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Breslin Picked as a Bathtub Girl in ‘The Class Project’
August 17, 2011Currently in that star child actress moving onto more adult roles phase of her career, Abigail...
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Foreign Film Oscar 2012: Romania Selects Marian Crisan’s Morgen
August 17, 2011While several countries are still deliberating which film will represent them for the upcoming Foreign Films...
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Review: The Last Circus
August 17, 2011"The Last Circus, a bizarre horror comedy lobbed over a network of historical symbolism, not unlike...
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TIFF 2011: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, James Benning and Our Own Blake Williams Among Wavelength Programmes
August 16, 2011Due to time constraints and reader importance, it's the section I regrettably avoid during the film...
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TIFF 2011: CWC Loaded with Lynn Shelton, Naranjo, Sion Sono, Hansen-Love, Zvyagintsev, Vigalondo
August 16, 2011With a total of 50+1 films from around the world, the Contemporary World Cinema programme could...
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TIFF 2011: Lanthimos, Loktev, Ostlund and Bonello Lead Rich Visions Offerings
August 16, 2011We here at IONCINEMA.com like to think of the offerings in TIFF's Visions programme as the...
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TIFF 2011: Gala and Special Presentations: Rebellion, Intruders, Hysteria and Page Eight Among World Preem Selected Titles
August 16, 2011It's official. The cruelest bunch on the film festival circuit are the programmers from TIFF. Once...
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Paladin Saves ‘Boy’ From Obscurity
August 15, 2011Mark Urman's discount and highly selective distributor Paladin have netted what could easily be a bonafide...
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Sony Pictures Classics Nabs NYFF Gala Spots for ‘Skin’ and ‘Dangerous Method’
August 15, 2011The Film Society of Lincoln Center is looking to leverage its brand-spanking-new facilities as much as...
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Interview: Miranda July (The Future)
August 10, 2011"But as time goes on where other people's perspective come in you just let go where...
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TIFF 2011: The Rest of the Canadian Line-up Brings Maddin, Vallée, McDonald, Pool, Veninger, and A Wealth of Shorts and First-Timers
August 9, 2011With big names like Cronenberg and Polley already announced a couple of weeks ago, it came...
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DVD Review: Clash
August 9, 2011"Offering a combination of fighting techniques in an attempt to differentiate itself from Hong Kong martial...
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DVD Review: Dark Days (2001)
August 9, 2011"The resulting film (winner of three Sundance awards and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary...
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DVD Review: The Sound of Insects
August 9, 2011"The Sound of Insects is a very taxing aesthetic experience, and one which does not appear...
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DVD Review: Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film
August 9, 2011Andrew Monument's horror film history lesson could supplement a portion of any film history class, running...
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Nightmares in Red, White, and Blue: The Evolution of the American Horror Film | DVD Review
August 9, 2011Andrew Monument's horror film history lesson could supplement a portion of any film history class, running...
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The Sound of Insects | DVD Review
August 9, 2011"The Sound of Insects is a very taxing aesthetic experience, and one which does not appear...
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Dark Days (2001) | DVD Review
August 9, 2011"The resulting film (winner of three Sundance awards and the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary...
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Clash | DVD Review
August 9, 2011"Offering a combination of fighting techniques in an attempt to differentiate itself from Hong Kong martial...
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Review: Superheroes
August 8, 2011Superheroes presents a troubled minority, putting themselves at risk for the sake of a better world....
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Exclusive Clip: Asif Kapadia’s Senna
August 8, 2011I caught one of the year's best docs in Park City earlier this year, and this...
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Superheroes | Review
August 8, 2011Ape Crusaders: Nutty Crime Fighters Personalities Revealed
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59th San Sebastian Film Fest includes latest from Urbizu, Lacuesta and Vigalondo
August 5, 2011Last week we broke out news about the international lineup for the official section of the...
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TIFF 2011: Goldthwait, Sanchez and Wingard: Midnight Madness Strong on U.S Indie
August 3, 2011In the hours leading up to the unveiling, TIFF Programmer's Colin Geddes teased twitter followers on...
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TIFF 2011: Real to Reel Strikes Gold with Herzog, Wiseman, Demme, Yu, Gibney, Berlinger, Broomfield, Fricke, Glawogger and 15 Hour Film from Mark Cousins
August 3, 2011We had an smidgen of an idea that the Real to Reel section might be especially...
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TIFF 2011: Vanguard Section Holds Headshot World Preem, Venice’s Love and Bruises, Locarno’s Year of the Tiger, Cannes’ Snowtown and Oslo, August 31
August 3, 2011While last year we got such items as Monsters, Our Day Will Come and Adam Wingard's...
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Review: Criterion Collection: Leon Morin Priest [Blu-ray]
August 2, 2011The film’s paunchiness is quite surprising considering the taut storytelling of Melville’s popular crime dramas. While...
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DVD Review: A Screaming Man
August 2, 2011"Haroun masterfully tricks us into caring with a last call upping of the ante, and when...
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Review: Winter in Wartime [blu-ray]
August 2, 2011While the film operates at its best as visual genre fare, it suffers tremendously from some...
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A Screaming Man | DVD Review
August 2, 2011"Haroun masterfully tricks us into caring with a last call upping of the ante, and when...
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Criterion Collection: Leon Morin Priest [Blu-ray] | DVD Review
August 2, 2011The film’s paunchiness is quite surprising considering the taut storytelling of Melville’s popular crime dramas. While...
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Winter in Wartime [blu-ray] | DVD Review
August 2, 2011While the film operates at its best as visual genre fare, it suffers tremendously from some...
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Sony Think Timing is Best for Ol Parker’s ‘Now Is Good’
August 1, 2011Always a good sign when your sophomore project gets picked up at the midway point of...
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Review: Koran by Heart
August 1, 2011Koran By Heart looks on at these young pupils with a fascinated eye, while subtly examining...
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Rashaad Ernesto Green
August 1, 2011I have always enjoyed Paul Greengrass's work, because watching his films make you feel like you're...
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Koran by Heart | Review
August 1, 2011Brilliant Youngsters Play Prestigious Memory Games In Cairo
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Review: The Guard
July 29, 2011He’s a lover of mothers and whores alike, and spends equal time in the company of...
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Review: The Future
July 29, 2011"It's not that July doesn't have any good ideas. One sequence where Sophie’s pregnant friends transform...
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Review: Attack the Block
July 29, 2011This balance between coming-of-age and sci-fi gives the film a distinct tone, one that doesn’t overwhelm...
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Review: Page One: Inside the New York Times
July 29, 2011"All these angles and stories are fascinating for the viewer but “Page One” has the distracted...
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Fresnadillo’s Intruders Opens San Sebastian, while Davies, Polley, Delpy, Xiaoshuai in Comp
July 29, 2011Juan Carlos Fresnadillo's ("Intacto","28 Weeks Later") second English language film will receive some home turf love...
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Toronto’s Lightbox Gets Real With Italians Not Named Fellini, Too
July 29, 2011Beginning July 28 and running until the end of August, Toronto's TIFF Bell Lightbox are complimenting...
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Review: The Trip
July 29, 2011"An issue arises when the distinction between what we are supposed to take as real and...
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The Future | Review
July 29, 2011Miranda July Never Frees a Promising Love story from her Comfort Zone of Self-fixated Quirkiness