Festivals Archive for October, 2010
TIFF Review: Hereafter
After a pretty spectacular opening scene, I was hopeful that Clint Eastwood‘s highly anticipated film, Hereafter, with a script by Peter Morgan, was going to be something special. Then it became evident that the setup is a triptych, which is really hard to weave together into a coherant story without it feeling enormously contrived. Unfortunately,…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »TIFF Review: It’s Kind of a Funny Story
I had mixed feelings about It’s Kind of a Funny Story, directed by Half Nelson and Sugar directors Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck. They were so mixed, in fact, that I ended up doing something I’ve never done at a fest before — I saw the film twice, once at a P&I screening and once…
Read the full article » 2 Comments »Sundance 2011: No Racquet Club
Park City’s Under Construction For Sundance 2011, So No Racquet Club Or Main Street Mall
Read the full article »Girish Rounds Up TIFF And Considers The Whole Festival Experience
Girish Rounds Up TIFF And Considers The Whole Festival Experience
Read the full article »IFC Takes Winterbottom’s Trip
IFC Takes Winterbottom’s Trip
Read the full article »American Murgatroyd: Errol Morris’ TIFF Publicist Discovers The Punishing Ways Of AT&T Int’l Data Plans With The iPhone
American Murgatroyd: Errol Morris’ TIFF Publicist Discovers The Punishing Ways Of AT&T Int’l Data Plans With The iPhone
Read the full article »The Sounds Of Silents At The Lightbox
The Sounds Of Silents At The Lightbox
Read the full article »A Report On The Biz Of TIFF’s Lustrous Lightbox Complex
A Report On The Biz Of TIFF’s Lustrous Lightbox Complex
Read the full article »TIFF Review: Let Me In
Here’s the thing with American remakes of foreign films: while I get that studios have a vested interest in making a lot of money off of taking a well-received foreign film and purging it of its, well, foreign-ness, to make it more appealing to the subtitle-averse mainstream American filmgoer, I’m also a pretty firm believer…
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