Do you learn more about yourself from watching films or is it just me? How can the same film produce such vastly different reactions from each of us? I wonder why TIFF09 did not nearly have this effect on me. I discovered a great deal about myself during this second round of Toronto’s Film Festival, [...]
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I was impossibly demanding of my dear readers in our movie contest on August 12th when I asked you to choose the single film which had most impacted you in life and to tell me why in great detail, to boot! The response was overwhelming! You were so good to participate, so kind to indulge [...]
Time for another contest to show my gratitude to my loyal readers, my kind followers and all new or random visitors here. Get excited and get ready to play! I am thrilled to announce the third contest on Prolific Living! Our first contest ran in October ’09 with the theme of photography, the second one [...]
Reading Anna Karenina has been so overwhelming and gratifying that I chose to walk away from it for a short while. I decided to take time to digest the scope, the breadth, the depth in this masterpiece of a novel. It is of course an overly ambitious task to ever digest it all. This is [...]
For the Love of Film. The beautiful motto seen everywhere across Toronto during the fabulous, exciting, and thoroughly fun film festival, also known as TIFF. This was our very first film festival and I am eternally grateful to my friend for sharing her yearly tradition with us. The festival’s energy had completely engulfed Toronto by our [...]
Ageless movies are boldly ignorant of the passage of time. The past and the future merge in the permanence of a timeless story. Years and decades pass us by, we grow up and grow old, and yet these movies only become more enduring with time. The Godfather story is insurmountable, it is beyond a classic, [...]
Last night, I shed a million tears watching the “Nuovo Cinema Paradiso”. I watched the movie on my blu ray recorder at home and enjoyed it dearly. Somewhere in me, I wish I could have seen it on the big screen when it first came out, and someday, I intent to watch it in a [...]
