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TIFF (10 posts found)
TIFF Review: “Legend”
The Kray brothers enjoy a special place in British history as the notorious gangsters who controlled East End London in the 1960s, and in Brian Helgeland's Legend, the twin brothers are played by the beautiful and weird Tom Hardy twice over. He brings his odd ...
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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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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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The Best of TIFF 2014
After two weeks of wall-to-wall movies, writing, late nights, coffee, deadlines, and sleep deprivation, the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close. Thankfully, right before our writers on the ground collapsed from exhaustion, they wrote a...
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TIFF Review – “Electric Boogaloo”: Shooting Nostalgia Out of a Cannon
The hexagonal Cannon Group logo should be familiar to anyone who wasted their 80’s-era adolescence at the movie theater. Its appearance onscreen became so ubiquitous in Reagan-era America that the mere sight of it evoked memories of an old friend coming to vis...
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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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