All Toronto articles – Page 161
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ReviewsKnitting
Dir: Yin Lichuan. China. 2008. 100mins.An unlikely menage a trios drifts on the margins of legality while struggling to make a living of sorts in Yin Lichuan’s deliberately reticent film. If withholdinginformation rates as an artistic achievement, then Knitting could make a mark in arthouse berths ...
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ReviewsThe Rest Of The Night (Il Resto Della Notte)
Dir/scr: Francesco Munzi. Italy. 2008. 103mins.Frederico Munzi lives up to the promise he showed in his debut Saimir with this dark multi-linear drama-thriller set amongst Italy’s new immigrant underclass. It’s a timely theme given the ongoing crackdown on illegal immigration by the country’s recently elected centre-right ...
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ReviewsOf Time And The City
Dir: Terence Davies.UK. 2008. 74mins.Over the decades many accomplished directors have created cinematic odes to cities dear to their hearts. Berlin (Walter Ruttmann, from the silent era); Paris (Je T’Aime, particularly Alexander Payne’s segment), and Rome (Fellini). But Liverpool’ You have to hand it to Terence ...
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ReviewsAdhen (Le Dernier Maquis)
Dir: Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche. France-Algeria. 2008. 93mins.Rabah Ameur-Zaimeche has addressed the schizoid nature of the clash of French and Algerian cultures before, most notably in the lovely Bled Number One, set in a small Algerian village. In Adhen, traditional religion comes up against contemporary capital in a ...
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ReviewsBlindness
Dir: Fernando Meirelles. 2008. Brazil-Canada-Japan. 118mins.In Blindness, Fernando Meirelles valiantly attempts to pin down Nobel laureate Jose Saramago’s largely metaphorical work of fiction for the big screen: by giving the audience eyes on a world suddenly hit by a plague of blindness. The result makes for ...
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ReviewsLater (Plus Tard Tu Comprenderas)
Dir: Amos Gitai. France / Germany, 2008. 89mins.The first Gitai film in a long time not to deal with Israeli politics, Later (Plus Tard Tu Comprenderas) is also one of his most emotional outings to date. This Franco-German co-production based on Jerome Clement’s autobiographical book (Clement ...
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News
Noah Cowanmoves sidewaystoTIFF's Bell Lightbox
Toronto International Film Festival co-director Noah Cowan is giving up his position to assume responsibility for year-round programming at the Toronto International Film Festival Group's (TIFFG) new headquarters, Bell Lightbox, with the title of artistic director. Cowan, who joined TIFFG CEO Piers Handling as co-director four years ago, will be ...
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Reviews
Battle for Haditha
Dir. Nick Broomfield . United Kingdom, 2007. 94 minsBattle for Haditha dramatises one of the most notorious atrocities of the Iraq War, the alleged massacre of 24 Iraqis by American marines in the city of Haditha on November 19, 2005 , for which five marines stand trial at Camp Pendleton ...