one month before hot docs.

Nothing says ‘spring’ like hundreds of Torontonians crammed into the Bloor Cinema on a Sunday evening in May watching a movie about objects. Objects. As in pens, toothpicks and potato peelers.

Doesn’t sound like your roll of film? Well friend, then you might not be a documentarianst.

I, for one, like my tv to be real and my movies to be chock full of factoids, actualities and truths. It’s the only way I learn anything. 

So come April 29th, phone goes off. Lunches get packed. Tires get pumped. Friends get dropped.

This year’s record: 35 movies in 10 days. This is not a blog about the movies. It is a blog about going to the movies.

And who would possibly want to read about someone going to the movies aside from you, the lover of the humble documentary film? (May I remind you once again that last year you watched a move about things, and you loved it.)

I'll take you through it all - how to craft the perfect schedule (a complex yet rewarding process involving several highlighters, a pot of darjeeling and an abacus), how to score your favorite seats in the theater (the old “fire!” trick) and how to sneak out of awkward q and a sessions (prevention is key).

So from April 29th to May 9th, please don't call me, eat my lunch, slash my tires, or try to be my friend. I’ll be getting my doc on.