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[marvinjob]

Day 15: Sunday, September 22

[mrs-stans]

@leedsfilmfest: A Different Man screens at LIFF First Look Day on September 14. Aaron Shimberg’s deliciously twisted and darkly funny thriller, starring Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson, explores our societal obsession with self-image. 📅 14 September / Vue in The Light / 3pm 🎟️ Get tickets through link in bio or leedsfilm.com

[hkthatgffan]

Our first proper glimpse of Hilda season 3!!

Posted over on the website of the Ottawa International Animation Festival. There will be a sneak peek of season 3 there on September 21st…the 5 year anniversary of the show starting! I so wish I could go, but sadly I'm in Toronto.

From them: "Hilda returns, eager to escape the bustling city of Trolberg for a refresh. She embarks on a train with Mum, Frida, David and of course her bold sense of adventure. In Tofoten, Hilda is encouraged to lean into the soft living of this sleepy town by her quirky Great Aunt Astrid – walks by the river, delicious baking, local shopping. But this quiet lifestyle is quickly interrupted when Hilda gets a whiff of something mysterious nearby: a Fairy Mound! Her curiosity leads to more than just an adventure and a new creature-y friend… But to an eerie landscape where danger lurks in the shadows. The third season will uncover truths never explored before in the series! This advanced sneak preview will be followed by an in-person Q+A with Luke Pearson and Andy Coyle – Moderated by Emerald Wright-Collie."

Source

IT'S ALMOST HERE!!

[more-relics]

David Gilmour  Pink Floyd in rehearsal at Pearson International Airport. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. September 1987. Photo Dimo Safari. © The Toronto Sun.

[odinsblog]

Black Republicans listening to Fox News

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Days after Canada said it is seizing a Russian-registered cargo aircraft, Moscow is warning that ties between the two countries are “already on the verge of being severed.”

And the seizure would have “serious repercussions” for Canada-Russian relations, the Kremlin said.

The Antonov 124 plane will be the first Russian physical asset captured by Canada under its asset forfeit law and second under the federal government’s sanctions regime. It comes more than a year after the plane first landed in the country at Toronto’s Pearson International Airport.

Ottawa announced the planned seizure of the aircraft on Saturday as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to Kyiv, Ukraine. Officials said the seizure was a direct response to Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine.

Full article

Tagging: @politicsofcanada

[denimbex1986]

So many films explore the idea of transformation, whether physically or emotionally, and almost always under the pretense of the transformational character finding a better version of themselves in the process. But what if a drastic change isn’t a good idea? That’s the notion writer-director Aaron Schimberg tackles in “A Different Man.” His examination into identity, personality, and the moldability of the self features a talented ensemble and hilariously askew worldview. However, it stretches for a bit longer than necessary past the point it’s trying to make.

Sebastian Stan leads the film as Edward, a wannabe actor with a condition called neurofibromatosis, which causes the growth of multiple non-cancerous tumors, notably on his face. He leads an isolated life, with ridicule and disgust from strangers as a daily occurrence. He finally makes a connection with his neighbor Ingrid (Renate Reinsve), who at first takes a liking to him from a place of pity. Edward is given a chance at a new beginning when he’s recruited for an experimental medical procedure that aims to construct his face into an approximation of what it would look like without his condition. His life almost immediately changes after he literally rips away his old face to reveal a new one. He’s inspired to completely destroy his old life, taking up a new name, occupation, and residency. But upon a chance meeting with a man named Oswald (Adam Pearson) – who also has neurofibromatosis but leads a happy, outgoing life full of friends and lovers – Edward begins to question which parts of himself need to change at all.

Edward, Ingrid, and Oswald’s worlds all intersect in the theatre. After he disappears from her life, Ingrid writes a play about her interactions with Edward. The new Edward – unrecognized by Ingrid – auditions for the play, and, through a series of circumstances, both he and Oswald find themselves working on it. They begin their interactions in a constructed, hermetic space, and Schimberg assembles a similarly curated world for his characters to play within. While the film appears to take place in the New York City of the real world, small idiosyncrasies slowly start to pepper their way throughout Edward’s life and thus throughout the film itself. In a way, the film’s energy is not dissimilar from a Charlie Kaufman film. Schimberg allows the oddities to subtly build and build until odd occurrences and coincidences are commonplace, mirroring the way that Edward finds his world being slowly yet aggressively altered around him as his circumstances change. It’s a patient, intelligent directorial choice that comments on how our specific identities can make the world around us seem different on an individual basis. At times, Schimberg’s screenplay repeatedly makes the same points, leading to the film feeling slightly overlong. However, that repetitive notion could also be said to be reflective of the cyclical way Edward keeps making similar repeated mistakes.

Stan is in top form as Edward, at first covered in impressively rendered prosthetic makeup that hides his distinct face. It’s a quietly physical performance, with his posture, gait, and general presence changing based on the specifics of a scene and who else is in it. He never allows Edward to be too pitiable, smartly avoiding cliches that might accompany similar stories. Instead, he makes him a compelling, often frustrating central character. The latter portions of the screenplay allow him to traverse into some truly unhinged territory that’s a delight to watch. It’s his best performance yet.

Reinsve delivers another magnetic performance, which shouldn’t be a surprise to anyone who saw her sensational work in “The Worst Person in the World.” She’s hilariously cringey in her first interactions with Edward, where she reacts with accidental terror before overcorrecting and inserting herself very forcefully into his life. Pearson is brilliantly able to change the entire mood of the film upon his arrival, with the pace of the screenplay and the energy of the filmmaking altering to match his upbeat charm. He believably comes across as someone who lights up a room whenever he enters. It’s a performance that the entire film hinges on, and he’s marvelously adept at bringing Oswald to compelling life.

The film is a wholly unique vision with a novel-like amount of thematic resonance. With his keen ability for oddball world-building (and with further help from Umberto Smerilli’s stunning musical score), Aaron Schimberg’s “A Different Man” presents a darkly funny and sometimes upsetting reflection of our self-centered existence.

THE RECAP

THE GOOD - Writer-director Aaron Schimberg constructs a world that’s a slightly askew reflection of our own, with hilariously increasing absurdities that reflect the main character’s evolving mental state. Sebastian Stan turns in career-best work, and Adam Pearson gives an impactful, charismatic performance.

THE BAD - The script gets a bit repetitive with its ideas, making the film feel overlong.

THE OSCAR PROSPECTS - Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor, Best Original Screenplay & Best Makeup and Hairstyling

THE FINAL SCORE - 8/10'

[glfc2112]

A friend of mine sent me this. He had a layover at Toronto's Pearson International Airport at the start of his trip with his wife. Rush beer at Lee Kitchen. Rush beer and Chinese food. Makes sense. 😜

[folklaurr]

Just realized I’m gonna have to wear my pink fuzzy cowboy hat to the airport

[quotesfrommyreading]

After President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 paved the way for their removal, Japanese-Americans sold their homes, farms and businesses, often for pennies on the dollar. While incarcerated they worked menial jobs for $12 or $16 or $19 a month — hardly enough to survive on, let alone save for a new beginning. Unable to return to their farms — restrictive covenants and alien land laws often banned Japanese-Americans and their Japanese parents — many who worked on or owned strawberry or lettuce fields before the war moved to Los Angeles and became gardeners, trying to settle into an urban life for the first time in their lives.

Los Angeles, which was home to the largest ethnically Japanese community in North America before the war, was changing, too. The War Relocation Authority, the federal agency tasked with operating the 10 internment camps, worked to empty those camps as quickly as possible following Roosevelt’s closure order in December 1944. The W.R.A. shuttered almost all the camps in the fall of 1945. (One camp, Tule Lake, remained open until March 1946 to house “disloyal” incarcerees.) Each internee received $25 and a train ticket to wherever they wanted to go.

Housing was strained to the seams across the United States, but the situation in Los Angeles, described by one official in October 1945 as “full of dynamite,” was especially dire. More than 1.3 million people — roughly one out of every 100 Americans — moved to California between 1940 and 1944. The California State Reconstruction and Reemployment Commission estimated that 625,000 new homes would need to be built to accommodate the growth in the five years following the war, including 280,000 in Los Angeles County alone. During the war, Little Tokyo first became a ghost town, then swelled with Southern Black workers arriving for defense jobs; for three years Little Tokyo was known as Bronzeville. It was into this chaos that the W.R.A. planned to unload 1,200 incarcerees each week that fall.

By the end of 1945, a month after closing nine of the 10 W.R.A. camps, thousands of Japanese-Americans returned to the West Coast with nowhere to live. Those who couldn’t find other housing took rooms in $1-a-night hostels carved out of prewar hotels and Buddhist temples, or trailers and repurposed Army barracks.

Communities with as many as 1,000 residents filled mazes of barracks and trailers in El Segundo, Hawthorne, Burbank, Inglewood and Santa Monica. Even Lomita Flight Strip, an airfield used to house and train squadrons of P-38 fighter pilots 17 miles south of downtown Los Angeles, was converted into housing. To get into Los Angeles to find work required 85 cents each way, and a four-hour round-trip by bus. Charlotte Brooks, a historian, described the camps as “isolated ghettos that perpetuated the hardships of incarceration.”

  —  For Japanese-Americans, Housing Injustices Outlived Internment

[busterkeatonsociety]

#ThrowbackThursday From the library of Mr & Mrs Buster Keaton! This 1961 book was a gift from Hollywood agent Ben Pearson & wife, Jean to Eleanor & Buster: in memory of days when show business was simple & you only had to jump from Pittsburgh to San Diego to play a split week.

[goschoolhyflex]

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[mrs-stans]

@‪berlinale: And finally, with great pleasure, we proudly present the 2024 Berlinale Competition line-up! 20 films will compete for the Golden and Silver Bears, 19 of which will be world premieres.

Check out the Competition line-up here: bit.ly/Competition24

[awesomefridayca]

Podcast: Inedia & It's What's Inside (& Transformers One)

Greetings programs!  On this week’s show, we’re taking on two exciting films.  First up, a BC shot indie film that played as part of the 2024 Vancouver International Film Festival, Inedia.  Then we turn our attention to a new Netflix release, the single-location mystery movie It’s What’s Inside.  Both films are exciting for some of the same and some entirely different reasons, and we have a lot…

[panicinthestudio]

"The Safeguarding National Security Ordinance covers treason; insurrection and seditious acts; theft of state secrets and espionage; sabotage; and external interference. Article 23 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong’s de facto constitution since the United Kingdom transferred its sovereignty of the city to China, stipulates that the Hong Kong government should enact a law that safeguards national security. Hong Kong people have consistently opposed such legislation since at least 2003, when half a million people marched against it. No genuine public consultation took place during the legislative process, Human Rights Watch said. After Beijing imposed the National Security Law on the city in June 2020, it dismantled the city’s pro-democracy movement by detaining and prosecuting elected representatives and thousands of peaceful protesters, eliminated civil society groups and independent labor unions, and shuttered its most popular pro-democracy newspaper, among other measures. In February, the Hong Kong government conducted a four-week “public consultation” on Article 23 legislation and claimed that 98.6 percent of the submissions supported the proposal. It dismissed submissions and statements from international human rights groups and overseas Hong Kong activists and groups – over 100,000 Hong Kongers have fled the city – as “deliberate smears." The new law already has had a chilling effect on free expression. Local media reported that US- funded news outlet, Radio Free Asia, planned to withdraw from Hong Kong by the end of March. The ordinance will further devastate human rights beyond those curtailed by the National Security Law. Its provisions contravene human rights guarantees enshrined in the Basic Law, and violate the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which is incorporated into Hong Kong’s legal framework via the Basic Law and expressed in the Bill of Rights Ordinance. The Australian, UK, and US governments, the European Union, and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights have all publicly expressed concerns about the law."

[downthetubes]

Crowdfunding Spotlight: Multiverse of Mystery – Holmes & Watson in every universe, every incarnation, all at once!

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, who know a thing or two about adaptations, is currently seeking support on Kickstarter for a Sherlock Holmes short story project, Multiverse of Mystery

The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers, who know a thing or two about adaptations, is currently seeking support on Kickstarter for a Sherlock Holmes short story project, Multiverse of Mystery. While this project is text fiction, do check out the list of creators involved, some of whom I’ve worked with recently during my editorship of Star Trek Explorer, such as Keith R.A.…