Posts tagged with "TIFF"
Mary Pickford, D.W. Griffith, and “The New York Hat” (1912)
This post was originally published on May 11, 2011, but I’m reposting it today as part of the Mary Pickford Blogathon hosted by Classic Movies. Be sure to check out all of the other fantastic Pickford posts from a diverse and talent group of critics! I have the remarkable privilege of spending a great deal [...]
Review: Tokyo Drifter (1966)
You know when your Yakuza gang disbands because your boss is going straight? And then a rival gang leader tries to recruit you, but you’re having none of it because you’re so loyal to the old boss? And then that rival gang tries to kill you? And then your old boss decides you can’t hang [...]
Packaged Goods: Artful Animation at TIFF Bell Lightbox
The Packaged Goods series at TIFF Bell Lightbox is a showcase of shorts from the commercial sector which, according to the festival, “explores some of the most evocative, entertaining and enlightening animated ads, music videos and short films”. Packaged Goods is a somewhat unconventional series because it gives disposable media the art-house treatment as it [...]
Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Though The Nikkatsu Corporation is Japan’s oldest movie studios, it might be the country’s most innovative and edgiest movie studio. Thanks to the Tokyo Drifters: 100 Years of Nikkatsu programme screening at TIFF Bell Lightbox this winter, Torontonians get a rare retrospective glance into a Japan filled with tough-guy gangsters and bad girls in action-packed [...]
Hey TIFF, Silent Movies Were Never Actually Silent
I woke up early(ish) this morning to be sure I had breakfast before heading out to a screening of David Copperfield (1913) at TIFF Bell Lightbox. This movie screened as part of TIFF Cinematheque’s Dickens on Screen lineup and this silent film fan was pretty stoked to see it. David Copperfield is not the most [...]
Brandy & Ben See Django at the TIFF Bell Lightbox
In the ramp up to the release of Quentin Tarantino’s hotly anticipated new movie, TIFF Bell Lightbox is screening Sergio Corbucci’s 1966 Django. This movie might rightfully be subtitled: The patient zero movie that launched 30-100 not-quite-official sequels featuring the character of Django. But that would be a mouthful, wouldn’t it? At any rate, Django [...]
Pretty Clever Films Goes to TIFF
It’s that time of year again. The cottage is shuttered, the first hint of autumn is in the air, and hordes of cinemaniacs descend on once peaceful Toronto to gorge on movies – It’s TIFF time! Also known at Pretty Clever HQ as “that time of year when I see talkies.” Pretty Clever Film gal [...]
How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Film Critics
What happens when film critics critique film critics? You get a double-blind study! At least that’s what TIFF is treating us to this week with “Fifty Years of Discovery: Cannes Critics Week,” a film series celebrating the golden anniversary of that venerable sidebar to Cannes known as International Critics Week. Find out all about the [...]
Review of The Last Dogs of Winter (2011)
The Last Dogs of Winter explores Brian Ladoon’s struggle to preserve the Canadian Eskimo dog, or Qimmiq, the rarest registered breed of dog in the world, from extinction. Assisted by an adventurous New Zealander, Caleb Ross, Ladoon breeds Eskimo dogs against the harsh backdrop of Churchill, Manitoba and fights off polar bears to do it. [...]
Review of The Incident (2011) (Asylum Blackout)
At the first TIFF screening of Alexandre Courtes’ The Incident two young ladies fainted and had to be carted away by ambulance. I wasn’t at that screening, but I bet I can guess when they passed out. The Incident starts out as a promising creepy but psychological thriller, and then… takes a sharp right into [...]
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