Despite the lack of access to the 2020 Toronto International Film Festival, several of its worthwhile movies will be available to watch soon.
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Toronto International Film Festival 2020: Home Edition
This year’s Toronto International Film Festival, a preview of movies to come, includes the compelling “Nomadland” and “One Night in Miami.”
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Dispatches from TIFF 2019, pt. 2
The 2019 edition Toronto International Film Festival has drawn to a close, so Adam back in ROC with a few more short reviews — plus his picks for the ten best films he saw at this year’s festival.
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Dispatches from TIFF 2019
One of the best things about the Toronto International Film Festival is the diversity of its film lineup, which includes everything from Hollywood prestige pictures to independent foreign films looking for distribution.
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Dispatches from the Toronto International Film Festival
Just across the shores of Lake Ontario, our neighbors to the north host one of the largest and most prestigious film festivals in the world: the Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF came to a close this past weekend, and this year’s lineup had plenty of cinematic goodies to offer, a number of which will be rolling out to theaters before the year comes to a close.
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Further north
The Toronto International Film Festival continues through Sunday, but my time there has sadly reached an end. What follows are a few more quick reactions to a few of films that made an impression over the past week. You can check out the first half of my TIFF recap here. “The Children’s Act” stars Emma […]
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Murder and mayhem equals quality — who knew?
For whatever reason, most of the best films I saw at the Toronto Film festival this year were also the creepiest. Les Revenants, a French film, tries out the zombie movie as an intellectual exercise. Well, zombies may be putting it a bit strongly, since the “returnees” (as the title puts it, though look for […]
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All the sex films are in Toronto
Toronto’s economy suffered a blow this week with the first half of the Toronto Film festival. Sales of pay-per-view porn declined dramatically in hotel rooms as visiting press and industry delegates were treated gratis to a never-ending flow of explicit sex on the festival screens. Okay, just kidding, but there was quite a lot of […]
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From burqas to bunnies: a second dose of Toronto
Here’s the dirt on the second half of the Toronto International Film Festival, which just ended Saturday (September 13) evening. The Good The Brown Bunny: Vincent Gallo’s notorious road-trip flick, which was booed out of Cannes this past May (it was an unfinished print that ran 30 minutes longer than the final version screened here), […]
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Sorting out films, from feel-goods to yawners
From the thick of the 28th Toronto International Film Festival, here is the lowdown on the most notable films so far. The Good Coffee & Cigarettes: Not so much a film as a collection of shorts Jim Jarmusch started making back in 1986 (for Saturday Night Live, no less). Each features a few actors sitting […]
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More dispatches from Toronto
Let us pick up where we left off last week at the 27th Toronto International Film Festival, which came to a close September 14. As with last week’s round-up, release dates, where available, appear in parentheses. Day Five (Fractured Family Tales) A Leave It To Beaver feel these films had not. Moonlight Mile (November 4) […]
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Dispatches from Toronto
The 27thToronto International Film Festival, which continues to unspool even as you read this, is many things to many people. For some, it’s an early indicator of which upcoming films might be Oscar contenders (five of the last six winners of the People’s Choice Award for the audience’s favorite film have gone on to nab […]
