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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

Oscar buzz has been trailing THE SESSIONS (which was then called The Surrogate) since it was unveiled at Sundance in January, and with good reason. For Academy members, it doesn’t get much better than a warm “base...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hyde Park on Hudson”

To address the very specific elephant in HYDE PARK ON HUDSON‘s room: it’s no King’s Speech. It’s hard to avoid the comparison, because the two movies have a clear overlap, Hyde Park being t...

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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: First Titles Announced

>SHOWBUZZDAILY will be at the Toronto International Film Festival in September, and today TIFF announced the first group of movies being screened (there are plenty more to come over the next few weeks). Here’s the f...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”

> Lynn Shelton’s Humpday in 2009 was one of the most engaging pictures to come out of the mumblecore movement (“mumblecore,” for the uninitiated = ultra-low-budget, small scale film with dialogue mostly improv...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF; Collected Reviews

>Click below for all SHOWBUZZDAILY‘s collected Toronto Film Festival reviews, in alphabetical order: 360 50/50 ALBERT NOBBS THE ARTIST BUTTER DAMSELS IN DISTRESS THE DEEP BLUE SEA THE DESCENDANTS DRIVE HICK THE IDES OF MA...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...

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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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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Incident”

> As has been reported, there really was an ambulance outside the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto after the midnight premiere of Alexandre Courtes’ THE INCIDENT, there to rescue at least one person who had fainted during the m...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Seven Psychopaths”

Few movies are as wholeheartedly dedicated to meta-ness as Martin McDonagh’s SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. The title of the movie is also the title of the script its main character Marty (Colin Farrell)–which, I belie...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Argo”

At this point, with 3 first-rate films to his name, it’s time to stop remarking on how surprising it is that Ben Affleck is a major American filmmaker and just accept that he is one. His latest, ARGO, is his best yet, ...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”

> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No One Lives”

As movie bloodbaths go, NO ONE LIVES is almost–but not quite–clever enough to be worth seeing. We start with a backwoods family of petty outlaws, headed by father Hoag (Lee Tergesen) and including his wife, b...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Hyde Park on Hudson”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Moth Diaries”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: First Titles Announced

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF; Collected Reviews

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Incident”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Seven Psychopaths”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Argo”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No One Lives”

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