Toronto and New York film festivals of 2019

I liked the similarly titled Ukranian movie Atlantis, which features a real-time sequence of a guy filling a detached crane bucket with water using a hose, lighting a fire underneath it, stripping down, and taking a bath in it. Cinema!

And Martin Eden hit me so hard I'm pretty sure I never want to discuss it with anyone.

That's one of the films I'm looking forward to the most. 'Lost & Beautiful' was so great.

I think ppl will have mixed reactions - and already have, critically, esp wrt the third act - but I found its take on how social and political forces can corrupt and distort every aspect of life almost unbearably affecting. Not to mention how gorgeous it is.

Has it always been $40 a ticket on the NYFF closing night? That’s crazy.

It has not. (nor has opening night been $85)

not a snore was heard in the house.

lol I fell asleep during the last quarter (thankfully not a snorer) of Vitalina Varela when I saw it. Woke up to the loud scraping of a metal cart being dragged along by the guy who randomly tells her that his wife died in the most offhand manner. That and seeing Costa mumble and fumble in the post-film talk with claptrap like "the people in my film who you call characters" cemented my disregard for him.