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Packaged Goods – Artful Animation

February 11, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Packaged Goods – Artful Animation

A taste of the latest entry in the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s fun media series Packaged Goods: Artful Animation, which screens Wed. Feb. 20th, and features a post-screening discussion with Gerald Ding, Creative Director of Psyop.

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Packaged Goods and Fall / Winter TIFF Bell Lightbox Highlights!

October 13, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Packaged Goods and Fall / Winter TIFF Bell Lightbox Highlights!

Quick review of this past Wednesday’s Packaged Goods: The Evolution of the Music Video, and highlights of the Fall / Winter programmes at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Besides Bond there’s Indian Expressionism (Lang!), other spy films (Puppet on a Chain!), post-apocalyptic dystopian nihilism (Logan’s Run!), zombies, slashers, opera, exhibits, and many other great films on Fridays & Saturdays I won’t be able to see.

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Packaged Goods: The Art of the Edit

August 23, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Packaged Goods: The Art of the Edit

Editor’s Blog & review of the latest installment of the TIFF Bell Lightbox’s Packaged Goods, “The Art of the Edit,” which screened this past Wednesday, and featured a Q&A with award-winning editor Chris Franklin.

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Packaged Goods: Girls on Film + TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer Rae Ann Fera

June 12, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Packaged Goods: Girls on Film + TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer Rae Ann Fera

Interview with TIFF Bell Lightbox Programmer & Curator Rae Ann Fera regarding the June 17, 2012 installment of the bi-monthly series Packaged Goods: Girls on Film, featuring a collection of commercials, music videos, and animated short films directed by women.

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Canada’s Top Ten & Packaged Goods series

December 8, 2011 | By | Add a Comment
Canada’s Top Ten & Packaged Goods series

Details of TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten winners in feature and short film categories, with links to online clips and home video availability, plus a review of the upcoming Packaged Goods series playing next week at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, featuring hand-picked ads, music videos, and a great Spike Jonze animated short.

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Detroit on the Big Screen

October 11, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Detroit on the Big Screen

Editorial blather plus Reviews of Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady’s Detropia (2012), which screened at HotDocs this year and finally gets its theatrical run in Toronto at The Bloor alongside a related doc by Julien Temple, Requiem for Detroit? (2010), made for the BBC.

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Soundtrack News & Reviews

October 11, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
Soundtrack News & Reviews

Reviews of BSX Records’ well-done re-recording of Vangelis’ Blade Runner score + Cliff Martinez’ Arbitrage (Milan Records), and quick soundtrack news.

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OCD and As Good As It Gets

August 9, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
OCD and As Good As It Gets

James L. Brooks’ Oscar-winning comedy-drama As Good As It Gets gets its due on Blu via Twilight Time + CanCon at TIFF & The First Weekend Club.

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Podcast with Mama’s composer Fernando Velazquez, and Nostalgic Shockers

February 8, 2013 | By | Add a Comment
Podcast with Mama’s composer Fernando Velazquez, and Nostalgic Shockers

Just uploaded is a podcast with Fernando Velazquez, the lauded Spanish composer of the current box office hit Mama. Also new: Editor’s Blog on nostalgic horror, plus reviews of Joe Dante’s underrated and very badly treated The Hole (Alliance / EOne), and the underrated Devil (Universal), the latter featuring a terrifying score by Velazquez.

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One Last Buh-Buh Bah-Boo

October 4, 2012 | By | Add a Comment
One Last Buh-Buh Bah-Boo

Some quick TIFF Bell Lightbox news, and a review of Twilight Time’s High Time (1960), one of Bing Crosby’s last major roles during the sixties, co-starring a bevy of young snots including Fabian, Tuesday Weld, Yvonne Craig, and Richard Beymer.

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