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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Schedule Day

> For anyone attending the Toronto International Film Festival that begins in just over 2 weeks, today was a crucial day: the release of the Festival schedule. (TIFF also announced some not-shabby final additions to...

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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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Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Inspection” & “Emily”

THE INSPECTION (A24 – November 14): Back in 1983, Robert Altman directed the film version of David Rabe’s play Streamers, about a Vietnam-era boot camp that turned even more violent and vicious with the cat...

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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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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: “Ten Year”

> TEN YEAR, which premiered tonight at the Toronto Film Festival, is one of the few festival movies that has the feel of a potential hit. This is because, apart from its hugely engaging cast and, to be sure, some effectiv...

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UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Silver Linings Playbook” & “Seven Psychopaths” Take the Prizes

It’s a very good weekend to be a Weinstein. First Weinstein Company’s The Master set new per-theatre records for a live-action movie release without a stage show, and now the tidings from Toronto are lined ...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

‎ Jacques Audiard doesn’t do sentimental. His last film, A Prophet, had the clear-eyed view of crime and the dramatic heft of a French version of “The Wire,” and his new and very different drama RUST & B...

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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

It isn’t often that one needs to invoke Intolerance to describe a current film, but CLOUD ATLAS demands it. Like D.W. Griffith’s epic, it intercuts between stories taking place across hundreds of years o...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

Toronto this year provided two notable portraits of teenagers growing up in a time of political turmoil, Olivier Assayas’s SOMETHING IN THE AIR and Sally Potter’s GINGER AND ROSA. Assayas’s film is about th...

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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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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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THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Silver Linings Playbook”

SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK: Don’t Get Sold Out – A Rom-Com With Dance Moves All Its Own Anyone who doubts that Jennifer Lawrence is a real-thing, big-time movie star should get thee hence to a theater showing ...

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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Yet More Titles

> See also: THE BIJOU @ TIFF: FIRST TITLES ANNOUNCEDTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: FESTIVAL TITLES, ROUND TWOTHE BIJOU @ TIFF: O CANADIAN TITLES! The Toronto International Film Festival prides itself on being one of the mo...

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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: Schedule Day

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

Toronto Film Festival Reviews: “The Inspection” & “Emily”

THE BIJOU REVIEW “The Descendants”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Thanks For Sharing”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Ten Year”

UPDATED: SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Silver Linings Playbook” & “Seven Psychopaths” Take the Prizes

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Rust and Bone”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Cloud Atlas”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Something In the Air” and “Ginger and Rosa”

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

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “The Deep Blue Sea”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “Silver Linings Playbook”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Yet More Titles

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “On the Road”

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