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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”

Stuart Blumberg’s first film as a director (his screenwriting credits include The Kids Are All Right), THANKS FOR SHARING, never quite manages to solve its own central problem: how to make a sensitive and funny (and not...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

> One of the enduring questions of Madonna’s illustrious quarter-century career is how someone so brilliant in managing every other facet of her persona has consistently made such terrible decisions when it comes to movie...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

THE MASTER: Worth A Ticket – The Title Describes the Filmmaker Our shorthand for describing movie directors, even great ones, is to compare them to other filmmakers. So Quentin Tarantino is Sergio Leone plus ha...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

The Toronto International Film Festival is, of the major North American festivals, by far the most pleasant to attend. Its line-up of films and clout are matched only by Sundance’s, and it substitutes balmy 70 de...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist”

> The Artist is a beautiful film hot-house flower, designed to flourish in the rarefied atmosphere of festivals and gatherings of cineastes. It’s a curio that will be cherished by some, and probably ignored by most of the...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “At Any Price”

With the notable exception of Friday Night Lights, Hollywood has rarely even attempted a serious depiction of life in the American heartland in recent years. More often, the center of the country is a setting for stories of ...

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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...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Seven Psychopaths”

Few movies are as wholeheartedly dedicated to meta-ness as Martin McDonagh’s SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS. The title of the movie is also the title of the script its main character Marty (Colin Farrell)–which, I belie...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: The Road Begins

> In September, SHOWBUZZDAILY will be attending the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF, for short). This is the first in an intermittent series of pieces about the experience of TIFF-ing. Every film festival has it...

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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: “The Impossible”

THE IMPOSSIBLE – Worth A Ticket – A Tsunami Film With Both Spectacle and Emotion Director Juan Antonio Bayona has done a spectacular job of re-creating the 2004 Asian tsunami in THE IMPOSSIBLE. Staged...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Incident”

> As has been reported, there really was an ambulance outside the Ryerson Theatre in Toronto after the midnight premiere of Alexandre Courtes’ THE INCIDENT, there to rescue at least one person who had fainted during the m...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “In the House”

Francois Ozon’s IN THE HOUSE is a delicious examination of the pleasures and dangers of addictive narrative. Storytelling (and corresponding tricks of cinematic structure) has been an interest of Ozon’s throughout...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

ON THE ROAD – Worth A Ticket – Kerouac’s Classic Is Beautiful and Atmospheric But Lacks Urgency ON THE ROAD, as a novel and now as a film adaptation, is so enmeshed with the mythology of the real-life p...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

> In just her second feature film as a director (her first was 2006’s Oscar-nominated Away From Her), Sarah Polley demonstrates that she’s already a filmmaker with rare grace and sensuality in TAKE THIS WALTZ, which...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: Festival Preview

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Michel Hazanavicius’ “The Artist”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “At Any Price”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Seven Psychopaths”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: The Road Begins

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Impossible”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Midnight Madness – “The Incident”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “In the House”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Sarah Polley’s “Take This Waltz”

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