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TIFF day 4 – Monkey Warfare 2nd screening

Another low-key day except for the super second screening of Monkey Warfare. Here’s Cindy getting set to ride her little bike to the festival. She has fabulous outifts, n’est-ce pas? This is an opportunity to point out that not only is she IN Monkey Warfare, she also has a band called The Tennessee Twin.

After my third day of TIFF I finally started getting an understanding of how tickets work. I think. Apparently cast and crew need to use their passes to go and get tickets to their own screenings for themselves, even though they’re free for them, just because that’s how the accounting works or something. I think. I have been treated to a whirlwind bubble not of celebrity, but of Reg and Cindy’s hospitality. I’ve hardly had to think the whole time, so get easily confused the moment I have to think for myself. Continue reading “TIFF day 4 – Monkey Warfare 2nd screening”

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TIFF day 3

Oh my god, it’s hard to keep up. Even a slow day like today involves 3 parties or something. I actually had time to watch a film – Bobcat Goldthwait’s odd after-school special about a girl who blows a dog, called “Sleeping Dogs Lie.” So I’ll start slow with this picture from last night of an NDP sign in the local provincial by-election. No comment necessary.

This was on the same Parkdale corner where, during daylight hours, there was a cop standing around in a residential neighbourhood just leaning on a fence, waiting for something. I must admit, travelling the world far and wide I’ve never seen a cop just standing in a residential neighbourhood, doing nothing but wait, all alone. Odd. Continue reading “TIFF day 3”

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MONKEY WARFARE PREMIERE!

Whew! The premiere of Monkey Warfare was a lavish-ish affair. The day started with breakfast at Mitzi’s Sister, which I highly recommend, then a little blogging about the previous day, then off to the races and non-stop film fest madness. My lack of sleep is degrading my mind so please forgive me if this all seems rather delusional.
[REG HARKEMA WITH GUY MADDIN]
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Toronto Film Fest excitement!

I have broken my Toronto Film Fest cherry this week as I finally walked through the hallowed, CN-Tower-shaded portal and into TIFF. Riding the wave of this year’s buzz-film, Monkey Warfare, is the best way to see the fest. I was the assistant editor on MW and had the infamous minor role as an instructional-video host on the safe construction of Molotov Cocktails.


Biking around Toronto on the bright-red, tiny, girl-bike that Reg Harkema and Cindy Wolfe (see pic at left) lent me, I dodged streetcar tracks and insanely aggressive taxi drivers through the streets of Parkdale and into the downtown core. Cindy has a great part in Monkey Warfare as a neurotic non-profit founder, and Reg is the writer-director. My borrowed bike, btw, is the one on the album cover of the MW promo LP – which makes it feel less like I’m a giant circus monkey (or maybe more?). Reg hands these albums out on the fly from his hand-made LP satchel that Cindy crocheted for him. One taxi cut Reg off and Reg kicked his door. Then the taxi chased him for a block or so and Cindy rather drew some attention by screaming at him and brandishing her bike chain. Continue reading “Toronto Film Fest excitement!”

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Monkey Warfare screenings!

Good news! Reg Harkema’s Monkey Warfare is showing this weekend at the Toronto International Film Festival at the following times:

Sunday, September 10 6:00 PM VARSITY 8
Tuesday, September 12 2:00 PM PARAMOUNT 3

Get your tickets early, it looks to be a sellout show. Nadia was on the cover of Eye Weekly, which, no doubt, will make the show a main event.

I’ll be hosting the after party on Sunday night, most likely in my pidgin french!

The Eye called my scene “potentially irresponsible but hilariously fitting.” Yeehaw!

In other news, it looks like Monkey Warfare will also be showing in Vancouver at the VIFF!

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Monkey Warfare, Molotovs, and Me


Triumph and Tragedy for Monkey Warfare, Reg Harkema’s new urban-geurilla comedy starring Don McKellar.

For some reason, the lawyers finally nixed my scene (see video below) from the film, in which I (in french) explain how to safely make a molotov cocktail so y’all won’t blow yerself up. Don’t worry, you don’t need to know french to get it. Hey, it’s fiction, right? Remember “The Great Train Robbery,” an early silent that was nearly banned for showing, in full detail, how to rob a train?

Monkey Warfare got into the Toronto International Film Festival, but it’s unclear whether my scene will show, even at festivals.

Forward and circulate, please!!

Thanks,
Flick Harrison

(click the bottom-right button on the vid to get full size)

molotov cocktail scene

Make sure to add “monkey warfare” as a myspace friend!

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Wreckless Eric video in post-production

Wow!

I’m now editing a video I shot for / with Wreckless Eric in Seattle and Portland. It was an amazing little tourette on the West Coast. I caught the Vancouver show at Kier-La Janisse’s Big Smash music-on-film festival and just decided to boogie on down to two more shows, bringing my camera along.

It’ll be a concert doc with great raw energy. Fuck, it was great watching him pound through the tunes and belt out stories of the good old / bad old Stiff Records days, the trauma of big-money producers and crappy episodes in his life.

More to come.

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Flick at BLIM

A few of my videos will be showing on Jun 9, 2006 at VIDEO WARS. It’s at Blim. There’s a few different vids by different folks, including E*rock. Yeehaw.

Address:
#197 – East 17th Ave. (@ Main St.),
Vancouver, BC V5V 1A5

The show is listed from 8-930 p.m. I’m not sure which vids will be showing, but they’ll be new and exciting! Ben has taken selections from my sneak-preview, pre-release DVD called “Flicks von Flick,” which is my second compilation DVD after “Flicks by Flick.”

Cya there!

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Larry Kent’s The Hamster Cage banned in Shanghai

Just got this from Robert French, producer of Larry Kent’s new film, The Hamster Cage:

Dude — I thought you’d like this one: We were selected to play the Shanghai Int. Film Fest on May 5, which is one of only 11 “A-list” fests in the world. They got the consulate involved, offered hotel rooms, etc., so I book a flight, get my accreditation, am all ready to go to China, and they send an e-mail a few days ago that the film cannot be screened in China due to restrictive censorship rules.

The fest still wants me to go, and the consulate still has me booked for the parties…so off I go in a couple of weeks, maybe to never return…

Best,
Robert

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Ahhh, China.

I wonder if Google will block access to The Hamster Cage Website?

Oh my god – they DID.