{"id":105,"date":"2009-09-04T16:26:28","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T21:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/2009\/09\/tiff-09\/"},"modified":"2016-08-21T11:44:25","modified_gmt":"2016-08-21T16:44:25","slug":"tiff-09","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/105","title":{"rendered":"TIFF ’09!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the year again. Last year I overdosed on galas and stargazing, watching films that would have eventually hit the mainstream theatre circuit anyway. The only one I was really glad I went to was The Wrestler (Evan Rachel Wood is yummy, even though she was there with Marilyn Manson). This year I’m trying to look for films that I wouldn’t have access to otherwise. So far I’ve gotten tickets to Soul Kitchen<\/a> and Symbol<\/a>. If anyone is interested in seeing\/suggesting any other films, do let me know!<\/p>\n

I have to say, ordering single tickets this year has been a breeze so far. Last year I had to line up for up to an hour to pick up tickets I had already bought online. This year, I got to skip the line (which was about half a block long), and was in and out of there in less than 5 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s that time of the year again. Last year I overdosed on galas and stargazing, watching films that would have eventually hit the mainstream theatre circuit anyway. The only one I was really glad I went to was The Wrestler (Evan Rachel Wood is yummy, even though she was there with Marilyn Manson). This year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3ksha-1H","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":80,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/80","url_meta":{"origin":105,"position":0},"title":"FilmFest Mania","date":"September 10, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I was walking out of the Ryerson gym last Thursday evening at about 10:30, and there was a line outside the Ryerson Theatre stretching down about 1\/3 of the block. I had never seen a rush line for a Film Festival screening that long before. Later on I found it\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":75,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/75","url_meta":{"origin":105,"position":1},"title":"Starlet","date":"July 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Had a pretty eventful weekend including going to bubblebattle on Sunday, but it was a distinctly jazz-themed one. On Saturday we headed to the Reservoir Lounge to see Tory Cassis play as part of the Toronto Downtown Jazz Festival. He was kind of a last resort as I was hankering\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":97,"url":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/archives\/97","url_meta":{"origin":105,"position":2},"title":"Planet Earth Rocks","date":"May 13, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Got my preorder of the Planet Earth HD DVD from Amazon last week, and I haven't been able to stop watching. Here's a mesmerizing clip of a great white shark devouring a seal from the first episode, slowed time 40 times: Although Attenborough doesn't provide any social commentary, the show\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "General"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/derricklee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}