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TIFF’s Cameron Bailey On Toronto As “City Of Festivals”

TIFF’s Cameron Bailey On Toronto As “City Of Festivals” 24-min vid

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Magnolia Takes This Waltz

Magnolia Takes This Waltz For Summer 2012

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SPC Acquires TIFF Audience Choice Where Do We Go Now?

SPC Acquires TIFF Audience Choice Where Do We Go Now?

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The Blur Of Indie Sales: TIFF ’11 Edition

with all the chatter about the 30+ sales at TIFF this year, there were a total of 6 buys by companies in those 20 that generate major dollars. Searchlight bought Shame, CBS bought Salmon Fishing in The Yemen (which seems to be the high sale of the year at $4 million), Lionsgate bought two films, one with Roadside (Friends With Kids) and the other on their own, You’re Next, The Hunter, and IFC grabbed Your Sister’s Sister and for their new IFC Midnight division, The Incident.

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Millennium Locates Rampart

Millennium Locates Rampart

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Kino Lorber Picks Up Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot

Kino Lorber Picks Up Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Headshot

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DP/30: God Bless America, writer/director Bobcat Goldthwait

Earlier with Bob…. after the jump….

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Friedkin Talks Killer Joe

Friedkin Talks Killer Joe

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Longworth Spies No Award Frontrunners In TIFF11 Wrap

Longworth Spies No Award Frontrunners In TIFF11 Wrap

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Lionsgate Sez You’re Next

Lionsgate Sez You’re Next

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Bobcat Goldthwait On His Rage And God Bless America

Bobcat Goldthwait On His Rage And God Bless America

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TIFF ’11 Reviews: Last Roundup — Your Sister’s Sister, Chicken with Plums, Pink Ribbons, Inc. and Lucky

Your Sister’s Sister With her latest film, Your Sister’s Sister, writer-director Lynn Shelton again teams up with Mark Duplass, who plays Jack, an affable slacker caught between two sisters, Iris (Emily Blunt) and Hannah (Rosemarie DeWitt) in this lightly drawn but well-executed tale. Shelton has a knack for putting average people into beyond-average situations, as…

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Music Box Films Into Deep Blue Sea

Music Box Films Into Deep Blue Sea

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TIFF ’11 Reviews: Oslo, August 31 and Melancholia

Oslo, August 31 One of the last films I caught at TIFF this year, almost by accident, was Oslo, August 31, the sophomore effort of Reprise director Joachim Trier. Oslo, August 31 reunites Trier with Anders Danielsen Lie (who played Phillip, the troubled writer of Reprise) in this spare film about addiction, the choices that…

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Talking Wavelengths With TIFF’s Andréa Picard

Talking Wavelengths With TIFF’s Andréa Picard

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Toronto’s People’s Choice Award Goes To Nadine Lebaki’s Lebanese Talkie Where Do We Go Now

Toronto’s People’s Choice Award Goes To Lebanese-Canadian Nadine Lebaki’s Talkie Where Do We Go Now And – “The Fresh New Face Of Lebanon” Plus – Other Prizes Go To The Raid, The Island President, More

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Nat’l Post’s Worst-Best Glimpses Of TIFF

Nat’l Post’s Worst-Best Glimpses Of TIFF

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DP/30 @ TIFF ’11: Your Sister’s Sister

Meet the family of My Sister’s Sister. Writer/director Lynn Shelton and co-stars Mark Duplass and Emily Blunt.

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TIFF ’11 Review: Alps

One of my strongest festival memories is of watching Giorgos Lanthimos’ third film, Dogtooth, at TIFF in 2009, and walking out of the theater with a mass of fellow dazed critics, filled with excitement at having just seen this bizarrely brilliant work by an artist who seemed to materialize out of nowhere with the rare…

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10 Not-Unseen Films At TIFF Still Without U. S. Distribution

10 Not-Unseen Films At TIFF Still Without U. S. Distribution

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“Just got back from Dark Shadows at the Lincoln Square IMAX (102′ wide screen, over 50 sears per row). I loved almost every second of it. What a shock. I can see why people under 49 hate it, and it’s not just because of its ’60s TV roots–it’s a very traditional, classic-style horror film: leisurely-paced, character-driven, beautifully designed (mostly real sets, not CGI), music used as a humorous or ironic underline, not particularly violent (there’s more blood in the 1970 version), perfectly cast with superb actors, and of course a nice sense of humor to balance the horror. No jump scenes, no teens sliced to pieces by some mask-wearing non-entity, just good old-fashioned story-telling. It’s more like Hugo than Hostel, and not just because it shares cast members and underperformed. And as for the much-derided third act: the complaints are horseshit. Everything that takes place in the climax is logically built up to in what precedes it. Yes, the werewolf is a surprise, but it shouldn’t be given the family history and that character’s behavior, and the explanation is eminently reasonable. In an era where Bridesmaids is considered award-worthy writing, it’s no surprise that many people have forgotten what a well-made script can be like. So fuck all the haters. Dark Shadows lived up to my expectations (no small feat), and should be seen by everyone who still appreciates quality, grown-up, Old Hollywood-style filmmaking. Cadavra has spoken.”
~ Cadavra on Dark Shadows

‘This grooming and styling thing? It’s fucking poodles. Human poodles. I feel sorry for a poodle because he’s a dog. You know, a dog is a fucking great creature. They would do anything for you. And the poodle gets a haircut. No one asks if the poodle wants his hair cut like that. Do they? They just fucking cut his hair like that. And he just walks around. And everyone is like, “Why is that poodle so snarky?” Fuck you. Style, I think, is panache. Who are you? What did you do today? And what are you worth to me? What do you have to offer the world? How did you spend your time today on this planet? How are you spending your time every second? What are you doing now? Are you alive, or are you somnambulant? If you are somnambulant, then you are a fucking prick. Style is your ability to be awake. But who the fuck am I to judge? I’m starting to get really arrogant.”
GQ: Whose tuxedo did you wear on the red carpet here in Cannes?
“J.Lindeberg. Because I really love his suits.”
~ Stylin’ Tom Hardy

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