It’s been five years since Julie Ducournau’s debut feature Raw made audience members at the Toronto International Film Festival allegedly pass out and throw up. Her highly-anticipated—and Palme d’Or winning—sophomore effort, Titane, continued the trend with reported walkouts from disgusted audience members at the Cannes Film Festival, and a reported faint at its TIFF premiere. […]
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Jacques Audiard’s movies are the kind Hollywood should make
The director’s Palme d’Or-winning Dheepan is yet another film that challenges the conventions of both art-house and mainstream cinema.
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Weekly Top Five: Un Certain Regard winners
Highlights from the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard section.
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Caesar Must Die takes Shakespeare to the slammer
Italian masters Paolo and Vittorio Taviani document a prison production of Julius Caesar.
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TIFF Review: Short Takes
I’ve been at the Toronto International Film Festival for four full days now, watching four movies a day, and these suckers are starting to pile up. So I’m going to bang out some capsule reviews, starting with my favorites so far. Soul Kitchen
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Gambler’s luck
The Chicago International Film Festival’s always a guessing game … but sometimes you can guess right.