Film Festival

LeBron Who? More Than a Game

My lack of pop culture (mainly sports) knowledge strikes again. I saw More Than a Game, a doc where filmmaker Kristopher Belman followed a high school basketball team in his hometown that happened to have a young, up-and-coming player named LeBron James, enabling...

A Good Film Festival is When You Don’t See Movies

Here's a quick, on the move post. Didn't see any movies yesterday, but it was still a great day. We met the donor that sponsored our trip at her gorgeous house and garden right in the middle of Toronto. After chilling in the industry internet lounge and grabbing some...

TIFF and JCVD

Despite having my name called over the speakers on the airplane before take off and my passport taken by security, we managed to make it to Toronto (the passport was returned and I never found out what that was about). We even made it in time to pick up our industry...

Blogging for Toronto

Bad news: I went down from #3 to #too-far-for-me-to-count on the Toronto International Film Festival blog list. Maybe I should start with the good news. Coffee and Celluloid is listed as one of the blogs for TIFF. I'm not sure if that's any sort of achievement to...

The Blacklist [Documentary]

If you need an example of a talking head doc, this is it. For an HBO film ((I did learn that it wasn't produced by HBO, only acquired prior to Sundance)), I was kind of let down, but later it made sense. The Blacklist is a series of interviews of some of the...

Bigger, Stronger, Faster [Documentary]

It's a film about body building, Hulk Hogan, steroids, Sylvester Stallone, and the male image in America. Yes, men have image problems too, Jean Kilbourne. The steroids part was what got me into the the theater, after experiencing the magic ((By magic, I mean keeping...

Bomb It [Documentary]

The program said this is the most comprehensive documentary on graffiti art. It's probably true. Bomb It covers graffiti around the world, from LA to New York, San Paolo to Japan. And each place has their own uniqueness and style. The fast paced style of the film...

My Daughter the Terrorist [Documentary]

Perhaps a little heavy for a 10 AM screening, with an occasional missing head and dead body, I still enjoyed My Daughter the Terrorist. It's about the civil war in Sri-Lanka - a war I didn't know was happening. Labeled by the world as terrorists, the film follows two...