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TIFF Dispatch #4: “Hill of Freedom”, “It Follows”, and “Amour Fou”
Hill of Freedom - Hong Sang-Soo’s films about unrequited love never fall into predictable patterns, even if they’re all exceedingly similar. The same holds true for Hill of Freedom. Hong’s latest narrative puzzle features Mori, a young Japanese man heartsick f...
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TIFF Review: “Clouds of Sils Maria” is Oddly Worth Remembering, But Not Watching
If there is any merit to Olivier Assayas’ Clouds of Sils Maria it’s that it serves the memory in a finer way than it does the eye. Asked to take on a revival of the play that made her famous as a youth, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) must take on the role opp...
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TIFF Dispatch #3: “99 Homes”, “The Duke of Burgundy”, and “Phoenix”
99 Homes - The American home foreclosure crisis, the subject of Ramin Bahrani’s latest film, is the stuff of Michael Moore-style documentaries. The film observes various middle-class families fighting tooth and nail to hold onto their family homes, only to be ...
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TIFF Dispatch #2: “Love & Mercy”, “Eden”, and “Tokyo Tribe”
Love & Mercy, Bill Pohlad’s biopic about musical genius Brian Wilson is an empathetic but trite examination of the Beach Boy’s life, structured like a temporal see-saw occupying two specific periods. There’s the mid 1960s, when Wilson (Paul Dano) brainstor...
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TIFF Dispatch #1: “Foxcatcher”, “Clouds of Sils Maria”, and “Maps to the Stars”
So many films—regardless of their genre or origin—deal with the psychology of interpersonal discord that it’s scarcely worth mentioning them as some kind of classifiable phenomenon. But when you watch a variety of films that have little to do with each other—f...
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Top 5 TIFF People’s Choice Award Winners
The Toronto International Film Festival runs from September 4 to September 14 this year, featuring movies like Foxcatcher, Maps to the Stars, Clouds of Sils Maria and Rosewater (to name just a few). Countless big, award-winning hits have come out of the Toront...
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Three Separate Versions of “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” To Be Released This Fall
Deadline has word out of Cannes that the upcoming debut from Ned Benson, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby starring Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy, will have 3 different cuts released this fall. Plot details are somewhat vague, other than it revolves aroun...
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Tribeca Film Acquires Festival Favourite ‘Starred Up’
Starred Up, the indie drama that surprised audiences at festivals such as TIFF and Telluride has just been picked up by Tribeca Film. The plan is for a 2014 release.
The prison drama boasts a stunning performance from newcomer Jack O'Connell and supporting ...
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Trailer: A highbred colored woman fights racism in 18th Century England in “Belle”
The trailer for Amma Asante’s Belle is out! The film premiered at this year’s Toronto Film Festival to a rather toned-down acclaim. Although it features many of the characteristics of the typical period piece, this innovative costume drama is different in its ...
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TIFF Review: ‘Kill Your Darlings’
Our review of KILL YOUR DARLINGS, starring Daniel Radcliffe. From the Toronto International Film Festival.
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