The Film Rage Crew is at The Calgary International Film Festival this week. If you are looking for some suggestions on what to see, look no further. We are only six days in and we have already seen some extraordinary cinema. Most of the films we talk about will have encore screenings in the coming days. Get your tickets at CIFF (ciffcalgary.ca).
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The Best of The Calgary International Film Festival.....So Far....-2:08
Outro-28:05
[00:00:05] [SPEAKER_03]: Time to feel the rage!
[00:00:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, to a very special episode of the Calgary International Film Festival 1st Half,
[00:00:17] [SPEAKER_03]: 24 which is actually the 2015th anniversary of the Calgary International Film Festival.
[00:00:23] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[00:00:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Good news is that almost every single movie that we're going to talk about today has a follow-up screen
[00:00:29] [SPEAKER_03]: and later this week. We'll tell you all about that later in the episode.
[00:00:32] [SPEAKER_03]: But we're just going to go over the best of the festival so far.
[00:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we sure are. And for those listening you can find everything,
[00:00:43] [SPEAKER_00]: SIF at sifcalgary.ca, which I think in a previous episode I said.com
[00:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: but apparently if you were in the dark, it still comes off.
[00:00:52] [SPEAKER_00]: It will still come to .ca.
[00:00:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So that's, it's you know what?
[00:00:56] [SPEAKER_00]: You know what I like about internet is internet magic.
[00:01:01] [SPEAKER_02]: It's typing SIF and Google will show you the way.
[00:01:05] [SPEAKER_00]: Look, it's, it's the crazy.
[00:01:06] [SPEAKER_03]: So that's it.
[00:01:07] [SPEAKER_03]: What's it?
[00:01:08] [SPEAKER_03]: What's it get on with the Calgary International Film Festival, Film Rage style.
[00:01:12] [SPEAKER_00]: So just so everybody knows, we, Bryson I,
[00:01:17] [SPEAKER_00]: so he might have seen one more than me but my list shows that I saw 17 movies.
[00:01:23] [SPEAKER_04]: Hmm.
[00:01:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And actually to be quite honest, there is only,
[00:01:26] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm not going to say what the film is, but throughout the 17 movies,
[00:01:30] [SPEAKER_00]: there's only one film that I had that was arranged to me.
[00:01:34] [SPEAKER_03]: I, of all the movies I saw, I didn't count mine but I would imagine it's either.
[00:01:39] [SPEAKER_03]: Think of one more thing.
[00:01:41] [SPEAKER_03]: Um, yeah, I only had one rage as well.
[00:01:44] [SPEAKER_03]: So Calgary International Film Festival is bringing it this year.
[00:01:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, totally. And as a percentage of Mondos
[00:01:50] [SPEAKER_00]: to me, for my numbers, it's, it's pretty high.
[00:01:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, well, mine's going to be about the same because you got one Mondo that I don't.
[00:01:59] [SPEAKER_03]: And I think we pretty much agree on rest of them on.
[00:02:01] [SPEAKER_00]: A lot of them, yeah, for sure.
[00:02:03] [SPEAKER_00]: And I think you had one, I didn't see it.
[00:02:05] [SPEAKER_03]: One day you didn't see, yes.
[00:02:07] [SPEAKER_00]: Alright, so my first Mondo, which surprised me significantly,
[00:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: was the opening gala, the thicket.
[00:02:14] [SPEAKER_00]: I absolutely love this film.
[00:02:16] [SPEAKER_00]: Normally I do not like Westerns,
[00:02:18] [SPEAKER_00]: but when you have two Titans of the screen,
[00:02:21] [SPEAKER_00]: either end of the chase, you have a story worth watching.
[00:02:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Peter Dinklage is outstanding in this and,
[00:02:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and my, this is also my further pitch that I personally think
[00:02:33] [SPEAKER_00]: that Julia Lewis is mesmerizing.
[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_00]: I freaking love every single thing she's in.
[00:02:39] [SPEAKER_00]: And she is at her absolute best paying,
[00:02:42] [SPEAKER_00]: playing a woman that wants to be a man, I think.
[00:02:46] Maybe?
[00:02:46] [SPEAKER_02]: Maybe that what the deal was, I don't know.
[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah.
[00:02:49] [SPEAKER_00]: And yeah, so this was a two-beatastic Mondo for me.
[00:02:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I was bald anyway.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:02:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Real.
[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill.
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[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_00]: I might be short because I think they did sort of,
[00:02:59] [SPEAKER_02]: it is will in me.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill.
[00:03:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Bill.
[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, this, there's so much going on in this film,
[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_00]: but it is just a slow,
[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_00]: driven Western which again I don't like,
[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_00]: but I love the characters, I loved all the characters
[00:03:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and I thought the characters were all well developed.
[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:03:17] [SPEAKER_03]: It was, it was, it was good.
[00:03:19] [SPEAKER_03]: It wasn't great.
[00:03:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I really enjoyed the performances.
[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_03]: There's no question the performances were outstanding.
[00:03:25] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not from just those two leads, but from everybody in it.
[00:03:29] [SPEAKER_03]: And even Leedsinger Metallica James Hepfield makes.
[00:03:32] [SPEAKER_03]: He's there as well and he was actually really quite good.
[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:03:36] [SPEAKER_03]: I don't think I was surprised by it,
[00:03:38] [SPEAKER_03]: but I was happy that he was as good as he was in it.
[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, no, I enjoyed it, but yeah, it's a math for me.
[00:03:45] [SPEAKER_00]: Are you a Western fan?
[00:03:47] [SPEAKER_03]: I'm not a Western fan.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Right.
[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_03]: What about you?
[00:03:52] [SPEAKER_02]: My dad was a huge Western fan,
[00:03:53] [SPEAKER_02]: you know, all those which he called saying great movie.
[00:03:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Dusters, things like that for everybody.
[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't like the, you know, Clint Eastwood and gone Wayne Westerns.
[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_02]: Some more modern ones, I mean, I like quicken the dead.
[00:04:05] [SPEAKER_02]: Who does it?
[00:04:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like that.
[00:04:08] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I'm not a young gun.
[00:04:10] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, I mean, there's this select few I like.
[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_02]: But now it was okay.
[00:04:15] [SPEAKER_02]: I wouldn't, it wasn't a man,
[00:04:16] [SPEAKER_02]: but yeah, I think which was okay in it.
[00:04:18] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:04:20] [SPEAKER_02]: I learned between Tyd's, which was on Friday,
[00:04:22] [SPEAKER_02]: which is a Canadian one.
[00:04:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Okay.
[00:04:24] [SPEAKER_02]: It was a nice creepy thriller about this family.
[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know how to beat this in it,
[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_02]: but all there was, oh, done all low.
[00:04:33] [SPEAKER_02]: It's awesome.
[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_02]: I had two girls and one disappears.
[00:04:37] [SPEAKER_02]: It's in print prints, root birth.
[00:04:39] [SPEAKER_02]: All shot there was beautiful.
[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_02]: And she disappears and comes back.
[00:04:43] [SPEAKER_02]: And she's almost like she's different
[00:04:44] [SPEAKER_02]: than jumps ahead 20 years.
[00:04:48] [SPEAKER_02]: And it's, yeah, it's just weird like time,
[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_02]: time warp, time thing with this island.
[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_02]: It was really creepy.
[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_02]: I liked it.
[00:04:57] [SPEAKER_00]: What was it called?
[00:04:58] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, island between Tyd's.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:05:00] [SPEAKER_00]: So this one is my absolute favorite film of the festival.
[00:05:05] [SPEAKER_00]: It's called My Favorite Cake.
[00:05:08] [SPEAKER_00]: An aging widow who's not afraid to stick up for herself
[00:05:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and say what's right.
[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Falls in love after 30 years,
[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_00]: this made me smile and I mean,
[00:05:20] [SPEAKER_00]: wholeheartedly smile through this entire movie.
[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_00]: And could be the greatest love story ever told
[00:05:27] [SPEAKER_00]: up until it became the saddest love story
[00:05:30] [SPEAKER_00]: that's ever been told.
[00:05:32] [SPEAKER_00]: This movie,
[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_00]: I just kept going no matter what happens
[00:05:35] [SPEAKER_00]: in this movie by the time it got to the end.
[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_00]: I was like, this could not be any better of a movie.
[00:05:41] [SPEAKER_00]: And then it surprised me.
[00:05:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And it became a better movie than I thought it was going to be.
[00:05:47] [SPEAKER_03]: This was an amazing movie.
[00:05:49] [SPEAKER_03]: There was also Mondo for me.
[00:05:50] [SPEAKER_03]: My favorite cake is the best film of the festival.
[00:05:53] [SPEAKER_03]: I will be super, super pleased if something can out do it.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:05:56] [SPEAKER_03]: But I do not see it.
[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_03]: The performances are tremendous.
[00:06:01] [SPEAKER_03]: The story is both uplifting and heartbreaking
[00:06:04] [SPEAKER_03]: all at the same time.
[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_03]: I've never been,
[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_03]: and the way that it ends is just so,
[00:06:12] [SPEAKER_03]: you know,
[00:06:14] [SPEAKER_03]: people go see this.
[00:06:15] [SPEAKER_03]: We'll tell you at the end of the podcast.
[00:06:17] [SPEAKER_03]: We're going to tell you exactly when to see these movies coming up.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_02]: Yep.
[00:06:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Absolutely.
[00:06:22] [SPEAKER_02]: On stopable.
[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:06:24] [SPEAKER_02]: Which has Jennifer Lopez and it produced by the
[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_02]: aphics slash gaming group.
[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_02]: But in the Don Chatele place to coach.
[00:06:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically, it's a guy who I think was born with only one leg.
[00:06:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if he was born with one or something to happen.
[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_02]: But he only has one leg.
[00:06:42] [SPEAKER_02]: But he's an amateur wrestler and he's a damn good one.
[00:06:46] [SPEAKER_02]: He's like championship in his high school basically.
[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_02]: He kicks the ass of basically guys with two legs.
[00:06:53] [SPEAKER_02]: So he wants to go to Arizona State University,
[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_02]: but you can't get a full scholarship because they've passed them over.
[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_02]: So he walks onto the team.
[00:07:02] [SPEAKER_02]: Work twice as hard as anybody else and makes the team.
[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_02]: It becomes one of the nation's best wrestlers.
[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a real guy.
[00:07:07] [SPEAKER_00]: And does he win at the end?
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_02]: Is it Rocky?
[00:07:09] [SPEAKER_03]: Is it Rocky?
[00:07:10] [SPEAKER_03]: Why do you want to Rocky too?
[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, it's like a bind.
[00:07:13] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically he loses the same guy twice.
[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Is it Rocky 3?
[00:07:16] [SPEAKER_02]: Then he beats the guy.
[00:07:17] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's Rocky 3 then.
[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's kind of Rocky 3.
[00:07:19] [SPEAKER_02]: It's Rocky 1 and Rocky 2.
[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Because he loses the guy.
[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_02]: With a sprinkling of Rocky 3.
[00:07:24] [SPEAKER_02]: So the end of Rocky 1, he loses.
[00:07:26] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:07:27] [SPEAKER_02]: And then Rocky 2, he beats them.
[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_02]: That's what I mean, it's two of them.
[00:07:30] [SPEAKER_02]: And ironically, some of the movie takes place in Philadelphia.
[00:07:34] [SPEAKER_02]: And this kid goes to the Rocky statue.
[00:07:37] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course stands in the cement footprints of Stallone or whoever.
[00:07:43] [SPEAKER_02]: I guess there's a Rocky tie-in.
[00:07:46] [SPEAKER_02]: But anyway, of course it's the true story of this guy.
[00:07:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically he overcame the odds and his mom, he by Jennifer Lopez, has a douchebag of a husband.
[00:07:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course by Bobby Kenavali who has ever played a nice guy like series high.
[00:08:03] [SPEAKER_03]: He's high.
[00:08:05] [SPEAKER_03]: He's growing the nicest guy that's ever been.
[00:08:08] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but he likes to play dirt bags and he played a really good one this one.
[00:08:11] [SPEAKER_02]: Anyway, so she's put up with Peter's dick.
[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_02]: He's like six kids in like they're going to foreclose it in our house so she has to find a way.
[00:08:18] [SPEAKER_02]: So it's inspiring all around.
[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so this one I know, Bryce and I did not agree on.
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:08:24] [SPEAKER_00]: But my favorite, maybe not the favorite animation, but flow.
[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_00]: So in my opinion, some of the most beautifully animated scenery with possibly the worst detail for animation for our lead animals.
[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_00]: I think intentionally designed.
[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Definitely done that.
[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, as they are just representatives of their species and they come together and go with the flow to survive a flood together.
[00:08:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Where every creature is cute and adorable.
[00:09:00] [SPEAKER_00]: And as all the things we know and love about these animals, I smiled and I laughed all the way through this film.
[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_00]: It's so heartwarming.
[00:09:11] [SPEAKER_00]: And if you like animals in any way shape or form other than just eating them,
[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_00]: this movie should be mongo for you.
[00:09:18] [SPEAKER_00]: But forever, forever, reason.
[00:09:20] [SPEAKER_03]: I really, really enjoyed it.
[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_03]: I really did.
[00:09:23] [SPEAKER_03]: And honestly, I was not looking forward to seeing flow.
[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_03]: I just wasn't because maybe it was because it was.
[00:09:31] [SPEAKER_03]: I've well looked at the animation on the trailer and I was like, well, what the heck is this?
[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_03]: But then when you watch the movie, there is a point to the animation.
[00:09:38] [SPEAKER_03]: And the scenery behind these pixelated 32 bit looking characters that are in this.
[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_03]: Ah, 64 bit.
[00:09:47] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, probably more 64.
[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's like watching like animals that were made for a Nintendo 64 game.
[00:09:56] [SPEAKER_03]: But with the background of the most beautiful animation that you've ever seen.
[00:10:01] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, it was a very good movie.
[00:10:04] [SPEAKER_03]: It was so much better than I thought going in.
[00:10:07] [SPEAKER_03]: I was pleasantly surprised.
[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_03]: I think that anybody that goes to this will really enjoy it.
[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And you should absolutely see it.
[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Yep, totally.
[00:10:16] [SPEAKER_03]: But it was a high-high map.
[00:10:17] [SPEAKER_02]: It was a super-nose for runs again.
[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, we're going to have the whole list at the end, but they're a man.
[00:10:24] [SPEAKER_00]: That's right.
[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: All right, now what do you got?
[00:10:27] [SPEAKER_02]: The next one is also a Mando.
[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Excellent.
[00:10:32] [SPEAKER_02]: It's called a different man.
[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes.
[00:10:34] [SPEAKER_02]: The Sebastian Stan.
[00:10:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Sebastian Stan.
[00:10:38] [SPEAKER_03]: What in the end was superhero movies?
[00:10:40] [SPEAKER_02]: He was one of those superhero guys.
[00:10:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And Jim was especially enjoyed this one because there's some mail nudity in this movie.
[00:10:45] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[00:10:46] [SPEAKER_02]: You could be like, he was like, he's like, he's like an elephant man dude.
[00:10:52] [SPEAKER_02]: Who's, you know, he's got some in facial deformity.
[00:10:54] [SPEAKER_02]: And then there comes some kind of, I don't know if it's an engineer.
[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a nice show.
[00:10:58] [SPEAKER_03]: It's so pretty.
[00:10:59] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but this pill thing makes him pretty.
[00:11:03] [SPEAKER_02]: It's like that substance thing.
[00:11:05] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really like there's this first stand.
[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_02]: And like, but as he becomes a beautiful man,
[00:11:10] [SPEAKER_02]: his life gets worse.
[00:11:12] [SPEAKER_02]: Of course.
[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, yeah.
[00:11:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Downward Spiron.
[00:11:15] [SPEAKER_02]: Now that he's like this is hot, beautiful.
[00:11:19] [SPEAKER_02]: We don't get any of the breaks.
[00:11:20] [SPEAKER_02]: We can't eat thought it would.
[00:11:22] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, it's dark comedy.
[00:11:24] [SPEAKER_02]: It was funny and weird.
[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_02]: And yeah, I love that he was creating it.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[00:11:28] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:11:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Micro budget.
[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I really, really.
[00:11:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.
[00:11:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Why did you shake in your head at Merman?
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a soft park.
[00:11:38] [SPEAKER_01]: It looks like stupid horse.
[00:11:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's got kind of a dock footage feel of a micro budget.
[00:11:44] [SPEAKER_00]: It's sci-fi movie.
[00:11:46] [SPEAKER_00]: With a ton.
[00:11:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And I mean a ton of cameo.
[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_00]: So many cameos.
[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_03]: Delicious cameos.
[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And the director.
[00:11:54] [SPEAKER_02]: Real famous people.
[00:11:55] [SPEAKER_02]: Yes, real fun.
[00:11:56] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a small budget.
[00:11:57] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, well.
[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody worked for SAG though.
[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_03]: SAG minimum.
[00:12:01] [SPEAKER_03]: That's 200 bucks a day baby.
[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_02]: I know.
[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_02]: He was two factors working for like 200.
[00:12:06] [SPEAKER_02]: He said 200.
[00:12:08] [SPEAKER_03]: That was in the Q and A afterwards.
[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_03]: They're like, so did everybody work for the minimum?
[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_03]: They're like, yeah, they did.
[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The director in this is a complete idiot racist sexist, complete moron.
[00:12:22] [SPEAKER_00]: I laughed all the way through this.
[00:12:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It was a little sluggish in the middle.
[00:12:27] [SPEAKER_00]: I think.
[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_00]: But then it was just so fun.
[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_03]: But it's it is absolutely a monto.
[00:12:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I laughed and I laughed and I laughed.
[00:12:35] [SPEAKER_03]: And then I laughed some more.
[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_03]: It was just so much fun.
[00:12:40] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a lot of ridiculous.
[00:12:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Like if you like those, you know, there's a lot of movies that are kind of made like this where you're making a movie about a movie right and a mockumentary.
[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_00]: I guess for lack of a better word.
[00:12:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, but yeah, this was just so well done.
[00:12:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Did they actually talk about, because it was, was it the director or the writer that was there?
[00:13:02] [SPEAKER_03]: The director was there who I believe also co-wrote the script.
[00:13:08] [SPEAKER_03]: And the one of the producers was there.
[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_00]: Awesome. So did they say how much they made the film for someone else?
[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Somebody might have and they might have said, and it was it was a darn wittle.
[00:13:18] [SPEAKER_03]: It was a micro budget.
[00:13:19] [SPEAKER_03]: It was a micro budget.
[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_02]: Nice.
[00:13:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Secret mall apartment.
[00:13:24] [SPEAKER_02]: This was produced by Jesse Eisenberg, but really isn't going to do with him.
[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_02]: It's about as much people in Providence, Rhode Island.
[00:13:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Basically their neighbor who gets torn down to build this big ass mall.
[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_02]: And they're all artists.
[00:13:37] [SPEAKER_02]: They're struggling artists and just artists.
[00:13:38] [SPEAKER_02]: I think a couple of more teachers.
[00:13:41] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, they're wandering around them all.
[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_02]: And they find this like hidden space in between the walls where they can actually hang out.
[00:13:49] [SPEAKER_02]: And they slowly start bringing furniture up this steep fire escape.
[00:13:53] [SPEAKER_02]: Like full couches and cabinets until they have an entire apartment and they hang out there.
[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_02]: It's a real story.
[00:13:59] [SPEAKER_02]: It was they have news clips and stuff.
[00:14:01] [SPEAKER_00]: The other animated film that made my Mando list is Grand Theft Hamlet.
[00:14:09] [SPEAKER_00]: I can't say enough about how this is the most creative thing to come out of the pandemic.
[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_00]: We've seen a lot of movies that come out of the pandemic and they're all terrible.
[00:14:19] [SPEAKER_00]: Well, they're not terrible.
[00:14:21] [SPEAKER_00]: But there's a lot of stuff that you can tell it's pandemic-filmed.
[00:14:26] [SPEAKER_02]: This one because they were a masterful for getting movies.
[00:14:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, yeah.
[00:14:30] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah.
[00:14:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Doing a doc inside the game Grand Theft.
[00:14:36] [SPEAKER_02]: That's a headline universe of the doc.
[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: About doing a live stage play inside GTA.
[00:14:45] [SPEAKER_00]: It was funny and creative and never seen anything like it.
[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't believe that somebody hadn't done it up until this point.
[00:14:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I love this film is so good.
[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, Grand Theft Hamlet is such a creative film.
[00:15:00] [SPEAKER_03]: It is like nothing I've ever seen before.
[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_03]: I can't believe that you could make a movie with within the video game.
[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_03]: And just basically you're just seeing screenshots of them doing whatever.
[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_03]: Doing whatever in Grand Theft Hamlet.
[00:15:16] [SPEAKER_03]: Putting together putting together a way trying to get people in on it.
[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_02]: But yeah, if you play the game, there's other characters like cars driving by.
[00:15:26] [SPEAKER_02]: There's people interact with you.
[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_03]: Well, that's why they had to get people to do security so that they had kept other people away from the performance.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_03]: That's right.
[00:15:35] [SPEAKER_02]: So they had to come with scenarios where they would be by the calls on the top of the movie characters as security guards.
[00:15:41] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:15:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, so there was so well done.
[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, one of the wasn't a good actor.
[00:15:45] [SPEAKER_00]: He didn't feel he was a good actor.
[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_00]: But he came to all their practices to protect people because they'd be like recording.
[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_00]: And then all of a sudden some would come along and try to kill them.
[00:15:56] [SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, what the game is all about?
[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and I've never played the game so I don't know if whether it's easy to get back to the place that you were murdered at.
[00:16:05] [SPEAKER_03]: But creative really worth seeing Grand Theft Hamlet check it out.
[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_03]: Definitely worth seeing, especially if you're a gamer.
[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, not a gamer and I love that.
[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, all right. The last one is probably a Mondo.
[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: All right.
[00:16:18] [SPEAKER_02]: If I'd seen the whole thing it probably would have been.
[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_02]: But I think it's all about it.
[00:16:22] [SPEAKER_02]: But I'm still going to talk about it.
[00:16:23] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_02]: It's the outrun.
[00:16:26] [SPEAKER_02]: There's R.C. Rowan.
[00:16:28] [SPEAKER_02]: She plays alcoholic recovering and then not recovering.
[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_02]: She's a mean blackout drunk.
[00:16:37] [SPEAKER_02]: When she drinks, she does stupid things.
[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_02]: And then she does remember what she did the morning after.
[00:16:42] [SPEAKER_02]: Then she goes to A.A. and recovers for a while and then she, you know, goes to her drinking again.
[00:16:49] [SPEAKER_02]: It's shot in Scotland some of it.
[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_02]: It's really beautiful.
[00:16:52] [SPEAKER_02]: To the story jumps around quite a bit between Scotland and back in London where her mother lives and where she does all her drinking and party.
[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_02]: She's I want to say marine biologists or biologists and some kind.
[00:17:05] [SPEAKER_02]: But she it's an amazing performance by her.
[00:17:07] [SPEAKER_02]: It's just I went to see it on the Sunday morning and it was just it really intense.
[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_02]: So I just he couldn't take the entire day to our ride.
[00:17:16] [SPEAKER_02]: But I was there for most of it, but yeah it was really good.
[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_02]: I don't know if it runs again, but.
[00:17:20] [SPEAKER_03]: Sorry what's it called?
[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah.
[00:17:21] [SPEAKER_02]: He outrun.
[00:17:22] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, run.
[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_02]: Probably doesn't run again.
[00:17:25] [SPEAKER_00]: Murray outrun.
[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: It outruns me.
[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[00:17:28] [SPEAKER_02]: Outrun is also a game by the way.
[00:17:30] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh.
[00:17:31] [SPEAKER_02]: Is do you have to get drunk and no you drive a Ferrari on the roof?
[00:17:35] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, well it's like a racing game.
[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: That sounds like a terrible movie.
[00:17:39] [SPEAKER_02]: That was awesome.
[00:17:40] [SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[00:17:41] [SPEAKER_00]: But the movie the outrun is not about driving.
[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_02]: I've heard it's one of the best drinkers.
[00:17:47] [SPEAKER_02]: So if you see it, you probably will think of the Mondeau.
[00:17:49] [SPEAKER_02]: Oh, we probably probably will.
[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_00]: It's probably coming out.
[00:17:51] [SPEAKER_03]: You'll be pleased to know what is playing again.
[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: There you go.
[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Family therapy.
[00:18:01] [SPEAKER_00]: A family.
[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_00]: That from the beginning of the film to the end went from a family not aligned to the end by random acts.
[00:18:13] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to call them random acts of family and a significant amount of absurdity got through their therapy.
[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I had no idea what was going to happen next in this film, which made me love it even more.
[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: There is a bunch.
[00:18:29] [SPEAKER_00]: It is dead, dead, dead, dead, dry humor.
[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_00]: It is one of those ones that you'll be thinking about for years to come this film.
[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Family therapy was just excellent.
[00:18:44] [SPEAKER_03]: It kind of sneaks up on you.
[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_03]: It starts and it's funny right off the bat.
[00:18:50] [SPEAKER_03]: And then it actually just keeps on getting better from there.
[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_03]: By the end of this movie I was like wow, that was an experience.
[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_03]: I absolutely adored this movie.
[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Everybody in it was fantastic.
[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Family therapy is so, so worth checking out.
[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: And the characters are so well defined.
[00:19:11] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_00]: Like un-devitably.
[00:19:15] [SPEAKER_00]: The basically it's about this boy who was from the father's previous escapades and comes to live with them.
[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: And getting to know each other at the same time, you know them coming together in a new location.
[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Because he's relocated, he wants to change his career path and it's just it's wacky but not wacky in the sense that,
[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_00]: You know, wack could do like say something like the substance.
[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_00]: But it's wacky in the sense that the characters are a little quirky.
[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_03]: They are definitely quirky and I guess it's an Italian Croatian Norway.
[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Serbian Slovenia production.
[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:20:01] [SPEAKER_00]: My last motto is from Black Dog.
[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_00]: An ex-con returns home after his sentence for manslaughter to a town that is dying and finds solace and forgiveness from himself and the world in a black dog thought to be rabbit.
[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_00]: And infested, bad dog.
[00:20:26] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:20:27] [SPEAKER_00]: This is so, so, so beautifully shot.
[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: They talk about it being aside or close to the Goldbe Desert.
[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_00]: It's a time period piece because it takes place in 2008 just before the Olympics in Beijing.
[00:20:42] [SPEAKER_00]: And this film is a ride.
[00:20:46] [SPEAKER_00]: It is the lead actor in this is fantastic.
[00:20:50] [SPEAKER_00]: The dog is fantastic.
[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: And it's, it's a feast for the eyes and the senses I would say.
[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, it's just we're talking with someone else afterwards, one of the Adam programer there at the, at the, at the, at CIF.
[00:21:08] [SPEAKER_03]: and he was mentioning just the staging.
[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_03]: And it was just, there is some unbelievable scenes
[00:21:16] [SPEAKER_03]: where the dog is drunk falls over.
[00:21:21] [SPEAKER_03]: The cargo's like, there was just so much
[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_03]: that had to be perfect.
[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, how they feel?
[00:21:25] [SPEAKER_03]: And they just pull it off every time.
[00:21:28] [SPEAKER_03]: It is an amazing feat in cinema.
[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_03]: So what to, and we're not talking,
[00:21:35] [SPEAKER_03]: and I just was amazed by the grand scope
[00:21:39] [SPEAKER_03]: of what they achieved in this movie.
[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_00]: It was even throwing, like as much as it's visually brilliant.
[00:21:47] [SPEAKER_00]: They also throw in a solar eclipse
[00:21:50] [SPEAKER_00]: just for fun as well.
[00:21:52] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes.
[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_00]: In the desert.
[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_00]: So.
[00:21:54] [SPEAKER_03]: No, it is so, so, so good.
[00:21:59] [SPEAKER_03]: I just loved this movie.
[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_03]: It was Mondeau.
[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_03]: One movie that I saw that you didn't
[00:22:06] [SPEAKER_03]: was the super boys of Malagon.
[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_03]: This is just, it's a movie that you start watching it
[00:22:15] [SPEAKER_03]: and by the end of it, I was just so, so invested
[00:22:20] [SPEAKER_03]: in the characters that everything that happens
[00:22:23] [SPEAKER_03]: to them you care about.
[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_03]: It's basically the movie of a small town
[00:22:29] [SPEAKER_03]: that makes movies about there,
[00:22:34] [SPEAKER_03]: that are told from the point of view of their town.
[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_03]: So it's not a big, they're in India.
[00:22:40] [SPEAKER_03]: It's not big, Bollywood productions,
[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_03]: but they're still very, you know,
[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_03]: they're good filmmakers, they got good writers.
[00:22:48] [SPEAKER_03]: It also has one character in it
[00:22:50] [SPEAKER_03]: that by the end of it, the tears will be flowing.
[00:22:54] [SPEAKER_03]: This also has a documentary that's been made about it.
[00:22:56] [SPEAKER_03]: I haven't seen it yet,
[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_03]: but I'm definitely going to.
[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, we started watching it actually between films.
[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, the movie's a lot, it's a lot of fun.
[00:23:07] [SPEAKER_03]: And you just got to see super boys of Malagon.
[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_03]: It's such a good movie.
[00:23:12] [SPEAKER_03]: It's two hours of enjoyment.
[00:23:15] [SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the dock that we kind of started watching
[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_00]: in between films, the first scene of the dock
[00:23:22] [SPEAKER_00]: is showing what it's like in this town
[00:23:26] [SPEAKER_00]: when the movie comes out.
[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_00]: It's like people are climbing over fences.
[00:23:31] [SPEAKER_00]: Like if we think our love of movies is passionate,
[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_00]: this town seems to be the town,
[00:23:37] [SPEAKER_00]: you know, and maybe because they only have
[00:23:39] [SPEAKER_00]: so many seats in the movie theater,
[00:23:40] [SPEAKER_00]: though everybody's fighting to get it.
[00:23:42] [SPEAKER_03]: Wow, I mean, we've been to movies here
[00:23:46] [SPEAKER_03]: where it's an event if it's a Hindi movie
[00:23:50] [SPEAKER_03]: and they all come out, they have a good time at the movie.
[00:23:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Oh yeah, totally.
[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_00]: It's, yeah.
[00:23:56] [SPEAKER_00]: So yeah, no.
[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: Spiring for the rest of the world actually.
[00:24:00] [SPEAKER_03]: And then the other movie that didn't quite make it
[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_03]: to a Mondo for you because I think you slept
[00:24:04] [SPEAKER_03]: through part of it.
[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_03]: It's Pierce, which is a Poland Singapore Singapore Taiwan
[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_03]: co-production, the primary language
[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_03]: and it is Chinese Mandarin Chinese.
[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_03]: It is just a movie about these two brothers.
[00:24:19] [SPEAKER_03]: One may or may not have done something really bad in the past.
[00:24:22] [SPEAKER_03]: The other one and he goes away for a while,
[00:24:25] [SPEAKER_03]: he comes back and it's just the connection between these two
[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_03]: and it's such a powerful movie.
[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_03]: I really enjoyed the arc of both of these characters.
[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_03]: It's got kind of a bonkers ending.
[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_03]: It's worth the wait.
[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_03]: The wait for the, the ending's great,
[00:24:46] [SPEAKER_03]: but just that the, the slow build of the story
[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_03]: and the trust that has to be reconnected between these two,
[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_03]: it's just so well done, beautifully filmed.
[00:24:56] [SPEAKER_03]: Yeah, if you get a chance to see Pierce,
[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_03]: it will also be playing later in the week.
[00:25:01] [SPEAKER_03]: So we'll talk about that real soon here in fact.
[00:25:04] [SPEAKER_00]: Maybe even now or we are actually just about to talk
[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: about that.
[00:25:07] [SPEAKER_00]: All right.
[00:25:08] [SPEAKER_03]: So for all these movies,
[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_03]: the only one that we've talked about
[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_03]: was just that does not have a second show.
[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_03]: Second showing is the thicket,
[00:25:18] [SPEAKER_03]: but I would imagine that that's gonna be coming to you.
[00:25:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And then you're gonna open the US, there it is.
[00:25:22] [SPEAKER_03]: And it already opened in the US like two weeks ago
[00:25:25] [SPEAKER_03]: according to Murray.
[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_03]: So yeah, super boy, I'm Malagon.
[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_03]: So by Wednesday, September 25th at 6 p.m.
[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_03]: It is playing at the globe up if you are in Calgary,
[00:25:34] [SPEAKER_03]: go check that out.
[00:25:36] [SPEAKER_03]: But yeah, depending on where you listen to this podcast,
[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_03]: you'll listen to it right away.
[00:25:40] [SPEAKER_03]: You can get in real quick.
[00:25:42] [SPEAKER_03]: My favorite cake is playing Thursday.
[00:25:45] [SPEAKER_03]: That would be the 26th at 7 p.m.
[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_03]: at Chinook Center.
[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_03]: We also have unstoppable,
[00:25:57] [SPEAKER_03]: Merman,
[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_03]: Z recommendation, also playing at Chinook.
[00:26:03] [SPEAKER_03]: Thursday, September 26th at 615 p.m.
[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_03]: Then we've also got a different man,
[00:26:10] [SPEAKER_03]: also playing Thursday,
[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_03]: September 26th at 9 p.m.
[00:26:15] [SPEAKER_03]: And they are all at Chinook.
[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_03]: Oh, Merman, double ch-
[00:26:19] [SPEAKER_03]: You can do a Merman double ch-
[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_03]: feature at Chinook that day.
[00:26:24] [SPEAKER_03]: Then from there we've got Grand Theft Hamlet.
[00:26:27] [SPEAKER_03]: It is playing Friday, September 27th at 615 globe down.
[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_03]: We've got Family Therapy,
[00:26:35] [SPEAKER_03]: Friday, September 27th, 930 at Chinook.
[00:26:40] [SPEAKER_03]: Also on that day is the outrun recommended by the Merman,
[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_03]: Friday, September 27th at 615.
[00:26:47] [SPEAKER_03]: Also at Chinook.
[00:26:49] [SPEAKER_03]: And then on Saturday we've got some showings as well
[00:26:52] [SPEAKER_03]: of the movies that we reviewed.
[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_03]: Flow animated movie that Jim absolutely adored.
[00:27:00] [SPEAKER_03]: Saturday, September 28th, 4 p.m. globe up.
[00:27:05] [SPEAKER_03]: And black dog is also playing Saturday,
[00:27:08] [SPEAKER_03]: September 28th at 930 at Chinook.
[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_03]: Pierce is playing Saturday,
[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_03]: September 28th at Chinook as well at 845 p.m.
[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_03]: And then we got Secret Mall apartment.
[00:27:23] [SPEAKER_03]: It is playing Saturday, September 28th at 215 p.m.
[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_03]: I believe at Chinook as well.
[00:27:31] [SPEAKER_03]: Yes it is.
[00:27:32] [SPEAKER_03]: And that is everything.
[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_03]: That is pretty much everything we reviewed.
[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_03]: So there is another chance to see it all.
[00:27:40] [SPEAKER_03]: So you can run that blast part back
[00:27:42] [SPEAKER_03]: if you need to find out exactly when these things are playing.
[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_03]: And we'll see you at the Calgary International and Festival.
[00:27:48] [SPEAKER_00]: And actually, you can just go to cfcalgree.ca
[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and type in the film name and voila.
[00:27:58] [SPEAKER_00]: Voila.
[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Veridence.
[00:28:01] [SPEAKER_00]: You can search it.
[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Very nice.
[00:28:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Nice.
[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: So we are going to have a regular episode back next week,
[00:28:08] [SPEAKER_00]: but we may or may not have another sip part two
[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: or we might include it with our next weeks episode.
[00:28:15] [SPEAKER_00]: So get out and watch a film in cinema as we're going
[00:28:19] [SPEAKER_00]: to be watching a nonstop.
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[00:28:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Dare is to see terrible movies to fuel our rage
[00:28:49] [SPEAKER_00]: or be like some of our nice listeners
[00:28:51] [SPEAKER_00]: that dare us to see fantastic movies.
[00:28:54] [SPEAKER_00]: But no matter what you do, please please please,
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[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it for this week.
[00:29:01] [SPEAKER_00]: That's it.
[00:29:02] [SPEAKER_00]: Rage on.
[00:29:04] [SPEAKER_03]: Rage on.