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Review: Win Win (Blu-ray)
September 6, 2011"It is the kind of film, in other words, which wears its weirdness not just proudly,...
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DVD Review: The Colors of the Mountain
September 6, 2011Anybody wanting any lessons on how to be socially conscious without being too obviously tendentious in...
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DVD Review: Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam
September 6, 2011"Midway through the film, Majeed trails off into Michael's re-embracing of his faith upon his return...
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Code Blue | Review
September 6, 2011Nothing Personal: Only feelings likely to get hurt are Antoniak's after critics get done with this...
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A Fistful of Dollars (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
September 6, 2011"While the film is arguably straightforward and predictable, stylistically, it’s magnificent and beautiful to look at....
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Taqwacore: The Birth of Punk Islam | DVD Review
September 6, 2011"Midway through the film, Majeed trails off into Michael's re-embracing of his faith upon his return...
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The Colors of the Mountain | DVD Review
September 6, 2011Anybody wanting any lessons on how to be socially conscious without being too obviously tendentious in...
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For a Few Dollars More (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
September 6, 2011"It’s immediately apparent that Sergio Leone was operating with a much larger budget this time around....
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Win Win (Blu-ray) | DVD Review
September 6, 2011"It is the kind of film, in other words, which wears its weirdness not just proudly,...
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Review: Bé Omid é Didar (Good Bye)
September 5, 2011"Sometimes pacing issues drown out the tension that we know is embedded in the product, but...
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Bé Omid é Didar (Good Bye) | Review
September 5, 2011Banned Iranian Filmmaker Rasoulof Resists the Law, and Narrative Conventions, in his Feminist Allegory
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Sebastián Lelio’s The Year of the Tiger
September 3, 2011One more standout item from the Vanguard programme offerings is this low budget Chilean film that...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Michael Glawogger’s Whore’s Glory
September 3, 2011Need cheering up? Then you'll want to avoid Michael Glawogger's unflinching camera eye. Best know for...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Angelina Nikonova’s Twilight Portrait
September 3, 2011Now that Gaspar Noé's Irreversible is distant memory, I'm now ready for rape redux. So far...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: James Benning’s Twenty Cigarettes
September 3, 2011Benning - long ago a math student and currently a professor at Cal Arts - is...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Philippe Garrel’s That Summer
September 3, 2011First showing in competition in Venice, this newest work from the provocative French filmmaker has already...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Emanuele Crialese’s Terraferma
September 2, 2011Using a familiar backdrop of his native Sicily (sun-bleached islands plus rhythmic aqua blues) this appears...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Xu Haofeng’s The Sword Identity
September 2, 2011Multidisciplinarian Xu Haofeng is not only a newbie filmmaker but happens to be a novelist, Taoist...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Santiago Mitre’s The Student
September 2, 2011Coming in from BAFICI, and preceding its big center stage NYFF unveiling, The Student is one...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Mark Cousins’ The Story of Film: An Odyssey
September 2, 2011That long movie that TIFF likes to program every once in a while. Dauntingly time-consuming, programmers...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Lou Ye’s Love & Bruises
September 2, 2011Can't say I consider myself a fan of Lou Ye's body of work, so when word...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Julia Loktev’s The Loneliest Planet
September 2, 2011Perhaps this year's contempo version of Meek's Cutoff because of the navigation of male-female rapport in...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Shinya Tsukamoto’s Kotoko
September 2, 2011Can't say that I'm an unconditional fan of this cult Japanese filmmaker, but if I had...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Guy Maddin’s Keyhole
September 2, 2011Canada's most idiosyncratic auteur, nobody love schlocky expressionism and silent film bombastics than Guy Maddin. His...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Julia Murat’s Historias que so existem quando lembradas
September 2, 2011Not much is known about first-timer Julia Murat other than her origins at Rio de Janeiro...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot
September 2, 2011I've been keeping tabs on Ratanaruang oeuvre since 99's 6ixtynin9 and while his most recent work...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Ruslan Pak’s Hanaan
September 2, 2011Ears perked up when reviews coming in from Locarno described Ruslan Pak's debut film as a...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Mia Hansen-Løve’s Goodbye First Love
September 2, 2011Mia Hansen-Løve likely needs no introduction. Her first two features premiered in Cannes and left noticeable...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Whit Stillman’s Damsels in Distress
September 2, 2011Coming in thirteen years after his masterful Last Days of Disco, there's a reason why this...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Amir Naderi’s Cut
September 2, 2011Opening Venice's Orizzonti section before shipping out to Toronto, this marks a noteworthy new direction for...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Frederick Wiseman’s Crazy Horse
September 2, 2011Bringing us almost a film a year since his earth-shattering debut Titicut Follies in 1967, Wiseman's...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Lav Diaz’s Century of Birthing
September 2, 2011The guy known for the longest average film-length of any active filmmaker may have actually lowered...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Ermanno Olmi’s The Cardboard Village
September 2, 2011With his origins and legacy primarily dating back to the latter years of Italian Neorealism, Olmi...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Milagros Mumenthaler’s Abrir puertas y ventanas
September 2, 2011Officially appearing on my radar twice in the same week (when it was being considered the...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Yorgos Lanthimos’ Alps
September 2, 2011Lanthimos' Un Certain Regard winning Dogtooth has charted a course towards the stars (I vividly remember...
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25 Alternative 2011 TIFF Picks: Must See Films Flying Low on the Radar
September 2, 2011Single tickets for films showing at TIFF officially go on sale tomorrow and before you consider...
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Review: Love Crime
September 2, 2011"Corneau fumbles with the tone throughout. Is it a dark comedy, or serious psychodrama? Edge-of-the-seat thriller,...
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Review: Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame
September 2, 2011"Tsui Hark, a key figure (director and producer) from martial arts cinema of the 1980’s and...
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Love Crime | Review
September 2, 2011Corneau’s over-plotted office thriller is short on suspense, but not unintended laughs
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Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame | Review
September 2, 2011Kung Foo, Scooby Doo
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Review: Love Exposure
September 1, 2011Yet no matter what the standard one adopts—whether Tarkovskian film epic, or Buñuel-esque socio-politico-religious farce, or...
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TIFF 2011 Buyer’s Club: #1. Lasse Hallstrom’s Salmon Fishing in the Yemen
September 1, 2011Written by Slumdog Millionaire's Simon Beaufoy and helmed by the director who did The Cider House...
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TIFF 2011 Buyer’s Club: #2. Tanya Wexler’s Hysteria
September 1, 2011With the foul sounding idea of goofy male doctors playing with the most intimate parts of...
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TIFF 2011 Buyer’s Club: #3. Fernando Mereilles’ 360
September 1, 2011An emotionally naked and distraught Rachel Weisz could be a major kudos mention and in what...
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TIFF 2011 Buyer’s Club: #4. Oren Moverman’s Rampart
September 1, 2011The Messenger was/is distinct indie fare, but Moverman's sophomore effort might fall into the "Drive" category...