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Friday, September 23 2011

Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘A Dangerous Method’

David Cronenberg's latest is a chilly study of the creative and competitive triangle between Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender), and the lesser-known Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightly) in the early years of the 20th century.


Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘The Day’

Can a cannibal ever truly be redeemed? For the answer to this Augustinian question I guess you could watch The Day, but it's probably better to just let that be one of life's unaswerables.


Wednesday, September 21 2011

Mood was dark in films at Toronto film festival


Friday, September 16 2011

Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Into the Abyss’

In his documentaries especially, Herzog throws the supposed regulations out completely, ditching any pretense toward objectivity or “documentation” for a decidedly first-person perspective


Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Sons of Norway’

Sons of Norway, mockingly named after a Norwegian cultural heritage preservation society, tells the story of the role punk music and culture influenced a young boy on the cusp of his adolescence in 1978.


Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘The Descendants’

This is a mature and well-executed study of what happens when people die and leave us with their messes to clean up.


Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Kill List’

Kill List is the single most demented horror film I have seen in years, and maybe also the very best.


Thursday, September 15 2011

Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’

An exquisite, terrifying, and marvelously vertiginous film, Martha Marcy May Marlene is my favourite movie of the Festival, and may stand up as my favourite picture of the year.


A murky Oscar picture at Toronto


Toronto International Film Festival 2011: ‘Elles’

Although in some ways a seductive feminist study of sex, power, and commerce -- for Binoche is writing this article for money, we cannot forget -- the overall impression by film's end is one of bewilderment rather than contemplation.


Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Five (Notes from the Road) [12.Sep.08]
Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Four (Notes from the Road) [10.Sep.08]
Toronto International Film Festival 08: Day Three (Notes from the Road) [9.Sep.08]
Toronto International Film Festival 2008: Day One (Notes from the Road) [5.Sep.08]
10 days of film in Toronto (News) [5.Sep.07]
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