It is the day after Midnight Madness and the post fest blues are setting in. Being in the film festival world is a crazy and surreal world. For ten days I get to embrace my obsession and meet many others who share the same obsession in film. How to survive ten days averaging four hours sleep.This was my schedule for Sept 4th to the 13th. Nine pm. Make sure video camera was charged. DV Tape was labeled and in video camera. Still camera was charged. The pictures from the previous day were...

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September 10, 2021

Movie Theatre Memories

Posted By Eric Veillette At 7:13 AM

File under: Biography

After yesterday's second screening of Not Quite Hollywood, I once again had a chance to talk to Brian Trenchard-Smith, the dean of 'Ozsploitation'. I'm always interested in early film memories -- what you saw and how old you were -- but I'm also interested in where you saw it. At the age of four and a half, Smith's earliest film-going experience is quite unique. His father worked on an airbase in Lybia, and Brian saw a film projected outdoors on a sheet. He can't remember the film -- perhaps a western...

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September 8, 2021

Geeking Out At Not Quite Hollywood (warning: Leprechaun inside)

Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 12:18 PM

File under: Biography

Last night was a total party for anyone that loves B-movies. Not Quite Hollywood introduced and re-introduced the slavering Midnight Madness audience to some of the most ostentatious films in the Australian industry's history.For me, it was wonderful meeting all of the directors last night - especially Brian Trenchard-Smith, who I found out directed my third-favourite Leprechaun movie, Leprechaun 4: In Space!! I have met a couple of personalities in my time volunteering at TIFF, but I don't think I've ever...

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September 5, 2021

"He has his own music"

Posted By Sachin Hingoo At 9:46 AM

File under: Biography, Celebrities, Directors, Humour

I think I am with the majority of the audience in attendance at JCVD last night in saying that I was shocked. Not in your normal Midnight Madness sense, of course, where you may be shocked at the sheer amount of corn syrup being sprayed around or the number of fingers severed from someone's hand before you have to look away, but by an actual emotional performance. An emotional performance by Jean-Claude Van Damme, no less. What we saw last night was probably one of the...

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