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Toronto International Film Festival

Friday Films

Falcons (Iceland, 2002, Fridrik Thór Fridriksson, director): Mawkish and heavy-handed, this film was (almost) saved by two things: the cinematography capturing the incredible beauty of Iceland, and the luminous Margrít Vilhjélmsdóttir. Keith Carradine plays an ex-con who travels to Iceland … Continue reading

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Toronto International Film Festival, 2002 Edition

Well, it’s that time of year again. The film festival starts on Friday. We spent most of Monday lined up to get tickets and choose alternates. Here’s my final schedule. Stay tuned for the patented CC “capsule reviews”: Friday September … Continue reading

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Oscar Nominees

The Oscar nominees have been announced and though I haven’t had a chance to look at every category, I was really pleased that Elling, one of my favourite films from the Toronto International Film Festival, has been nominated in the … Continue reading

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Waking Life

Waking Life (USA, 2001, Richard Linklater, director) is a groundbreaking film. Using a form of rotoscoping to animate over digital video footage, every frame of this film is beautiful, creating the perfect setting, a dream world, where the main character … Continue reading

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The Son’s Room

The film festival has been disrupted the past few days and two of my screenings have been cancelled or rescheduled, but tonight I saw a film for the first time since Monday night. How fitting that it was The Son’s … Continue reading

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