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Festivals-a-Go-Go: Dec.1 – Dec. 9, 2011
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, advance Hot Docs and Bloor Cinema passes now available for purchase, Bill ‘Deliverance’ McKinney dies at 80 without a squeal, Chinatown & Adam Nayman at the TBL, hockey films, and Nino Rota turns 100!
Festivals-a-Go-Go: Nov. 24 – Dec.1, 2011
Tally & heads up of local film festivals & screenings, Doc Soup returns to the Bloor Dec. 7, Rue Morgue’s Cinemacabre, and where you can still get pretty Guillermo del Toro “Fright Night” posters.
Festivals-a-Go-Go!
This weekend’s tally & heads-up of local film festivals & retros in Tranna, plus some editorial blather.
Raoul Ruiz
Advance film review of Mysteries of Lisbon / Mistérios de Lisboa (2010), the 4 hour epic by the late, great director Raoul Ruiz, which begins its engagement at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, starting Nov. 11.
Nicholas Ray: Part II
Film reviews of Susan Ray’s documentary Don’t Expect Too Much (2011), which recently screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Helpern’s rarely seen Nicholas Ray doc I’m a Stranger Here Myself (1975), plus more epic Editorial Blather.
Nicholas Ray: Part I
Film review of Nicholas Ray’s long unfinished and rarely seen experimental film, We Can’t Go Home Again (1976), recently restored and screened at the TIFF Bell Lightbox.
Happy Mittel-Halloween
Idle Sunday news bits about “caring sessions” in two Calgary grade schools in place of Halloween, Mario Bava, spooky movies at NYC’s Lincoln Center and Film Forum, Nicholas Ray at the Lightbox, and a screening of Israel’s first horror film Rabies / Kalevet (2010) at Innis Hall tonight.
Soundtrack Reviews & Sundry
Reviews of Silva Screen’s compilation series, featuring Music from the Transformers Trilogy by Steve Jablonsky, The Music of Michel Legrand, and The Music of James Horner, plus La-La Land’s complete presentation of James Horner’s Commando. Also: gorgeous Rue Morgue poster art, Julian Roffman’s The Mask + Guillermo del Toro in person at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, and David Cronenberg’s Shivers at The Revue. Sometimes I love my city. Sometimes.
Henri-Georges Clouzot, Part II
In Part II, a film review of Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Wages of Fear, The / Le salaire de la peur (1953), plus info on upcoming Nicholas Ray films at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, with rare audience introductions by the director’s widow, Susan Ray.
Henri-Georges Clouzot
With a retrospective of French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot underway at the TIFF Bell Lightbox, I’ve added a blog regarding Sunday’s screening of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), and info on upcoming titles currently unavailable on home video.
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