Film Festival Finally Finished

It's over for another year! I saw 24 films, Josie saw 19, and while there were a couple that were not the cheeriest, by and large it was a great festival. Our last film was "Snow Cake" with Alan Rickman and Sigourney Weaver at the Ryerson Theatre, where we sat and chatted with a gentleman from PBO as we waited. This was his 3rd year of coming to the Festival with his wife, Josie's first year, and I have film catalogues from 1987, so that's 19 years for me! I enjoyed having company to attend this year and to talk about the films afterwards. I look forward to celebrating 20 years next September, and please book early if you want to join me for the 10 days!

On Friday, we saw "Bobby", an interesting exploration of the lives of ordinary people on the day before and of RFK's death at the Ambassador Hotel. Then "The Island" about a monk who lived on a bleak island in Russia, and "Nouvelle Chance", a French film about an aged singer and and a pool boy. Saturday's "Quelques Jours en Septembre" looked into the relationship of a contract killer and a spy's family prior to September 11th. "Takva - A Man's Fear of God", a Turkish film, told of how a humble man can be corrupted when given power and still feared the wrath of his God. "Snow Cake" was filmed in Wawa and related how an autistic woman coped with here life there.

So now we wait to see what comes out in general release, and which films will be nominated for Oscar, and which other movies we can pick up at the theatres. Thanks for the directions to Apple's film trailers, Dave. This will prove very useful in making film selections.