Alison Willmore Outlines How Baumbach’s Latest Is Really A Twist On Catfish

Alison Willmore Outlines How Baumbach’s Latest Is Really A Twist On Catfish

Wrapping TIFF 2014

It was a really good TIFF. Solid.

What was missing, really, were the home run hitting feature films. (Great docs… but we expect that.)

Confessions of a Film Festival Junkie: It’s a Wrap

Officially there were 366 features shown at the just completed edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. I saw about 30. So it should come as no surprise that few of this year’s public and jury prize winners managed to elude my grasp.

The Torontonian reviews It Follows

One of the most enjoyable aspects of David Robert Mitchell’s It Follows—alongside its brilliant cinematography and chilling scares—is the inventive premise, which is as much to fun to describe as it is to watch (tell your friends about the “sexually-transmitted ghost” movie and watch their faces turn from disgusted to wildly amused).

At Toronto, SPC Takes Still Alice For North America

  NEW YORK (September 12, 2014) – Sony Pictures Classics announced today that they acquired North American rights to STILL ALICE, starring Julianne Moore, Kristen Stewart, Alec Baldwin, Kate Bosworth and Hunter Parrish. The film reunites Co-Directors and Co-Writers Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland (THE LAST OF ROBIN HOOD) with Sony Pictures Classics, who worked together…

SPC Buys Into Julianne Moore-Starrer Still Alice At Toronto

SPC Buys Into Julianne Moore-Starrer Still Alice At Toronto

At TIFF 14, Michael Moore Proposes A 13-Point Doc Manifesto

At TIFF 14, Michael Moore Proposes A 13-Point Doc Manifesto

The Torontonian reviews Good Kill

Written and directed by Andrew Nicoll and riddled with all the appropriate military jargon like “rules of engagement” and “painting the target,” his script compliments the disconnected horrors of these drone strikes by underlining the ironies of this cyclical, cynical conflict

HBO Doc Films Takes Broomfield’s Tales Of The Grim Sleeper At Toronto

HBO DOCUMENTARY FILMS TAKES NICK BROOMFIELD’S TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER CRITICAL FAVORITE CLOSES US DEAL FOLLOWING FIRST TORONTO SCREENING Toronto, ON (September 10, 2014) – Submarine announced today from the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival that HBO Documentary Films is acquiring US rights to veteran Nick Broomfield’s highly acclaimed TALES OF THE GRIM SLEEPER….

In Toronto, Michael Moore Reminds Documentarians To Entertain

“People want to go home and have sex after your movie. Don’t make them feel urggghh. Don’t do that to your fellow sexually active people.” In Toronto, Michael Moore Reminds Documentarians To Entertain 

Avers Jeffrey Wells

“I’m telling you straight and true that Paul Dano‘s performance as the youngish Brian Wilson in Bill Pohlad‘s Love and Mercy is almost spookily great.” Avers Jeff Wells

“Yummy” Benedict Cumberbatch Seduces Toronto

“Yummy” Benedict Cumberbatch Seduces Toronto

Confessions of a Film Festival Junkie

It’s kinda official. To be honest I really haven’t noticed anyone taking notice of the fact that Toronto mayor Rob Ford hasn’t shown his face at the Toronto International Film Festival. Granted the local attendees don’t appear to be his constituency and there is a mayoral race coming up before the end of the year. In fact, there either was a debate scheduled (there are three others on the ballot) or one that went forward that Ford opted out of without extending much of a reason.

Imitation Game Screenwriter Champed To Tell Alan Turing Tale Since He Was 14

Imitation Game Screenwriter Champed To Tell Alan Turing Tale Since He Was 14

Cieply Listens Into SPC’s Toronto Dinner To Get Some Award Season Cues

Cieply Listens Into SPC’s Toronto Dinner To Get Some Award Season Cues

Kevin Smith’s Tusk Gets Medicinal Marijuana Tie-In

“This movie was born in a blaze, and will be released in a blaze.” Kevin Smith’s Tusk Gets Medicinal Marijuana Tie-In severe spoiler

Scott Feinberg Thinks Mike Binder’s Black And White Is On Its Way To Awards

Scott Feinberg Thinks Mike Binder’s Black And White Is On Its Way To Awards

The Torontonian Reviews NIGHTCRAWLER

Currently my favourite film at TIFF, Nightcrawler is so refreshingly original that it’s surprising to see it’s also screenwriter Dan Gilroy’s directorial debut. But it is, and that’s fantastic, because the film goes places and takes risks I wish were more common in North American cinema. The result is a memorable, even great first feature.

Confessions of a Film Festival Junkie: Toronto 2014 – Getting Started

Naturally my Canadian content level has risen in recent days and came into focus last week when Telefilm Canada hosted a pre-fest event for journalists and buyers in Los Angeles. Apart from product reels and a limited bar, the ‘do also had a healthy supply of TIFF’s program book … or rather tome. To the event’s credit it’s developed a rather good system of press and industry screenings that run parallel to the public showings. The veteran TIFFer can keep to the P&I projections with a couple of regular screenings tossed in to mingle with the hoi polloi.

The Torontonian reviews Eden

Sure enough, the buzz is that Eden is the “Daft Punk” movie. It’s admittedly reductive to call it the “Daft Punk” movie in queues as the shorthand reference to what the film is about. Hansen-Løve is a name I respect more than that, but after seeing the film, though, I realize it’s the only salient thing.