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[22 Aug 2011 | 2 Comments | ]

Here we go again! Welcome to another year of me attempting to document my Toronto International Film Festival Experience (As always, available at ChantelleJoy.com/TIFF).

A very small redesign of the site proper, and I’ll be working on getting all the Export (twitter, facebook, etc) kinks worked out before the festival starts.

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[26 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]

This year it did not take very long (under 2 hours) to put together my tentative schedule for the festival. As it stands, I’ll probably be seeing about 15 Movies. With a good mix of 1 and 2-film days and only a single 3-film day (Midnight Madness, ge

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[29 Aug 2011 | No Comment | ]

So, my Advance Order Book has been submitted, and now I wait with baited breath that box 15 (or something close, before) is pulled tonight to ensure that I get most of my festival picks this year. I’ll have to head in to the Box Office at 6am on Frid

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[2 Sep 2011 | One Comment | ]

Before I get into my gripes about TIFFs ticket system, I wanted to share with everyone that I will be one of the Citizen Contributors to CBC.ca’s 2011 TIFF Coverage! This is a fantastic opprotunity for me to share my TIFF experiences with an even wid

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[4 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

Well, the long, hard battle with Maxweb is over, and I came out relativly unscathed. At least I didn’t suffer like those poor folks who spent 12+ hours camping out for tickets at the box office. I’m dedicated, but clearly not that dedicated.

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[10 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

It’s already Day 3 of the Festival and I haven’t updated at all! I’ve been quite busy, and rarely tweeting either. This must be corrected, immediately!

I had a very low-key start to the festival, on Opening Night I didn’t attend any parties, scree

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[12 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

Yesterday I saw two very different sort of films, first up was Death of a Superhero, by Ian Fitzgibbon, and starring Andy Serkis and Thomas Brodie-Sangster aka, the Adorable little kid from Nanny McFee & Love, Actually.

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[13 Sep 2011 | No Comment | ]

If you could describe any movie as the “Geek Feel-Good Movie of the Year” this would be it. I’m reviewing this one, fresh off the heals of having been to FanExpo 2011 (aka Canadian Comic-Con Lite).