The film has found a nice home for not-so-easily-defined indie dramas.
Focus Features picks up Derek Cianfrance's 'The Place Beyond the Pines'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:12 pm · September 9th, 2012
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Logan Lerman stands out in 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 1:18 pm · September 7th, 2012
Stephen Chbosky’s “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is set to play the Toronto Film Festival tomorrow. Press screenings are happening today. It’s a nice, public space to debut the film, which opens on September 21, but it’s also sure to be a big coming-out for star Logan Lerman, who gives a shattering performance of tenderness, emotion and, its its own way, charisma.
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New 'Cloud Atlas' trailer drops in advance of Toronto bow
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 8:49 am · September 6th, 2012
Andy Wachowski, Lana Wachowski and Tom Tykwer are all set to blow Toronto audiences’ minds with the premiere of “Cloud Atlas” in a few short days. Everything I’ve heard about the ambitious ensemble project ends up pointing to “it’s not for everyone,” but each new nugget certainly makes me think it’ll be for me.
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Interview: Stephen Chbosky on Pittsburgh toughness and 'The Perks of Being a Wallflower'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:19 am · September 5th, 2012
When you’ve written a hit novel that has taken on a life of its own and become a beloved modern classic, translating it to film might render a bit of nervousness — particularly if you’re taking on the task yourself.
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Off the Carpet: Telluride wraps, Toronto approaches
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:43 am · September 3rd, 2012
The season is here. “Argo” has sounded the starting gun in the mountains of Telluride while “The Master” has made a strong case on the Lido of Venice. Where will we go from here?
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Review: All the world really is a stage in adventurous, aloof 'Anna Karenina'
Posted by Guy Lodge · 6:20 pm · September 2nd, 2012
The design is dazzling, but the passion muted, in a creative adaptation of the Tolstoy tome.
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Toronto festival audiences to see a different cut of Walter Salles's 'On the Road'
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 3:24 pm · August 28th, 2012
Despite mixed reaction at Cannes, one of the films I’ve been most looking forward to all year has been Walter Salles’s “On the Road.” It’s set to play Toronto next month, and I have heard that Tom Luddy — one of the Telluride Film Festival programmers — is high on the film, so it could pop up there (fingers crossed). But as it turns out, it won’t be the version seen on the Croisette in May.
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Fall fests set to fire the Oscar starting gun
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 11:14 am · July 30th, 2012
Now that the first wave of festival announcements has hit, let’s take a look at things.
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Venice competition lineup includes Malick, De Palma, Assayas
Posted by Guy Lodge · 8:51 am · July 26th, 2012
There are few surprises in the just-announced Venice Film Festival lineup, while ‘The Master’ may appear as a late addition.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Taking artists at their work
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:00 am · September 22nd, 2011
In today’s round-up, Manohla Dargis argues in favor of considering the work, not the actions, of filmmakers like Lars Von Trier and Roman Polanski, Steve Martin humbly passes along some Oscar emcee suggestions to newly minted host Eddie Murphy and Russia’s foreign language submission stirs up some controversy.
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The Long Shot: Where DO we go now?
Posted by Guy Lodge · 7:47 am · September 21st, 2011
You’ve got to feel for Nadine Labaki. For months ahead of the Toronto Film Festival, industry pundits have been eyeing up the fest’s lone mentionable prize—the Audience Award—as some kind of mystical key with the power to unlock the opaque maze of this year’s Best Picture Oscar race; a maze, thus far, with no appreciable entry or exit points.
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Off the Carpet: The great, appreciated unknown
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 6:00 am · September 19th, 2011
The Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals have commenced. But contrary to recent years, there is no unanimous Oscar heavy coming out of that frame.
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Oscarweb Round-up: Telling the story of 'Drive' with clothes
Posted by Kristopher Tapley · 4:00 am · September 19th, 2011
In today’s round-up, director Oren Moverman talks about his expressive film “Rampart” from Toronto, Paramount shuffles the release date of “A Thousand Words” to capitalize on Eddie Murphy’s Oscar gig and “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” inspires John le Carre considerations upon release across the pond.
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