TIFF By the Numbers
Sunday, September 19, 2004
The Films
Number of films shown: 328 (including shorts)
Number of films I saw: 27 (including shorts)
Days in Toronto: 6 1/2
Average number of films per day: 4.15
Number of late arrivals: 1 (Nobody Knows)
Number of walk-outs: 1 (Low Life)
Some Favorites (in roughly preferential order)
Café Lumière (dir. Hou Hsiao-hsien)
Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow (dir. Theo Angelopoulos)
The Holy Girl (dir. Lucrecia Martel)
ScaredSacred (dir. Velcrow Ripper)
Moolaadé (dir. Ousmane Sembene)
L'Intrus (dir. Claire Denis)*
Tell Them Who You Are (dir. Mark S. Wexler)
Demain on déménage (dir. Chantal Akerman)
Earth and Ashes (dir. Atiq Rahimi)
9 Songs (dir. Michael Winterbottom)
10e Chambre, instants d'audiences (dir. Raymond Depardon)**
* L'Intrus continues to climb higher on my list, mostly because friends and I have spent more time discussing it than all of the other films combined.
** Again, this film only began to come together for me after discussing it with friends.
Great Meals
Thai: 2
Vietnamese: 1
Indian: 1
Ethiopian: 1
Cuban: 1
$2 street vendor hot dogs: 2
Friends
Number of old Internet friends whom I was finally able to meet face-to-face: 8 (Doug, J. Robert, Girish, Rob, Jason, Candace, David, and Cindy)
Miscellaneous
Approximate hours spent in theaters: 46
Approximate hours spent on subways: 14
Approximate hours spent walking through downtown Toronto: 20
Approximate hours spent in line: 8
Approximate hours spent sleeping: 35
Approximate hours spent discussing movies while riding the subway, walking, eating, driving, and standing in lines: 40
Celebrity sightings: 2 - Penelope Cruz (I think) and Ivan Reitman
Cinephile celebrity sightings: 13 - Theo Angelopoulos, Jonathon Rosenbaum, Chantal Akerman, Ken Burns, Claire Denis, Don McKellar, Pawel Pawlikowski, Mark Wexler, Atiq Rahimi, Ousmane Sembene, Liu Bingjian, Lucrecia Martel, Velcrow Ripper
Darren Hughes is a web designer and freelance writer in Knoxville, Tennessee.
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