TIFF
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They Have Escaped (TIFF Review)
Finnish filmmaker J.-P. Valkeapää comes up with a wild take on a boy-meets-girl story in They Have Escaped,...
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TIFF 2014: Backcountry
Opening with the camera tracking towards an unseen but, based on the sound design, grisly sight, Backcountry immediately foreshadows...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Bird People (TIFF Review)
Bird People begins with a montage of people coming and going on subway trains throughout Paris. It’s a...
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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...
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The New Girlfriend (TIFF Review)
If there’s anything we’ve learned from François Ozon‘s past work it’s this: The man is unafraid to explore...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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,...