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’12 Years A Slave’ Dissenters Serve As Another Reminder that Oscar Season Is Here
It happens like clockwork every year. A film comes out of a festival sitting on a cloud boosted by the word of critics that are left speechless post screenings. The filmmakers receive standing ovations, Oscar pundits run off to their hotel rooms to write their...
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Vulture’s Kyle Buchanan Says Pack It In, The 2013 Oscar Race is Over
Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave won the top audience prize at the Toronto International Film Festival yesterday to the surprise of very few. The true story of Solomon Northup has garnered widespread acclaim from critics and audiences at the Toronto and Tellur...
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Monday Morning Discourse: Does Festival Hype Help or Hurt?
About a week ago, during the time the Telluride Film Festival was in full swing and TIFF was just getting started, I noticed a few tweets and sentiments bemoaning the rapturous responses to films like 12 Years a Slave and Gravity, implying that they would be t...
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Timothy Gray of Variety Believes 20 is the New 10 for the Upcoming Oscars
In a recent piece called “Should There Be (Gasp!) 20 Best Picture Nominees This Year?”, Timothy Gray of Variety has suggested that the 2013 Best Picture race should include nearly double the amount of nominees from last year.
Now this year does have a full ...
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Daily TIFF Dispatch: Three Lessons Learned
Saturday the skies opened up over TIFF 2013, leaving one to wonder if a large boat was sitting somewhere in the city and being filled up with animals two-by-two. Around every festival venue, the streets were lined with puddles, umbrellas, and soggy, soggy, mov...
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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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Daily TIFF Dispatch: Mark Cousins, ‘Boogie Nights’ Live Read, and ’12 Years A Slave’ Hype
By day two of the Toronto International Film Festival, one can almost smell the champagne in the air.
It's right around now that everybody coming into town for the festival has arrived and started making the rounds. So if the timing of TIFF isn't enough to ...
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