Meanwhile back at the Circus

Monday Evening: School #4 PTA meeting

Tuesday Evening: DS#1 works, Music lessons DS#2

Wednesday Evening: Newspaper route, Curriculum Night School #4, Book Circle Launch

Thursday Evening: Music Lesson DS#4, Music Lesson DS#5, Curriculum Night School #3, Fencing Lessons DD#1 and DS #4, Puppy Class with DS#3, Curriculum night School #1

Friday Evening: Newspaper route, DS #1 works

Thanks god Saturday hockey hasn't started yet.

Pretty Tired When you Can't Add to Nine

I just realised I forgot one film in yesterday's ranking.

Romulus, My Brother. An Australian film with Eric Bana based on a famous Aussie writer's life. I had hoped to hear Eric's Aussie accent but he played an Romanian. LOL. Bonus was Marton Csokas. An excellent drama but by the end I felt a couple of notes too often. Got to meet see Richard Roxburg in the Q & A afterwards. Which was a relief since there was a big question left dangling at the end. If you do, Susan is left in a foster home despite Hora trying to adopt her. Rai finds her later in life and they become close.

I'd rank it after Normal.

Five Days, Nine Movies…hopefully eight hours of sleep.

It's Friday night. I've done nine films in five days and I'm ready for a good night's sleep. How in the world does anyone do 45 films in 9 days.

I must say I enjoyed the whole experience. I loved the Q & A with the directors. (A couple of actors made it out too). I liked talking to perfect strangers about what they had seen.

Here's my ranking of the films I saw.

1-Across the Universe. I would pay to see this one again. I find myself breaking out in song all day long.

2-The Jane Austen Book Club. Grab all your girlfriends and have a night out. There's something in this for everyone.

3-Chrysalis. A French Sci-Fi. You might only be able to get this one on zip.ca. But worth the rental.

4-Normal. A great Canadian film. All about loss. Very sad great acting. And Kevin Zegers.

5-Honeydrippers. Slow but amazing acting.

6-Buddha Collapsing in Shame. I great film. Subtle. The children are adorable.

7-Silk. Sorry….Lost in Translation. There's almost zero tension in two hours. Ms. Knightly does nothing but look great even when she was dying. Michael Pitt is dull as dishwater. Alfred Molina is the one bright note.

8-Christopher Columbus. Awful. Don't even think of seeing this one. It took 70 minutes what could be said in 10. I slept through half.

Glad it's over but I'm going back next year.

Well, I'm here.

I just did my first TTIF film , The Jane Austen Book Club and I'm rolling on a high.

Getting here was fun. The dog and I walked at 6:3O am just so I could get here in time. I found out that you needed to be at films 30 minute s ahead of time or they resell your tickets. That didn't leave me much time to get from Sheppard to Queen. Luckily 9:00 am showings are only popular with the blue rinse crowd and there was plenty of space. Mind you I took the stairs instead of the escalator and my heart is pumping.

Just enough time for a sandwich before my next one.

TTIF Virgin No More

For years I've wanted to do the Toronto Film Festival but have never managed to find the time. It falls right at back-to-school which has to be the worst time for a mother. If the kids go off track in September they never get back on track.
But this year, after listening to fellow script writers talk all year about all the great films you can catch before the public release I decided to risk it and get the daytime pass.
Then I told everyone so I couldn't back out.
It looked so simple. Then I found out that the box office is downtown. Limited hours. No parking. On line they only took VISA and mine has a tiny line of credit (purposefully to protect myself from internet fraud) which I had maxed out for kids’ camp etc. And honestly, by the first week of August I was maxed out from dealing with the kids.
When I finally got my act together in the last week of summer the day-time passes were all sold out.
I was soooooo angry with myself.
Determined to recover, on Sept 5th I got online again and after fritzing away two hours figuring how the TTIF sit worked, paid full price to see 8 films.
I'm now standing in line with a bazillion other people to get them. The TTIF computers are down but there is a camaraderie amongst the lineup that we are part of something special. And then I realize that this is half the fun.
This is going to be great.