Category: indie
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TIFF’08 – Saturday Night at the Festival + Hunger and Deadgirl’s world premiere
We headed through the heavy Queen St. traffic for Film Lounge to jump in and see our friends at the pre-party for Deadgirl. Turns out they meant the other Film Lounge on Dupont, and not the one across from the AGO. Maneuvering past the R.I.D.E. cops (Saturday night spot-checks) towards the Scotiabank theater (wtf happened?…
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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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The Future of Music Has Arrived
And it looks like MGMT. Ironically, I am already late with this band because I first heard about them on a Rolling Stone magazine of top ten bands you haven’t heard of. They just played the Echoplex in Los Angeles, and are touring small venues across the country but in seconds they will be opening…