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Dariush Mehrjui’s “The Cow” and the Birth of Iranian New Wave
The Cow screens this Friday, March 6 at TIFF Lightbox as part of their I for Iran: A History of Iranian Cinema by Its Creators program.
While Iranian films have screened at festivals as early as 1958–Samuel Khachikian’s Party in Hell played in competition ...
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The Rise of Will Power
He sits atop a rotating throne, rebuking gravity in a spray-painted netherverse, a spinning emperor with a golden scepter. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air was indebted to the graffiti and Reebok aesthetic of hip-hop’s golden age, from which Will Smith had emerged ...
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“Maps to the Stars”
For a director who’s never shot a film in the States before, David Cronenberg surely wastes no energy to ease in to the process with his new effort, and aims for the heart from the get-go. In his uncanny Hollywood satire Maps to the Stars, everyone is haunted ...
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Looking for Something That’ll… Break Through: The Posters of David Cronenberg
Film is art. The way a scene is framed can evoke the strongest of emotions. Seeing the face of an excitedly terrified young man as he stares at his older lover through the way her leg seductively bends or having a solitary man walk across a bridge, futuristic ...
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Sunset and Stars: On Cronenberg’s “Maps to the Stars”
Maps to the Stars, David Cronenberg’s first film shot in the U.S., is an unapologetic slap in the face of Hollywood. Replete with star-fucking, stalking, suicide, murder, and incest, it's essentially the smarter, meaner twin that ate The Canyons in utero. Star...
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Coded Switch: “The Imitation Game” and The Queer Film
As a film, The Imitation Game is fine: a conventional, but not unenjoyable little biopic. Benedict Cumberbatch’s performance is distracting, the use of archival footage is sort of atrocious, but it’s suspenseful like a BBC movie, which is fine by me. But I’m l...
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Film Love is Blind: Our Cinematic Infatuations
Perhaps I say this because I live an insulated lifestyle, but I believe cinema has a power to bring out both the best and the very worst in us. You'll find a film that you adore and laud it loudly, but then you encounter someone with the opposite opinion, and ...
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“The Humbling”
All the world's a stage for legendary actor Simon Axler, and he wants to get off. Played with no small amount of self-deprecating wit by the even more legendary Al Pacino, Simon has of late - but wherefore he knows not - lost all his mirth. Pushing 70, without...
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“Lovesick”
“I should have gotten a haircut,” the mop-headed Luke Matheny said to uproarious laughter upon winning the 2011 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short for God of Love. That line exhibited the same kind of quirky allure that likely gained the whimsical, black...
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“Stinking Heaven”
A sober-living safe house is neither safe nor sober in Stinking Heaven, the fifth feature (and fourth in 3 years) from director Nathan Silver. The New York-based filmmaker’s wonderfully caustic sense of humor and fetish for familial and social dysfunction are ...
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