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As expected, I didn’t have much time to update on my TIFF adventures during the week. In the past I thought it was odd they didn’t have films on the Sunday to fill out the final weekend, but I can definitely appreciate the breather after a busy week before returning to the usual routine. [...]

Brand Upon the Brain!

I happened to be awake right at 7 this morning, when new batches of tickets are available. I decided to check the status of Brand, and it was available! This is probably the film that most intrigued me in this year’s lineup, so I immediately ordered a ticket even though [...]

What’s wrong boy? Is Timmy in trouble?

An excellent start to the Film Festival! Fido proved to be a hilarious satire with an enjoyable story. If there was one worry I had going in, it was that it would turn out to be a funny premise stretched too far. But that wasn’t [...]

Before each day’s showings, I’ll try and give a little background as to why I selected the films I did. I may not get around to writing up actual reviews afterwards – the sheer volume would overwhelm my output capabilities – but I’ll try and indicate whether the movies lived up to expectations or [...]

What was I saying about unlucky box number 13? How the Film Festival advance draw works is that orders are placed in boxes as they turned in. Once the deadline passes, they pick a numbered box at random and start filling selections from there, and then move on to the next box in [...]

After a few tiring evenings involving trips to & from downtown, finally determining my top ranked films, and coordinating selections with a few people, I arrived at a hypothetical schedule which you can view here. After work today I dropped off order packages for Mike and myself, including some selections on behalf of Sven [...]

I know I owe a number of folks e-mail replies … I’ve just been a little single-minded with doing pTIFFdb-related tasks. I will get to them soon!

Today the official Film Festival schedule is released, so look for all the showtime info to be appearing here later on. I still have a number of [...]

Just a few small updates today for pTIFFdb. Some new showtime info has found its way online: tiffreviews.com reports on times for titles from Arclight Films and the Canadian film Acts of Imagination; I came across ones for Khadak, Summercamp!, and Tales of the Rat Fink.

Against my original intentions, I added some hacks explicitly [...]

Showtime options (the few that we know of, anyway) are now available when viewing film profiles. Users who are logged in will be able to save these to ‘My Showtimes’.

This update also adds a ‘My Showtimes’ filter that registered users can choose from when listing films. The effect is that only films for [...]

Just a small update tonight, in terms of external facing aspects of pTIFFdb: I’ve entered the showtimes for the Galas and the screenings at the Elgin Theatre. This enables a couple new ways to search, incorporating date & time as well as the venue. I will soon be adding this info to individual [...]

Phew, this last import was tiring. But pTIFFdb now has almost all of the Film Festival titles entered, except for those of the Wavelengths programme. I need to make some database schema adjustments to accommodate these showings (and groups of short films, plus a few other special cases, too), so until then here’s [...]

The complete lineup for the Film Festival was released today, and it weighs in at a hefty 352 titles from 61 countries. This was just one of a slew of press releases put out today, including some massive name dropping; if TIFF was on myspace, they’d have oh so many friends!

I’ll get to [...]

So, what was I talking about a few weeks ago regarding that geeky idea? Well, I took that weekend to brush up on my PHP and mySQL and designed a little app for the forthcoming Toronto International Film Festival. I’ll get into much more detail about the purpose & features over the next [...]