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Trailer Watch: Love Is All You Need - Directed by Susanne Bier
We saw Susanne Biers' follow-up film to her Academy Award winning In a Better World at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival where we interviewed the director. Here is a new trailer. As of now there is no North American release date but it will be in 2013.
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TIFF: Interview with Margarethe von Trotta and Barbara Sukowa - Director and Star of Hannah Arendt
Last, but not the bit least is a conversation with master director Margarethe von Trotta along with actress Barbara Sukowa who bring us the story of Hannah Arendt one of the first highly visible female intellectuals of the 20th century. Arendt, a Jew, escaped from Europe in 1941 after being im...
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Fill the Void Written and Directed by Rama Burshtein Gets Picked Up by Sony Pictures Classics
The team at Sony PIctures Classics has been very busy since Toronto and they added another women directed film Fill the Void written and directed by Rama Burshtein to their list of acquisitions. The film will be Israel's submission to the Academy Award for best foreign film having won seve...
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TIFF: Interview with Cate Shortland - Director and Co-Writer of Lore
Lore is Cate Shortland's second film after the exciting Somersault. It is a bold look at a young girl who lived her whole life in the belly of the Nazi beast and had no perspective on anything outside her world. She was brainwashed by the culture that she could not comprehend both th...
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TIFF: Interview with Shola Lynch - Director of Free Angela & All Political Prisoners
On the day of the premiere of her documentary at the Toronto Film Festival, director Shola Lynch answered some questions about the film. Here is a look at the importance of the film - Black Power Takes Center Stage at the Toronto Film Festival.
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Trailer Watch: The Patience Stone
The Patience Stone was the movie in Toronto that two separate women told me I needed to see. And boy was it worth it. It is basically a monologue performed brilliantly by Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani to her husband who is lying in a coma after being injured in war. The woman...
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TIFF: Interview with Susanne Bier - Director of Love Is All You Need
At the Toronto Film Festival you see a lot of heavy movies really early in the morning. Love is All You Need was a most welcome respite from the intensity that was around at the festival. Academy Award winning director Susanne Bier operating at the top of her game goes in a completely di...
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TIFF: Interview with Deepa Mehta - Director of Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is literally an epic movie. It tells about the birth and development of India through the eyes of children born the moment the country declared its independence. Deepa Mehta takes a huge leap forward as a director taking the adaptation of Salman Rushdie's nove...
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TIFF Review: The Stories We Tell - Sarah Polley's Effective New Documentary
Toronto loves Sarah Polley. The display of that love was evident last week at the premiere of her first documentary Stories We Tell which held its Canadian premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. I was able to see the film with an audience rather than at a press screening, a...
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Roadside Attractions Picks up Stories We Tell and Imogene
Roadside Attractions has been on a buying binge here in Toronto and has picked up two women directed and written films from TIFF.
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