Canuck

  Monday, 13 September 2004

A many splintered thing < 1:45:26 PM>.

Toronto International Film Festival:
Festivals are floundering in other places but Toronto's has become a glittering success because of its adroit mixture of many personalities [The Globe and Mail: Arts]

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As the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra prepares for another edition of its popular and lucrative Mozart on the Mountain concert Sunday, its musicians are hoping management is ready to consider some elevation to their salaries. FULL STORY [CBC Arts News]

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With an extensive Tom Thomson showcase opening Friday at Russia's famed State Hermitage Museum, exhibit organizers are hoping to introduce the celebrated Canadian artist to international audiences. FULL STORY [CBC Arts News]

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At the dizzyingly diverse but unpretentious Toronto International Film Festival, to see one movie is to miss about seven others. [New York Times: Arts] 'What this suggests is that the Toronto festival, which has become, during the last decade or so, the most important such event in North America, is really 8 or 12 or 35 festivals gathered under one roof. [snip] Important as this festival is, it also has the distinction of being one of the least self-important. It does not take over the city so much as nestle into the rhythms of its everyday life, offering Torontonians and visitors a cinematic menu as diverse, democratic and unpretentious as that metropolis itself. Sure, there are movie stars around, parties cordoned off by velvet ropes and autograph seekers patiently waiting outside restaurants for Annette Bening or Zhang Ziyi. But for a first-timer whose impression of film festivals has been formed by the glamour and swagger and hauteur of Cannes, the easygoing atmosphere of Toronto is refreshing and a little startling. It seems to be organized around the radical idea that a film festival should be a place where people can see as many movies as possible with a minimum of hassle.'