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TIFF 2010: Abe Sylvia’s Dirty Girl
Part of the films being offered at TIFF that could easily secure a spot at Sundance, Abe Sylvia's directorial debut, a film that borrows heavily from narrative elements found in Little Miss Sunshine. Dirty Girl hit a cord with the first audience to see it and Weinsteins paid a whopping 3 million for the title.
TIFF 2010: Oliver Schmitz’s Life, Above All
The following vid dates back to last Sunday, it was the first public screening to Oliver Schmitz's Life, Above All, a film that played well at Cannes, was subsequently picked up Sony Pictures Classics, was just named as South Africa's Best Foreign film entry, and judging from the reaction from the crowd on this particular night, will play extremely well for a certain type of demo. I didn't think this demo would include me.
TIFF 2010 Day 3: Mike Mills’ Beginners
It might have been a longer than expected wait for Mike Mills' sophomore narrative feature film to arrive -- but now after having just seen the world premiere screening I'd note that: it was worth the wait. Mills' last pic, was a docu focusing on the pill popping nation of Japan - a sort of a companion film to prescription drug addiction featured in his debut film, 2005's Thumbsucker. With Beginners, we get high on love, doped up with melancholy and are intravenously connected to a film that is pleasantly soft, authentic and comes without pretension.
Review: Easy A
Will Gluck's Easy A gets a pretty good set of report grades due to its tone, dialogue and startling vibrant performance from Emma Stone, who delights from the very start, to the excusable ending. If given the chance, this should test extremely well with the targeted teen audience and those who accidently migrate to the film will find a highly likeable treatment.
