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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

> In just her second feature film as a director (her first was 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her), Sarah Polley demonstrates that she’s already a filmmaker with rare grace and sensuality in TAKE THIS WALTZ, which...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”

> If you were going to describe the films of Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) in one word, that word would not be “dynamic.” Or “kinetic.” ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “End of Watch”

David Ayer’s END OF WATCH brings a new wrinkle to the “found-footage” genre by using it in a cop movie. LAPD Officer Brian Taylor (Jake Gyllenhaal) wires a camera to his uniform, and constantly photog...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

> The Toronto Film Festival has announced its second helping of titles for next month’s worldwide gathering of film professionals and fanatics. These may be less star-studded than the last group of films announced, ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

One of the things that happens at film festivals is that as you see many films in back-to-back proximity, mini-trends start to emerge, at least in the mind, and pictures that were made entirely separately, and which may ...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

> DRIVE is a self-conscious genre movie, and those are tricky propositions. On the one hand, you need to make your existential or other textual statement with all the artistry at your command; on the other, you still have...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO:: “Iceman”

Michael Shannon is brilliant in ICEMAN, but it has to be said that he’s brilliant in just about the same way that he was in Take Shelter, in Revolutionary Road, on Boardwalk Empire, and even in The Runaways (althoug...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Moth Diaries”

> Mary Harron’s career has previously included such fascinatingly transgressive films as I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, which is the only sensible explanation for the inclusion of her n...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

In 1988, the Chilean military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet was forced by diplomatic pressure to finally permit a democratic election, in order to prove its claim that the country’s people support...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: O Canadian Titles!

> Although the word “International” is part of the name of the Toronto International Film Festival, it’s still Canada’s premier festival, and naturally features quite a few homegrown films. Some of...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Anna Karenina”

ANNA KARENINA – Watch It At Home – Beautiful But Overconceptualized Version of the Tolstoy Classic Joe Wright was introduced to the world with his film of Pride and Prejudice, and it seems like he’s b...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Salmon Fishing In the Yemen”

> The first substantial buy of the Toronto Film Festival (Shame had sold first, but for art film prices) turned out to be Salmon Fishing In the Yemen, a modestly engaging romantic comedy from Lasse Hallstrom. Hallstrom ha...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sapphires”

With The Silver-Linings Playbook and now Wayne Blair’s THE SAPPHIRES, Harvey Weinstein may have the feel-good part of the coming awards season locked down. This slight but charming true story (or at least R...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “Sleepless Night”

> When the inevitable US remake of the French thriller SLEEPLESS NIGHT arrives, it’ll benefit from some sharper dialogue (assuming the subtitles in Toronto were fully translating the original), a bit more characterization...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “End of Watch”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Frances Ha” & “Imogene”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO:: “Iceman”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Moth Diaries”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: O Canadian Titles!

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Anna Karenina”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Salmon Fishing In the Yemen”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sapphires”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “Sleepless Night”

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