Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday to Saturday, September 17 to 19
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Special Events, TIFF Docs, Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Shiva Baby, Underplayed, Enemies of the State, Gala Presentations, Good Joe Bell, Mark Wahlberg, Gary Sinise, Connie Britton, Gay rights, Toronto filmmaker, The Truffle Hunters, Primetime, A Suitable Boy, Naomi Kawase, True Mothers, Special Presentations, Mads Mikkelsen, Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg
TIFF Tribute Awards Recap: Kinda Cool, Kinda Weird (But With Peeks into Star’s Homes!)
By Linda Barnard
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Review, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, TIFF Tribute Awards, Nomadland, Beans, Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, Tracy Deer, One Night in Miami…, Bruised, Terence Blanchard
Antebellum: Racist past meets micro-aggressive racist present in carelessly offensive time-hopping tale
ReviewJim SlotekAntebellum, Time hopping allegory about racism, Gerard Bush, Christopher Renz, Janelle Monáe, Eric Lange, Hell You Talmabout, American Utopia, David Byrne, Spike Lee, Charlottesville, Virginia, white supremacist rally., The killing of Heather Heyer, Gabourey Sidibe, Jena Malone, William Faulkner
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Wednesday, September 16
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Review, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Limbo, DIscovery, Ben Sharrock, Pieces of a Woman, Gala Presentations, Kornél Mundruczó, Shia LaBeouf, Molly Parker, Vanessa Kirby, Wavelengths, Wildfire, Fauna, The New Corporation: The Unfortunately Necessary Sequel, TIFF Docs, Nicolás Pereda, Cathy Brady, Nora-Jane Noone, Nika McGuigan, Special Events, I Am Greta, Greta Thunberg, Nathan Grossman
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Tuesday, September 15
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Michel Franco, New Order, Mexico, Corruption, Venice Silver Lion Award, Trickster, TIFF New Wave, Michelle Latimer, CBC, Television, Bandar Band, Manijeh Hekmat, MLK/FBI, TIFF Docs, Masters, The Best Is Yet To Come, Notturno, Wang Jing, journalism
Never Be Done: The Richard Glen Lett Story - Not a "sad clown" story, but a hard, redemptive look at a hard man to like
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Monday, September 14
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, 76 Days, TIFF Docs, COVID-19, The Father, Anthony Hopkins, Olivia Colman, Imogen Poots, Quo Vadis, Aida?, Contemporary World Cinema, Jasmila Žbanić, Jasna Đuričić, 180 Degree Rule, Discovery, Farnoosh Samadi, Ephraim Asili, The Inheritance, Wavelengths, Violation, Dusty Mancinelli, Midnight Madness, Madeleine Sims-Fewer, Ammonite, Kate Winslet, Saoirse Ronan, Gala Presentations, Francis Lee
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Sunday, September 13
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, TIFF Discovery, TIFF New Wave, Special Presentations, Special Events, Falling, Beans, Wolfwalkers, Summer of '85, Viggo Mortensen, Laura Linney, David Cronenberg, Tracey Deer, TIFF Emerging Talent, fact based drama, Canadian, François Ozon, Felix Lefebvre, Benjamin Voisin, Animation, Tomm Moore, Ross Stewart
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Saturday, September 12
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Review, PreviewTIFF 2020, Contemporary World Cinema, Japan, Drama, Miwa Nishikawa, Lift Like A Girl, TIFF Docs, TIFF New Wave, Akilla’s Escape, Special Events, Penguin Bloom, The Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Naomi Watts, Planet Africa 25, Nomadland, Frances McDormand, Chloe Zhao, Preparations To be Together for an Unknown Period of Time
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Friday, September 11
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Preview, ReviewTIFF 2020, The DIsciple, Special Presentations, The Way I See It, Special Events, One Night in Miami…, Regina King, Gaza mon amour, Discovery, Tarzan Nassar, Arab Nassar
Original-Cin TIFF 2020 Picks: Thursday September 10
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Preview, ReviewJim SlotekTIFF virtual cinema, David Byrne’s American Utopia, Spike Lee, No Ordinary Man, Billy Tipton, Trans issues, Fireball: Visitors from Darker Worlds, Werner Herzog, Clive Oppenheimer, The Way I See It, Pete Souza, Ronald Reagan, Official presidential photographer
I Am Woman: Helen Reddy Biopic Captures the Big Picture, Misses the Crucial Minutiae
Mulan: No cartoon dragons, no musical numbers, just an ancient, action-packed Chinese spectacle
ReviewJim SlotekDisney live-action remakes, Mulan, Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Lion King, Niki Caro, Rosalind Chao, Eddie Murphy, Kar-Wai Wong, Whale Rider, Ang Lee, Yifei Liu, Donnie Yen, Jet Li, Jason Scott Lee, Disney+
Measure For Measure: Aussie gangster take on the Bard is a glum and muddled way of saying payback doth be a bitch
ReviewJim SlotekMeasure for Measure, Contemporary Australian update of Shakespeare, Paul Ireland, Damian Hill, Hugo Weaving, Mark Leonard Winter, Duke of Vienna, Harrison Gilbertson, Romeo and Juliet, Megan Hajjar, Fayssal Bazzi, Stateless
I Propose That We Never See Each Other After Tonight: Rom-com tropes and over-plotting spoil the romance
ReviewJim SlotekMixed relationships, Romantic comedies, Sean Garrity, I Propose That We Never See Each Other Again After Tonight, Rom-com tropes, Kristian Jordan, Hera Nalam, Matthew Paris Irvine, Andrea Macasaet, Fiipinos
Away: Netflix space drama/soap opera has Hilary Swank in command and a whole lot of baggage back on Earth
ReviewJim SlotekNew Netflix series Away, Hilary Swank, Josh Charles, Talitha Bateman, Mission to Mars, Domestic life of astronauts, Mark Ivanir, Ato Essandoh, Ray Panthaki, Vivian Wu, Reproducing weightlessness with wires
The Golden Girl: Doc on Wrongly Disgraced Romanian Gymnast Poignant and Timely
Review, PreviewThe Golden Girl, documentary, Gymnastics, Olympics, Scandal, Drug scandal, Andreea Răducan, Denisa Morariu-Tamas, Nadia Comaneci, Simone Biles
I'm Thinking of Ending Things: Charlie Kaufman creates a wonderfully odd, meet-the-parents fever dream
By Karen Gordon
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ReviewJim SlotekCharlie Kaufman, I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Inner-dialogue, Canadian author Iain Reid, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, The Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Anomalisa, Traumatic meet-the-parents movie, Jesse Plemons, Jessie Buckley, Toni Collette, David Thewlis
The New Mutants: The Breakfast Club with super powers, and a badly adapted dead end for an old franchise
ReviewJim SlotekThe New Mutants, Josh Boone, The Fault in Our Stars, Sale of 20th Century Fox to Disney, 1982 graphic novel by Chris Claremont and Bob McLeod, Blu Hunt, Alice Braga, Maisie Williams, Game of Thrones, Henry Zaga, Charlie Heaton, Stranger Things, Anya Taylor-Joy, The Witch
Bill & Ted Face the Music: Sci-Fi Comedy Reboot Dumb But Well-Meaning
