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All posts by Anna Tatarska
‘August: Osage County’ Is Funny, Moving and Superbly Performed
I flew to Toronto all the way from Poland. And after the screening of August: Osage County I knew that if I had gone there just for this one film, it would still have been worth it. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning Tracy Letts' play, the film is a piercingly in...
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TIFF Review: Matthew McConaughey and Jared Leto Shine In ‘Dallas Buyers Club’
Anna Tatarska reviews DALLAS BUYERS CLUB.
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TIFF Review: Binoche and Owen Form a Great Onscreen Bond in ‘Words and Pictures’
Anna Tatarska reviews 'Words and Pictures' from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Review: Epic and Intimate: ‘12 Years Slave’ Establishes McQueen As An Auteur
Cotton plantation, sultry afternoon after a hard day's work. Male slave is sitting on a porch of a wooden hut, hunched, nibbling at a modest meal, served on a metal plate. The camera stops at the surface of the dish: one next to another lays a scrap of fried b...
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Kate Hudson Discusses 9/11, Prejudice and ‘The Reluctant Fundamentalist’
In Mira Nair's film adaptation of Mohsin Hamid's novel The Reluctant Fundamentalist, actress Kate Hudson plays a New York photographer struggling with the death of her boyfriend while embarking on a new relationship with a young Pakistani businessman shortly ...
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A Discussion With Amanda Seyfried: She’s Not A Yes-Man Anymore After ‘Lovelace’
To many Amanda Seyfried is “the Mamma Mia! Girl”, blonde, sweet, big eyed angel with no background in more psychologically complex, challenging roles. Those who see her like that forget she did Chloe, a film that actually made the directors Jeffrey Friedman an...
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Insanity Is Delicious: Director David Gordon Green Talks ‘Prince Avalanche’
David Gordon Green has had a fascinating career. Ever since he first burst onto the scene in 2000 with the independent film George Washington, he's been heralded as one of the most exciting voices in the industry, capable of ping-ponging from small, melancholi...
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‘Museum Hours’: The Most Intimate of Spaces
Vienna through Jem Cohen's eyes is a patchwork quilt woven from ordinary urban landscapes that somewhere during the film turns into a work of art. Every proportion, field of depth, asymmetry or contrast suddenly gain multidimensional meaning. But it's not the ...
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‘The Act of Killing’ Brings No Catharsis: Joshua Oppenheimer and His Ghosts
People who have killed thousands don't go to jail. Instead, they become celebrities. They walk the streets with pride, are invited to talk shows, where they boast about the atrocities they've committed and are treated as national heroes. How is that possible? ...
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A Discussion with Tobias Lindholm and the Inner Danish-ness of ‘The Hunt’
The Hunt is Tobias Lindholm's second production with Thomas Vinterberg - their previous collaboration was Submarino. The talented screenwriter doesn't restrain himself to screenwriting though. His second feature, A Hijacking, had its international premiere las...
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