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Monthly Archives: August 2009
My Shinsedai Festival 2009 Schedule
The inaugural edition of the Shinsedai Festival is approaching quickly and I wanted to draw your attention to some of the interesting independent Japanese cinema that will be unspooling there between August 21-23. The screenings will take place at the … Continue reading
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Tagged #shinsedai09, japan, shinsedaifestival
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Toronto After Dark Fest Opens Friday
Wow. When the Toronto After Dark Film Festival decided to move from October to August, I never realized how quickly it would come up again. But even though I’ve been spending most of my time thinking about TIFF lately, I’m … Continue reading
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Tagged #afterdark09, blaxploitation, horror, scifi
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Nollywood Babylon
Nollywood Babylon (Directors: Ben Addelman and Samir Mallal): Bustling Lagos, Nigeria is the largest metropolis in Africa, with more than 14 million inhabitants. It’s also the centre of the third-largest film industry in the world, behind only India (Bollywood) and … Continue reading
TIFF 2009: Preliminaries, Part 2
Here’s my next batch of TIFF hopefuls. I’ll be narrowing it all down to somewhere around ten films in total, but this at least reminds me what films are on my radar for follow-up should I not be able to … Continue reading
Visioneers
Visioneers (Director: Jared Drake): George Washington Winstonhammerman (Zach Galafianakis) works as a Level Three Tunt for the Jeffers Corporation, “the largest and friendliest and most profitable corporation in the history of mankind.” But he and his coworkers are miserable, mostly … Continue reading
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