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TIFF 2014: Wild Tales
Wild Tales consists of six twisted short stories, all written by writer/director Damian Szifron. Most anthology films tend to use different directors for each story, but Szifron handles every single one here. Having one writer and director gives Wild Tales...
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TIFF 2014: The Duke of Burgundy
It’s hard to discuss what exactly goes on in The Duke of Burgundy because it might ruin writer/director Peter Strickland’s surprises. Following the relationship between two entomologists, Cynthia (Sidse Babett Knudsen) and the younger Evelyn (Chiara D’Anna), the film...
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TIFF 2014: Meet Me in Montenegro
It’s been seven years since Alex Holdridge directed the Independent Spirit Award winning film In Search of a Midnight Kiss. His latest film, Meet Me in Montenegro, is about just that–a filmmaker who hasn’t made a film in nearly...
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TIFF 2014: Phoenix
Christian Petzold and Nina Hoss return for their sixth collaboration in Phoenix, a well-done post-WWII German drama. Hoss plays Nelly, a Holocaust survivor with severe damage to her face. The only survivor in her family, Nelly inherits a large...
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TIFF 2014: Horse Money
I’ve always admired Pedro Costa’s films more than I’ve loved them, a trend that continues with Horse Money. Costa’s first fiction feature since 2006’s Colossal Youth again focuses on the same setting and person. Ventura, Colossal Youth‘s central character, is now on...
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Episode of the Sea (TIFF Review)
Directors Lonnie van Brummelen & Siebren de Haan profile the small, unique town of Urk in Episode of the Sea, a playful documentary premiering in the Wavelengths programme at TIFF this year. Urk used to be an island in...
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TIFF 2014: It Follows
Poor Jay (Maika Monroe). She’s a young, attractive girl dating a guy she really likes, but once she has sex with him things go sour. Turns out her date (Jake Weary) only wanted to get in her pants so...
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TIFF 2014: Force Majeure
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TIFF 2014: La Sapienza
Eugene Green’s films are an acquired taste, to say the least. The French-American director’s style tends to highlight artifice to an uncomfortable degree. Actors are deliberately coached to deliver their lines in a strange, droll tone, like they’re speaking...
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TIFF 2014: In The Crosswind
In 1941, tens of thousands of people in Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia were forced out of their homes on Joseph Stalin’s orders. Stalin deported these people to Siberia, an attempt to rid the Baltic nations of their own inhabitants....
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TIFF 2014: Alleluia
Inspired by the true story of Raymond Fernandez and Martha Beck, famously known as The Lonely Hearts Killers, Fabrice du Welz’s Alleluia delves straight into the psyche of a couple consumed by insane, murderous love. After single mom Gloria...
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Texting Dramatized in the ‘Men, Women & Children’ Trailer
There’s little to be heard in the trailer for the latest feature film from writer/director Jason Reitman outside of The Plaintain’s hazy cover of the Donna Summer disco classic “I Feel Love.” Men, Women & Children fades between shots...
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Giveaway: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ Surprise and Delight Kit
Are you a fan of Jim Jarmusch? Are you a fan of vampires? Are you a fan of free stuff? Well you’re in luck! We’ve teamed up with Sony Pictures to offer three lucky Way Too Indie newsletter subscribers...
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TIFF Announces Final Films Including Discovery and Kids Programs
The final slew of scheduled film additions were announced today for this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which includes 39 films in the Discovery Program, four premieres in the Kids Program and much, much more. Major new releases include...
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