Special guest star Shelagh Rowan-Legg joins us on Day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival 2012! We discuss Argo, Much Ado About Nothing, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, A Liar’s Autobiography, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology, Blancanieves, All That Matters is Past, The Deep, Room 237, Far Out Isn’t Far Enough, Spring Breakers, Hotel Transylvania, Hannah Arendt, Fin, and more!
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Reminder to post link here of the 80,000 word Dark Knight Rises rant.
I went to my first TIFF premiere with Whedon’s Much Ado About Nothing, which similar to Matt Brown, I thought it was absolutely great and I was surprised at how funny he managed to make it without being able to change the dialogue, just visually. Sounds like Sunday’s screening was a bit more intimate with a longer Q&A, but I had managed to get tickets Saturday morning at 7 am and wasn’t sure if I was going to be able to pull off the same for the Sunday screening.
Personally, while I may enjoy an actor’s performance, I’ve never really cared about meeting any of them or gotten that whole star hunting thing. That said, directors and writers, I get more fanboy-ish over as I’m a lot more interested in the hearing what they have to say. Plus the really good writers tend to be quite entertaining in person during the Q&A or whatever they are doing. If I get a chance to talk to them, occasionally I have a question for them but most of the time I just say thanks for making such great art that I love.
As for the Argh during the piracy warnings, at the Much Ado premiere they were pretty loud, but perhaps it was in part the size of the crowd. That said, I still come across TIFF newbies, who get a big kick out of it, despite the fact that it might be dying with the long time crowd.
Here’s the link to the Zizek piece, courtesy of Mr. Halfyard.
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/culture/2012/08/slavoj-žižek-politics-batman
Also, I have misstated the length. It’s not THAT long. But it is pretty damn long, nonetheless.