Two Tiff Tuesday #3

If you follow my blog you'll already know what 'Two Tiff Tuesday' is all about but for those of you who are new, on Tuesday, up until the start of the film festival (it's only 16 days away!!) I'm posting two films I'd like to see this year.

This Tuesday is particularly exciting because the full film list and schedule was released today.  I'm hoping to score the schedule booklet today so I can plan my TIFF 2012.

The Deflowering of Eva van End

This film, Director Michiel ten Horn's first feature length, is a tragicomedy about a perfectly normal family: the Van Ends.  When ugly-duckling daughter Eva van End signs her family up to board a German foreign exchange student, their household gets turned upside-down.

I love a good tragicomedy.

A film that interests me is the ABCs of Death, which is 26 short films about alphabetically inspired ways to die.  Interesting concept however based on the images on the TIFF website, I fear that 'D' might be from dog.  I also know that 'T is for toilet'.  I really have to think about whether or not I want to introduce myself to the fear of everyday objects.  It's bad enough that I've seen the show 1000 Ways to Die.   So, for my second film I'm going with:

Lunarcy!

This film is about a group of individuals who are obessed with the moon and lunar colonization.  One of the individuals the documentary revolves around is Christopher Carson, see video below, who is determined to be the first person to live on the moon.




This reminds me of my grade 8 science project, where we had to create a diorama for our very own moon colony.  When I think about that project now I can't get over how ridiculous it was.  Society hasn't mastered the colonization of the moon yet, but maybe these eighth graders can take a stab at it.  Maybe I should get in touch with Mr. Carson to discuss my grade 8 ideas of centrifugal force and technology I saw in the film Moonraker.

In any event, I'm pretty excited to see Lunarcy!

Well, those are my two films this Tuesday.  I know I'm going to spend a good portion of tonight going over the TIFF schedule and trying to fit in everything I want to see.

Alex & Arthur