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Toronto Review: Hysteria
One of the most vivid memories I have of my college learning experience is a class I took on Women in American History. I remember reading Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper and Kate Chopin's The Awakening and if I didn't have feminist inclinations before I read those books, I sure did...
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Where Do We Go Now? Wins Audience Award at Toronto Festival
Where Do We Go Now? written and directed by Nadine Labaki was the first film I saw in Toronto. As I wrote last week, it's a strong symbol of women sick and tired of the men fighting over nothing trying to make the peace in their small town in Lebanon.
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TIFF: The Lady - The Story of Aung San Suu Kyi
(Update: The Lady is opening today for one week in LA for an Oscar qualifying run. It will open early next year here in the US. I also have been told that about 30 minutes has been shaved off -- I haven't seen the new version yet).
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TIFF: Interview with Malgoska Szumowska - Director of Elles
Elles tells the story of a journalist - Juliette Binoche - who interviews two young female students about their lives as prostitutes. This is bound to be a controversial film because for one it deals with female sexuality and how these young women use their sexuality to survive. They made this choice but each time they meet a date there is always the fear factor attached. Binoche character develops a strong affinity for these young women and it bleeds into her family life where she lives with her husband and two sons. She becomes unnerved and starts losing her grip all the while she is in the midst of preparing a big dinner for her husband...
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Some Deals for Women Directors at Toronto
Here are some of the deals that women directors scored here in Toronto:
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Sisters in Crisis: Your Sister's Sister and Union Square
My time in Toronto was spent trying to seek out as many women directed films as I could. Two of my favorites from the past week are films about sisters.
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Interview with Nadine Labaki - Director of Where Do We Go Now?
Women and Hollywood: Congratulations. I read your film is going to represent Lebanon in the Oscars. How does that feel?
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Toronto Day 5 - It's a Marathon, Not a Sprint
It's Day 5 and I just feel like I've gotten my groove on. I think I've seen 10 movies and I have one more today. Power watching films is a skill, and I haven't yet developed those chops. Since most people at the screenings I attend are all film people -- writers, buyers, sellers, programmers and ...
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Toronto Film Fest Day Four: Seen and Heard
I think they should change the name of this festival to the Toronto Carb Fest because that it all there is to eat here.
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Toronto Day 3- We Need to Talk About Kevin and Think of Me
I woke up thinking about Tilda Swinton's blank face from We Need to Talk About Kevin. It is amazing how much expressiveness there can be in a blank stare. The movie directed bravely by Lynne Ramsey is an adaptation of the Lionel Shriver novel of the same name. Like Ramsey, Shriver is not a shy a...
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