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...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 across North America, Europe and Asia, they are stuck...
...kind of turbo-pop, ultra-gory movie experience that has won Korean action films a place in the hearts of all action fans, Torontonians had to stay up late for the screening of Volcano High in the Festival's Midnight Madness section. A high-octane cocktail of apocalyptic nightmare and high-school problem drama, Kim's movie has outsized teen demons, punishing stunt sequences and gaudy special effects that kept the night owls' eyes bugged open. At Midnight Madness, school's out forever...
...VOLCANOES OF ANOTHER COLOR My first glimpse of Keli Mutu was out the plane window. The pilot banked and circled so we could get a bird's-eye view of the strangest and most famous volcano on Flores. It squatted above the surrounding hills like some amorphous ogre, pregnant with menace, glaring up with three vast, unblinking eyes. The colors looked so unnatural that at first I thought I was peering into tailing ponds filled with toxic sludge from a large mining operation. Then the pilot informed us we were looking at the crater lakes of Keli Mutu, or "burning...
What both lodgings lack, in my view, is truly satisfying onsen. Luckily, around the corner are several public baths, including the Rakuyujurin, its rotenburo shaded by maples. Next day visit Japan's most famous volcano. Between the views, meals and baths, you will be grinning all the way back to Tokyo...
HONEYMOON You've bought the plane tickets to Hawaii but don't have much moola left. At such websites as TheBigDay.com Honeymoonerstravel.com and HoneyLuna.com friends can chip in for frills like a night at a volcano, horseback rides or parasailing sessions...