All posts tagged "toronto international film festival"
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In Guns Akimbo, Daniel Radcliffe and Jason Lei Howden Imagine Having Guns Bolted to Your Hands
Jason Lei Howden’s Guns Akimbo imagines Daniel Radcliffe as an online troll who wakes up one day with guns bolted to his hands. It’s a...
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Out of the Ordinary: How Indian Moviemaker Rima Das Finds Beauty In Everyday Life
In an incandescent moment in Indian moviemaker Rima Das’ third feature Bulbul Can Sing, the titular character, an Assamese teenage girl, is guided onto the bough of a tree by her pimply budding...
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A Sale Unto Oneself: About To Have Your First Market Experience? Here’s Why Self-Distribution Is the Way To Go
Every indie moviemaker has the fantasy of premiering a movie at Sundance, then selling it for millions after an all-night bidding war between leading distributors...
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Austin Film Festival 2017: Inside the City Limits, the 24-Year-Old Fest Grows in Stature Each Year
On May of 2013, after an intense “writing” day of accomplishing nothing but staring blankly at my computer screen and hating myself (as writers tend...
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The World’s 15 Bloody Best Genre Fests, 2018
The language of fear, like that of music, is universal. Put all the people who’ve weathered hurricanes’ swift destruction of communities, withstood the wrath of...
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“Trimming the Fat”: A Slimmer TIFF 2017 Lineup Still Offers a Robust Selection of Quality Programming
This year, the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) chose to cut the number of films it opted to include in its lineup by about 20...
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How They Did It: Why Storyboarding was Crucial to Creating the Gothic Big House of The Lodgers
A brief history lesson: After the Cromwellian invasion of Ireland in the 17th century, when Irish land was confiscated from Irish Catholics to pay British Protestant soldiers,...
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Bryan Cranston Goes Feral: Writer-Director Robin Swicord on Her Strange New Feature, Wakefield
What if you could disappear from your own life, but still, somehow, watch it go on without you? That’s the premise of the new film,...
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Turning the Tide: With Over 60 Million Views, Fisher Stevens’ Before the Flood Warms New Generations to Environmentalism
He was, like the rest of us who count ourselves among the environmental community, still emotionally hung over on the 10th day of November in...
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Absolute Submission: Top Programmers Share the Secrets to Getting Into the Festivals of Your Dreams
Dear moviemakers, I want you to know this: I love you. Or at least, I really want to love you. I know that’s forward, but...
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Things I’ve Learned as a Moviemaker: Richard Dreyfuss
American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Stand By Me, Mr. Holland’s Opus… even while reading like a what’s what of cinema, those titles are just a handful...
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Cold Piece of Work: Richard Linklater Braves Greenland Hurricanes for Where’d You Go, Bernadette
Richard Linklater’s Where’d You Go, Bernadette opens with the answer to its titular question. In an impressively executed overhead shot, the camera gazes down onto placid Antarctic waters as...
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How They Did It: The Farewell Writer-Director Lulu Wang Shares Secrets to Turning Your Life Story into a Memoir Movie
The week before production started on The Farewell—my sophomore feature about a young woman (Billi, played by Awkwafina) and her family’s attempts to keep their grandmother’s cancer diagnosis hidden...