Tag: TIFF 2012

Inside TIFF 2012 Day 1: Looper Opens 37th Edition

11:50 PM: A quick word on two more disappointments for the day (I promise they won't all be so negative for the next ten days!)....

TIFF Books World Preems for Song for Marion, Greetings from Tim Buckley, Yellow; Adds PTA, Korine, De Palma from Venice

TIFF announced their last batch of titles for their primo Gala and Special Presentation events and it comes as no surprise that we've got...

2012 Vanguard Section: Peaches, Jesper Ganslandt, Soi Cheang and Peter Strickland Make the Cut

Easily the section that this journalist feels the most at home with, this year's Vanguard section (programmed by such folk, among others Scandi-discoverer Steve...

2012 Midnight Madness section The ABCs of Death, Hellbenders and Seven Psychopaths

Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes might have just topped himself as 2012 edition already looks to be a legendary year with 9 world preems,...

2012 TIFF Docs: Ken Burns, Julien Temple, Marina Zenovich and Alex Gibney Load Up Doc Section

In terms of documentary film servings in the fall (pre IDFA in November), in the hands of Thom Powers, TIFF's former Real to Reel...

Interview: TIFF’s Cameron Bailey

Yesterday's press conference was not unlike a Christmas morning where the presents under the tree come unwrapped. A good two hours before Piers Handling...

The ABCs of Death | Review

Sing ‘em With Me: Ambitious Horror Anthology Overreaches Itself Nearly every anthology film ever made suffers from the same predicament in that there are usually...

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Interview: Marjane Satrapi & Vincent Paronnaud – Persepolis

The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.