Posts Tagged ‘silent souls’

Critics Roundup — September 16

Friday, September 16th, 2011

Drive |Green||Green|| Green
Straw Dogs |||Yellow||
I Don’t Know How She Does It |Yellow|||| Yellow
Happy, Happy (NY, LA) |Green||Green||Green
Restless (NY, LA) |Yellow||Yellow|Yellow|
Silent Souls (NY) ||||Green|
3 (NY, LA) |||Yellow|Green|

TIFF 2010: It’s a Wrap

Monday, September 20th, 2010

Another year of TIFF has officially wrapped, the awards have been announced, and everyone’s gone home. It was a really great fest this year with a solid slate, although I can’t say I disagree with those who feel the fest would benefit from cutting their slate a bit to be a little more discriminating. I saw some films that surprised me (The Illusionist, A Night for Dying Tigers), some that were disappointing (Hereafter, Miral) and some that took my breath away with their vision and execution (Black Swan, I Saw the Devil).
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I Just Flew Into Toronto, and Boy, Are My Arms Tired

Wednesday, September 8th, 2010

After a full day of travel, I finally landed in Toronto around 10PM tonight. I spent part of the flight watching screeners — I’ll have a review of Swedish film Behind Blue Skies up soonish, but in brief: it’s kind of a Swedish Holy Rollers (the Jesse Eisenberg, Hasidic Jews smuggling ecstasy flick), set in the ’70s, and stars Bill Skarsgård (Son of Stellan) in a soulful, impressive lead performance.
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