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The Beaver | DVD Review
October 4, 2011"If Foster were not the person at the helm, we might suppose this was some bizarre...
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SPC Get Off on ‘Hysteria’; Post TIFF Deal is Perfect for Distributor’s Demo
October 3, 2011"Stimulated" by their most recent pick-up in TIFF audience award's Where Do We Go Now?, Sony...
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Review: The Loneliest Planet
October 3, 2011"Loktev's third film The Loneliest Planet - a mellow drama cum melodrama - is structured solely...
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The Loneliest Planet | Review
October 3, 2011Two lovers hiking -- Oh damn did that just happen? -- We'll call it 'Event'
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Andrew Haigh’s Top 10 Films of All-Time
October 2, 2011Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers?...
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Andrew Haigh
October 2, 2011"I wanted a gentle realism, verging on documentary. I also wanted to create a sense of...
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A Multi-stop Bolero Aiming for an Animated Oscar Nom; GKIDS Creates New Label for ‘Chico & Rita’
September 29, 2011Although it was announced just yesterday, we know that GKIDS, the animation distributor folks who brought...
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Dominic Cooper Goes Non-Verbal for Motor City; Blacklist Script Finds its Lead
September 29, 2011When first news broke out that Albert Hughes would be directing, there was a mention of...
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More Foreign Oscar Nom Fire Power; SPC Knows Where to go with ‘Where Do We Go Now?’
September 28, 2011Maintaining their longstanding policy of locking up as many possible Foreign Oscar nomination contenders as feasibly...
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Review: Low Life
September 28, 2011"Simmering beneath the grimy surface of Nicolas Klotz and Elisabbeth Perceval's Low Life is a politically...
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Denis Côté Sugar Shacks Up with Marc-André Grondin and Valerie Donzelli
September 28, 2011Life as a filmmaker might have became a hell of a lot easier for Denis Côté...
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Review: Pina
September 28, 2011"Indeed, musicals incorporate a narrative skeleton to window-dress their songs & dance; here, there is no...
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40th FNC: Shame, Snowtown, Faust, A Separation and Guilty of Romance Among Festival Selections
September 27, 2011Breaking out around the time where NYFF is on its last legs, Montreal's Festival du nouveau...
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Review: Nostalgia For The Light [Blu-ray]
September 27, 2011Just by reading the title of the film, you get the sense that mammoth ideas covering...
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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 5: The Return/Aberration of Light
September 27, 2011Closing out Wavelengths 2011 was an inspired, if imbalanced, double bill that matched The Return (see...
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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 4: Space is the Place
September 27, 2011Everyone in the avant-garde and experimental cinema world seems to revel in the idea of 'space':...
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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 3: Serial Rhythms
September 27, 2011The most enigmatically grouped programme in this year's Wavelengths was the third showcase. Where Wavelengths 1...
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Review: Twixt
September 27, 2011"At first an art house gallery of moody tone and cheeky laughs, Coppola’s latest flick quickly...
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Review: Leave it on the Floor
September 27, 2011"...certainly sports a pulsing rhythm in some of its excellent musical numbers, it unfortunately exhibits a...
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Disc Reviews
Nostalgia For The Light [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
September 27, 2011Just by reading the title of the film, you get the sense that mammoth ideas covering...
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Michael Shannon, Shepard and Paulson Stained with ‘Mud’
September 26, 2011Jeff Nichols' muse Michael Shannon, Take Shelter player Ray McKinnon, Sarah Paulson (whose stock significantly rose...
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Review: Burning Man
September 26, 2011"...arrives in carefully mapped out bits and pieces to provide an excellently executed emotional punch to...
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Burning Man | Review
September 26, 2011Tinker Troubled Trashed Tom: Teplitzky's Unconventional Debut Rises to the Occasions
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Review: The Moth Diaries
September 23, 2011"Whereas the female boarding school setting was once a hotbed of repression, latent lesbian tendencies, hysteria...
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Review: Killer Elite
September 23, 2011"While Killer Elite does sport some decent chase scenes and meticulous action sequences, it’s resoundingly poorly...
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Review: Twenty Cigarettes
September 23, 2011"Ninety-nine minutes, twenty shots, twenty cigarettes, twenty faces (ten men, ten women) - sounds exciting, doesn't...
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TIFF 2011: Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia
September 23, 2011In its eleventh year, TIFF's Wavelengths programme - which is curated by Andréa Picard and spotlights...
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Review: Carré Blanc
September 23, 2011"While the film quickly establishes an oddly humorous yet ominous and foreboding tone, one can’t help...
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Review: My Worst Nightmare
September 23, 2011"Known for her infamously icy demeanor, Huppert has been no stranger to comedy as of late,...
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Review: Limelight
September 23, 2011"Even those ‘90s New Yorkers who kept their distance from the club scene might remember journalist...
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Killer Elite | Review
September 23, 2011You can take the boy away from the killing, but you can’t the killing away from...
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Limelight | Review
September 23, 2011Spin-heavy apologia for ‘90s NYC club king only scratches the sequined surface
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My Worst Nightmare | Review
September 23, 2011A charming, Gallic comedy featuring one of France’s greatest actresses.
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Twenty Cigarettes | Review
September 23, 2011Not exactly a breath of fresh air, this structural feature could earn an NC-17 with nary...
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Weinstein Make Sure That ‘This Must Be the Place’ Has a Place
September 21, 2011Critically panned in Cannes. Shut out from North American premieres in Toronto and Telluride, it appeared...
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Review: Killer Joe
September 21, 2011"the hilariously dark new film from William Friedkin. Reteaming with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Tracy Letts after...
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Killer Joe | Review
September 21, 2011A delicious, glossy throwback to the daring exploitative themes of the 1970s.
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Review: Intruders
September 20, 2011"What at first starts as a unique and original tale about two different children terrorized by...