Film Friday: “Death of a President: Dearth of a Point” / Torontoist

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Film Friday: “Death of a President: Dearth of a Point” / Torontoist

“Torontoist already has a documented history on disliking Death of a President (including arguing with a FIPRESCI jury member about it) and we don’t really need to go into it again, so let’s hear what the critics have to say. Eye’s Liz Clayton gives it three stars, but doesn’t seem that enthused; ‘ultimately doesn’t insinuate anything more creepy and despairing than what turns up in the real news every da’”, while NOW’s Cameron Bailey finds it more interesting to talk around the film rather than about it, finally admitting the film is ‘not paranoid enough to be really interesting’.

We’ll say one nice thing about it. James Urbaniak, the wonderful Dr. Venture from Adult Swim’s Venture Bros. is in it briefly. But that’s all we can think of.”

Another week, another Film Friday; not much to note other than a reference to a piñata full of offal (lovely image) and a film showing this weekend called Gamerz, “An off-beat comedy with a love triangle set in the fantasy role-playing society of Glasgow University”, apparently. I briefly remember an RPG society from my time at Glasgow Uni, but I could never abide role-playing groups. While the idea of interactive storytelling is sound, the people who do it tend to have absolutely no imaginations, which paired with their complete lack of social skills makes the whole experience unpalatable, so I’d be quite interested to see the film’s take.

October 27th, 2006 : Columns, Torontoist

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