Toronto International Film Festival
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TIFF 2014: Cub
Jonas Govaerts’ Cub feels all too familiar, a significant problem given its promising concept and imagery. On a...
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TIFF 2014: Goodnight Mommy
Austrian filmmakers Veronika Franz (wife of auteur Ulrich Seidl) and Severin Fiala first present Goodnight Mommy as a...
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Still the Water (TIFF Review)
At one point during Still the Water, a character says one has to “keep a humble attitude towards...
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TIFF 2014: Two Shots Fired
Two Shots Fired opens with teenager Mariano (Rafael Federman) dancing at a nightclub, going home, doing the chores...
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TIFF 2014: Hill of Freedom
Hong Sang-soo has made yet another film (his 16th one, to be exact), and for those aware of...
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TIFF 2014: Fires on the Plain
Shinya Tsukamoto tackles Shohei Ooka’s 1951 novel in Fires on the Plain, a graphic, borderline-exploitative take on the...
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TIFF 2014: Hungry Hearts
The opening scene of Saverio Costanzo’s first English language film Hungry Hearts defines the meaning of situational irony....
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TIFF 2014: The Keeping Room
Set in the American South in 1865, two rogue Union soldiers (Sam Worthington and Kyle Soller) scout and...
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TIFF 2014: 1001 Grams
Prominent Norwegian filmmaker Bent Hamer returns to the festival in the Masters program with his latest film 1001...
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Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait (TIFF Review)
As Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait opens, a title card claims “1,001 Syrians” helped make the film. The reason...
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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...