TIFF 2010. Day 8
Daniel Kasman0845 Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (Tsui Hark, China) In marked contrast to Takashi Miike’s staunchly assignment-like, termite-filled genre epic
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TIFF 2010. Day 7
Daniel Kasman0742 Confessions (Tetsuya Nakashima, Japan) Here’s a film that, in away, people will eat up because the filmmaker knows exactly what he’s doing to what intended effect. What he’s doing is presenting
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TIFF 2010. John Cameron Mitchell's "Rabbit Hole"
David Hudson"[E]ssentially, what director John Cameron Mitchell has is powerhouse material — the story involves a couple coping with their child's death from a car accident — and two really fine actors, Nicole
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TIFF 2010. Romain Gavras's "Our Day Will Come"
David Hudson"You can tell how people feel about French filmmaker Romain Gavras in an instant," writes David Fear, introducing his interview with the director. "Just mention the music videos he did for the techno
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TIFF 2010. "John Carpenter's The Ward"
David Hudson"Tight as a drum and plenty of fun, John Carpenter's first film in nine years is hardly a groundbreaker, but when the execution is this expert, why complain?" asks Tim Grierson in Screen. "Consciously
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TIFF 2010. Day 6
Daniel Kasman0639 Caves of Forgotten Dreams (Werner Herzog, USA) If you’ve been waiting for a truly creative, for a truly auteur use of 3-D, here it is. (And now maybe we can forget about
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TIFF 2010. Werner Herzog's "Cave of Forgotten Dreams"
David Hudson"Cave of Forgotten Dreams looks at the marvels inside the Chauvet caves of Southern France, a setting nature preserved so perfectly that cave paintings from nearly 30,000 years ago have suffered little
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TIFF 2010. Day 5
Daniel Kasman0537 The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (Andrei Ujica, Romania) Andrei Ujica has a simple, ingenious idea for this documentary on Romanian Communist leader Nicolae Ceausescu: tell the man’s political
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TIFF 2010. Mike Mills's "Beginners"
David Hudson"Pumping the same veins as countless quirky-dreary Amerindies (sick parents, gay parents, arrested development, vintage fetishism, dirty-haired girls as feminine ideals, anthropomorphized animals
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TIFF 2010. Clint Eastwood's "Hereafter"
David Hudson"Clint Eastwood's Hereafter opens with the most exciting, expertly assembled flood scene in movie history," declares Time's Richard Corliss. "A tsunami gathers force in its path toward an Asian beach
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Takashi Miike
fabrizio maltesePhoto by Fabrizio Maltese/EF Press/fabriziomaltese.com. Venice 2010. 13 Assassins (roundup) screens in Toronto today, Thursday and Sunday. Series: A Decade with Takashi Miike.
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Venice and TIFF 2010. Athina Rachel Tsangari's "Attenberg"
David HudsonLet's begin this one with Josef Braun's first review in his first dispatch from Toronto: "Like last year's Dogtooth, which [Athina Rachel] Tsangari co-produced, Attenberg is marked by its somewhat