Blake Williams

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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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"Violent, sterile, and ugly, one has to wonder what the filmmaker was hoping viewers would take away from this movie other than a few extra wrinkles in the forehead. Blue will likely only appeal to those who actively seek out gratuitous misanthropy in their entertainment."

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Review: Bé Omid é Didar (Good Bye)

"Sometimes pacing issues drown out the tension that we know is embedded in the product, but it's a work that should not follow our ideas of what movie dramas should be, and how they should make us feel. It's an imperfect labour of desperation, and its flaws only make its realities linger all-the-more abrasively."

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