Posts Tagged ‘TADFF’

  • 02 Oct

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    Welcome to October: T is for Thread

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    Friend of Row Three and horror blogger Jay Clarke (The Horror Section) puts forth a lesson to you all out there: If you are looking for plastic surgery, he is NOT the man you want to have doing the stitching on your face. Check out this black (and red) comedy short directed by Chris Nash and produced by Clarke. I cannot think of a more perfect or gruesome way to kick off October month. T for Thread has aspirations of getting into Drafthouse Films ABCs of Death short film anthology. I believe it has a good shot, if only because it has an entirely new spin on the banana-peel gag.

    Full short is tucked under the seat. (Warning, don’t watch this while eating…)

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  • 28 Sep

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    TADFF ’11: Full Line Up

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    Without Toronto After Dark it is unlikely that there would be a RowThree.com for y’all to hang out, talk about a wide breadth of cinema goings on and enjoy a plethora of podcasting profundity. Row Three was formed when Andrew, Kurt and John hung out in the third row (literally) of The Bloor Cinema and took in films like Funky Forest, Aachi & Ssipak, Mulberry Street and Behind The Mask. In between screenings and over copious amounts of micro-brew, we talked about starting a website that favoured user discussion and community and a general vibe of ‘shooting-the-bull’ over the typical film-nerd comic book movie casting items and/or regurgitated pop-culture focused press releases. So it is always with interest and fondness that we hold this particular genre festival which is now going strong in its sixth year of operation. Incidentally, John, who, these days mainly operates behind the scenes on the site, because he started up a similar festival in Sasktown, Dark Bridges – which sees its sophomore year festival starting tomorrow!

    Narcissistic nostalgia notwithstanding, Toronto After Dark has announced its full line-up today! The second round additions are pretty darn good, thus assuring that the temporary change of venue to Toronto Underground Cinema should see a showering abundance of genre trick ‘r treating this October. Locals will get a chance to see Ti West’s follow-up to House of the Devil: The Innkeepers on the big screen, as well as Lucky McKee’s controversial Jack Ketchum adaptation, The Woman. Also, weird comic book mayhem with VS (described to me by programmer Peter Kuplowski as the marvel-superhero deconstruction equivalent to the DC-universe breakdown, Watchmen.) Also, I’ve seen the little indie vampire tale Midnight Son, and it is a work of maturity and quality in a genre that sorely needs it. Further quality titles include slick mountain chase film, A Lonely Place to Die (Kurt’s Review) and indie Science fiction epic, Love (Kurt’s Review).

    For the Full Line-Up, it’s all tucked under the seat.

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  • 23 Mar

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    No TADFF/TIFF for Me.

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    TIFF 09Today was the first day of my new job. It looks like a great job and I’m pretty happy to be doing something new for a while. There is one terrible side effect of the new job and that is I have to wait for holidays to build up once again. I’ll have enough holidays built up by the fall for my regular family trip but I will not have enough for neither of Toronto After Dark nor the Toronto International Film festival. I was thinking I could do Calgary, Edmonton or Vancouver but they are all shortly after TIFF and they just won’t work out either. It looks like I might be thinking of Sundance in January but I would like some other suggestions. The festival needs to be in North America and should take place sometime very late in the year or early in the new year. Any suggestions?