When Love 3D premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May, it was a major event. Everyone was there, from Benicio del Toro to Joachim Trier. I was in line …
Archives for August 2015
TIFF15 Review: Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women
In a radical departure (just kidding) from his usual subject matter, writer-director Philippe Garrel’s In the Shadow of Women tackles marital infidelity. Pierre …
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TIFF15 Review: The Assassin is gorgeous but tiresome
Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s The Assassin (Best Director Winner, Cannes 2015) was certainly the most beautiful film to screen at Cannes this year, though that’s not the …
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The Diary of a Teenage Girl is about more than sex
When you’re young, there’s a fine line between horseplay and sex. Horseplay is familiar and safe; sex is new and scary. And play fighting is the easiest way to …
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A great conversation captivates in ‘The End of The Tour’
In the winter of 1996, Rolling Stone journalist and fledgling author David Lipsky spent four days with the renowned novelist David Foster Wallace on the last …
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Sundance Review: The Shaun the Sheep film is winning and witty
In the first film of Aardman Animation's character Shaun the Sheep, Shaun the Sheep: The Movie, the wit is in the details as Shaun finds his way to London and …
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