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Sundance Selects ‘Steal’ Rights to Don Argott’s Stolen Artwork Docu
There is a little bit of irony to be found in the first official first pick-up among the doc films that played at TIFF. Sundance's newly formed theatrical distribution arm Sundance Selects has picked up the rights to a doc film that paints the Annenberg Foundation in unflattering, black-eye kind of manner.
SPC Troops Pick up Maoz’s Lebanon
As of today, their top three consists of the Golden Lion winning film from Samuel Maoz (Lebanon), the Palme d'or winning Michael Haneke's White Ribbon and Cannes' Grand Prize winning Jacques Audiard's A Prophet.
TIFF 2009 Day 8: Rachid Bouchareb’s London River
Caught a public screening with the wonderful Brenda Blethyn in attendance for Rachid Bouchareb's London River. I liked the form, the insertion of television tube portions of the London attacks to help push the story over its couple of days period, and while I also thought there was some strong narrative work done in how the pair of worried parents come together, I didn't much care for the additional items where a distraught mother brings her own misconceptions of the modern world to the table.
TIFF 2009 Day 8: Harmony Korine’s Trash Humpers
I'm unlikely to forget any of the films in Harmony Korine's filmography. This happens to be the case for Trash Humpers.
TIFF 2009 Day 8: Neil Jordan’s Ondine
I can't quite wrap my head around Neil Jordan's latest offering - clearly a fairy tale for adults that could easily play well for children, Ondine sounds good (Sigur Ros) and looks good (Christopher Doyle), but I didn't much care for the end result.
