Tag: Stephen Frears

2022 TIFF: Peter Farrelly, Hong Sang-soo & Tobias Lindholm to World Premiere in Toronto

The fun part about dissecting TIFF's Gala and Special Presentations unveiling are what titles are skipping TIFF, which titles are moving directly from Venice...

2022 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: 100 Predictions (Part III) Chen, Frears, Zeller, Lafleur, Spielberg & Polley

And here we are with the third part in our top 100 predictions. Chad Chenouga's third feature film Le Principal might be one of those...

Venice 2017: Weiwei, Haigh, Maoz, Doueiri & Kechiche Compete for Golden Lion

Despite the number of spoilers in TIFF announcements less than 48 hours back, the are some top filmmaker names and highly anticipated film items...

TIFF 2017: Special Presentations World Preem Status for Gillespie, Gomez-Rejon, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun & Sebastián Lelio

If Alexander Payne, Valerie Faris/Jonathan Dayton, Scott Cooper, Darren Aronofsky, Martin McDonagh, Stephen Frears, Greta Gerwig and George Clooney appear jetlagged its because they'll...

The Conversation: The 2017 Venice & TIFF Vortex

As the fall festival circuit looms, anticipation is high for a number of items expected to premiere in the fourth quarter. Following a glut...

Florence Foster Jenkins | Review

Florence and the Machine: Frears Lets the Music Speak for Itself in Curio Biopic In recent years, the quality of output from British director Stephen...

Philomena | Blu-ray Review

Just when you thought that Stephen Frears’ latest film, Philomena, would be yet another questionable exercise from the once generally revered auteur, (judging from...

Philomena | Review

Catholic Kisses: Frears’ Returns with a Loveable Crowd Pleaser Just when you thought that Stephen Frears’ latest film, Philomena, would be yet another questionable exercise...

Stacked 2013 Venice Edition Includes Latest Miyazaki, Ki-Duk, Ming-liang, Dolan and Frederick Wiseman

With still several films not yet announced for the behemoth Toronto Int. Film Festival,  it appears that 2013 will be a significant cross-over year...

TIFF’s Phat 2013 Line-up Includes Latest From: Chomet, Egoyan, Holofcener, Glazer, Gordon Green & Reichardt

With dramatic fare such as August: Osage County, Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom and Dallas Buyers Club, 2013's Toronto Int. Film Festival once again...

Escalante, Bruni-Tedeschi, Warmerdam & New Zhangke Crack 2013 Cannes Main Comp Line-Up

The Official Selection for the 66th Cannes Film Festival has been unveiled and noticeable absentees in the list of 19 Main Comp films and...

From Faith Akin to Craig Zobel: Our Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2014

Before we unleash the beast that is our annual Top 100 Most Anticipated Films List for 2013, we thought we'd give our readers an...

Dirty Pretty Things | Blu-ray Review

Stephen Frears has had a very successful career, dabbling in all corners of fictional cinema with cult hits such as High Fidelity, major main...

Lay the Favorite | Review

Don’t Lay Any Bets On This Loser Every once in a while, a great director, an auteur even, will helm such a dastardly atrocious film,...

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