TIFF 5 of 5: Violet & Daisy
We wrapped our 2011 film festival last night with Violet & Daisy (imdb | tiff) at the Ryerson Theatre. It was written and directed by first-timer Geoffrey Fletcher, who wrote […]
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TIFF 4 of 5: The Loneliest Planet
Five years ago Nellie and I saw what would become one of our all-time favourite TIFF movies: Day Night Day Night. When we saw a film in this year’s schedule […]
TIFF 3 of 5: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
I have written many, many times about the West Memphis Three, including a few weeks ago when they were released from prison after 17 years. Shortly after that Joe Berlinger […]
TIFF 2 of 5: The Hunter
Our second movie of the festival, and this year’s “Hey…how did that get there?” selection, was The Hunter (imdb | tiff), starring Willem Dafoe, but really starring the amazing landscapes […]
TIFF 1 of 5: Into The Abyss
Anytime you can start a festival with a Werner Herzog documentary, you should start a festival with a Werner Herzog documentary. So we started our 2011 fest with Into The […]
Last box, shmast shmox
Just got the TIFF email. Despite being in the last box to be processed, we got 4 first choices and 1 second choice. Incroyable! That means we’re seeing: Into the […]
Foiled again
I thought had it bad last year when our TIFF box was the second-last one picked. This year we’re in the absolute last box. #19, when box #20 (of 33 […]
The big TIFF narrow-down
Actually, not so big this year. Still lots among the ~500 movies that I want to see, but not as thick a crop as it seems to have been in […]
