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TIFF12: Confessions Of A Film Fest Junkie

By Leonard Klady - Monday, September 3rd, 2012
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For the uninitiated, the Toronto International Film Festival began some three decades-plus ago as the aforementioned F of F. The aspiration of this fledgling event was to cull great films from Cannes, Berlin and the like and put on a show for the local gentry and cinephiles. It kinda worked out… or worked too well.

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Gross Behavior: Summer on Low Simmer

By Leonard Klady - Monday, September 3rd, 2012
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The preliminary numbers are in and summer season 2012 clocks in at approximately $4.04 billion at the box office. The figure represents roughly a 5% gross decline in gross revenues and an 8% decline in actual tickets bought during the period running from early May through the conclusion of Labor Day weekend.

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TIFF12: Special Presentations, Part Two

By Kim Voynar - Monday, September 3rd, 2012
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Anders Thomas Jensen co-wrote the screenplays for my two favorite Susanne Bier films, After the Wedding and In a Better World, and I’m hoping that bodes well for her latest ensemble drama. Paprika Steen’s presence in the cast along with that makes this one of the films I’m hoping to catch at TIFF.

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TV-to-DVD Wrapup: Revenge, Homeland, 2 Girls, Walking Dead, Sons of Anarchy … More

By Gary Dretzka - Monday, September 3rd, 2012
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TIFF12 Preview: Special Presentations, Part One

By Kim Voynar - Monday, September 3rd, 2012
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The Weekend Report (3-Day)

By Leonard Klady - Sunday, September 2nd, 2012
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TIFF12 Preview: TIFF Docs

By Kim Voynar - Saturday, September 1st, 2012
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Japan Exports Our Homeland For Oscar

“I’ve made six movies, and I feel like I’m only just finally figuring out how this business f—ing works,” Paul Thomas Anderson says on an unseasonably mild August afternoon in the Astoria section of Queens.”

hollywoodreporter.com

Austria Puts Amour On Oscar Support

L. A. Times Correction Of The Day Would Make Even A Sheep More Sheepish

Malick’s Producers On His Many Projects Hurtling Forward

telegraph.co.uk

Ray Winstone Does Not “Twit-Twat-Twot”

TIFF12: Sarah Polley On Stories We Tell And Why They Weren’t Told Until Now

NY Times

The Return Of Alberto Barbera To The Venice Film Festival 

wsj

Teachout On Why Comedy Is Truer To Life Than Tragedy

Winnebago Man Jack Rebney Loses North Carolina Cabin, Belongings, In Fire

Manjoo Argues Amazon’s Kindle Will Soon Be Free

hollywoodreporter.com

“He wanted it to sound like the meanderings of an older person who happens to be saying these things. And this was so artfully, perfectly conceived.  Each one of his lines had a huge, insane laugh. The audience loved every minute of it. If you read it, you’ll find every joke was exactly to the point.”
Sheboygan’s Own, Jackie Mason, Defends Clint Eastwood

NY Times

Scott On Four Days In Telluride

Good Dr. Bordwell Elaborates On Why He Likes Premium Rush So Much

NY Times

Oscar-Nom’d Michael Clarke Duncan Was 54

Tromamovies Is Up To 150 Free Titles On YouTube

hollywoodreporter.com

Spider-Man Musical Lawsuits Turned Off

guardian

Deciphering The Weird Bruce Willis-Vs.-iTunes Tale

Behind The Scenes With A Telluride Volunteer

hollywoodreporter.com

Nick Cave On The Sound And Sense Of Lawless

Aleksandr Hemon Goes 7,300 Words With The Wachowskis

BBC

Pirate Bay Co-Founder Arrested In Cambodia

Paul Haggis Corroborates Vanity Fair Cover Story

Kitano Defends Violence And Earthquake And Tsunami References In Outrage Beyond

“Within this increasingly frantic, desperate and meaningless world of sturm and drang, Goldstein’s blog was at worst, benign, and at its best, could do what no one else seems able to do these days, step back from the buzz of the moment and give it a bit of context and meaning.”

hollywoodreporter.com

“Scandals are good, they make people talk.”
TIFF12: Ulrich Seidl On Paradise: Faith

“It’s the filmmaking equivalent to, say, dressing up like a pimp to entrap a social justice agency.”
Previewing The Breitbart-Citizens United Anti-Occupy Documentary At RNC, To Be Distributed By Cuban

NY Times

“People looked to his reviews as a guide—perhaps the guide—as to what to let their kids see.”
Henry Herx, 89, Movie Reviewer For Catholic Church’s Former National Legion of Decency

Scocca On “The Assassination Of Clint Eastwood By The Coward Mitt Romney”

85-Year-Old James Lipton Offers Improv Lessons To 82-Year-Old Clint Eastwood

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“***** This is the equally, but very differently, deranged cousin of Anderson’s previous picture, the nihilistic Western There Will Be Blood: while that film’s monstrous oil prospector Daniel Plainview was certain that life had no purpose beyond profit, Hoffman’s reluctant prophet is a man who prizes purpose. After one viewing, The Master already feels like a landmark American movie. It makes words like ‘bold’ and ‘extraordinary’ seem utterly inadequate.”
~ The Telegraph’s Robbie Collin On The Master

 

Joaquin “Phoenix, back in movies after a four-year layoff and his bizarro performance-art impersonation of a deranged rap artist in the faux-doc I’m Still Here, makes Freddie’s misadventures after his Naval service rancid but rewarding. This early section cues viewers that they will be spending a long time in the company of a severely disturbed character who gets into fascinating scrapes with attractive people. But the fascination wears off just as it should be peaking, with his involvement in the Cause.”
~ A Corliss Dis For The Master