Art imitates Life and the results are hilarious! Ok, this is just a prognostication, but when the Midnight Madness line up for the 2008 version of the Toronto International Film Festival was announced I was very pleased to hear that it starred, what prior to Stella Artois was Belgium's greatest North American export. Wow I remember in the 80's/ early 90's when Jean Claude Van Damme was a major action star. It was actually next to impossible to forget, my roommate in 1st year university insisted on watching Double Impact on at the very least a weekly basis. JCVD gets a shot at self-reflexive redemption in the opening night selection of the wildly popular Midnight Madness program (Thursday Sept 4th at the Ryerson). I'll just paraphrase the synopsis as I know it. JCVD plays himself, down on his luck, washed up. JCVD accidentally stumbles upon a real life bank robbery and the police think Van Damme has finally snapped and committed the robbery himself. Sounds like action-comedy, genre aware spoof. The rest of the TIFF midnight madness film list is available at http://www.tiff08.ca/filmsandschedules/programmes/midnightmadnessI need to check out the rest of the schedule and figure out what looks interesting. The full schedule comes out Tuesday August 26th.
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