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TIFF Film Review: ‘Compartment No. 6’ Is the Beginning of a Beautiful Friendship
Sometimes all you need to make an incredible movie is two people talking. That’s evidenced with great success in Compartment No. 6, the new film from director Juho Kuosmanen. Co-winner of the Cannes Grand Prix this year, the film arrives at TIFF with the story of two passengers who meet on a train for a […] More
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Big Films in the Big Apple: Previewing the 59th New York Film Festival
Starting this morning, Press and Industry screenings (better known as P&I screenings) will begin for the 59th New York Film Festival. To be sure, NYFF will be different this year, as it won’t be nearly as populated, screenings will be more spaced out, and as is the case with many festivals currently, food and beverages […] More
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TIFF Film Review: Zhang Yimou’s ‘One Second’ Is An Ode to the Power of Cinema
Originally set to premiere at the 2019 Berlin International Film Festival, Zhang Yimou’s One Second was mysteriously pulled days before screening. While the official explanation for the move was that the film had technical difficulties during post-production, speculation began immediately that the Chinese censors had their hands all over this. In the two years since […] More
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Ta Ta to TIFF: The Best of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival
Well, that was something. The 2021 Toronto International Film Festival is in the books. After expressing here some reservations about whether or not it was a good idea, I think it was overall a net positive to attend TIFF. COVID protocols were in place and strictly enforced. Theaters were at half capacity, even the big […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Petite Maman’ Is Another Céline Sciamma Knockout
How do you take the personal and make it feel universal? That was the task at hand for Céline Sciamma with Petite Maman, her follow-up to the massively acclaimed 2019 romance Portrait of a Lady on Fire. The world was at Sciamma’s feet after the reception she garnered for that instant classic, which resulted in […] More
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TIFF Interview: Jean Luc Herbulot Discusses ‘Saloum’ and his Visions for African Cinema and Culture
With its fresh take on the genre traditions of Westerns, thrillers and horror movies, Jean Luc Herbulot’s Saloum was one of the hidden gems of the 2021 Toronto International Film Festival. It follows a trio of mercenaries called the Bangui Hyenas who decide to hide out in a camp located in a mysterious and dangerous […] More
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‘Belfast’ Wins the Toronto International Film Festival Audience Award!
*Editor’s Note: This doesn’t surprise me in the slightest. As I tweeted earlier tonight, TIFF tends to either make the Audience Award a crowd-pleasing Oscar player or something way off the beaten path. This time around, they very much went for the former. Is this the start of a march towards Academy Award success? Stay […] More
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TIFF Review: ‘I’m Your Man’ is a Brilliantly Aromantic Love Story
If you watched Maria Schrader’s I’m Your Man with no prior knowledge of its premise, you’d probably be blindsided by its stereotypical setup. A woman meets a man at lively nighttime establishment where they are greeted by a hostess before partaking in food, drinks and dancing. On the surface, it seems like any other first […] More
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Montclair Film Festival Announces 2021 Opening, Closing, and Special Screenings
The 10th Annual Montclair Film Festival is scheduled to commence on October 21st and will run through to the 30th. Just like every year, the festival is sure to be packed with tons of films but up until today, we were in the dark as to what films would open and close the festival, as […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Spencer’ is Kristen Stewart’s Finest Hour and An Hypnotically Immersive Experience
Wow. I have seen the performance of the year. In fact, I also think I may well have seen the film of the year. The last movie II saw on the ground in Canada is the crowning (no pun intended) achievement of 2021 right now. Capping off my in person segment of the Toronto International […] More
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TIFF Film Review: Ben Foster’s Committed Performance Can’t Hold Up Biopic-By-Numbers ‘The Survivor’
Barry Levinson introduced the Toronto International Film Festival premiere of his latest film, The Survivor, by telling a story about being a kid in the late 1940s and discovering that his grandmother had a brother he never knew about when the man came knocking on their door. He stayed with Levinson’s family for two weeks, […] More
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TIFF Film Review: ‘Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash’ is An Epic of Crime and Romance
Incredibly striking 16mm photography fills the frames of Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash, the new feature from Indonesian filmmaker Edwin. Co-written by the director and Eka Kurniawan, based on Kurniawan’s book of the same name, the film tells the story of Ajo Kawir (Marthino Lio), a street fighter whose hyper-masculinity and need to […] More
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