TIFF 2009 Summary: Chalk
No pretentious film critic ever made himself look smarter than everyone else (or ahead of the curve) by walking out of a major film festival shouting, “Campion! Hornby! Kore-eda!” or “me too!”
Category: Film Festivals
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The Road (Hillcoat, 2009)
As a professional literature teacher, I always feel guilty about not getting behind the Cormac McCarthy bandwagon. Surely anything that promotes reading of a more literate kind, that gets people to take serious literature seriously, ought to be championed, embraced...revered.
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Leslie, My Name is Evil (Harkema, 2009)
Helter Skelter + Saved! + South Park with a dash of Rocky Horror Picture Show thrown in. Now write a review for a Christian audience. My try is at CT Movies.
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Agora (Amenábar, 2009)
Kenneth R. Morefield reviews Agora at 1More Film Blog.
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Bright Star (Campion, 2009)
Jane Campion's Bright Star is a heartfelt, carefully drawn, masterpiece of a love story, It contains all the fire and penetration one would expect from a Campion film, but there is also a surprising--and welcome--tenderness as well.
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Vision (von Trotta, 2009)
Films that depict communal religious life with nuance and sympathy are rare, and those that probe without cliché the relationships, communal and familial, between women are rarer still. So why… Continue reading "Vision (von Trotta, 2009)"
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You’ve Come a (Long?) Way, Baby
Oh, we like to congratulate ourselves in the West (and America in particular) that women have more rights than they did at some indeterminate time in the past or in some repressive culture with which we can compare.
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Persepolis (Paronnaud, 2007)
A lot of films can break your heart--a precious few can enlarge and renovate it.
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Art & Copy (Pray, 2009)
Doug Pray’s documentary about the rise of the advertising age, replete with interviews from industry giants and snippets from the greatest television ads of all time, was a real festival crowd pleaser.
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Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)
Director Stanley Nelson (perhaps best known for Jonestown: The Life and Death of People’s Temple ) delivers another great documentary. Equal parts history lesson and civics lesson, Wounded Knee skillfully… Continue reading "Wounded Knee (Nelson, 2009)"