Results tagged “melgibson”

Breaking the law, breaking the law. We -ist folks love us some crime, and no misdemeanor is too petty for a post on any of our sites. This week, join us for a rogues' gallery of miscreants major, minor, and alleged.

Oh man! We’re really disappointed here at Torontoist towers as it’s really far too late in the week to make any jokes about a crazy drunken Mel Gibson. I mean, what is there left to say? Still, we suppose, it’s only increased our frothing anticipation for Apocalypto, particularly the great reveal at the end where it turns out that all the evil priests, drenched in the blood of their gory, despicable (and numerous) human sacrifices are actually evil Jews.

With gas prices at hellishly high levels and lobbyists calling for government intervention in Ontario to lower prices, it seems that there's no better time for Who Killed the Electric Car?, an excellent documentary about the slow death of the EV1, General Motors' electric car.

Fellow Torontoist contributor Alison Broverman is currently in Australia which has made the rest of us here at Torontoist HQ a little bummed out and on days like today, very jealous. Fortunately we get a bit of a consolation prize. The Australian Trade Commission has organized the first Australian Film Weekend. Australia's film scene, blessed by distance from the US and a supportive government has had a history of creating good work and of creating even better talent (Cate Blanchett, Nicole Kidman, Geoffrey Rush, Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Eric Bana and then some). Sadly none of those big names will be around this weekend.

So… The festival has been on for a full day, and Torontoist has very little to actually report, having stayed in for the night. Well, it did see the star of Short Cuts Canada film ‘Patterns’ (by Jamie Travis) wearing a stylish lime green dress and looking a bit confused, so there is that, if anything. That film is in Programme 5: Genre Redux, if you like the sound of her.

Let's get it out of the way at the onset: Tarnation was made for a paltry $218.32 (U.S.) and edited on IMovie. There, done. Into the film let us away! Jonathan Caouette is nothing if not personal (of course he has a blog!). He's the 32 year-old Texan (and present New Yorker) whose dysfunctional biography of a film is the hottest bit of outsider art to ever be committed to celluloid. The film is made of years of footage, answering machine messages and photos accrued over a life less ordinary. Caouette's mum underwent shock therapy, he was abused, he accidentally did PCP at age 11 - it's enough fodder for a lifetime of movies. And the lifetime of home movies (much of them made with a camera Caouette got as a kid) are distilled into 88 minutes of storytelling cinema that wowed Cannes, California and just about everything in between. Indiewire makes a big hoohah of the fact that Caouette shares initials with Mel Gibson's favourite protagonist, but TOist finds that opener preposterous, ridiculous, and, um, stupid. Though such overbearing press is enough of a cross for any young filmmaker to bear. We hope it's good.