TorontoFilmFestivalReviews.com: Dialogues: Talking With Pictures

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures

Dialogues: Talking with Pictures presents a highly-acclaimed series of films that are introduced by directors or film artists that have been invited to discuss the films that influenced them and their careers.

This year’s Toronto International Film Festival features many great films including Bruce Weber’s Let’s Get Lost. Weber states, “I wanted to meet Chet Baker ever since I bought an album of his called ‘Let’s Get Lost.’ I found it in a record store in Pittsburgh and little did I know that the simple act of buying that record would someday change my life. Everybody has their own story about Chet, but this one belongs to me; the producer of the film, Nan Bush; Jeff Preiss, the cinematographer and the rest of the crew. We decided that we wanted to share our story about Chet with people because we learned a lot about that thin line between love and fascination.”

Catch Let’s Get Lost on Sunday September 10^th at 5:00 p.m. at the Al Green Theatre.

In Albert Maysles’s Psychiatry in Russia, the 14 minute long film explores the divide between Western news of Russians and the awareness of that news to people living outside of Kremlin.

Maysles’s states, “ in 1955 was a time when Western news of ordinary Russians outside the walls of the Kremlin was close to nil. As a psychologist and adventurer I wanted to help bridge that gap, and so [for Psychiatry in Russia,] I borrowed what was available – a wind-up 16mm camera – and with a one-month tourist visa, and high hopes and lots of daring, I got into Russian mental hospitals, camera in hand.”

Watch Psychiatry in on Monday September 11^th at 2:15 p.m. at the Al Green Theatre.