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Category: TIFF

News, views, and thoughts from the circus that takes over my home town every September. Films discussed are never rated.

festivals, reactions, TIFF

MEN, WOMEN & CHILDREN plays TIFF 2014

Jason Reitman wants to talk about how the internet has changed love and sex. But is it too early for that conversation…and do we even have time to have it?

Posted on September 9, 2014September 11, 2020
reactions, TIFF

BIG GAME plays TIFF 2014

It’s not enough to act fun, sometimes you actually have to be fun.

Posted on September 8, 2014September 11, 2014
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2014 pt. ii

Talkin’ BIG GAME with Brian J. Roan as TIFF 2014 coverage continues.

Posted on September 8, 2014September 10, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

KAHLIL GIBRAN’S THE PROPHET plays TIFF 2014

Forget about a story for a moment, and give yourself over to poetry.

Posted on September 7, 2014September 13, 2014
festivals, matineecast, podcasts, TIFF

Wicked Little Town – TIFF 2014 pt. i

Talkin’ CONFESSION – and the entire Toronto Adventure – with French Toast Sunday as TIFF 2014 coverage begins

Posted on September 7, 2014September 9, 2014
reactions, TIFF

COMING HOME (Gui lai) plays TIFF 2014

The poetry of true love and heartbreak, as only Zhang Yimou can recite.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 9, 2014
reactions, TIFF

ST. VINCENT plays TIFF 2014

When a master picks up his instrument, you seldom care what the master chooses to play.

Posted on September 6, 2014October 18, 2014
reactions, TIFF

THE TALE OF PRINCESS KAGUYA plays TIFF 2014

Takahata breathes new life into an ancient Japanese folk-talk, and leaves us wondering if he is taking a bow in the process.

Posted on September 6, 2014September 8, 2014
festivals, reactions, TIFF

SHREW’S NEST (MUSARAÑOS) plays TIFF 2014

My TIFF adventure begins with a grisly bedtime story from a country that is fast becoming the best at telling grisly bedtime stories.

Posted on September 5, 2014September 7, 2014
thoughts & opinions, TIFF

This is Happening: The Matinee Heads to TIFF 2014

Let me play currator for the next two weeks, won’t you?

Posted on September 4, 2014September 7, 2014
TIFF

Here Comes the Flood: My TIFF 2014 Selections

My selections have been made. Here’s what you can anticipate reading about and hearing about over the next few weeks of TIFF 2014 coverage around these parts.

Posted on August 26, 2014August 31, 2014
festivals, news, TIFF

News of The World 2014 pt iv – TIFF Announces Guests, Mavericks, TIFF Kids, and More

TIFF rounds out its slate, and they’ve saved a lot of the best stuff until last.

Posted on August 19, 2014September 4, 2014

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