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Hot Docs 2009
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Sunshyne Jones
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My friend's doc Laughology is screening - anyone seen / going to see it?
Featuring this guy who has the 'most contagious laugh' as seen on YouTube. He's so cute.
A happy doc - nice.
Featuring this guy who has the 'most contagious laugh' as seen on YouTube. He's so cute.
A happy doc - nice.
SlipperyPete
TRIBE Member
Don't do it.
but it looks so schopenhauer it hurts!(plus i'm on a roll for pwning dutch directors at their q&a's)
an hour minimum, if it's one of the prime time ones (ie Saturday at the Bloor cinema)
my date chose hana's suitcase as a romantic night out.
holocaust stories do not make for hot make-out movies.
however during the q&a that followed the film the three principal players in the doc came out to talk, which was cool. and the dude actually joked about the director forcing him to swim in georgian bay in september as comparable to surviving auschwitz.
balls.
holocaust stories do not make for hot make-out movies.
however during the q&a that followed the film the three principal players in the doc came out to talk, which was cool. and the dude actually joked about the director forcing him to swim in georgian bay in september as comparable to surviving auschwitz.
balls.
Lysistrata
Well-Known TRIBEr
Last night I saw Graphic Sexual Horror at Hot Docs: I highly recommend it for all you twisted types. It's about the now defunct extreme BDSM site insex.com. This film is not for the faint of heart, mind; if you like your BDSM all pretty and poised this will offend your aesthetics. I found it a rare pleasure to see hardcore kink treated in such an honest and non-judgemental way: I almost want to say "sympathetic" but that word denotes an outsider's perspective: this film was made by two people involved in producing scenes for insex. That these two people are also women makes it all the more positive in the face of critics who would say that all imagery of tied up and tortured women is necessarily misogynist.
Psyrel
TRIBE Member
Going to this soon. Really looking forward to it, I'd like to end off hot docs on a quirky note.
Flashy_McFlash
Well-Known TRIBEr
Soulwax was great - maybe one of the better concert films I've seen. It's got a really neat visual style that almost seemed like video DJ'ing, and really captured the chaos of being on tour. Other than a few exceptions, you couldn't really tell what city or country you were in at any given time. Really neat though, and I'm not even a huge fan of theirs.
Clubland was a letdown. You can glean the same information from reading a couple of Star articles. At the end, based largely on the choice of interviewees (skanks, uppity condo owners, wasted Woodbridge bottle service junkies, skanks, Craig Pettigrew, skanks, etc) I left feeling no sympathy for any of them.
Jackpot on the other hand, was a restrained, well-shot portrayal of the desperation of bingo addicts. It subtly explored the appeal of gambling and really delved into the lives of its subjects who depend on their bingo fix daily.
Wish I could've seen more this year!
Clubland was a letdown. You can glean the same information from reading a couple of Star articles. At the end, based largely on the choice of interviewees (skanks, uppity condo owners, wasted Woodbridge bottle service junkies, skanks, Craig Pettigrew, skanks, etc) I left feeling no sympathy for any of them.
Jackpot on the other hand, was a restrained, well-shot portrayal of the desperation of bingo addicts. It subtly explored the appeal of gambling and really delved into the lives of its subjects who depend on their bingo fix daily.
Wish I could've seen more this year!
i enjoyed it too. really captured the batshit insaneness of a crazy party, and one where everyone just has to dance and yell their heads off.
pretty intense at times (like any good party
) but overall i enjoyed it.sarahFlashy_McFlash
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Overall I just thought it was a really good snapshot of where music is right now and how Soulwax/2manyDJs/Nite Versions have helped usher in and popularize this new sound.
Lysistrata
Well-Known TRIBEr
saw When We Were boys last night and was unimpressed. it felt like the film-maker went in there already knowing what story she wanted to tell before meeting the boys and was going to get that story regardless - and the point of the story was "rich boys have feelings too" which isn't very engaging. there were hints of more below the surface sometimes - in one scene they're shooting through the window of a door so the boys think they are not being watched and you see what looks like one of them taking his belt off to whip another boy with it. it's hard to tell though, due to being through a little window and it's never followed up on.
there are some funny moments, in the "kids say the darndest things" vein, since this isn't actually compromised by the fact that the kids are always very aware of being on camera. when a kid says "i just farted on the teacher!" he knows the audience a year later will find it funny, but it's still genuine because he'd say it at the time to make his friends laugh anyway. but when the boy says "so what happened to our friendship last year", it's so painfully artificial.
also, i don't need to hear that much choir.
there are some funny moments, in the "kids say the darndest things" vein, since this isn't actually compromised by the fact that the kids are always very aware of being on camera. when a kid says "i just farted on the teacher!" he knows the audience a year later will find it funny, but it's still genuine because he'd say it at the time to make his friends laugh anyway. but when the boy says "so what happened to our friendship last year", it's so painfully artificial.
also, i don't need to hear that much choir.
