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Category: screenings

festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THE BAD BATCH plays TIFF 2016

The woman behind A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT dares you to wander into the desert and take another bite.

Posted on September 14, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

AMERICAN HONEY plays Tiff 2016

“Steady as a preacher, free as a weed…” can both be exploited for American need.

Posted on September 13, 2016September 11, 2020
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

BUSTER’S MAL HEART plays TIFF 2016

When paying one’s dues turns into overtaxation, how long until one is completely bankrupt?

Posted on September 12, 2016September 18, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

A UNITED KINGDOM plays TIFF 2016

It’s the small, subtle moments that make the biggest movies so memorable.

Posted on September 11, 2016September 15, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WEREWOLF plays TIFF 2016

When a film rubs you the wrong way, is it because you don’t like it? Or because you don’t like how it makes you feel?

Posted on September 10, 2016September 13, 2016
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

THINGS TO COME plays TIFF 2016

Study the ways of the world all you want; the world will still do to you whatever it damned well pleases.

Posted on September 9, 2016September 13, 2016
essays, screenings, thoughts & opinions

A Sky Full of Stars: One Theatre, One Day, Six STAR WARS Films

A few days ago, in a theatre not that far away…

Posted on November 19, 2015July 3, 2019
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

WITCH plays TIFF 2015

Lift up your hands and pray for salvation…but have a back-up plan, just in case that doesn’t work.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 27, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

HITCHCOCK /TRUFFAUT plays TIFF 2015

A love letter to a pair of cinematic giants who both lived for – and through – cinema.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 27, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

GIRLS LOST plays TIFF 2015

Girls who are boys
Who like boys to be girls
Who do boys like they’re girls
Who do girls like they’re boys

Posted on September 20, 2015September 25, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

LOVE plays TIFF 2015

There’s sex and there’s love. What we find in-between is both ugly and beautiful.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 25, 2015
festivals, reactions, screenings, TIFF

NORTHERN SOUL plays TIFF 2015

Just go to the dance hall and visit your very obscure, not to be identified by name friends.

Posted on September 20, 2015September 21, 2015

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