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Festivals (10 posts found)
TIFF Review: “Sunset Song”
Terence Davies returns once again to the historical-drama well in the decades-spanning coming-of-age saga Sunset Song. But compared to the formal radicalism of earlier cinematic memoirs like Distant Voices, Still Lives (1988) and The Long Day Closes (1992), th...
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TIFF Review: “The Martian”
Science can save us. Even if you’re an astronaut left behind for dead on Mars, it’s possible to “science the shit” out of staying alive. That’s the thesis behind Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi blockbuster, based on the best-selling, scientifically accurate novel...
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TIFF Review: “Cemetery of Splendour”
Cemetery of Splendour, the latest feature film from Apichatpong Weerasethakul, takes place in a zone of quietly haunted purgatory: an environment in which human lives hang in the balance between life and death, the lines between fantasy and reality are blurred...
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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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“Tangerine”
Note. This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.
Much of the buzz around Tangerine at Sundance has concerned how the movie was shot: entirely on an iPhone 5s. Which is a deft distraction from the fact that it also f...
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Cannes Review: “The Assassin”
One of the greatest directors of the last four decades, Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s first feature film since 2007’s Flight of the Red Balloon immediately qualifies as one of his greatest achievements. The Assassin is a subtle, sparing, and at times abstract take on the ...
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Cannes Review: “Love”
Equally impassioned as a detractor of Gaspar Noé (Irreversible, Enter the Void) and as a believer in the possibilities of 3D form in cinema, I was on the fence about even seeing the infamous provocateur’s new film, which premiered in Cannes in a midnight times...
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One”
The beginning of Arabian Nights Volume 3: The Enchanted One takes us closer to the character of Scheherazade (Crista Alfaiate), who went nearly unreferenced in part two. Here, she escapes the palace of the King to explore the world she is sheltered from, and f...
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One”
After seeing the packed narratives within narratives of part one, Arabian Nights Volume 2: The Desolate One seems, as Miguel Gomes himself suggested, a very different film, connected to the first by the framing device, theme and some of the performers (assumin...
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Cannes Review: “Arabian Nights Volume 1: The Restless One”
Storytelling and its intricate connections to the real world have always preoccupied Miguel Gomes. Our Beloved Month of August (2008) tracks the obstacle-course production of a film set in a Portuguese village, revealing that there's a lot more drama surroundi...
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