So instead, I'll start with the dumbest movie I've seen at
TIFF so far, a nasty Z - grade exploitation flick by Ryûhei...
Doppelganger films have been big at
TIFF so far.
In one the best surprises of
TIFF so far, Margot Robbie stars in «I, Tonya» as Tonya Harding, the disgraced American figure skater who came to prominence in the early 1990s.
Not exact matches
The core of SoulCycle are the instructors, and I have to express my gratitude to Rachel,
Tiff, and Ian for making me feel
so uplifted after taking one of their classes.»
«The world has decided that these stocks can no longer be owned because a trade discussion that is turning into a
tiff and a tussle has made it
so people think the world is done growing.»
«On the weekends we have [a nanny] in the morning,
so Tiff and I go work out Saturday mornings.
His day,
so far, has involved a power outage in his hotel room, breaking his luggage and a
tiff with customs over the value of a purse purchased for his wife.
Thank you
so much for your kind words,
Tiff!
Folksy already has a «Pin it» button installed on all product pages
so people can pin directly from your shop, and has Rich Pins automatically enabled (read more about what that means here), but «if you have a blog, make sure it's optimised for pinning with the «Pin It» button,» advises
Tiff.
So getting into
tiffs about Harvey Weinstein's money sort of misses the point.
Sure, we'd have little
tiffs every here and there or get on each others» nerves occasionally, but we were always
so good about chatting through things and moving on almost instantly.
After
TIFF, I flew back to New York City for a couple days
so I could key the makeup for two shows, Kimora Lee Simmons and Adrienne Landau, which is where I took this picture.
I'm also
so happy I got to meet
Tiff!
I've been fully embracing maternity clothes lately, and I'm
so excited to share
Tiff Marie Maternity with you!
Every single Best Picture winner from the last decade except The Departed, Million Dollar Baby, and The Lord of the Rings: Return of the King played at the Toronto International Film Festival,
so the odds are very likely that one of the films screening at
TIFF 2013 will be our eventual Best Picture winner.
The film's currently slated for U.K. release on October 4th,
so don't be surprised to see it added to the line ups at
TIFF or Fantastic Fest in the near future, before Magnolia release the film further down the line.
In the weeks following the «Three Billboards» premiere at the Venice International Film Festival — followed by a North American premiere at
TIFF, where it picked up the coveted audience award — McDonagh saw reports of countless women speaking out against Harvey Weinstein and
so many other sexual predators.
(Editor's Note: this was addressed, albeit obliquely, in the
so - called Director's Cut that screened at this year's
TIFF), and all that's left for us to speculate is why it is that Crowe seems more invested in the cute than in the critical.
So, while his new film, his first English - language film since «Alien: Resurrection,» and his first 3D picture, would be a big get, it's probably not in the cards, especially as the film isn't expected to be delivered until the end of the summer, making
TIFF or NYFF more likely possibilities.
It was
so hilarious to see him face off against younger industry «tweet stars» a couple of years ago at a
TIFF event — a moderator chose a topic and participants had a limited to write a pithy tweet.
The Hollywood Reporter said last month that, as they have in the past with «Crazy Heart» and «Hitchcock,» the studio might try the
so - called «sneak attack» with one of their slate, and «Belle» seems like a much more natural fit for that than the studio's other potential: Jude Law crime comedy «Dom Hemingway» (also at
TIFF, but not obviously Oscar material unless it's transcendently good) and Wes Anderson «s «Grand Budapest Hotel» (which we're assuming will be held for Cannes, or at least a «Moonrise Kingdom «- style summer release).
But it's a fact — the premiere of «Gravity» on Wednesday at Venice is only the first in a veritable tsunami of Oscar contenders that will be unveiled on the Lido, with more unspooling at Telluride,
TIFF and NYFF over the next six weeks or
so.
Miss You Already, which premiered at
TIFF and is set in London, shows the power of their bond after Milly learns she'll need a double mastectomy because her cancer is
so invasive.
The film was also announced today to be part of
TIFF Special Presentation / Gala line - up,
so alongside Woman Walks Ahead we'll have double Jessica at the festival!
It's a little odd because the Directors Guild actually has arbitration rules meant to settle these kinds of disputes,
so I'm not sure how far this goes in an actual court, but the suit was enough to get
TIFF to pull London Fields from the lineup, mercifully sparing unsuspecting audiences from this garbage movie.
While Egoyan hasn't always been the most consistent director, when he's on top of his game he's hard to beat,
so this is another distributor-less picture that could shake up the fall season if it breaks out at
TIFF.
So why am I putting this down as one of my most anticipated titles of
TIFF?
«What I see as the big topic in
so many of these movies is survival,» said Piers Handling,
TIFF's director and chief executive.
There was a brief
tiff with «Night», she says (but who is now
so close to her that he calls her up to keep tabs), after she left her script in her trailer over the weekend.
I caught some of the titles: Nugu - ui ttal - do anin Haewon (Nobody's Daughter Haewon) is a delightful film from the South Korean auteur Hong Sang - soo, the story of a female student's «sentimental education» as it were, as she traverses through reality, fantasy, and dreams, we viewers never quite sure what we are watching; Jim Jarmusch's Only Lovers Left Alive (
TIFF's Opening Night film) is an engaging and drily humorous alternative vampire film, Tilda Swinton melding perfectly into the languid yet tense atmosphere of the whole piece; Night Moves is from a director (Kelly Reichardt) I've heard good things about but not seen,
so I was curious to see it, but whilst the film is engaging with its ethical probing, I found the style quite laborious and lifeless; The Kampala Story (Kasper Bisgaard & Donald Mugisha) is a good little film (60 minutes long) about a teenage girl in Uganda trying to help her family out, directed in a simple, direct manner, utilising documentary elements within its fiction.
If after its first weekend the Toronto International Film Festival is
so far inconclusive, one thing is truly clear: This year's
TIFF belongs to the women.
And that plethora of Monday debuts is one of the reasons why
TIFF has been inconclusive
so far.
More
TIFF announcements, more major additions,
so many world premieres at this year's film festival including the Midnight Madness line - up and more potential award winners to the schedule covering the entire spectrum from elder Hollywood statesman to dirty tramps and roughnecks.
As usual I spent much of the first quarter catching up with titles that premiered in 2014, and I must say how tiresome it is to be now caught up in the post -
TIFF / Venice Oscar season, where
so much mediocre Hollywood (and other English - language) product is over-hyped and allowed to dominate our screens.
Maudie is set in Nova Scotia and shot in Newfoundland and it meant
so much that he returned to
TIFF almost a week after the festival opening night premiere of The Magnificent Seven to promote the film for its Canadian debut.
So, by September 15th, the crowds were scarce and the streets around the venues less busy; when I arrived at the TIFF Bell Lightbox (the organization's year - round headquarters) for Hong Sang - soo's Yourself and Yours, the line was so small that we were let into the theatre earlier than usua
So, by September 15th, the crowds were scarce and the streets around the venues less busy; when I arrived at the
TIFF Bell Lightbox (the organization's year - round headquarters) for Hong Sang - soo's Yourself and Yours, the line was
so small that we were let into the theatre earlier than usua
so small that we were let into the theatre earlier than usual.
Indeed, in the lines, hallways and restaurants of the city, the eternal question between critics and moviegoers (the public is a big part of the
TIFF experience) tends to be, «What has been your favorite movie
so far?»
But the film starring Emma Roberts, Nat Wolff, Val Kilmer and more hits Telluride and
TIFF over the next week or
so.
This did get quite a few great reviews at Telluride and plays at
TIFF next,
so keep an eye out for it if you're intriuged.
And we felt
so damn enthusiastic about «Under The Skin» that we decided to run down five of the reasons that we believe it's one of the must - see films of 2013, ahead of its screenings at
TIFF and, hopefully before too long, its general release.
So, no Alicia Vikander for The Danish Girl here, Cate Blanchett for Truth, or Kate Winslet for The Dressmaker and there are sure to be other omissions (not to mention performances that couldn't be assessed, because the films weren't at
TIFF at all, such as Carol and Suffragette).
Release Date: When announced, it was said they were targeting an October release,
so we could well be looking at a premiere at Venice,
TIFF or the NYFF.
I'm genuinely not trying to humblebrag here, but I am
so moved by
TIFF and the festival and the buzz that I try to follow it as best I can.
With a Best Director win at Cannes and consistently high praise doled out at
TIFF (though not
so much, perhaps, Movie Mezzanine's), Bennett Miller's psycho - wrestling thriller Foxcatcher comes freighted with high expectations (not to mention a barrage of ugly awards - season punditry.)
Every once in a while at
TIFF, there's a filmmaking debut
so accomplished, specific, and moving that it heralds the arrival of an important new cinematic voice.
Both Submarine and Insidious are two of my faves from
TIFF and I'm
so glad they got distribution this quickly, as they're great films that I was already planning to support and push as much as I could.
Theatrical exhibition is dying, Fox is disappearing into the Disney fold — indie arm Fox Searchlight is operating «business as usual» this year, but it could very well be their last — and Netflix, driver of big deals in the recent past, has 80 films of their own slated already,
so no one knows how much they're really looking to acquire (they were relatively quiet at
TIFF last fall).
• The Toronto film fest took its first steps yesterday
so, with Anne in the middle of things, she charts the differences between these three very different festivals and discusses what she's looking forward to at
TIFF.
* I ran into Sebastian Stan during The Martian's press day at
TIFF and he's
so handsome and tall and his eyes are SO BLU
so handsome and tall and his eyes are
SO BLU
SO BLUE.