UncategorizedParting shotsBefore putting this TIFF blog to bed, I should mention that I caught up with to two prize-winning features that I’d missed during...
UncategorizedMy own, totally unsponsored TIFF awardsNow that you’ve seen the official TIFF awards, here are a few of my own. . . Best debut by a new festival co-director : Cameron...
UncategorizedLoving Rachel McAdams in a post-Iraq rompYou know that the Iraq war has draggged on too long when Hollywood is making a jaunty road movie about returning soldiers. In The...
UncategorizedAgnès Varda: auteur as 80-year-old starlet on the beachAs the festival winds up, despite the glut of stars in town, it’s now clear that TIFF 08’s cinematic vintage was far from...
UncategorizedNight vision technology vs. the eye-patch — harrrrrrrrr!This year Toronto’s festival-goers have developed a curious ritual. At the beginning of every film, before the string of...
UncategorizedBecause the nightAt a film festival, amid the stars and the hype and lurid glare of over-sponsored glamour, you live in hope that you’ll stumble...
UncategorizedFamily feuds and beasts of burdenIn case you’re wondering if I’ve dropped off the face of the festival, or gone to a party and never come back, I’ve been...
UncategorizedStar Wars: that was Moby who blitzed the VIP areaI never recognize anyone. In my recent blog about the Saturday night party of Blindness ( Blindness, Deafness and Babbling Zombies...
UncategorizedMickey Rourke, Oscar bait?Talk abut unlikely Oscar candidates. First Anne Hathaway—once dismissed as just another pretty woman in Brokeback Mountain , The...
UncategorizedBlindness, deafness and babbling zombiesOne of the maddening things about TIFF, at least for a journalist trying to cover it single-handedly, is that most the action is...