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FilmCouch #37

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By Kevin Buist posted 2 years ago
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fosterDo edgy American filmmakers of yesteryear go soft after living in Hollywood for a few decades? We look at Neil Jordan’s new film The Brave One, starring Jodie Foster, and ask how it measures up to her grittier predecessor, Taxi Driver. Also, Karina shares her picks from the Toronto Film Festival, including the much-buzzed western, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford, Anton Corbijn’s Joy Division biopic Control, and two fresh Iraq-umentaries, Heavy Metal in Baghdad and Operation Filmmaker.

 
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FilmCouch #37

The Brave One, Heavy Metal in Baghdad, Operation Filmmaker

Toronto 2007: ReelerTV Episode One

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By Karina Longworth posted 2 years ago
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Over the next week, I’ll be appearing on several Toronto Film Festival-centric episodes of ReelerTV, which Stu VanAirsdale and friends are producing in collaboration with Spout. In the episode embedded above, Stu hits the red carpet for the premiere of The Brave One, and I recap a batch of Toronto films that I saw in Telluride, including Juno, Margot at the Wedding, and Redacted.