September 11, 2007 – 5:34 am
Let’s take a brief break from the review onslaught to take a look at some of the industry news bleeding out of Toronto and circulating around its films.
September 10, 2007 – 3:48 pm
Julie Taymor’s long-awaited Beatles-fueled musical seems to have split critics neatly into two camps. There are people like Aaron Dobbs and Anne Thompson, who give Taymor’s spin art 60s pastiche an A for effort, but ultimately concede that the film could, at the very least, stand to have some rainbow-hued fat cut. Then there are [...]
September 10, 2007 – 7:05 am
ReelerTV is back with another episode from Toronto. This time around, Stu talks to Anton Corbijn, director of the amazing Control, and Karina offers up her thoughts on the film.Previous installments:
Episode 2: Scott Hicks, Love Songs and Heavy Metal in Baghdad
Episode 1: Neil Jordan and Terrance Howard talk The Brave One; Karina on Juno and [...]
September 9, 2007 – 9:06 pm
If you’re already inventing a relationship between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh as an excuse to catch Clive Owen’s bedroom eyes, why *not* throw a CGI fire fight in for good measure?
September 8, 2007 – 7:33 pm
The two films that have hit me the hardest here in Toronto are Control, which I wrote about here, and The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford. Both films, based on real-life characters and incidents, are simultaneously technically superlative and heartbreaking. With one day left to go in my Toronto 2007 tenure, [...]
September 8, 2007 – 7:36 am
Three extremely different music films: Stu talks to Scott Hicks about his Philip Glass documentary, and Karina talks about LOVE SONGS and HEAVY METAL IN BAGHDAD.
September 7, 2007 – 10:47 pm
I don’t care how tired of Iraq documentaries you think you are–you need to see Heavy Metal in Baghdad. Executive produced by Spike Jonze in conjunction with VBS.tv (the online video venture of VICE Magazine, of which Jonze is creative director), the film tells the story of four years in the life of Acrassicauda, allegedly [...]
September 7, 2007 – 8:00 am
Stu talks to Neil Jordan and Terrence Howard, director and co-star of THE BRAVE ONE; Karina gives the low-down on JUNO and MARGOT AT THE WEDDING.
September 7, 2007 – 5:55 am
Anton Corbijn’s Ian Curtis film completely upends the rock biopic game.
September 6, 2007 – 5:18 am
Less than 48 hours after reutrning to New York from Telluride, I’m back at LaGaurdia waiting for a flight to Toronto. A couple of weeks back, I made a list of 15 films that I planned to see during my four days in Canada. I made a bit of a dent in that list last [...]
