Barry Levinson and Denzel Washington ‘In Conversation’ at TIFF: Hollywood titans trade tales and insights
Interview, Preview, ViewsJim SlotekTIFF 2020, In Coversation With, Denzel Washington, Barry Levinson, Rain Man, Diner, Fences, Antwone Fisher, Black Panther, Chadwick Boseman
Blackbird: A great cast, and yeah, it's a tearjerker - you got a problem with that?
ReviewJim SlotekBlackbird, American remakes of foreign films, Sam Neill, Susan Sarandon, Assisted suicide, Kate Winslet, Rainn Wilso, Anson Boon, Mia Wasikowska, Bex Taylor-Klaus, Lindsay Duncan, Roger Michell, Tear-jerkers
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!)
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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
TIFF Q&A: Midnight Madness programmer Peter Kuplowsky on replicating the madness at home, and answering our Get The Hell Out review
InterviewJim SlotekToronto International Film Festival, Midnight Madness, Programmer Peter Kuplowsky, Shadow In The Cloud, Alex Winter's Freaked, Tetsuro Takeuchi's Guitar Wolf, Get The Hell Out, Taiwanese zombie movie, I.-Fan Wang, Edgar Wright, Stephen Chow, Temple of Devilbuster
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
TIFF press conference: How Idris Elba learned to love his horse on Concrete Cowboy
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InterviewJim SlotekIdris Elba, Concrete Cowboy, Jamil “Mil” Prattis, Philadelphia's Fletcher Street Stables, Caleb McLaughlin, Stranger Things, Lorraine Toussaint, Orange is the New Black, Toronto International Film Festival, Jharrel Jerome, Moonlight, Lee Daniels, Ricky Staub, Greg Neri’s 2009 novel Ghetto Cowboy, Actors learning to ride a horse
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
Saoirse Ronan ‘In Conversation’ Reveals Acclaimed Actor’s Debt to Her Directors
Interview, PreviewJim SlotekTIFF 2020, Saoirse Ronan, In Coversation With, Kate Winslet, Lady Bird, greta gerwig, Brooklyn, John Crowley, Timothée Chalamet, Anne T. Donahue
TIFF press conference: Quarantined in North Bay, Penguin Bloom's Naomi Watts talks bird poop, wheelchairs and personal struggle
InterviewJim SlotekNaomi Watts, Naomi Watts quarantined in North Bay, Phillip Noyce thriller Lakewood, Penguin Bloom, "Support animal" birds, Magpies, The Walking Dead’s Andrew Lincoln, Jacki Weaver, Emma Cooper, Bruna Papandrea, Glendyn Ivin, Sam and Cam Bloom., Paralyzing accident, Wheelchair training, Bird poop
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
Halle Berry, 'In Conversation,' talks about starring in her own directorial debut Bruised, and the long shut-out of Black Best Actresses
By Linda Barnard
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InterviewJim SlotekHalle Berry, Bruised, Netflix, MMA fighter movies, Distribution deals at TIFF, Actors directing themselves, Actors directing debuts, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Spike Lee, Wesley Snipes, Jungle Fever., Monster’s Ball., First Black Best Actress Oscar winner
TIFF Press Conference: Debut Director Regina King (One Night in Miami…) on Breaking Ground, Being Black
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Interview, PreviewRegina King, One Night in Miami…, TIFF 2020, Press conferences, Eli Goree, Leslie Odom Jr., Kingsley Ben-Adir, adaptation, Aldis Hodge, Kemp Powers, Black Lives Matter, Gala Presentations
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
Original-Cin TIFF interview: Michelle Latimer on outrageous Indigenous imagery and her stylistic approach to Thomas King's Inconvenient Indian
InterviewJim SlotekThe Inconvenient Indian, Michelle Latimer, Old Fort William, Metis, Thomas King, History of Indigenous land losses, Toronto International Film Festival, Viceland Rise, Trickster, Eden Robinson, Trail of Tears, Ipperwash, Oka, Battle of Little Bighorn, Lakota Sioux, Crow tribe, Cultural appropriation, West Hollywood Halloween Parade, Caledonia, Dakota Access Pipeline, Standing Rock
