For the next 10 days, MaxPower will feature reviews of some of the movies being screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, 2006. The festival is quoted as being “…second only to Cannes in terms of high-profile pics, stars and market activity,” and is also considered the unofficial kick-off to the Oscars race. Three to four hundred films are screened in 10 days and MaxPower will be having our own ‘Senior Toronto Film Festival Correspondent’ covering the event; code named Fat Cat.Fat Cat is a Toronto based movie buff who covers cinematic issues and events for MaxPower. Before becoming our Senior Toronto Film Festival Correspondant, he wrote for the Brampton Guardian and Toronto Star covering everything from sports to the cinema. He has also judged the Miss Brampton beauty pageant and produced and published his own comic strip.
With limited patience for slow and long movies, Fat Cat will be giving us all we need to know about the various films he will be seeing over the next 10 days. In his first instalment Fat Cat reviews 3 movies: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Lights in the Dusk, and 2:37.
The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
Set in 1920s, the film illustrates through one family’s story the period when the old shamanistic religion collapsed under the onslaught of white Christianity.
Stunningly beautiful photography of Arctic snows, Inuit in their furs. The story is more complicated than it seems at first. At the end the audience clapped.
My rating: stars
Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot)
When an attractive woman pays attention to the protagonist, he is set up for a major fall
Looks like old 1940s films as everyone is smoking, everything is grey, not a place I’d want to live. The protagonist is a lonely loser, shunned by his fellow prison guards when an attractive woman pays attention to him on the instructions of her Russian gang boss.
My rating: stars
Two Thirty 7 (2:37)
The first film by a very young Australian man (Murali K. Thalluri), about college days and the travails of youth (gays in out and the closet, unwanted pregnancies, etc.) This film can’t be recommended because it is one caricature after another. For example, all the women were fantastic looking, the guys toned, except for the fat guy who wet his pants. The screening ended with polite silence
My rating: stars
Fat Cat would be happy to answer your questions about any of the movies he sees and looks forward to your responses.
15 Sep 06
10:37 pm
Mat what were the reviews of 2.37 like and has there been any mention in the media of the fraud stuff back in Australia?
16 Sep 06
12:41 pm
I haven’t heard anything at all about this. Any links to read up on / whats the story?
16 Sep 06
10:44 pm
see IMDb for various remarks.
14 Nov 06
8:12 am
links galore about this fraudster
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/08/21/1156012471596.html
http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,20167721-7485,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,20178208-16947,00.html Director’s suicide claim fiction
http://barista.media2.org/?p=2689 Running from the lie you made
http://www.ultrabrown.com/posts/filmmaker-the-next-kaavya
http://journals.concrete.org.au/patrick/archives/2006/08/suicide_as_snak.php
12 Feb 07
4:44 am
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