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Getting Excited About the Future of Film: TIFF 2016 Wrap-Up
Tina Hassannia and Kenji Fujishima talk about their experiences at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “Nocturama,” “The Girl with All the Gifts,” and “Things to Come”
Tina Hassannia reviews "Nocturama," a new zombie film, and another Isabelle Huppert performance in this TIFF dispatch.
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TIFF 2016 Dispatch: “Daguerreotype,” “Una,” “Moonlight,” and “Justin Timberlake + the Tennessee Kids”
Kenji Fujishima rounds up his TIFF 2016 experience with a dispatch of four final films.
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What We’re Excited To See at TIFF 2016
Kenji Fujishima and Tina Hassannia preview the films they're most excited for at this year's Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Review: “About Ray”
Even though About Ray revolves around a transgender teenager, this isn’t the hot-button topical-issue film one might expect. Certainly, there is very little anguished hand-wringing about transgender issues; among most of the main cast of characters, transgende...
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The Film Festival Blurb Generator
It's film festival season, and you know what that means: lots of coverage of movies you can't see yet because you can't afford to go to Venice, Telluride, or even Toronto. But we have a solution! For the 99% of us who can't attend the festivals and comb through...
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12 (and 1/2) Films We’re Looking Forward To At TIFF 2015
The world is changed. We feel it in the water. We feel it in the earth. We smell it in the air. That's right, it's festival season in the world of film. The Telluride Film Festival just wrapped up over the weekend, which can only mean one thing: the Toronto In...
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On The Miraculous and Innovative “Horse Money”
Note. This review originally ran during our coverage of the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival.
Pedro Costa’s filmography can be seen not only as an unified body of work, but as something approaching a miracle. The incremental shifts in his working meth...
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“A Happy Post-Modernist Now”: An Interview with Guy Maddin
On July 19, as part of its summer series, TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto feted experimental Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin by hosting a free screening of his 2007 phantasmagorical quasi-memoir My Winnipeg, followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker himself. Movie ...
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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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