Clap Your Hands, People!
There's a lot of reasons to put your hands together and clap for the Edmonton International Film Festival. Shelagh, Midnight's Children The experience: It is an adventure to head back downtown and watch Midnight's Children on a Wednesday night. It is fun to see what local filmmakers can do with 24 hours, a choice of two genres and a bag of marshmallows. It's a blast to head over to the Empire Theatres and catch a handful of shorts over the lunch hour. It's neat to have a moviemaker's sensibility linger in your imagination as you walk back through the mall and watch the little movies happening all around you. The thrill: A giant screen with a moving picture and sound right there in front of you is still a new world. And it's still rattling like nothing else to walk out of the twilight dream of the theatre and into the sunlight of reason. 24/One The movies are great. They show you the world from the perspective of a boy in elementary schoo...