Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'memoirs'
December 9, 2005
We here at Torontoist thought we’d try out a new weekly feature listing the best (and worst) films to be hitting Toronto’s screens in the following week, as a city which features both multiplexes, second run theatres and blessed with several vintage single screen movie houses, there’s a lot that can be missed. Released yesterday, Arthur Golden’s Memoirs of a Geisha has received a cinema adaptation universally derided by reviewers. Golden’s novel is, much......
Continue Reading "The Week in Film: Gorillas in the Midst"June 10, 2005
A DJ lives out a hedonist's dream in Ibiza. Then he goes deaf. It's All Gone Pete Tong is a piece of pseudo-mockumentary magic from Michael Dowse, of Fubar fame. It's also flashback to those heady days of debauchery on Ibiza, those days when people actually listened to Pete Tong. The film itself is a portrayal of partying's effects on the body. Frankie Wilde (Paul Kaye), is wasted, deaf, and craggier than Keith Richards,......
Continue Reading "Film Fridays: "The Field of Music Has Traditionally Been Dominated By People Who Can Hear.""