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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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Today’s cinematic experiences shared a rather accidental thematic message: life is absurdly fragile and the simplest miscalculation of an action can result in the steepest of consequences. In Both ‘Babel’ and ‘The Killer Within’ a single flick of the trigger poses serious questions about, among other things, our ethical responsibilities in this world [...]
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[synopsis: A US pilot’s struggle for survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War, a fictional re-enactment of the perilous story of Dieter Dengler, the subject of Werner Herzog’s previous documentary ‘Little Dieter Needs to Fly’]
One has to admire the dedication witnessed last night at the world premiere [...]
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Fresh from the second screening of ‘Babel’ and here to rush out some quick thoughts on the whole experience. Rush being the operative word as this was my first rush line experience of the festival and luckily there was enough space in the Elgin as I -quite out of breath – ran up [...]
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