film festivus extraordinaire !!!! REVIEWS THUS FAR

i am currently at the nathan phillips box office working away with the largest smile .
so far i have seen the following films WRITTEN IN ORDER OF BRILLIANCE -please check titles for film times at http://www.tiff.net/
1) CRAB TRAP (heaven)-columbian film -still playing -
The film was set in La Barra, a heavenly black community in the jungles of Columbia. Apart from the magnificent landscape that was in now was romanticized -the films' characters and story were SO very human and captivating and moving and inspiring. I was so alive with a grin the whole film. It is made by Oscar Ruiz and his heart oozes from the camera. He frames the faces of the real-life people in the La Barra community with such respect and adornment it is chilling really. I ALSO was the luckiest woman to experience a q&a with the director and the films actors. One was a the star of the film, an actor, completely beautiful specimen of man. So humble. Gave the most grave and true performance in the film and then was so elegant in person . And next was Celebro, the films subject's spirit. A man from the village who portrayed himself in the film and has never left his village until he came to Canada to be at the screening. He spoke with such confidence and wisdom and invited the entire audience to his community that is rich with beauty and whose treasures should remain there and be admired as they are.
2) Life During Wartime
OMG my favorite director writer jew Todd Solondz made this glorious new film. Aesthetically unpleasing, matching the story's desperate, dismal attitude. It is also HILARIOUS. Myself, my lover of life and my bff lizard all laughed histarically at the film's witty commentary on the US and its brutally unwell and overly medicated citizens. It also, without pretension, nodded at the future Chinese takover of our world and at Jewish humor. The other traditional Jewish element was its glance at a family. In their separate demented lives and then in a scene at Billy's bar mitsvah where, of course, they all sit together in a row. The film is mostly filled with close-ups of the characters as they deliver the brilliance of todd solondz's psyche. He deservedly just won the best screenplay at venice for this film. I truly loved in in all its glory. The motifs of pedaphilia, 'proper' definitions of good and evil separated, and crying were all clear and effective in telling the story better. ALSO ps. this IS a continuence of his earlier film Happiness. but none of the characters are played by the same actors. They still do maintain their brilliance though.
love, snacklyn
3) TIE FOR THIRD - Harmony Korine's Trash Humpers and Get Low -heavenly new Robert Duvall's new masterpiece
REVIEWS TO COME> too much to say and too little time in this momento
4)Bright Star- Jane Campion
5)Samson and Delilah
and antichrist is not yet being spoken about. it was masterful and insane and I am still digesting it.