Then the film definitely got the book.

I've seen:

Also, Office is in 3D, which adds to the bonkers visual spectacle of it all. (And no one at the public screening last night seemed to expect that—the guys handing out the glasses said everyone was surprised.)

I saw London Road, which based on his comments, I think the audience laughed at/with more than the director was expecting them to given that it was a mostly sung film about the effect a series of murders had on a community.

I saw it last night. It didn't quite work for me, despite a great central performance by Jesse Eisenberg. It's placed in a weird alt world and I can't figure out why. I think if the performances and the direction, and even most of the sound design, had been placed in a more real now I would have thought it was great,…

I saw 12 Years a Slave today. It did not seem remotely Oscar-baity to me—it's far too hard to watch at times. Utterly beautiful, but horrible, horrifying. I felt emotionally wrung out at the end.

Ugh, wrong thread.

I'm a little surprised by this, but I don't think I'll be disappointed if any particular pair of these dancers wins.  If it was still a single top dancer, I'd definitely prefer either amy or Jasmine, but given that it's one of each gender… I can see arguments for all of them.

Query: is this the first time the final four are two original pairs (does that make sense)? Isn't there usually some more mixing by this time?

It actually just struck me last night that the biggest problem with going down to one show a week has been losing the top ten weekly solos—I'd have loved to see his (and Aaron's and Paul's) solos every week!

This felt like an incredibly lackadaisical episode—I wonder if, because there was no voting tonight, none of the choreographers brought their A game?

I always feel bad for Brandon having been dubbed the disco specialist only because he's the one strong enough to do all the crazy stupid lifts safely—he was always a great dancer, I wish they'd let him do more of it.

I've really been liking the group routines this year, too—though I'm opposite you on the small group ones this week.  I quite liked the Spencer Liff one, and was not totally sold by the contemporary, I think in part because the introductory package made me roll my eyes a bit, and in part because the dancers weren't…

I thought she was not so much weighed down as a little… flaily. Like she was dizzied from all the spinning around and seemed always just catching up. Not terrible, but just not quite fully there.

The hardest I have ever laughed was at What Every Girl Should Know: An Ode to Judy Blume, at the Annoyance Theatre back like fifteen years ago. Dramatized versions of Are You There, God, DeEnie, and Forever. AMAZING.

Though Minnie Driver thinks she's going to be in the top ten! (I hope—I liked her a lot last year.)

I hope that's not what happened, because in the brief glimpses of her, she was awesome, and more interesting than the other two people featured in the "they have family members" montage. (Which, what?)

Favorite thing from the first episode: guy dancing a haka.

Seeing this film is still one of my best-ever TIFF experiences.  I had a ticket for some very late night showing on a weeknight during the first week of classes, and honestly thought about not going, I was so tired.  But it was such a… I don't know, such an invigorating film that I was happy not just to be there, but…

Seeing this film is still one of my best-ever TIFF experiences.  I had a ticket for some very late night showing on a weeknight during the first week of classes, and honestly thought about not going, I was so tired.  But it was such a… I don't know, such an invigorating film that I was happy not just to be there, but…