Ryan McNeil
Are you ready for more film festival coverage???!!!
No…wait…don’t leave…where are you going?
The next big event coming up on The Dark of The Matinee is a Toronto happening I’ve had my eye on for a while, and will finally be able to be a part of.
Mid June in Toronto is all about North By Northeast, a music festival that makes this city a concert Mecca for a week. Some of the bands taking part this summer include Iggy and The Stooges, De La Soul, Mudhoney, Buck 65, Sloan, and 645 (!) others. And lucky me; along with the concert series, the festival also has a very cool film programme centred around music movies.
So in beginning June 13th, watch for coverage of some very cool music-related films… and who knows, I might even talk about a movie you stand a chance of seeing this time.
In the meantime, for your reading fulfillment I give you…
Some of you thanked me for seeing SHREK FOREVER AFTER so that you didn’t have to. Allow me, in turn, to thank Joel for seeing MACGRUBER so that I don’t have to!
An indie film I have my eye on is PLEASE GIVE with Oliver Platt and Catherine Keener. Alex the Film Forager has seen it, and says it’s pretty good!
Yojimbo, going back to the summer that irreversibly changed movie-going.
Our Movie Mobster Heather has been counting down the best movie villains. Yesterday she arrived at the home stretch.
One movie I was sorry to miss at TIFF when I sat it out last autumn was AGORA. Reviews for it are starting to surface – like The Audient’s – and it seems it’s pretty good!
One last Toronto touch for the week, Mike at You Talking to Me has a pretty good piece on Toronto’s newest cinema haven, The Toronto Underground Cinema.
Enjoy!
Hard Boiled kicks ass! Good man.
Oh North by Northeast (heh clever title) sounds rad! I look forward to reading about the music movies you see (and hey, I like festival coverage).
Will you be seeing Iggy and the Stooges perform?!
Oh and thanks for the link! I hope you get to see Please Give sometime soon.
Music Films *grabs old english smoking pipe* well, you know I shall read, and we will see what comes of it. We should definitely all thank Joel for seeing MacGruber for us… since him and only 10 other people did.
Thnaks for the hat-tip, Tetch. Looking forward to your event coverage–you go to festivals so I don't have to!
"Thnaks?" I think I'll keep it!
@ Aiden… I picked it up with THE KILLER. That's sitting on the dvd player for tonight.
@ Alex… Clever huh? I really have no excuse for missing Iggy, he's playing a free show in the middle of the city (in the same spot that they'll be showing all those free movies). PLEASE GIVE might well be another inclusion in my summer of alternative movies…y'know, since the manistream offerings look so underwhelming.
@ Univarn… Glad to know I'll have at least ONE reader. Good to have ya back dude.
@ Yojimbo… I had thnaks once, a little carrot juice cleared it right up.
Why so afraid of festivals?
Thanks for the link, now the next step is actually visiting the Toronto Underground Cinema. Apperently it's a good time.