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Closer Look: Desolate Backdrops in Kelly Reichardt’s Meek’s Cutoff
It's difficult to contain my excitement for the loads of must see titles in this fall festival movie-going season and perched high above the titles without domestic distribution deals already in place, we have Kelly Reichardt's Meek's Cutoff.
Scott Speedman Attempts to Break McAdams and Tatum’s ‘Vow’
With Rachel McAdams cast and the city of Toronto serving as the backdrop, the addition of Scott Speedman makes Michael Sucsy's directing debut theatrical (he received a ton of praise for HBO's Grey Gardens) an almost all "Canadian" affair.
Film Movement ‘Whistle’ into Next Year
Film Movement have landed yet another winner from the Berlin Film Festival - If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle accounts as one more sample of the extremely rich Romanian film scene. Co-written and produced by Catalin Mitulescu (How I Celebrated the End of the World), Florin Serban's debut film - a handheld offering about a young teen trying to re-enter society after a stint juvenile detention center, won the Grand Jury and Alfred Bauer prizes in Berlin.
TIFF 2010: Midnight Madness Selections: Carpenter, Brad Anderson, Gunn, Wan
Joining these selections which I posted about 12 hours ago, this year's Midnight Madness is definitely heavy in U.S genre films which include Brad Anderson's not so well kept secret The Vanishing on 7th Street, James Wan's Insidious and the lesser known Stake Land from Jim Mickle.
TIFF 2010: Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s Peers Featured in City to City
If you're into film studies by region, then TIFF's City to City series might be a worthy sidebar initiative. It began last year with the country of Israel, which proved to be a basterdized first choice -- as the selection was deemed a political one by the media and certain filmmakers from the other side of the "fence". This year patrons can visit Istanbul, Turkey through cinema -- ten feature-length films and seven short films and despite him not having made anything recently, they had no choice but to include a film from Nuri Bilge Ceylan.
