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Festivals (10 posts found)
‘Man of Tai Chi’ Is A Flawed and Occasionally Spry B-Movie From Keanu Reeves
Ty Landis reviews 'Man of Tai Chi,' the directorial debut of Keanu Reeves.
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Daily TIFF Dispatch: McConaughey Goes Gaunt, Spike Jonze Talks to Reichardt
Ryan McNeil provides his daily dispatch from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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TIFF Review: Alfonso Cuarón’s Unimpressive and Regressive Sci-Fi Excursion, ‘Gravity’
Earth looms so large at the start of Gravity that only after a while is a small white dot at the far right of the frame revealed to be a space shuttle. The shot displays a grasp of scale for the vastness of space often lost in science fiction films, and it per...
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TIFF Review: Gia Coppola’s ‘Palo Alto’ Is A Heartfelt Look Into Our Teenage Years
Sam Fragoso reviews Gia Coppola's 'Palo Alto' from the Toronto International Film Festival.
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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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TIFF Capsule Reviews: ‘Bastards’, ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’, and ‘La Última Película’
Reviews of Claire Denis' Bastards, Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive and La Última Película.
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TIFF Day One: Excitement In the Air for Jim Jarmusch, ‘The Past’, and More
Day One of the Toronto International Film Festival always comes with certain earmarks.
The hype around town is at a fever pitch, with even the casual observer feeling the desire to get in on the fun. Neighborhoods dotted with festival activity suddenly beco...
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‘Manakamana’ Is An Absorbing Conveyance of Life’s Grand and Monotonous Movements
The creative folks working over at the Harvard Sensory Ethnography Laboratory have outdone themselves once again. After last year’s Leviathan and 2009’s Sweetgrass, Pacho Velez and Stephanie Spray introduce Manakamana, another eye-opening documentary that flir...
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