Zero Time with Programmer Julien Fonfrède
“That day is not good for him—he’s really tied up,” writes my usually agreeable Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (FNC) communications…
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New York Film Festival 2013 – Critic’s Choice
Last year’s 50th New York Film Festival (NYFF) gave a 21-gun salute sendoff to its departing director, Richard Pena. It…
TIFF 2013: President of the Club of Romantics
A Promise is a romantic drama filled with silent glances, small gestures, and hidden emotions. It is set in Germany,…
TIFF 2013: “Visitors” and Experimentation on a Grand Scale
Although it certainly offers some degree of diversity, over the years the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has become known…
TIFF 2013: Report from the Second Annual Asian Film Summit
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) first presented the Asian Film Summit in 2012 and it was proclaimed a success….
TIFF 2013: When Movies Bring On and Offscreen Families Together
This may well be a cautionary tale of having good email etiquette. After wrapping Terry Miles’s A Night for Dying…
Documenting a Man who Refused Interpretation
Salinger (Shane Salerno. 2013. USA. 120 min.) “Salinger and I got alone together, and I said, ‘Look, what do you…
Mother-Daughter Take On “Austenland”
What happens when critic and former academic Rebecca Steinitz, who once taught a course on Jane Austen’s novels and their…
‘Tis the Summer of Women Falling Apart in Films
Kurt Brokaw reviews “The Canyons,” “Lovelace,” and “The Patience Stone” all themed around women in various states of acute mental and emotional collapse.