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Author: Ryan McNeil

my back pages goodbye cinema hello cinephilia, jonathan rosenbaum

Things Have Changed: Reading Jonathan Rosenbaum’s Goodbye Cinema, Hello Cinephilia

June 11, 2013

It’s all fun and games until someone brings up Fassbinder…

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Ryan McNeil
Toronto dundas square, harbourfront, tiff lightbox

Summer Nights: Free Movies at TIFF, Harbourfront, and Dundas Square

June 10, 2013

It’s like a free trip to the movie theatre, without the movie theatre.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 4 stars, before midnight, drama, ethan hawke, julie delpy, richard linklater

BEFORE MIDNIGHT

June 9, 2013

Over eighteen years, we have watched the sun rise and set on Celine and Jesse. It’s time to take one more walk with them, and say everything that needs to be said before the clock strikes midnight.

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Ryan McNeil
the watchlist barton fink, before midnight, desperado, farewell my concubine, how to succeed in business without really trying, the sapphires

Days of The Week (Films Watched June 1 – June 7)

June 8, 2013

Quality over quantity this week as I ponder my choice to rewatch.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 2.5 stars, aasif mandvi, comedy, dylan o'brien, john goodman, josh brener, max minghella, owen wilson, rose byrne, the internship, tiya sircar, vince vaughn

THE INTERNSHIP

June 7, 2013

This summer’s latest comedy feels a lot like ARMAGEDDON.
Just…y’know…with less asteroids and Aerosmith.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3 stars, australian, chris o'dowd, deborah mailman, jessica mauboy, miranda tapsell, shari sebbens, the sapphires

THE SAPPHIRES

June 6, 2013

An Australian film drops a quarter in the jukebox and gets our toes a-tappin’.

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Ryan McNeil
reviews 3.5 stars, angela molina, blancanieves, daniel giménez cacho, foreign, macarena garcía, pablo berger, silent, sofía oria, spanish

BLANCANIEVES

June 5, 2013

There are no mirrors or huntsmen to be found in this latest adaptation of a familiar tale, and it very well may be the fairest of them all.

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Ryan McNeil
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