Posts tagged with "Film festival"
Outdoor Movies at Open Roof Festival
I love watching movies outdoors. There’s something that feels slightly subversive, like you shouldn’t be able to see a movie outdoors but you totally are! Typically, I’m restricted to small screen devices to indulge this peccadillo but thanks to the Open Roof Festival in Toronto, I can do it with a big screen. And other [...]
Review: Hitler: The Comedy Years
How could I not want to watch a documentary titled Hitler: The Comedy Years? This doc has a really fascinating premise – in short, Great Britain viewed ridicule as it’s greatest anti-Nazi weapon. Now, that’s interesting. In the end, the doc doesn’t quite hold up. It’s, God forgive me, kind of light. It’s worth [...]
Toronto Silent Film Festival Preview
We’re heading into the final countdown… only one week ’til the launch of the 2012 Toronto Silent Film Festival! Heck to the yeah. At this point in a run-up to a film festival, reviewers would have screeners in their grubby little paws and would be anxiously rolling the dice about what to say about a [...]
TSFF Preview: Blood and Sand (1922)
Bieber-fever is a trifling allergy attack compared to the fan fueled adoration of cinema’s “Latin Lover,” Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina D’Antonguolla – or Rudolph Valentino, if you’re nasty. Valentino was the first movie star and the attention devoted to his every move, every smoky look, every career decision was astounding, and [...]
It’s coming! The Toronto Silent Film Festival Launches on March 29!
I am so excited I could spit! The Toronto Silent Film Festival launches on March 29. Check out my news piece at Toronto Film Scene. Film festivals are generally all about the new and the next, presenting specific challenges to the critics charged with previewing them. Not so with The Toronto Silent Film Festival, returning [...]
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