The Wider Screen
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A Look Back at TIFF 2010
The selection of films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival was even stronger than usual. Of the 10 films I saw, only one was frankly awful, three disappointing, while the rest were...
Sep 27, 2010 / Alison FrankJapanese director wants new film to educate kids
Controversial Japanese director Takashi Miike is making a samurai film that he hopes will educate Japan’s youth, according to the AP. “I wanted the audience to realize that this story is not taking...
Sep 11, 2010 / Bryan Lufkin‘Peepli Live’: Important, Not Excellent
”Peepli Live” has been the toast and tea of town for the better part of this past year. A Sundance selection and Berlinale screening, it has been picking up favor and five star reviews across the...
Aug 29, 2010 / Kamayani Sharma‘Choker Bali': The One That Got Away
As the Toronto International Film Festival approaches, it seems like a good time to reflect on the film that got away. Everyone who has been to a film festival has at least one of these, and probably...
Aug 20, 2010 / Alison Frank‘Krull’ Weddings: The Awkward Teenage Years of Movie Marketing
Like the plot of a dystopian fairy tale, the marketing campaign for last summer’s blockbuster “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” was a well-oiled machine selling a film about machines. We saw...
Aug 16, 2010 / Tim KirkJames Cameron Talks ‘Avatar 2′ and Re-release of ‘Avatar’ With Extra Footage
In an interview with Market Saw yesterday, James Cameron opened up about his plans to re-release his environmentally-conscious alien epic “Avatar” with an additional nine minutes of pure CG footage,...
Aug 8, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongGood Hair, Good Humour, Good Questions
In “Good Hair” (Jeff Stilson, 2009) Chris Rock offers an initiation into the world of African-American women’s hairstyling. I was immediately excited by this winning combination of a much-loved...
Jul 8, 2010 / Alison FrankVideo: Cinema’s Top Human Villains
Although there are some notable omissions (tell us who you think should have been included) this excellently edited little montage does a great job showing some of the most ominous moments of some of...
Jul 5, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongLone Wolf in Black America: A Bill Gunn Retrospective
“I’ve liked every script I’ve ever written,” Bill Gunn told an interviewer in 1971, “I’ve hated every movie made from them.” It’s a prickly statement for a screenwriter, especially one with such a...
Jun 16, 2010 / Jesse CataldoPostal Failure: Aparna Sen’s ‘The Japanese Wife’ Disappoints
Indian indie favourite Aparna Sen’s new film about love through letters lacks style and diction. The phonetic possibility of her surname Sen makes Indian indie filmmaker Aparna Sen’s films a fine...
May 19, 2010 / Sayandeb ChowdhuryInterview: Werner Herzog Reminds Us Why He’s Brilliant
Werner Herzog, the brilliant, eccentric director behind “Aguirre: The Wrath of God” and “Fitzcarraldo” speaks about his unique approach to filmmaking, forgery and the acting talents of one Nicolas...
May 12, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongRoman Polanski’s ‘The Ghost': Haunted by the Author
I recently had the pleasure of seeing a Polanski film in utter innocence. As the result of a rare set of circumstances, I found myself in the wrong cinema in front of a film which had a very...
May 10, 2010 / Alison FrankPolanski Finally Speaks Out
Finally breaking months of silence, famed “Chinatown” director, Roman Polanski, released a statement Sunday criticizing Swiss and US authorities for attempting to extradite him on a 33-year-old child...
May 3, 2010 / Eric M. ArmstrongJeunet’s ‘Micmacs’: Racial Stereotypes Overshadow Innovation
At his most successful, Jean-Pierre Jeunet has managed to create films which combine a mainstream approach to storytelling with an artist’s attention to image. Some would argue that “Delicatessen” is...
Apr 23, 2010 / Alison FrankLars Von Trier’s ‘Dogville’ and the Dogme Legacy
I must confess to a prejudice: I hate films that don’t change spaces. At the theatre, it doesn’t matter to me if there are no set alterations and every scene takes place in the same location; when it...
Apr 13, 2010 / Alison FrankRecent Articles
- Review: ‘A War’ explores war’s quiet, forgotten horrors
- TMA FilmCast #33 — Vera Chytilova and the Czech New Wave
- The fantasist: The comic art of Woody Allen
- Tribeca picks up North American rights to ‘Misery Loves Comedy’ at Sundance
- TMA FilmCast #32 — Alison Frank interviews Ana Geislerova
- ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ tops Online Film Critics Awards
- TMA FilmCast #31 — Alison Frank reports from 67th Locarno Film Fest
- 5 ½ hour film dominates awards at Locarno
- Shorts at #Locarno67: meditation vs testing the audience’s patience
- ‘The Fool’: A modern propaganda film
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