TIFF 2009 Day 1: Getting a Free Ride

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If you had middle class parents like my own, you’ve probably been told there is no such a thing as free ride – but TIFF organizers have definitely gone Park City this year, handing out free transit passes along with accreditation. Damn cool.

It’s Day 1 and I’m already making some alterations to the schedule, but for the most part, this is going to be the daily grind. Look for reviews and photo coverage of the public screenings for the titles below. I’ll also try and get more of these vids in.

Thursday: Hotel Atlantico, Women Without Men, The Men Who Stare At Goats
Friday: Petropolis, Up in the Air, , The Ape (Apan)
Saturday: Perrier’s Bounty, Le Refuge, Bunny & the Bull, Collapse, Triage
Sunday: Soul Kitchen, Capitalism: A Love Story, The Disappearance of Alice Creed, Accident
Monday: The Joneses, Chloe, The Warrior and the Wolf , White Material, Lebanon
Tuesday: Life During Wartime, A Single Man, Get Low, Gigante, Hiroshima, Micmacs
Wednesday: Cracks, Tales From.. or Bitch Slap, The Most Dangerous Man in America:
Thursday: Leaves of Grass, Mother and Child, Ondine, Trash Humpers, Deliver Us from Evil , London River or The Happiest Girl, Symbol
Friday: She, a Chinese or My Son, My Son, The Last Days of Emma Blank , Videocracy, Lourdes, The Angel, Mr. Nobody
Saturday: Colony, The Art of the Steal, Hadewijch

 

 

Eric Lavallée
Eric Lavalléehttps://www.ericlavallee.com
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist, and critic at IONCINEMA.com, established in 2000. A regular at Sundance, Cannes, and Venice, Eric holds a BFA in film studies from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013, he served on the narrative competition jury at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson’s "This Teacher" (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). He is a Golden Globes Voter, member of the ICS (International Cinephile Society), FIPRESCI and AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma).

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