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Best of the Week: Toronto, Venice & Telluride Fest Coverage, Plus Box Office, Awards & More
This week on TOH, we're in major festival mode with coverage and reviews out of Toronto, Venice and Telluride, we look at the weekend's theatrical offerings, analyze last weekend's box office and more!
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Venice Reviews For Brian De Palma's 'Passion' Are a Bloody Mess
Reviews for the "Blow Out" director's return to the thriller genre have not been thrilling.
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Venice Wrap: Our 5 Favorite Films Of The Festival, Plus Our Complete Coverage
The Venice Film Festival is done for another year. Actually, that's far from true: the festival doesn't wrap up til tomorrow, when top gong Golden Lion, and other prizes, will be awarded. And since we departed on Wednesday, a few more high-profile films have been unveiled, including Brillante Mendoz...
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Venice Review: 'Passion' Has Flashes Of Classic Brian De Palma, But Often Feels Lackluster
Like the waves that lap the beach by the Palazzo del Cinema in Venice, Brian De Palma is reassuringly steadfast. Over the years his Movie Brat brethren Scorsese and Spielberg have adapted their respective styles to align with evolving audience tastes and advancing technology, embracing 3D and motion...
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Venice: 'Crawl' Wins the Europa Cinemas Label for Venice Days Section
Hervé Lasgouttes' "Crawl" has won the Europa Cinemas Label as Best European Film in the Venice Days section of the Venice Film Festival. By receiving the Label, "Crawl" benefits from promotional support and better exhibition options from the Europa Cinemas network.
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Oscars: Which Contenders Got Heat Coming Out Of Venice And Telluride?
As we write this, we're somewhere over the Alps, flying back to London after an exhausting, rewarding week at the Venice Film Festival. Meanwhile, our editor-in-chief just returned from the mountains after an equally busy weekend at the Telluride Film Festival. Festival season is only just getting u...
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'Spring Breakers' Flashes the Press Corps at Venice
The latest film from Harmony Korine drew some of the biggest lines of the festival -- and some decent reviews.
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Venice Review: 'Dormant Beauty' Is Tender & Humane, But Adds Little To The Right To Die Debate
The sanctity of life is one of the thorniest subjects of the 20th century, and seems certain to continue to be so for decades to come. One only has to look over the continuing debate in terms of contraception and abortion, among the most divisive and emotional issues in American politics (or, indeed...
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Venice: Polley's 'Stories We Tell' Is Revealing & Affecting
With Toronto beckoning, I've had to bid a reluctant farewell to Venice where, as much as I liked "BAD 25", "The Iceman", "Disconnect", "Enzo Avitabile Music Life" and "The Master", my pick of the festival was undoubtedly "Stories We Tell&quo...
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Telluride Wrap: Strong Lineup Led by 'Argo,' 'Gatekeepers,' 'Amour,' and 'Stories We Tell'
Heading into Toronto and New York, what have we learned from Telluride and Venice? Quite a good deal. The Telluride awards season movies now in play include Sony Pictures Classics' Palme d'Or-winning "Amour," starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, which wowed audiences and journos alik...
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