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Toronto International Film Festival Group

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Down the Dante Hole

    ​A funny thing happened on my way to this year's Toronto International Film Festival: I detoured through Venice, where the world's oldest film festival, the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica di Venezia, had invited me to serve on the jury for its inaugural Persol 3D award. The competiti ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2009

    Girls On Skates, Geezer with Guns

    ​Maybe it was the phalanx of real-life roller derby girls high-fiving everyone at the entrance to the Ryerson Theatre, or perhaps the irrepressibly perky Drew Barrymore just touches a particular sweet spot in the hearts and minds of the Toronto Film Festival's unapologetically positivist, always-h ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 13, 2009

    Hollywood's Labor Pains or, Why the Numbers Still Matter

    ​Although the official start of Fall is still a couple of weeks away, Hollywood's Autumnal Equinox is already upon us, as the books are closed on the 2009 summer movie season and the curtain goes up on the Toronto International Film Festival, the still-humid summer air starting to hum with the fir ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    December 25, 2008

    Waltz With Bashir: Ari Folman's New Animation Blurs Line Between Fiction and Nonfiction

    Film depicts Lebanese militia's infamous massacre of Palestinians at Sabra-Shatila

  • Film+TV

    October 30, 2008

    AFI Festival: Quixotic Filmmaking with Albert Serra

    Fearlessly original Birdsong paired with a "making of" doc

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2008

    Toronto in the Round

    As the Toronto Film Festival neared its end, I agreed to participate in a roundtable discussion about the festival's highs and lows, organized by Eye Weekly critics Jason Anderson and Adam Nayman (the latter an occasional L.A. Weekly contributor) and also featuring Variety critic Robert Koehler and ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 11, 2008

    Disappointments and Surprises: Toronto International Film Festival

    When good directors go bad

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Double Impact

    When good directors go bad

  • Blogs

    September 4, 2008

    Passchen-less

    The desperation of the Toronto Film Festival to land a high-profile new Canadian film for its annual opening-night gala has rarely been more palpable than in the case of this year's Passchendaele, an expensive exercise in maple-leaf patriotism set before, during and after the titular World War I bat ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    September 4, 2008

    Thank God It's the End of Summer!

    (Annual rant)

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Superior Mother: The Orphanage

    Spain's Belén Rueda haunts in this dark, open-ended tale

  • Film+TV

    December 20, 2007

    Juan Antonio Bayona: Refinding Neverland

    A conversation with The Orphanage’s master of melancholic terror

  • Film+TV

    November 1, 2007

    Seeing the Light with Director Carlos Reygadas

    Redemption, religion and reconsideration

  • Film+TV

    October 25, 2007

    Film Reviews: Rails & Ties, Jimmy Carter Man From Plains

    Redemption, religion and reconsideration

  • Music

    October 18, 2007

    Joy Division to the World

    Ian Curtis’ afterlife seems like it’s been one big after-party

  • Film+TV

    October 11, 2007

    Lake of Fire: Pro-Debate

    17 years in the making, Tony Kaye’s epic abortion doc gives a lot — but no answer

  • Film+TV

    October 11, 2007

    Humpty Dumpty Back Together Again

    Tony Kaye returns with a new feature and an epic survey of the abortion debate

  • Film+TV

    September 20, 2007

    So Close, and Yet So Far

    The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  • Blogs

    September 12, 2007

    Israeli Film Grows Up

    Just how far the relationship between tech-toys and journalistic self-importance has progressed might be measured by the man loudly working two cell phones and a laptop right down to the wire at my first Toronto Film Festival screening. At least he had the grace to power down once the movie started, ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2007

    Lust, Yawn, Caution

    There is a famous story about actor-director Erich von Stroheim that goes something like this: Cast as Rommel in Billy Wilder's 1943 Five Graves to Cairo, Stroheim was given a prop Leica camera as part of the character's wardrobe and proceeded to demand that the camera have film in it. When Wilder a ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 8, 2007

    The Sound of Silence

    Down from the monastery, Philip Gröning speaks up. Also, a review of Into Great Silence

  • News

    October 26, 2006

    Tasty Tidbits From Hollywood's Frenzied Fall

    Borat slumps, Dubya dies, Fields goes free and Lansing dishes?

  • Film+TV

    September 21, 2006

    Real to Reel

    Visions of lives less traveled at Toronto 2006

  • Film+TV

    September 21, 2006

    The World According to Amadeus

    The Toronto Film Festival throws Mozart an early birthday bash

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2006

    Vote For Pedro (and Larry)

    The small but conspicuous coterie of film critics seen perambulating this year's Toronto Film Festival decked out in red-and-white "Vote For Pedro" t-shirts were not, despite the potential misunderstanding, expressing their undying love for Napoleon Dynamite. Rather, the Pedro in question was Pedro ... More >>

  • News

    June 29, 2006

    Super-Manly Makeovers, Slackers and Perkbusters

    It’s gonna be a long, hot summer in Hollywood

  • Film+TV

    May 18, 2006

    Over the Hedge and Under the Radar

    Mapping today’s kiddie-movie landscape

  • News

    April 20, 2006

    The Accidental Publicist

    Mickey Cottrell

  • Film+TV

    March 16, 2006

    Border Crossings

    Claire Denis On Intruders Internal and External

  • Film+TV

    February 2, 2006

    Sundance in Fragments

    Festival’s documentaries offer a survey of global disorder

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2005

    Days 5 & 6: The Midpoint

    Halfway through this year's Toronto Film Festival, gossip about the festival's hits and misses has reached something of a fever pitch. As far as I've been able to gather, a few movies — Bennett Miller's Capote, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain among them ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 4, 2005

    Short Cuts

    Halfway through this year's Toronto Film Festival, gossip about the festival's hits and misses has reached something of a fever pitch. As far as I've been able to gather, a few movies — Bennett Miller's Capote, Michael Winterbottom's Tristram Shandy and Ang Lee's Brokeback Mountain among them ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    May 26, 2005

    Trusting Gregg

    From Third Rock to Araki with Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  • Film+TV

    September 23, 2004

    The World Comes to Toronto

    As do the rest of us

  • Film+TV

    June 17, 2004

    So Very Good

    Rachel Rosen programs the Los Angeles Film Festival

  • Film+TV

    February 12, 2004

    Directing Between the Lines

    Andrey Zvyagintsev deepens the text

  • Film+TV

    January 8, 2004

    Tales from the Vienna ’hood

    Dog Days and the New Austrian Cinema

  • Film+TV

    October 16, 2003

    Once Upon a Time in the East

    Quentin Tarantino’s Kill Bill (or half of it, anyway)

  • Film+TV

    September 25, 2003

    Master, Old and New

    One way to Toronto 2003

  • Film+TV

    September 25, 2003

    Catch as Catch Can

    One way to Toronto 2003

  • Film+TV

    July 31, 2003

    Summer Stock

    Low Camp, grand Hotel

  • News

    December 12, 2002

    Letters

    Low Camp, grand Hotel

  • Film+TV

    April 4, 2002

    Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome

    ArcLight Cinemas wants you (at $14 a pop)

  • Film+TV

    January 17, 2002

    Caught Looking

    New Iranian films, Old World dilemmas

  • News

    September 27, 2001

    Dread Again

    New Iranian films, Old World dilemmas

  • Film+TV

    April 12, 2001

    The Contender

    Director Alejandro González Iñárritu, from Mexico to Hollywood

  • Film+TV

    March 8, 2001

    Bliss Out

    Filmmaker Hou Hsiao-hsien’s world of feeling

  • Film+TV

    October 5, 2000

    Canada Semi-dry

    The Toronto Film Festival turns 25

  • Film+TV

    July 13, 2000

    Too Simple

    Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

  • Film+TV

    September 24, 1998

    Hypeless in Toronto

    Filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen

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