Category: festival
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TIFF’08 – How To Get Tickets You Want – in layman’s terms
Even a TIFF veteran tends to find the process of getting tickets to the screenings they want daunting, and the cryptic instructions provided by the festival itself are of little help, that is, when you can find them. This year I wanted to make sure I spared myself wiling away some of my fading years…
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TIFF’08 – JCVD – Muscles From Brussels Goes Po-Mo
Director Mabrouk El Mechri, a native of Versailles (a Parisian suburb whose name is believed to come from the Latin “versare” or, “to keep turning over”) brings an interesting turning of the soil for Belgian action legend Jean Claude Van Damme in what I deem one of the most interesting films to come to the…
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TIFF’08 – Treeless Mountain
After winning a Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision at Sundance for her first film, “In Between Days,” director So Yong Kim was invited to workshop her project “Treeless Mountain” at the exhaustive and consistently effective Sundance Writers and Directors labs. A US/Korean co-production, South Korean native Kim who cites Belgian directors the Dardenne Brothers…
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Animation Makes Strong Statement at Toronto Film Fest
In the first day alone of the 2008 Toronto Film Festival, there are no less than three non-cutesy-ironic-computer-generated-fairy-tale-spoof feature-length films showing. Like 2007’s massive fest-buzz film Persepolis, based on a graphic novel concerning an outspoken young Iranian girl during the Islamic Revolution that went on to garner an Oscar nom ( but lost to Ratatouille),…
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Top Toronto Film Fest 2008 Picks – Early Short(er) List
This year the Toronto International Film Festival has cut back on its big splashy Hollywood fare and increased the number of screens for smaller independents from 29 to 36. This is not to say the festival will be any less red-carpet worthy.
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Two days until the fest kicks off
Having had more time to explore the cornucopia of films (did I really just say that –>shoots the typist) I wanted to list some of films I a most interested in. This, of course, will likely change as buzz and exposure affect the climate – in a flash a certain film can become a lightning…