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Focus Commences TIFF Shopping with ‘Beginners’
September 19, 2010Apparently I'm not the only one to think highly of Mike Mills' Beginners -- Focus Features...
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TIFF 2010: Julien Carbon and Laurent Courtiaud’s Red Nights
September 18, 2010Among Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes' foreign film delicacies is a number that is part Italian...
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TIFF 2010: Our Day Will Come (Notre jour viendra)
September 18, 2010Coming on the heels of his Born Free the M.I.A video, Romain Gavras continues his whaling...
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TIFF 2010: Bent Hamer’s Home for Christmas
September 18, 2010It feels slightly odd to celebrate the Yuletide spirit in mid September, but Christmas Eve in...
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TIFF 2010: Interview with Arielle Javitch (Look, Stranger)
September 16, 2010Mostly void of dialogue, moral degradation is the film's key concern, but the notion of resilience...
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TIFF 2010: Abe Sylvia’s Dirty Girl
September 16, 2010Part of the films being offered at TIFF that could easily secure a spot at Sundance,...
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TIFF 2010: Oliver Schmitz’s Life, Above All
September 15, 2010The following vid dates back to last Sunday, it was the first public screening to Oliver...
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Video Interview: Pascal Chaumeil and Romain Duris (Heartbreaker)
September 13, 2010It’s really the most American-ized French film I've seen in quite a while. The fact that...
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TIFF 2010 Day 3: Mike Mills’ Beginners
September 12, 2010It might have been a longer than expected wait for Mike Mills' sophomore narrative feature film...
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Review: Easy A
September 11, 2010Will Gluck's Easy A gets a pretty good set of report grades due to its tone,...
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Review: I’m Still Here
September 10, 2010Best exemplified with Phoenix's studio meeting with Sean Combs, the feeling of inauthenticity chokes the film...
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September 10, 2010Comes with His Own Soundtrack: Phoenix Unplugged is as Awful as His Hip Hop.
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Randomness: Pics of Béatrice Dalle and Emmanuelle Béart in Bye Bye Blondie
September 9, 2010Filming for Virginie Despentes' Bye Bye Blondie took place over the summer and we finally have...
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Romanian Cinema at TIFF: Bogdan George Apetri and Andrei Ujica Represent in Toronto
September 9, 20103 out of 300 films might not seem like a lot, but from the nation that...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #25. Richard Ayoade’s Submarine
September 8, 2010Those that follow everything Brit television know who Ayoade is ... and for those who've got...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #24. Aleksei Fedorchenko’s Silent Souls
September 8, 2010Silent Souls is leaving Venice with plenty of positive buzz and will then make its way...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #23. Julien Carbon & Laurent Courtiaud’s Red Nights
September 8, 2010Looking like an Irma Vep meets Femme Fatale, this co-directing film debut might looks like the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #22. Kim Longinotto’s Pink Saris
September 8, 2010If I were to gather a group of top documentary filmmakers in the business and ask...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #21. Peter Mullan’s Neds
September 8, 2010I'm actually surprised that the film wasn't included at Venice, as Mullan's previous film, Magdalene Sisters...
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Mazeltov! SPC Gets Hitched with Barney’s Version
September 8, 2010I guess I was dead on with my assessment of the kind of distributor who should...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #20. Sergei Loznitsa’s My Joy
September 7, 2010I'm happy to see TIFF and NYFF programmers include this difficult film among their lineups, cuz...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #19. Arielle Javitch’s Look, Stranger
September 7, 2010I'm always keeping tabs on the folk that are featured among Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces....
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #18. Aktan Abdykalykov’s The Light Thief
September 7, 2010It played at Cannes this year and was probably sprinkled at several other fests such as...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #17. Denis Villeneuve’s Incendies
September 7, 2010Invited to the perfect trifecta of autumn film festivals with invites at Venice, Telluride and TIFF,...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #16. José Luis Guerín’s Guest
September 7, 2010To preem at both Venice and Toronto, this might be the first film to measure the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #15. Thom Andersen’s Get Out Of The Car
September 7, 2010There's a part of me wishing I could have a "different" film festival experience. The cinephilia...
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Lorber Shepherding Frammartino’s ‘Le Quattro Volte’
September 7, 2010Having just shown at Telluride and getting ready for TIFF and NYFF, alternatively going by the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #14. Naomi Kawase’s Genpin
September 7, 2010With so many great docu offerings at TIFF this year, this film which hits San Sebastian...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #13. Michelangelo Frammartino’s The Four Times
September 7, 2010Hypnotic and mediative, I'm guessing I wasn't the only one who was charmed & seduced by...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #12. Benoît Jacquot’s Deep in the Woods
September 7, 2010The veteran French filmmaker took a couple on the chin in Locarno Film Fest where critics...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #11. Tetsuya Nakashima’s Confessions
September 7, 2010Featured at the New York Asian Film Festival, this had richter scale type implications back home...
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Viewing Tip: Alex Gibney’s My Trip to al-Qaeda
September 7, 2010Among the forty-plus titles I'll be seeing in Toronto we have Alex Gibney's Client 9: The...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #10. Sion Sono’s Cold Fish
September 6, 2010From the maker behind 2001's Suicide Club and the four-hour opus 2009's Love Exposure comes this...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #9. Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal’s Chico & Rita
September 6, 2010Receiving it's world premiere in the mountain setting of Telluride before the cityscape of Toronto, I'm...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #8. Frederick Wiseman’s Boxing Gym
September 6, 2010Before hitting Cannes' Director's Fortnight in May, this made waves in Amsterdam's IDFA Doc Festival last...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #7. Isabelle Stever’s Blessed Events
September 6, 2010TIFF have the world premiere here from a filmmaker who might not be as well known...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #6. Álex de la Iglesia’s The Last Circus
September 6, 2010To be unveiled on the Lido and to be presented in San Sebastian after TIFF, things...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #5. Andrei Ujica’s The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu
September 6, 2010If you're like me , and have been awestruck by Romanian cinema of the past decade,...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #4. Athina Rachel Tsangari’s ATTENBERG
September 6, 2010If there is a positive repercussion from Greece's crumbling economy, it might have paved the way...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #3. Pia Marais’ At Ellen’s Age
September 6, 2010Pia Marais' debut film The Unpolished (07) won Rotterdam's Tiger Award, and her sophomore film gets...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #2. Janus Metz’s Armadillo
September 6, 2010This Cannes' Grand Prix Semaine de la Critique winner is an all excess pass into the...
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Alternative TIFF 2010 Picks: #1. Koen Mortier’s 22nd of May
September 6, 2010It's a major coup that TIFF managed to land the world premiere to this sampling of...
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25 Alternative TIFF Picks: Must See Films Flying Low on the Radar
September 6, 2010With TIFF beginning this week, I thought I'd highlight some must see titles that are flying...
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Fall Season Rolling out the Doc Heavyweights: Alex Gibney, Errol Morris and Charles Ferguson
September 6, 2010TIFF patrons are in for a treat. Not only are Toronto folk well served in April...