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What follows is part 1 of the top 10 Midnight Madness moments in the history of time. Unless someone comments otherwise, consider this list DEFINITIVE (Yeah, that?s a challenge folks, the gauntlet has been thrown!) Part 2 will follow soon...
10. Andrew Howard creeps himself out. About 3 minutes into the Q&A for last year?s The Devil?s Chair the star/villain assumed a squatting position and maintained it for the remainder of the Q&A. The director asked what he was doing down there to which he replied ?My knees are gone.? Yours and a good portion of the audience?s as well. BTW, the picture above is great, but his eyes aren't red? To the best of my knowledge.
9. Who was that fight choreographer? My first midnight madness was a second screening of Ryuhei Kitamura?s
Versus. Let?s just say the ?afternoon? madness crowds aren?t quite the same as midnight regulars. One of the first questions was ?Wow, those fights were great! Did you guys use the same guy who did the fights in
The Matrix??? There was an audible groan from the crowd who knew ?that guy? was the legendary
Yuen Wo Ping who had nothing to do with Versus? Which had stellar fight choreography none-the-less. Isn?t calling Master Wo-Ping ?The guy who did the fights in
The Matrix? like calling Takeshi Miike ?The guy in the white suit in
Hostel??
8. Beach ball madness. Someone had the audacity to bring a beachball to 2007?s closer A l?interieur. Naturally the crowd took the ball and ran with it. That?s what I call a closing night party.
7. Someone *REALLY* liked Mickey Rourke! 2002?s opening Madness was Spun and practically the entire cast was there, including screen legend Mickey Rourke. Of course if you didn?t know that, there was an ardent fan loudly cheering GO MICKEY every time he was on the screen. After Colin was done doing his James Lipton on stage he opened the floor to questions and our dedicated fan yelled out, to no one in general ?WHAT WAS IT LIKE WORKING WITH MICKEY!?. Jason Schwartzmen did his best to praise Mickey and midway through the answer the frustrated fan summed it all up by belting out ?MICKEY IS GOD!? Now I can?t prove this, but I?m pretty sure that this was Richard Roeper?s first TIFF since he took Siskel?s place and I have a sneaking suspicion it was him trying to impress Roger Ebert with his insightful questions.
6. Sarah Silverman ?hones her craft?. 2005?s opener was Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic! Sarah clearly wanted to get out of the Q&A quick and didn?t seem to be in the mood for serious questions. Of course that never stopped someone from asking ?how she honed her craft and act to get it to the screen.? The normally manic Silverman stood there with the best WTF look I?ve ever seen in my life. Seriously, if there is a visual dictionary and WTF is in it, there should be a picture of the look on her face. She mocked the question and did her best to get the heck outta dodge as quick as possible.
Now as soon as the server is back online I'll get moments 5-1 up.
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