Toronto Film Festival Archive for September, 2013
Nayman On TIFF’s City-To-City Athens Survey Of Contemporary Greek Cinema
Nayman On TIFF’s City-To-City Athens Survey Of Contemporary Greek Cinema
Read the full article »TIFF’s Cameron Bailey On Oscar’s Foreign Language Rules
“Scrap the significance of nation; Scrap the one-country, one-film rule; Institute a US release requirement.” TIFF’s Cameron Bailey On Oscar’s Foreign Language Rules
Read the full article »Truly Taking TIFF As The “People’s Festival”
Truly Taking TIFF As The “People’s Festival”
Read the full article »The Torontonian Reviews GRAVITY
Gravity is really, really cool.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »“Following up a torrent of increasingly irate tweets about TIFF’s “disregard for the integrity of cinema” and, ludicrously, attempting to mount “a major campaign to take action” (this from an adult man who deputizes hard-pressed TIFF volunteers to shush people for him), Billington has posted his own, billion-word, response. And is it ever a read: a full-on frothing expose of a treacherous conspiracy that goes all the way to the top of TIFF.”
“Following up a torrent of increasingly irate tweets about TIFF’s “disregard for the integrity of cinema” and, ludicrously, attempting to mount “a major campaign to take action” (this from an adult man who deputizes hard-pressed TIFF volunteers to shush people for him), Billington has posted his own, billion-word, response. And is it ever a read: a full-on frothing expose of a treacherous…
Read the full article »Koehler Kisses TIFF
Koehler Kisses TIFF
Read the full article »“There are always hard choices to make at film festivals. Looking at our numbers versus other major festivals’, I can only view complaints about Toronto’s size as compliments on the quality of our selection.”
“There are always hard choices to make at film festivals. Looking at our numbers versus other major festivals’, I can only view complaints about Toronto’s size as compliments on the quality of our selection.”
Read the full article »Errol Morris In Snowflake Town
“It was one of the strangest and most interesting and puzzling interviews I’ve ever done. I often think my job description is that I’m required to try to capture something of the complexity of the individual I am talking to and the complexity of the world that they were dealing with.” Errol Morris In Snowflake…
Read the full article »Wiseman On His “Novelistic” Approach To Documentary
Wiseman On His “Novelistic” Approach To Documentary
Read the full article »“During the first half of TIFF, when most industry executives and press are attending, there is simply too much going on at the same time. The last four or five days might feel more relaxed with programming conflicts, but that’s when most industry guests have already left town. No publication I’ve encountered has the resources to do proper reviews of all those films, or even just all the world premieres.”
“During the first half of TIFF, when most industry executives and press are attending, there is simply too much going on at the same time. The last four or five days might feel more relaxed with programming conflicts, but that’s when most industry guests have already left town. No publication I’ve encountered has the resources to…
Read the full article »Behind TIFF People’s Choice Doc Winner The Square
Behind TIFF People’s Choice Doc Winner The Square
Read the full article »The Torontonian Reviews UNDER THE SKIN
Glazer’s decision to light the film with heavy chiaroscuro makes getting lost in the ambiguity sexy and mysterious, and it’s rare that you see the fullness of a character’s face. There is almost always something obscuring the skin or hiding the face of both prey and predator, which makes the shadows and confusion a bewitching result.
Read the full article »12 Years A Slave Wins TIFF Peoples’ Choice Award
12 Years A Slave Wins TIFF People’s Choice Award
Read the full article »Deducing Benedict Cumberbatch
Deducing Benedict Cumberbatch
Read the full article »Chastain And Benson On The 10 Years To Make TIFF Hit The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
Chastain And Benson On The 10 Years To Make TIFF Hit The Disappearance Of Eleanor Rigby
Read the full article »Infographing The Tweets Of TIFF
Infographing The Tweets Of TIFF
Read the full article »The Torontonian Reviews PRISONERS
An unspoiled viewing of the film is so completely engrossing that every little clue or tidbit rattles and teases us. But the best mystery films are often those that withstand repeated viewings, for we watch these movies again and again to revisit how expertly handled each revelation is and how the characters react to them. Prisoners is this kind of mystery movie.
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Cumberbatch On His Correspondence With Assange
Cumberbatch On His Correspondence With Assange
Read the full article »On Playing A Slave Master’s Evil Wife
On Playing A Slave Master’s Evil Wife
Read the full article »“With due respect, there’s lots of talk about China. But there’s another country out there with 1.2 billion people,”
“With due respect, there’s lots of talk about China. But there’s another country out there with 1.2 billion people.”
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