Posts tagged Toronto International Film Festival
We Live in Time: Come for the Predictable Romantic Dramedy, Stay for the Chemistry
By Karen Gordon
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The Deb: TIFF '24's Muted Closing Gala was a Mean Girl-ish Musical That Should Be Heard
ReviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, TIFF '24, Teen movie musicals, Australian movie musicals, Actors turned director, Rebel Wilson, The Deb, Charlotte MacInnes, Natalie Abbott, Naomi Sequeira
The Dead Don't Hurt: Black Hats and Grey Morals in Viggo Mortensen's Western Revenge Tale
Original-Cin Chat: The Dead Don't Hurt's Viggo Mortensen on Why the Old West is All in the Details
KILL: The Name Says It All, As Bollywood Goes Full Die-Hard-On-a-Train
Original-Cin Q&A: DJ-Turned-Director D.W. Waterson Talks Backspot and Hard-Core Cheerleading
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekMovies about competitive cheerleading, Backspot, Canadian films, Toronto International Film Festival, DJs turned director, D.W. Waterson, Elliot Page, Devery Jacobs, Evan Rachel Wood, Rhymes for Young Ghouls, Into the Forest, Producer Alona Metzer
Original-Cin Q&A: Fingernails director Christos Nikou on Love Apps and Annie Murphy's Dance Moves
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekTechno dating, Fingernails, Sci-fi romantic drama, Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Annie Murphy, Toronto International Film Festival, Christos Nikou, Apple TV+
Dumb Money: When the Little Guys Beat Wall Street for a Hot Minute
ReviewJim SlotekDumb Money, GameStop "short squeeze", Movies based on real life stock scandal, Toronto International Film Festival, Paul Dano, America Ferrera, Shailene Woodley, Seth Rogen, Nick Offerman, Craig Gillespie
TIFF Short Cuts: But What I REALLY Want to Do is Direct a Feature
Preview, InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Short Cuts programme, Short film as a stepping stone to features, Redlights, Eva Thomas, Starlight Tours inflicted on Indigenous people, Kaniehtiio Horn, Ellyn Jade, Jennifer Podemsk
Original-Cin Q&A: Actor Matthias Schweighöfer on the Syrian women refugee athletes who inspired The Swimmers
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Interview: Buffy Sainte-Marie Comes to TIFF Where She Belongs
Original-Cin Interview: Rik Emmett on being the 'Yoko' in the Triumph TIFF film
10 minutes of Dune: An intriguing glimpse of Denis Villeneuve’s 'unfilmable' film
The Way I See It: Obama's Presidential photographer focuses on Trump through an angry lens
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekPresidential photographer, Pete Souza, Documentary The Way I See it, Warnings about Donald Trump, Shade: A Tale of Two Presidents, Obama: An Intimate Portrait, Ronald Reagan, Sandy Hook shootings, 2020 Presidential election, Toronto International Film Festival
TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Programmer Peter Kuplowsky, Shadow In The Cloud, Alex Winter's Freaked, Tetsuro Takeuchi's Guitar Wolf, Get The Hell Out, Taiwanese zombie movie, I.-Fan Wang, Edgar Wright, Stephen Chow, Temple of Devilbuster
TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy
By Linda Barnard
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InterviewJim SlotekIdris Elba, Concrete Cowboy, Jamil “Mil” Prattis, Philadelphia's Fletcher Street Stables, Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things, Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black, Toronto International Film Festival, Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight, Lee Daniels, Ricky Staub, Greg Neri’s 2009 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Actors learning to ride a horse
Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian
InterviewJim SlotekThe Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Old Fort William, Metis, Thomas King, History of Indigenous land losses, Toronto International Film Festival, Viceland Rise, Trickster, Eden Robinson, Trail of Tears, Ipperwash, Oka, Battle of Little Bighorn, Lakota Sioux, Crow tribe, Cultural appropriation, West Hollywood Halloween Parade, Caledonia, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock
Original-Cin Q&A: Atom Egoyan and David Thewlis talk up film about an overzealous health inspector with a secret
By Bonnie Laufer
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Original-Cin Q&A: Palestinian director Elia Suleiman talks about his absurdist approach to inflammatory reality
Review, InterviewJim SlotekElia Suleiman, It Must Be Heaven, Palestinian filmmaker, Absurdist social comment, Guy Sprung, Gael Garcia Bernal, Cannes Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Movies released online during pandemic, Yasmine Hamdan, Keystone Cops, Buster Keaton, Jacques Tati
Original-Cin Q&A: Noah Jupe on playing a young Shia LaBeouf and stickhandling Hollywood
By Bonnie Laufer
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InterviewJim SlotekNoah Jupe, Suburbicon, Wonder, A Quiet Place, A Quiet Place: Part II, Ford v Ferrari, Christian Bale, Matt Damon, Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf, Alma Har'e, Lucas Hedges, Autobiographical dramas, Child actors, Toronto International Film Festival
