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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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Life in a Fishbowl (TIFF Review)
Iceland takes a stab at the multiple narrative structure with Life in a Fishbowl, a film that’s become a hit in its home country. The film follows three different people living in the same town, and as these stories usually...
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TIFF 2014: Force Majeure
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20 Must See Werner Herzog Films
“The collapse of the stellar universe will occur – like creation – in grandiose splendor” – Blaise Pascal (from Lessons Of Darkness) Explorer, provocateur, genius, madman. Werner Herzog has been called lots of things, and whether you consider yourself...
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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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The Mainstream: Finally, the Summer Is Over
We may seem like reclusive budget-shirking obscure film enthusiasts over here at Way Too Indie, and well, some of us are, but we’re not living in any dark holes and far be it from of us to say that...
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Hannah Murray Had Two of the Happiest Months of Her Life Making ‘God Help the Girl’
Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s indie-pop fantasy God Help the Girl is a musical that’s been in the works for a good decade or so. In 2009 he finished and released a concept album of the same name he’d been...
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Olly Alexander Auditioned For ‘God Help the Girl’ on a ‘Shitty’ Keyboard
Belle & Sebastian frontman Stuart Murdoch’s indie-pop fantasy God Help the Girl is a musical that’s been in the works for a good decade or so. In 2009 he finished and released a concept album of the same name he’d...
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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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God Help the Girl
It’s a scary thing for a first-time director to take on a musical in his first at-bat, but Stuart Murdoch is a seasoned artist with experience in another art form. That art form happens to be music: Murdoch is the...
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Tracy Droz Tragos On Finding Hope and Love in Rich Hill
With her incredible documentary Rich Hill, Tracy Droz Tragos takes us into the homes and minds of three teenage boys–Appachey, Andrew, and Harley–living in poverty in rural Rich Hill, Missouri. The boys’ experiences aren’t atypical; there are thousands of...
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Our Favorite Short Films Playing At TIFF 2014
It’s that time of year again. The Toronto International Film Festival is ready to start, and we’re ready to bring as much coverage as we can to our readers. And while people will be talking about the celebrities or...
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