It has won audience awards at film fests from Rotterdam to Sundance, but no trophy is more impressive than the one Whale Rider earned at last year’s Toronto International Film Festival. In the seven years I’ve been attending Toronto, the audience has only abused its power once, for 1997’s The Hanging Garden (it had the […]
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Chasing a ‘Whale’ in Lake Placid
For some reason, Fate has seemed determined to keep me from the Lake Placid Film Forum. I didn’t even know about the first Forum, in 2000, until it ended. In 2001 I was all set to go but got run over by a truck instead. Last year, the Forum ran opposite the World Cup, and […]
