Toronto Film Festival Archive for September, 2012
Princess Of Wales Theater, A Toronto Film Festival Gem, Likely To Be Demolished By Owner Mirvish For Three 80-Story Frank Gehry Condo Towers
Princess Of Wales Theater, A Toronto Film Festival Gem (for two whole years), Likely To Be Demolished By Owner Mirvish For Three 80-Story Frank Gehry Condo Towers With 2,600 Sky-Priced Units
Read the full article »To The Wonder To Magnolia While Passion Overtakes eOne
To The Wonder To Magnolia While Passion Overtakes eOne
Read the full article »A24 Sets Year-End Qualifying Run For Sally Potter-Elle Fanning Ginger & Rosa
A24 Sets Year-End Qualifying Run For Sally Potter-Elle Fanning Ginger & Rosa
Read the full article »Baltasar Kormákur On Making TIFF12 Preem The Deep, And The Life Of Icelandic Fishermen Like Guðlaugur Friðþórsson
Baltasar Kormákur On Making TIFF12 Preem The Deep, And The Life Of Icelandic Fishermen Like Guðlaugur Friðþórsson
Read the full article »Good Dr. Bordwell On Empaneling TIFF12
Good Dr. Bordwell On Empaneling TIFF12
Read the full article »Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce On His TIFF12 Party At Toronto’s Stalwart Bovine Sex Club
Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce On His TIFF12 Party At Toronto’s Stalwart Bovine Sex Club nsfw
Read the full article »Canuck Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Does TIFF For VICE
Canuck Filmmaker Bruce LaBruce Does TIFF For VICE
Read the full article »Fleming Says TIFF12 About Low Indie Budgets And Stingy Distribs
Fleming Says TIFF12 About Low Indie Budgets And Stingy Distribs
Read the full article »IFC Choregraphs Frances Ha For North And Latin American
IFC Choregraphs Frances Ha For North And Latin American
Read the full article »Phil Coldiron Explicates Fierce TIFF Fave Leviathan
Phil Coldiron Explicates Fierce TIFF Fave Leviathan
Read the full article »The Torontonian Reviews: The Silver Linings Playbook
The film will assuredly please crowds and win hearts in the end—perhaps even Oscar’s—but audiences interested in something more complex should probably look elsewhere.
Read the full article »TIFF12 Review: The Act of Killing
As Anwar and company tell their story about their lives as gangsters it becomes quickly evident that what they have in mind isn’t a thoughtful, introspective reflection on their history, but a glorious, bedazzled, trumped up showcase of themselves positioned as the heroes of this bloody tale of horror, augmented with dancing girls in fancy costumes, the rotund, hairy Herman, dressed in makeup and a sparkly turquoise mermaid dress, gleefully bloody re-enactments of the murders they committed, and a giant concrete fish. It’s a truly bizarre perspective on the slaughter of millions and the role this men had in it, so much so that at times, it’s even a little funny, the sheer audacity and absurdity of it all. Until it’s not.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Good Dr. Bordwell On The Masters And Panels At TIFF12
Good Dr. Bordwell On The Masters And Panels At TIFF12
Read the full article »“Toronto remains a festival that makes room for gloriously, defiantly off-Hollywood work,” Sez Dargis
“Toronto remains a festival that makes room for gloriously, defiantly off-Hollywood work,” Sez Dargis
Read the full article »Hugo Weaving On Playing A Hefty Female Nurse
Hugo Weaving On Playing A Hefty Female Nurse
Read the full article »B. Ruby Rich’s TIFF12 Was “Haunted By History”
B. Ruby Rich‘s TIFF12 Was “Haunted By History”
Read the full article »TIFF12 Review: Ginger & Rosa
The leftist bent of the characters and some heavy-handed nuclear symbolism might seem to imply that director Sally Potter’s reaching for a bigger message here, but really, this is a heavily character-driven story about these two young girls whose lifetime friendship grows threatened as they grow in separate directions, and, especially, a coming-of-age story about Ginger, who learns things along the way that force her to reassess all the things she thought she knew, about her parents, about friendship, and about life.
Read the full article »The View From After TIFF
Good morning, Movienam! I thought I’d start boxing the TIFF experience this morning. It’s a weird time for film festivals. Not just TIFF. But especially at TIFF this year. Literally every single journalist or publicist I talked to – and this year, I ended up spending more time with publicists than journalists, which can be…
Read the full article » 15 Comments »The Torontonian Reviews: Comrade Kim Goes Flying
According to Comrade Kim Goes Flying, North Korea is a happy place; a utopia where everything is possible, everything is colorful, and everything is great. Of course, as our uncensored Google searches reveal, this is an expectedly false representation of the totalitarian state: the regime has a horrifically poor record on human rights, and the hardships endured are very real and very awful. In other words, to see this dystopia depicted so positively makes for some extremely bizarre cinema.
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Much of the first half of the film is so disturbing as to be almost unwatchable, at least by Western audiences – even those who love arthouse cinema and therefore have a higher tolerance than your average film-goer for brutality taken to its most absurd extremes. But if you can tough it out past the pinnacle of debasement and suffering at the midpoint or so of the film, where it’s at its absolute worst, the film gradually heads from that point to a payoff that does make it worthwhile to stick around for.
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