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TIFF 2014: Close Encounters of the Viggo Kind
A quick post before I'm off to get Ros and then coach a 6:00 p.m. soccer game.
There have been no Cumberbatch encounters at the fest (though I passed the theatre where The Imitation Game was playing just as he was leaving and saw a huge crowd of people waiting to see him outside) but there have been not one but two Viggo sightings!
He was at the screenings of both of his films I saw (Jauja was very good, and Far from Men was very definitely great) and was his usual thoughtful and funny and generous self during the Q & As. He was passionate speaking about the films, but always pushed forward his directors and co-stars to speak first.
The screening of Jauja today was in the smallish screening room at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Sweetie and I ended up going out through the same door as Viggo and were right behind him. I could have talked to him--he was also generous about taking time to everyone who approached him, but I chickened out. (I did my gush over Viggo thing at his Alatriste screening, crikey, eight years ago.) He was taking pictures with people after outside, and I was tempted, but he finally left just as I was getting my courage up.
But I did get a blurry UFO picture of him, his director and co-star at the Far from Men screening. (I think I've just about made peace with the fact that the iPhone really isn't up to low light pictures in theatres.)
And here's a much better pro shot taken the same day. You can see the Montreal Canadiens pin he was wearing on his lapel, the stinker. *g* (Almost every time I've seen him here, whether at the fest or doing an event at Lightbox, he wears a Canadiens pin or jersey or waves a Habs flag, just to annoy the Toronto Maple Leafs fans. Which, since I am no Leafs fan, amuses me greatly.
There have been no Cumberbatch encounters at the fest (though I passed the theatre where The Imitation Game was playing just as he was leaving and saw a huge crowd of people waiting to see him outside) but there have been not one but two Viggo sightings!
He was at the screenings of both of his films I saw (Jauja was very good, and Far from Men was very definitely great) and was his usual thoughtful and funny and generous self during the Q & As. He was passionate speaking about the films, but always pushed forward his directors and co-stars to speak first.
The screening of Jauja today was in the smallish screening room at the Art Gallery of Ontario, and the Sweetie and I ended up going out through the same door as Viggo and were right behind him. I could have talked to him--he was also generous about taking time to everyone who approached him, but I chickened out. (I did my gush over Viggo thing at his Alatriste screening, crikey, eight years ago.) He was taking pictures with people after outside, and I was tempted, but he finally left just as I was getting my courage up.
But I did get a blurry UFO picture of him, his director and co-star at the Far from Men screening. (I think I've just about made peace with the fact that the iPhone really isn't up to low light pictures in theatres.)
And here's a much better pro shot taken the same day. You can see the Montreal Canadiens pin he was wearing on his lapel, the stinker. *g* (Almost every time I've seen him here, whether at the fest or doing an event at Lightbox, he wears a Canadiens pin or jersey or waves a Habs flag, just to annoy the Toronto Maple Leafs fans. Which, since I am no Leafs fan, amuses me greatly.
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I think like you, if I ever got near enough to him to say anything I'd chicken out and say nothing! *g* I've heard the Algerian film was good but I haven't heard of the other movie at all.
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I have actually talked to him, when he was at the fest for Alatriste, so I figured anything I could say this time would just be more of the same. He was incredibly kind to the people who did talk to him. He's just a lovely, lovely man.
And yes, the Algerian film is fantastic. Jauja is more challenging (lots of long takes and a very attenuated narrative) but still worth seeing.
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And soccer went very well!
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Yay for viewings (of the people and movie kind), and thank you for sharing the info with us. Move movies to add to the list...
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Of the Viggo movies, keep an eye out for Far From Men. It's truly wonderful.
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