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Category Archives: Toronto 2007

Joy Division Movies and Hauntology

Derrida explains Ian Curtis.

Toronto Leftovers: Trade Roughage 09/17/07

Plus: Another batch of YouTubers are called up to the majors.

Toronto 2007 Review Recap

You can expect one more Toronto-related segment on next week’s FilmCouch, but until then, our coverage of the 2007 Toronto Film Festival is complete. Here’s a round-up of our reviews; all were contributed by Karina, except where otherwise noted.
Across the Universe: “The tween and teen girls fueling the success of High School Musical and Hairspray, [...]

FilmCouch #37

THE BRAVE ONE–opening tonight–begs the question, has Jodie Foster lost her edge? Karina reports on movies that moved her from the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, ending tomorrow. (Brad Pitt actually makes the cut.)

 
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Heavy Metal in Baghdad Interview Preview

Last weekend at the Toronto Film Festival, I sat down for a longish interview with Suroosh Alvi and Eddy Moretti, directors of the excellent documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad. We’ll have a lot more from that interview in an upcoming installment of FilmCouch, but below you’ll find a preview. Acrassicauda, the band depicted in the [...]

 
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Toronto 2007: Operation Filmmaker

As a portrait of post-Sadaam Iraqi youth, Operation Filmmaker doesn’t have the “wow!” factor of that other Toronto movie about Iraqi kids looking for refuge in American popular culture. But although I have some issues with director Nina Davenport’s treatment of her subject, for a film that began life as a vanity project designed to [...]

Toronto 2007: Nightwatching

NIGHTWATCHING is a gorgeously-shot return to form for Peter Greenaway. I can’t believe I fell asleep.

Toronto 2007: Reeler TV, Episode 5

The final installment of ReelerTV in Toronto, starring Peter Bogdanovich.

Toronto 2007: Atonement

Big, classy, Oscar-bait World War II dramas don’t really get much better than Atonement, Joe Wright’s swooning adaptation of Ian McEwan’s 2001 novel. If the last half hour or so seems to drag to a bit of an anti-climax, it’s only because the first forty minutes are so exhiliaratingly jam-packed with style, plot and character [...]

Toronto 2007: Reeler TV, Episode 4

Iraq documentaries take center stage. Stu talks to Phil Donahue about his filmmaking debut, BODY OF WAR, and Karina offers impressions of Nina Davenport’s OPERATION FILMMAKER.