The TIFF group has announced their top ten Canadian movies of the year; I can’t say I’ve seen any of them. Actually, five of them have yet to be released to theatres, so I don’t really feel bad. There’s some controversy over what was left out, but I’m not sure how anyone could be surprised that a film festival group would skip the commercially successful (relatively speaking; this is Canada, after all) films.

Anyway, Cinematheque will be showing each of them in the new year, so perhaps we’ll catch a few.

On a related note I bought tickets to see Doc Soup’s presentation of Jesus Camp next month. I really should buy a subscription; they just had a screening of The Bridge, another one I want to see.

.:.

Last night I emailed the Freakonomics guys about this story in the Globe:

“Ontario teens under the age of 18 will lose their driver’s licence if they drop out of high school under a new law passed Tuesday.”

Today Stephen Dubner emailed me back with a link to their blog post about the story. I love that these guys have a mega-book and they still a) blog frequently about interesting things, and b) read (and answer) email from random people with something to say.
[tags]tiff top ten, cinematheque, freakonomics, ontario driver’s license dropouts[/tags]