Post by mustafametal on Dec 31, 2016 1:35:53 GMT -5
First of all, Brian De Palma is a cinematic God to me! I have watched them all, the Scorseses, the Kurosawas, the Bergmans, etc, but none of them have stimulated my senses and made feel the real Cinema like De Palma did, the man is a visionary genius, I don't care how "lame" his scripts are, whatever he does, he does it with perfection, his camera movements, his unique style, the worlds he builds around his characters are only De Palma, other try to try while he does!
I have recently moved to Canada from a war-torn country, Iraq, and I am blessed for this oppurtunity. Luckily I came just in time where they showed The De Palma retrospective at TIFF, and for the first time in my life I watched all of his movies in a movie theatre rather than on DVD or VHS or Laser Disc like before and ever show of them was a transcendent spiritual experience!
Now for my experience, as the news came that the man himself will be attending the 2016 tiff as head of jury for the platform, I said to myself this is it, this is my chance to meet the legend and pay my allegiance to him, I bought tickets for all the platforms movies and travelled everyday for 90 minutes to Toronto hoping that I could meet him and ay my respects and appreciation.
On the very first movie, Lady Macbeth, I was sitting in the back of the theatre, and watching the audiences and press coming and going, I glimpsed a silhouette of a man in the front that looks like him, as I have never seen him in person before I was skeptic to go and see if it was him or stay waiting, but my guts told me it was him, but like an idiot I stayed put in my chair until the movie started.
Then came the head of tiff and introduced the movie and thanked the members of the jury headed by non-other Brian De Palma for coming! at that moment my blood froze in my veins and did not know what to do other than stay in my place and gather my self and go after the movie to say hello and thank you for the gift you have given us over 50 years.
As the movie ended, I stood up from my seat and headed to the front, as I was coming nearer and nearer, my steps became slower, what if he would not talk to me? what if he ignored me? that God-Like image I have built in my head of him would be shaken and I would loose the only Icon and monument I have in my life after my father! Then I decided to go anywhere despite whatever happen, just as I became near, ushers or security of the theatre came and took celebrities from a backdoor, and that's it, I just stopped and wished that earth would crack and swallow me, because I wasted the most important opportunity in my life, meeting a legend, a cinematic God !
One day down and 10 to go from tiff, I decided to have more balls and just do it next time and go to him and say hi, unfortunately, he never came on the next shows, there are no second chances in life, and I wasted mine away
Anyhow, the only consolation I could have is that I have been in THE SAME ROOM with him for a while, and I saw him, which was not less than a miracle few years ago to do that!
I have recently moved to Canada from a war-torn country, Iraq, and I am blessed for this oppurtunity. Luckily I came just in time where they showed The De Palma retrospective at TIFF, and for the first time in my life I watched all of his movies in a movie theatre rather than on DVD or VHS or Laser Disc like before and ever show of them was a transcendent spiritual experience!
Now for my experience, as the news came that the man himself will be attending the 2016 tiff as head of jury for the platform, I said to myself this is it, this is my chance to meet the legend and pay my allegiance to him, I bought tickets for all the platforms movies and travelled everyday for 90 minutes to Toronto hoping that I could meet him and ay my respects and appreciation.
On the very first movie, Lady Macbeth, I was sitting in the back of the theatre, and watching the audiences and press coming and going, I glimpsed a silhouette of a man in the front that looks like him, as I have never seen him in person before I was skeptic to go and see if it was him or stay waiting, but my guts told me it was him, but like an idiot I stayed put in my chair until the movie started.
Then came the head of tiff and introduced the movie and thanked the members of the jury headed by non-other Brian De Palma for coming! at that moment my blood froze in my veins and did not know what to do other than stay in my place and gather my self and go after the movie to say hello and thank you for the gift you have given us over 50 years.
As the movie ended, I stood up from my seat and headed to the front, as I was coming nearer and nearer, my steps became slower, what if he would not talk to me? what if he ignored me? that God-Like image I have built in my head of him would be shaken and I would loose the only Icon and monument I have in my life after my father! Then I decided to go anywhere despite whatever happen, just as I became near, ushers or security of the theatre came and took celebrities from a backdoor, and that's it, I just stopped and wished that earth would crack and swallow me, because I wasted the most important opportunity in my life, meeting a legend, a cinematic God !
One day down and 10 to go from tiff, I decided to have more balls and just do it next time and go to him and say hi, unfortunately, he never came on the next shows, there are no second chances in life, and I wasted mine away
Anyhow, the only consolation I could have is that I have been in THE SAME ROOM with him for a while, and I saw him, which was not less than a miracle few years ago to do that!