Commence TIFF withdrawal.
As a sort of trade-off this year, I saw more films than ever before and consequently wrote less. I have scribbled notes for four films but now that I am facing school again head-on, realistically I am not going to have the time to review each film individually. So this is [...]
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Todd Haynes’ paradigm-setting biopic of Bob Dylan, ‘I’m Not There’, is as defiant of interpretation as the man it portrays. Certainly no biopic has been done in quite this fashion, not least of all due to its unusual rendering of the subject through multiple selves intermittently dreaming one another and embodied by actors [...]
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Johan matter-of-factly confesses to his father that he loves a woman who is not his wife. The elder farmer asks him to take a walk, and we move along with them from the dark interior of the barn to the blazing white light of a winter day. Look at the pastures, [...]
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“And what do you do?”
I rarely do shorts. I prefer feature length films which allow narratives to gestate without the pressures of time weighing heavily upon them. Thus it is with a certain reservation that I watch shorts, and in particular, collections of shorts around a common theme. Last year at [...]
Labour Day came and went. In what has now become a hallowed tradition I spent the morning doing the College Park shuffle inching ever so slowly towards the ticket exchange booth. The morning line-up contained communal grumblings and quasi-conspiracy theories about the lengths the festival group have gone to shortchange us in their [...]
To misquote William Shatner: it is a very… good… year. To commemorate it I plan to see more films then usual at the Toronto International Film Festival, upwards to fifteen, counting rushes. Some cursory observations: poor crop of documentaries, the Real to Reel tends to be a very strong category but this year [...]
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[a repost review in lieu of the arrival of the film on dvd May 1st]
I stand firm in the belief that what I witnessed last night was not merely a film but a future landmark of American cinema; an opinion I do not dole out lightly. I feel a certain duty to sound [...]
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In ‘Paris, Je t’aime’, some twenty directors put together five minute shorts each situated in a different district of Paris musing however briefly on the subject of love. This was an early selection on my part as I have a strong emotional tie with Paris and the caliber of talent involved, both directors [...]
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‘Day Night Day Night’ was a last second addition to my festival-going experience, on this the last day of the festival. Each year I try to attend something I know very little about and this entry in the Visions program of the festival sparked my interest by its air of mystery: a story [...]
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I see no point in rating the value of Spike Lee’s ‘When the Levees Broke: a Requiem in Four Acts’, just as there was no point for Spike to offer a Q&A since, as he said in the introduction, the film speaks for itself, or rather the victims of Hurricane Katrina speak for themselves; [...]
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