The Auteurs Daily: In Theaters, 9/11.
David HudsonAs Venice winds down and Toronto revs up, US audiences are looking at a strange weekend at the movies. 9 and Crude (roundups) are already out and what's left signals a reluctance on the part
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The Auteurs Daily: Toronto. Creation
David Hudson"In case you missed it, 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of the publication of his masterpiece, On the Origin of Species." Blogging
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. I Am Love
David Hudson"In every sense, I Am Love is a stunning achievement," declares Jay Weissberg in Variety (where Nick Vivarelli reports on the press conference in Venice). "Luca Guadagnino does more than expertly
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. Videocracy
David Hudson"If you wanted to script a cautionary tale about the politics of fame (and the fame of politics), you couldn't come up with anything more apt and odd thanErik Gandini's documentary Videocracy
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The Auteurs Daily: TIFF 09 Index
David HudsonThe Toronto International Film Festival is off and running through September 19. Here's where the Daily-style collections of reviews and related linkage are gathered for quick and easy perusal;
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London Film Festival: Lineup
David HudsonThe full and proper name is The Times BFI 53rd London Film Festival and it opens on October 14 with Fantastic Mr Fox. As that's only one of three films featuring a certain American charmer in
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The Auteurs Daily: In theaters, 9/9.
David HudsonOf the handful of films opening this year with "9" or "Nine" in their titles, only one opens on 9/9/09. Also noted in this quick roundup: two documentaries; and a couple of series launching
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice, Toronto and NYFF. Lebanon
David Hudson"Visceral, torn-from-the-memory filmmaking that packs every punch except one to the heart, Lebanon is the boldest and best of the recent mini-wave of Israeli pics (Beaufort, Waltz With
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice and Toronto. The Men Who Stare at Goats
David Hudson"Good Night, and Good Luck director George Clooney and screenwriter Grant Heslov again team up for Heslov's feature-directing bow, a wild spoof on the US Army research's into psychic phenomena
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The Auteurs Daily: Wrapping Telluride 09
David Hudson"It was a solid if not stellar year at Telluride," writes Anne Thompson at indieWIRE. "Co-directors Tom Luddy and Gary Meyer perservered through the crazy economy by cutting back their budget
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The Auteurs Daily: Venice. Tetsuo the Bullet Man
David Hudson"Brace yourself for disappointment," warns Todd Brown at Twitch. "As painful as it is to say, Shinya Tsukamoto's Tetsuo the Bullet Man is far indeed from being the triumphant return to the
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The Auteurs Daily: Telluride. The Last Station
David Hudson"A melodramatic account of the tempestuous final year of Leo Tolstoy's life, The Last Station is solid middlebrow biographical fare in which meaty roles are acted to the hilt by a cast