresionat si pe canadieni. Filmul a primit cronici magulitoare dupa Toronto. Urmatoarea e din "eye weekly", care i-a dat 4 stele din 5.


THE DEATH OF MR. LAZARESCU

****

Dir Cristi Puiu w/ Ion Fiscuteanu, Luminta Gheorghiu. 154 min. Sep 9, 9:30am, Paramount; Sep 16, 7:30pm, Cumberland.

It ain't exactly the recipe for an art-house smash: 154 nearly real-time minutes in the life and imminent death of an elderly Romanian alcoholic as he is ferried by ambulance between hospitals. Yet Cristi Puiu's riveting and expertly realized second feature was the deserved hit of the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu functioning equally well as a social-realist epic and a blackly comic, slyly allegorical satire. Adrift in a bureaucratic medical system that's more diseased than he could ever be, poor Lazarescu (Fiscuteanu) lives just long enough to learn there are things crueller than death.

[farabeuf]

Biletul la TIFF costa exorbitant: 20 de parai canadieni (aprox 17 americani) in conditiile in care un bilet de cinema e cam 7.
Apropo de festivaluri, imi zicea un tip care are avut film (scris, regizat si produs de el) la Sundance ca s-a simtit mult mai bine la Mediawave. 8)