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Where the tales are at TIFF
Like Rian Johnson’s ticking Looper pocket watch, the clock hands have tocked to signify a momentous occasion is about to begin. It’s landed in front of us as though the last twelve months have...
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How to TIFF like the pros
Some were born to thrive in environments drenched in excitement, cacophony, mayhem, and pleasure. A quartet of words that may be used to describe the Toronto International Film Festival. Also insert:...
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Interview with Sarah Spillane, Writer/Director of Around the Block
Written and directed by Australian Sarah Spillane, Around the Block, starring Christina Ricci, is the story of an American teacher who takes a troubled inner-city Sydney youth under her wing. I had the...
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TIFF 2013 for First-Timers
As summer winds down here on the west coast, film revelers will be flocking east for the 38th Annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). If you’ve been following my blog here at The Province,...
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TIFF13: Pre-TIFF celebrations of dinosaur proportions
Last night, I began the unofficial celebration of TIFF in a leather skirt at the early-ish hour of 5pm. There’s something off about wearing leather in the daylight hours. I felt like I should be...
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TIFF Review: Blood Ties
Last night began my rigorous regime of attending a highly contemplative list of films during the Toronto International Film Festival. This year there are simply too many great films, and for me, too...
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TIFF13: The colour blue and other French seductions
The French are good at a lot of things. Croissants, champagne, duelling. They’re also connoisseurs of seduction. Princes and princesses of the provocative. TORONTO, ON – SEPTEMBER 05: (L-R) Actors Léa...
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TIFF REVIEW: Exit Marrakech (Germany)
From the moment I saw “Marrakech” in the title of this film, I knew I had to explore it further. Having travelled solo across Morocco five years ago, I still get nostalgic when I think of the sincere...
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TIFF Review: Dallas Buyers Club
1980 was an iconic decade for a lot of reasons. Glam rock, big hair and showy extravagance to name a few. Sadly, the 80s also marked the height of the AIDS epidemic. Many people will remember the death...
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TIFF13: Vegas to Vancouver in Toronto
The other morning, Toronto woke up to a tumult of Vancouver. Sheets of rain bounced off the slick streets – challenging wardrobe choices and hairstyles as meetings, photoshoots, screenings, and...
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TIFF Review: Dom Hemingway (UK)
“A man with no options, suddenly has all the options in the world.” A quote that sounds more profound than it was probably intended, haunted and bemused me as I walked away from the theatre. A self...
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TIFF Review: Filthy Gorgeous: The Bob Guccione Story
He’s an American-Italian painter turned provocateur. Dripping in gold chains and projecting an air of confidence, he oozes sensuality, titillating his female subjects. He’s also the visionary and...
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TIFF Review: Enough Said
I didn’t expect to feel as sentimental and emotional as I did leaving the press screening for Enough Said, the latest film from writer/director Nicole Holofcener. I was sandwiched in between two...
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TIFF REVIEW: Third Person
Academy Award-winning writer/director Paul Haggis (Crash) provides audiences with another interwoven tale, this time centered on three men whose stories take place in three different cities. Third...
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TIFF13: Appreciating Canadian women in film
There was no shortage of women at the Toronto International Film Festival. Just like men, women are creators, storytellers, luminaries, and entrepreneurs. The desire to tell stories is a trait that...
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Top Picks from TIFF 2013
The glitterati has left Toronto, the flashbulbs have faded and the parties have wound down. The Toronto International Film Festival has come to a close, after another successful year showcasing the...
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TIFF13: Beyond the films
With a great, collective sigh of relief that heads can now finally hit pillows, the Toronto International Film Festival has come to an end. Films have been screened, sold, and released into the world....
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So Vince Gilligan and Robert Lantos walk into a bar. . .
If you want to make some showbiz connections, you could do worse than to buy a drink at the Gerard lounge in Vancouver’s Sutton Place Hotel. I was reminded of that Saturday afternoon, when I went there...
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Conversation with Grey Goose’s Joe McCanta
A month ago, it wasn’t raining. Droplets weren’t streaking down my window and puddles weren’t seeping their way inside that tiny, invisible hole in my boots. There was sun beaming down on a rooftop...
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Vancity Buzz’s City Happenings – March 13
Two East Vancouver rental housing projects approved Two projects approved by the city will deliver 86 new units of affordable new rental housing in East Vancouver. A six-storey project at Kingsway and...
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