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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 BIJOU REVIEW “The Descendants”

> THE DESCENDANTS: Worth A Ticket – Flawed But Heartfelt It’s taken an unaccountable 7 years for Alexander Payne to follow up Sideways, the biggest hit of his career, with THE DESCENDANTS, which w...

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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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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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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Werner Herzog’s “Into the Abyss”

> Welcome to SHOWBUZZDAILY’s coverage of the Toronto International Film Festival, where the reviews will be as plentiful as we can cram into a week. TIFF started things off on a less-than-festive note with Werner Herzog&#...

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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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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

In 1988, the Chilean military dictatorship headed by General Augusto Pinochet was forced by diplomatic pressure to finally permit a democratic election, in order to prove its claim that the country’s people support...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”

> Gus Van Sant has been making movies for 25 years, but Restless–apart from its technical polish–feels like the work of a Sundance newcomer. And one who’s been reading too much Salinger, while meanwhile wearin...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Moth Diaries”

> Mary Harron’s career has previously included such fascinatingly transgressive films as I Shot Andy Warhol, American Psycho and The Notorious Bettie Page, which is the only sensible explanation for the inclusion of her n...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

> The Toronto Film Festival has announced its second helping of titles for next month’s worldwide gathering of film professionals and fanatics. These may be less star-studded than the last group of films announced, ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

Oscar buzz has been trailing THE SESSIONS (which was then called The Surrogate) since it was unveiled at Sundance in January, and with good reason. For Academy members, it doesn’t get much better than a warm “base...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No One Lives”

As movie bloodbaths go, NO ONE LIVES is almost–but not quite–clever enough to be worth seeing. We start with a backwoods family of petty outlaws, headed by father Hoag (Lee Tergesen) and including his wife, b...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Anna Karenina”

ANNA KARENINA – Watch It At Home – Beautiful But Overconceptualized Version of the Tolstoy Classic Joe Wright was introduced to the world with his film of Pride and Prejudice, and it seems like he’s b...

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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 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 BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

THE BIJOU REVIEW “The Descendants”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Drive”

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

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Werner Herzog’s “Into the Abyss”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: The Road Begins

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Gus Van Sant’s “Restless”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Moth Diaries”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Festival Titles, Round 2

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No One Lives”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Anna Karenina”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “In the House”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

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