Word: humority
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...extension of the moving-back-home premise of series like Providence--getting to improve your childhood and thus becoming a different and better person as an adult. Do Over plays it more broadly, with plenty of moderately funny pop-culture references. That Was Then plays down the hairstyle humor, opting for a (fairly muddled) romantic-comedy plot in which the hero fights his brother for his high school love. "It's not a nostalgia show about the '80s," says co-creator Jeremy Miller. "It's a nostalgia show about high school...
...That phrase could define the festival. Now in its 27th year, TIFF has succeeded by its size, which is less boutique than warehouse (this year's 10-day event showed an indigestible 455 hours of films), and by its persistent good humor. Even the occasional eccentrics?like the tough guy at a screening of Kim Tae Gyun's Volcano High who was moved to shout, "Korean movies rule!"?show more cheer than menace. There are no tiffs at TIFF. "Nice" is a compliment Torontonians don't care for, but until they start mistreating the film professionals who come here from...
...conceit is this: 11 directors from five continents each make a film, running 11 minutes and 9 seconds. Some episodes find subtlety, humor, parable in the world's reaction to the event. In Iran (the segment is directed by 22-year-old Samira Makhmalbaf), a teacher desperately tries to explain the meaning of the attack to schoolkids who think the worst calamity is when the village well overflows. In Burkina Faso (the director is Idrissa Ouedraogo), some boys spot a man who looks just like Osama bin Laden and scramble to capture him for the $25 million ransom. The Japanese...
...closely with director Tony Parise, who has helmed two of the last three Hasty Pudding productions. “At the same time, you get to write crazy things,” St. Clair said. “This is the cream of the crop of 4th-grade gutter humor...
...campus-wide voting for the president and vice president of the Undergraduate Council sharply contrasts with the cryptic rituals of the Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization which used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine...