Day 3 Tiff Blog
Girls of the Sun. French language film following the true story of a battalion of women, who escaped rape and being sold several times is ISIS occupied Iraqi Kurdistan, and then returned to fight to regain their homes, and children stolen as child warriors. Some 7000 women were stolen this way, with less then half returning. A really strong women story, which is a theme this year at Tiff. Three different Kurdish factions depicted honestly, I believe. Worth more reading. Excellent small budget film.
This Changes Everything. Tiff doc driven by Geena Davis and others to help drive gender equality in Hollywood. Learned many things. It is worth seeing when it hits Netflix. Remarkable stats don”t lie. I am against ‘quotas’ for sake of quality, but perhaps we have lost quality at the expense of gender equality.
Everybody knows. Story of an abduction in a small family. Spanish movie staring Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz. Good film, albeit a bit slow. Slow twists. Slow turns.
Life Itself. Intricately woven story following several people, over a long period of time and continents. Stared Annette Bening, Antonio Bendaras, Oscar Isaac, Mandy Patinkin. Very good movie. Looked like a chick flick in the first few minutes.. but really came together. Strong and complex story.
Widow. Story of the Widows of criminals who need to do a ‘job’ as a result of obligations their husbands left after they were killed during a job. Good twists here too.. enjoyable.
Halloween. Special post coming!
Tiff Day 3 special Midnight Madness Blog. in 1978, when I was in university, the first Halloween was released, staring Jamie Lee Curtis, Mustapha Akkad, John Carpenter, which is regarded by most as one of the best original horror movies ever made. While it hasn’t survived the test of time in terms of fright factor, I can tell you, in 1978, we had to drop the ladies who went to it with us like Grace, Nora, Vera etc to their doors with highbeams. Akkad’s son, and Carpenter are back with “Halloween” 40 years later with.. Jamie Lee Curtis, still running from yer another Michael Myers escape from haddenfield Illinois. I rushed to this after seeing 5 films already yesterday, dressed as Michael Myers, sitting in the front row. Jamie was there, and came up and gave me a high 5 after the QandA, and I got a selfie with her. My scary movie idol along with Sigourney Weaver. Movie itself has the same look and feel as the original, the first slashed babysitter movie, written by this Akkad’s father. Movie really a 6/10. Event itself, 8/10. First MM. so much fun.
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