Alexander, Kiefer and Kirsten.
This is how Ryan looked tonight...Wow!
I have never attended a screening at TIFF. The Toronto International Film Festival is world renowned as one of the world's best. I love movies and yet have never been. Sooky asked me last week if I wanted to go see Melancholia...the new film by Lars Von Trier. Alexander Skarsgard was coming to promote it. Last year at Comic-Con in San diego, it was one of Sooky's and my greatest regrets that he was not there to promote True Blood. We missed the opportunity to see him. When I checked the TIFF website last week, it said it was sold out. I was also interested in seeing Drive...Ryan Gosling is supposed to be fantastic in it. According to the website, at 7am on the day of the screening, potentially additional tickets will go on sale.
This morning, at 6:40am, I happened to be awakened by my mom since I had fallen asleep reading again and left the light on. She came in to turn off the light. I probably fell asleep at 3am. I thought to myself, "It can't hurt to check the website to see if any tickets are available..." So I turned on the Kindle to read for another 15 min, then I logged on to the website. Tickets were available to Melancholia!!!
But, my computer, the piece of crap, crashed and I couldn't get the tickets. In frustration, I called Sooky at 7:10am. She logged onto her iPad and got the tickets! We arrived at the Ryerson Theatre about an hour before the show. Just in time to pick up tickets from the box office. Unfortunately, the line up for admission went all the way around the block, down Gerrard, right on Church, all the way south to next intersection. We still got a decent seat. On the way in, we could see Alex Skarsgard and Kirsten Dunst doing their interviews...Wow! They were both so gorgeous. Inside, the cast introduced the film then came back at the end to do some Q&A. This picture was the best one I took out of 25...(I really have to figure out low light at distance shots). The movie was depressing, the performances were very good. Kirsten Dunst was luminescent and tragic. She won Best Actress in Cannes for this performance.
On the way out, we passed the interview area again and Sooky and I got to see Ryan Gosling!!! No more that 10 feet away from us. Sooooo cute!!! I couldn't get a real picture, because I'm short, there were too many people, and the volunteers were fanatical about keeping us moving so the next crowds could get in. We would have loved to watch his movie Drive, but I'm just happy I got to see Ryan. Pretty awesome for my first TIFF experience.
