Category: Film Festivals

Toronto ’08: The Round-Up

So, I’m back from a week in Toronto, where I took in a couple of dozen screenings. Here’s how the

Toronto Film Festival–“Three Times”

Hou Hsiao-Hsien, from Taiwan, is probably my favorite living filmmaker, and so his new one, Three Times, was unsurprisingly the

Toronto International Film Festival 2005

Faves: Three Times (Hou Hsiao-Hsien, Taiwan) L’Enfant (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne, Belgium) A History of Violence (David Cronenberg, Canada) Caché

Toronto Film Festival–“L’Intrus”

And now I arrive with some trepidation at the most vivid, confident, musical, beautiful and baffling of the films I’ve

Toronto Film Festival–“The Holy Girl”

Lucretia Martel is one of the key figures of the recent Argentine New Wave. She’s young, and has made just

Toronto Film Festival–Avant-Garde Films

Three interesting avant-garde films I saw tonight: — It’s Not My Memory Of It–Three Recollected Documents, by two media artists,