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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #17. Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies
September 7, 2010Invited to the perfect trifecta of autumn film festivals with invites at Venice, Telluride and TIFF,...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #16. José Luis Guerín’s Guest
September 7, 2010To preem at both Venice and Toronto, this might be the first film to measure the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #15. Thom Andersen’s Get Out Of The Car
September 7, 2010There's a part of me wishing I could have a "different" film festival experience. The cinephilia...
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Lorber Shepherding Frammartino’s ‘Le Quattro Volte’
September 7, 2010Having just shown at Telluride and getting ready for TIFF and NYFF, alternatively going by the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #14. Naomi Kawase’s Genpin
September 7, 2010With so many great docu offerings at TIFF this year, this film which hits San Sebastian...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #13. Michelangelo Frammartino’s The Four Times
September 7, 2010Hypnotic and mediative, I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who was charmed & seduced by...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #12. Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods
September 7, 2010The veteran French filmmaker took a couple on the chin in Locarno Film Fest where critics...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #11. Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions
September 7, 2010Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home...
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Viewing Tip: Alex Gibney’s My Trip to al-Qaeda
September 7, 2010Among the forty-plus titles I'll be seeing in Toronto we have Alex Gibney's Client 9: The...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #10. Sion Sono’s Cold Fish
September 6, 2010From the maker behind 2001's Suicide Club and the four-hour opus 2009's Love Exposure comes this...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #9. Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Chico & Rita
September 6, 2010Receiving it's world premiere in the mountain setting of Telluride before the cityscape of Toronto, I'm...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #8. Frederick Wiseman’s Boxing Gym
September 6, 2010Before hitting Cannes' Director's Fortnight in May, this made waves in Amsterdam's IDFA Doc Festival last...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #7. Isabelle Stever’s Blessed Events
September 6, 2010TIFF have the world premiere here from a filmmaker who might not be as well known...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #6. Álex de la Iglesia’s The Last Circus
September 6, 2010To be unveiled on the Lido and to be presented in San Sebastian after TIFF, things...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #5. Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
September 6, 2010If you're like me , and have been awestruck by Romanian cinema of the past decade,...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #4. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s ATTENBERG
September 6, 2010If there is a positive repercussion from Greece's crumbling economy, it might have paved the way...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #3. Pia Marais’ At Ellen’s Age
September 6, 2010Pia Marais' debut film The Unpolished (07) won Rotterdam's Tiger Award, and her sophomore film gets...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #2. Janus Metz’s Armadillo
September 6, 2010This Cannes' Grand Prix Semaine de la Critique winner is an all excess pass into the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #1. Koen Mortier’s 22nd of May
September 6, 2010It's a major coup that TIFF managed to land the world premiere to this sampling of...
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25 Alternative TIFF Picks: Must See Films Flying Low on the Radar
September 6, 2010With TIFF beginning this week, I thought I'd highlight some must see titles that are flying...
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Fall Season Rolling out the Doc Heavyweights: Alex Gibney, Errol Morris and Charles Ferguson
September 6, 2010TIFF patrons are in for a treat. Not only are Toronto folk well served in April...
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Paz de la Huerta Joins ‘Girl is in Trouble’
September 5, 2010Building a pretty good film resume by having recently worked for Jim Jarmusch, Gaspar Noé and...
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Trailer: Feminist Point of View in Ozon’s Potiche
September 5, 2010The film's trailer comes across as slightly over the top, a little zany, and perfectly suited...
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IFC Films ‘Inhale’ Another Film From Baltasar Kormakur
September 2, 2010After having paired with the Icelandic director on Jar City, IFC Films have bought the rights...
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37th Telluride: World Preems for Chico & Rita, The First Grader, The Way Back, Never Let Me Go & 127 Hours
September 2, 2010There are still plenty of "to be announced" surprise films including Danny Boyle's 127 Hours that...
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Hawkes, Dancy, Paulson, Corbet and Elizabeth Olsen Escape Towards ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’
September 1, 2010Directly after the Sundance labs in June, Durkin got ready on his feature length film debut...
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Film Movement Make ‘Illegal’ Move: Grab Rare Cannes-Venice Olivier Masset-Depasse Drama
September 1, 2010Film Movement have made their second Cannes pick-up. Jury Prize winning A Screaming Man (receiving a...
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Icarus Sees the ‘Light’ in Patricio Guzman’s Doc
September 1, 2010Documentary specialist Icarus Films have grabbed the rights to Patricio Guzmán's latest - a Cannes preemed...
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Roadside Attractions Melts for Ondi Timoner’s ‘Cool It’
September 1, 2010Cool It is heading to TIFF next week, and the producers behind Ondi Timoner's latest documentary...
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Exclusive: Poster One Sheet for Attenberg
September 1, 2010You can call IONCINEMA.com the "all things Attenberg channel." We profiled Athina Rachel Tsangari in our...
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eOne to Give A New Life to ‘Jolene’
September 1, 2010For the remainder of the 2010 film year, you might have a trio of possibilities to...
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Tracking Shot September 2010: Yellow, Wuthering Heights, Super 8, Return, My Week with Marilyn, Drive and Contagion
September 1, 2010Across the pond, I'm liking the sound of the new Michelle Williams' film - a take...
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Class of 2011? Ten High Profile Films Pushed Back to Next Year
September 1, 2010With All Good Things and Biutiful confirming their December dates, Tree of Life apparently falling back...
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Six from the Eric Rohmer Retrospective at Lincoln Center
August 31, 2010The Bakery Girl of Monceau & Suzanne’s Career make of a pair of films that are...
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Aussie Cinema at TIFF: Griff the Invisible, Wasted on the Young, Blame and Jucy
August 31, 2010Of all the films from down under, while Stuart Beattie's directing debut, With Tomorrow, When The...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #1. John Cameron Mitchell’s Rabbit Hole
August 30, 2010And here we have it - the top twenty acquisition titles that will be made available...
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Interview: Ana Ularu (Locarno and TIFF’s Outbound)
August 30, 2010Matilda is a woman created from my imagination, Bogdan’s imagination, from other characters reactions towards her...
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Lixin Fan’s Last Train Home
August 30, 2010Last Train Home, the directorial debut of documentary filmmaker Lixin Fan, has had an impressive streak...
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Israeli Films at TIFF: Eran Riklis and Avi Nesher Confirmed, Precious Life Hitting Fest and then HBO
August 30, 2010As predicted in last week's post, both Eran Riklis (North American preem for The Human Resources...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #2. Dustin Lance Black’s What’s Wrong With Virginia
August 30, 2010Oscar this. Oscar that. Oscar winning scribe makes his directorial debut, featuring Oscar winning (Jennifer Connelly)...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #3. Dan Rush’s Everything Must Go
August 30, 2010I could see just about every head buyer having an interest in acquiring this title --...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #4. Robert Redford’s The Conspirator
August 30, 2010Period piece directed by American legend with a soild cast in James McAvoy, Robin Wright, Kevin...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #5. Larysa Kondracki’s The Whistleblower
August 30, 2010Before Angelina Jolie makes it fashionable, I see a major studio swopping up and taking the...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #6. Malcolm Venville’s Henry’s Crime
August 30, 2010There's no flawed logic in Keanu Reeves taking a rom com lead. Yes, it's been done...
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TIFF 2010 Buyer’s Club: #7. Rowan Joffe’s Brighton Rock
August 30, 2010Stylish. British. Crime mixed with sex. Helen Mirren. Good looking young thesps in Sam Riley and...