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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

> If Arthur Schnitzler had only been a member of the WGA in 1900, when he wrote the play La Ronde, and he’d had the benefit of the format rights guild members receive today, he and his descendants would be very rich indee...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

MELANCHOLIA – Watch It At Home – The Title Tells the Tale Here’s a quick primer in Oscar rules and how studios can get around them. In order for a film to be Oscar-eligible (other than i...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

> DRIVE is a self-conscious genre movie, and those are tricky propositions. On the one hand, you need to make your existential or other textual statement with all the artistry at your command; on the other, you still have...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”

BEING FLYNN: Watch It At Home – Troubling Story That Doesn’t Go Deep Enough There’s a scene in Paul Weitz’s new film BEING FLYNN where Jonathan Flynn (Robert DeNiro), the alcoholic...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”

> It’s anyone’s guess why Francis Ford Coppola, at the age of 72, with some enduring cinema classics to his name, would decide to make a movie that’s a cross between a David Lynch retread, an old horror cheapi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR: Buy A Ticket – A 3-Hour Deep Dive Into A Character’s Soul BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR is relentlessly, sometimes suffocatingly intimate. By that I don’t mean its celebrated,...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

> Derick Martini’s HICK is like a Sundance movie that took the wrong indie-film exit and wound up in Toronto. For whatever reason, Toronto’s film festival tends to find itself with fewer stories of young peopl...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

Natalie Portman certainly hasn’t made it easy for herself with her debut as a writer/director, A TALE OF LOVE AND DARKNESS. The film, which premiered at Cannes (but tellingly, doesn’t yet have a US distribu...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Shame”

> Although Fox Searchlight didn’t actually acquire Steve McQueen’s film Shame until last Saturday, in a sense the marketing campaign for the film began when the producers made it clear that the film would not be edi...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Lobster”

The allegory is piled on so thickly in Yorgos Lanthimos’ THE LOBSTER that after a while, it’s not clear just what the underlying subject is supposed to be. Lanthimos is a cult-favorite filmmaker (the cult m...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”

> Rodrigo Garcia’s film ALBERT NOBBS (he shares auteurship with Glenn Close, who served as screenwriter with John Banville and Gabriella Prekop and as a producer as well as star) caters to what used to be called the James...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”

Transgender issues have been such hot-button topics in the news lately that people may not be prepared for how muted and delicate Tom Hooper’s THE DANISH GIRL is. The film, which debuted at the Venice Film Festiv...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”

> Oren Moverman’s first film as a director, The Messenger, was a beautifully contained, emotionally detailed story about soldiers assigned to deliver tragic news to the families of the deceased. In his new film RAMP...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”

> Lynn Shelton’s Humpday in 2009 was one of the most engaging pictures to come out of the mumblecore movement (“mumblecore,” for the uninitiated = ultra-low-budget, small scale film with dialogue mostly improv...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Francis Ford Coppola’s “Twixt”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “A Tale of Love and Darkness”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Shame”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Lobster”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Your Sister’s Sister”

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