Sunday, September 7, 2008

Day nine - Nothing Dirty Going On

So every morning, Walter walks into our villa (nicknamed The Chicken Ranch) and sings, "And there's nothing dirty going on." He is referencing The Best Little Whore House in Texas, for which my villa is named. THe other house is the Dude Ranch, even though it's co-ed.

Today we met John Landis of Blues Brothers, Animal House and Trading Places fame. He is a member of the jury this year and very candid. He was free with his advice and his cynicism, which was nice to here. He also had a cane from some unknown but recent injury and kept dropping his cane on the ground. He also has a prodigious memory: after we introduced ourselves to him he repeated everyone's school and interest, just to show he could.

After John Landis, we all went to seeHooked, which is screening at TIFF too, but is, in most people's opinions, a badly filmed film. It is shot entirely in hand-held POV shots and the editing needs to be done again. We met with the director afterward, and we had nothing to say to him. A-Diz liked it though.

Not much happened today, so I'm peace-ing out early. Ciao.

No comments: