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przed ([personal profile] przed) wrote2006-08-09 11:56 pm
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Alatriste to Play Toronto Film Fest

Was very excited to hear that Alatriste will be playing this year's Toronto Film Fest as a Special Presentation. (The news release announcing this is here, about half way down the page.)

This is now officially the movie I must get tickets to at this year's fest. Because really, there is nothing better than Viggo with a sword. (Okay, Ray Doyle with a gun comes close.)
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[identity profile] marycrawford.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 08:03 am (UTC)(link)
...Huh. How odd. Is this Captain Alatriste? (Wait, lemme go read the release...)

It is! *blinks*

That's very neat. I just read the first book of the series when I was in Spain, having picked it up on a whim. It's very oldfashioned in style, without Dumas' irony; terrific swashbuckling, but it lacks a little somethin'. The swordfights ought to look awesome on the big screen, though. Go Viggo!

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretteh w/sword = GUH.

That is all.

(Anonymous) 2006-08-10 08:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Pretteh + really good w/ sword = Bigger GUH.

And you know, if you're still in MI the first two weeks of September, we could try and get you a ticket. Viggo usually comes to Toronto for the fest.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 08:44 pm (UTC)(link)
That was me, BTW. (Stoopid LJ.)

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 08:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the first book a year ago and enjoyed the swashbuckling aspects of the novel, though I did think it read a bit like a precise for a film rather than a work unto itself. There seemed to be some sort of vital spark missing from it. (I tend to want to like Perez Reverte's books more than I actually do.) But as a film, I can't wait to see it. Especially with Viggo in the lead.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 09:02 pm (UTC)(link)
I drive S from MI on the 5th, so it would have to be 1st or 2nd. Our anniversary is the 3rd and I would be disowned if I missed it. Will it be playing that early?

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 09:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Alas, the film fest runs from Sept. 7th to the 16th.

[identity profile] faramir-boromir.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 09:41 pm (UTC)(link)
Was afraid of that. Will be in Charleston by the 7th. Oh well. Knew it sounded too good to be true.

[identity profile] przed.livejournal.com 2006-08-10 10:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Too bad. 'Cause that would have been awesome.
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