+ Saw my first Vancouver Film Fest film Or (My Treasure) on Thursday. The two main characters are a prostitute mother and her daughter. I wrote Kirstie a mini-review, without the intention of sharing it with anyone else. I frequently comment about my attraction to brunettes with dark eyes, so

Or was the daughter’s name. She had wonderful breasts, verging on pendulous..hearty, a great ass, thick dark eyebrows. Her and “her mother” were spectacularly matter-of-fact about everything, leaving us practically looking through a keyhole at their lives, their cellulite, blood and pimples, and disarray. Not heart-wrenching or lusty so much as giving one a sense that Israel isn’t just the conflict and Jews being Jewish. It’s about survival, life, like anywhere else. -I couldn’t see a single flaw with the movie.

Sun, Sep 26 11:00 am Granville 7 Cinema 4 $7.00

Mon, Sep 27 9:30 pm Granville 7 Cinema 7 $9.00

+ Besides Or, there are a lot of films I’d like to see. I bought tickets for:

A Canadian film, Shipbreakers, which reminded me of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky, about the work and workers in India, dismantling old ships for the metal. -Kirstie agreed about the similarities and was talking with the gallery owner that turned her onto Burtynsky’s work. It seems likely that there is a relationship between filmmaker and photogapher. -Burtynsky has a gallery under “Ships” called “Shipbreakers”.

The Machinist (Spanish) reads like it’s going to be super cool, twisted and disturbing. About a machinist who doesn’t sleep for a year and craziness ensues. I have a inkling that it might go the route of Dead Ringers..which, though it was really creepy, it looked very stylish.

Czech Dream cause it’s about consumerism, and it’s Czech. A faked opening of a discount shopping megastore mocks consumers. It’s gotta be good.

Alter Egos is a documentary of panhandler Ryan Larkin’s past life as an Oscar nominee for his work as an animator. He hasn’t done any work since 1972. He became an addict (to what is not stated..smoking? coffee? sex? gambling? christ? weed? driving? music? shopping? come on people don’t isolate one destructive addiction.) It’s probably more about Larkin’s animation than his addiction and how that destroyed his art.

Dutch Light studies what really makes the famed light of Holland so renouned, particularly due to the Dutch Masters. “Documentarian Pieter-Rim de Kroon draws the viewer into a maelstrom of ideas and theories, colours, images, landscapes and, of course, light, in an attempt to separate fact from fiction.” -sometimes I think my drawings are about light, which is energy, which is what I normally think my drawings are about.

And lastly, this film was the impetous for me joining Kirstie at the Film Fest box office to buy a bunch of tickets. Kirstie gave me a ticket to Baghdad Blogger/Salam Pax–Video Reports from Iraq. This is from a blogger in Bahgdad, video blogging the new Iraq.