Festivals Archive for September, 2011
SPC Acquires TIFF Audience Choice Where Do We Go Now?
SPC Acquires TIFF Audience Choice Where Do We Go Now?
Read the full article »The Blur Of Indie Sales: TIFF ’11 Edition
with all the chatter about the 30+ sales at TIFF this year, there were a total of 6 buys by companies in those 20 that generate major dollars. Searchlight bought Shame, CBS bought Salmon Fishing in The Yemen (which seems to be the high sale of the year at $4 million), Lionsgate bought two films, one with Roadside (Friends With Kids) and the other on their own, You’re Next, The Hunter, and IFC grabbed Your Sister’s Sister and for their new IFC Midnight division, The Incident.
Read the full article » 4 Comments »Millennium Locates Rampart
Millennium Locates Rampart
Read the full article »Kino Lorber Picks Up Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot
Kino Lorber Picks Up Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot
Read the full article »DP/30: God Bless America, writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait
Earlier with Bob…. after the jump….
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Friedkin Talks Killer Joe
Read the full article »Longworth Spies No Award Frontrunners In TIFF11 Wrap
Longworth Spies No Award Frontrunners In TIFF11 Wrap
Read the full article »Lionsgate Sez You’re Next
Lionsgate Sez You’re Next
Read the full article »Bobcat Goldthwait On His Rage And God Bless America
Bobcat Goldthwait On His Rage And God Bless America
Read the full article »TIFF ’11 Reviews: Last Roundup — Your Sister’s Sister, Chicken with Plums, Pink Ribbons, Inc. and Lucky
Your Sister’s Sister With her latest film, Your Sister’s Sister, writer-director Lynn Shelton again teams up with Mark Duplass, who plays Jack, an affable slacker caught between two sisters, Iris (Emily Blunt) and Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) in this lightly drawn but well-executed tale. Shelton has a knack for putting average people into beyond-average situations, as…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Music Box Films Into Deep Blue Sea
Music Box Films Into Deep Blue Sea
Read the full article »TIFF ’11 Reviews: Oslo, August 31 and Melancholia
Oslo, August 31 One of the last films I caught at TIFF this year, almost by accident, was Oslo, August 31, the sophomore effort of Reprise director Joachim Trier. Oslo, August 31 reunites Trier with Anders Danielsen Lie (who played Phillip, the troubled writer of Reprise) in this spare film about addiction, the choices that…
Read the full article »Talking Wavelengths With TIFF’s Andréa Picard
Talking Wavelengths With TIFF’s Andréa Picard
Read the full article »Toronto’s People’s Choice Award Goes To Nadine Lebaki’s Lebanese Talkie Where Do We Go Now
Toronto’s People’s Choice Award Goes To Lebanese-Canadian Nadine Lebaki’s Talkie Where Do We Go Now And – “The Fresh New Face Of Lebanon” Plus – Other Prizes Go To The Raid, The Island President, More
Read the full article »Nat’l Post’s Worst-Best Glimpses Of TIFF
Nat’l Post’s Worst-Best Glimpses Of TIFF
Read the full article »DP/30 @ TIFF ’11: Your Sister’s Sister
Meet the family of My Sister’s Sister. Writer/director Lynn Shelton and co-stars Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt.
Read the full article »TIFF ’11 Review: Alps
One of my strongest festival memories is of watching Giorgos Lanthimos’ third film, Dogtooth, at TIFF in 2009, and walking out of the theater with a mass of fellow dazed critics, filled with excitement at having just seen this bizarrely brilliant work by an artist who seemed to materialize out of nowhere with the rare…
Read the full article »10 Not-Unseen Films At TIFF Still Without U. S. Distribution
10 Not-Unseen Films At TIFF Still Without U. S. Distribution
Read the full article »TIFF ’11 Review: Goodbye First Love
With her latest film, Goodbye First Love, Mia Hansen-Løve handles her subject matter of adolescent love in a way that’s remarkably free of pretense and condescension, even as her youthful characters occasionally make choices that make you want to throttle them. The story is pretty simple: 15-year-old Camille (Lola Créton) and 18-year-old Sullivan (Sebastian Urzendowsky)…
Read the full article »Three Canucks Comment On Whit Stillman’s Extended Absence
Three Canucks Comment On Whit Stillman’s Extended Absence
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