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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...

by Mitch Salem

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Woman In the Fifth”

> Pawel Pawlikowski is a filmmaker whose name deserves to be better known: his films Last Resort and My Summer of Love are small but beautifully realized stories of intricate human emotion. His new picture The Woman In the Fift...

by Mitch Salem

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games

Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”

> If you were going to describe the films of Terence Davies (Distant Voices, Still Lives, The Long Day Closes, The House of Mirth) in one word, that word would not be “dynamic.” Or “kinetic.” ...

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ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT: May 27 Update

> Memorial Day weekend is finally here. As Hangover Part II battles Kung Fu Panda 2 across North America and parts of the world, the real question is who will be ahead in the first annual ShowBuzzDaily Summer Movie Draft?...

by Mitch Metcalf

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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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,...

by Mitch Salem

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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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...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”

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Our Review / 5 - Terrible

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“THE TREE OF LIFE” – God, Man & Terrence Malick

> Worth A Ticket; An often stupendous achievement that courts ridicule–and sometimes earns it. Terrence Malick’s THE TREE OF LIFE is at once the filmmaker’s most emotionally grounded and dizzyingly ambitious f...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Hick”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Woman In the Fifth”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Rampart”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Melancholia”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “Melancholia” and Oscar Games

SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival Review: “The Danish Girl”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”

ShowBuzzDaily SUMMER MOVIE DRAFT: May 27 Update

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”

SHOWBUZZDAILY FILM REVIEW: “Blue Is the Warmest Color”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Albert Nobbs”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Being Flynn”

“THE TREE OF LIFE” – God, Man & Terrence Malick

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