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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: 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 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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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Argo”

At this point, with 3 first-rate films to his name, it’s time to stop remarking on how surprising it is that Ben Affleck is a major American filmmaker and just accept that he is one. His latest, ARGO, is his best yet, ...

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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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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: “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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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Toronto Film Festival Recap

> Here are capsule summaries of all this year’s SHOWBUZZDAILY Toronto Film Festival reviews, arranged more or less in order of preference. Click on each title for the full review, and the complete list of all the re...

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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: 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 @ 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: “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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THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding”

> I wasn’t aware that the Toronto Film Festival showed TV pilots until I caught a screening of PEACE, LOVE & MISUNDERSTANDING. As a pilot, Peace certainly has its appeal, with a strong cast that includes Jane Fo...

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THE BIJOU REVIEW: “50/50”

> 50/50: Worth A Ticket – A Genuinely Feel-Good Cancer Comedy With The Big C renewed for its third season on Showtime, the concept of a comedy getting laughs from the experiences of a cancer patient is no long...

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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: “Thanks For Sharing”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Yet More Titles

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Fernando Meirelles’ “360”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “Argo”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “The Sessions”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Impossible”

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

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Toronto Film Festival Recap

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “In the House”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: Madonna’s “W.E.”

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

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ TORONTO: “No One Lives”

THE BIJOU @ TIFF: “Peace, Love & Misunderstanding”

THE BIJOU REVIEW: “50/50”

THE SHOWBUZZDAILY REVIEW: “The Master”

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