By Unknown Thursday, September 19, 2013 Film.com Lists Wong Kar-Wai Wong Kar-wai, Ranked Another ranked piece, this one again commissioned by Film.com. To be honest, it's not one I planned on doing, both because Wong's fi...
By Unknown 7:00 AM 2013 Documentary Errol Morris Film.com TIFF13 TIFF Review: The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld (Errol Morris, 2013) First up from TIFF, the new Errol Morris documentary, a worthy (if inferior) companion to The Fog of War that finds another defense secreta...
By Unknown Wednesday, September 18, 2013 Edgar Wright Movie Mezzanine Fanboy Contra Fanboy: The Genius of Edgar Wright Managed to get this done just before leaving for Toronto. I loved The World's End as I have loved all of Edgar Wright's work, as ev...
By Unknown 2:00 PM Jonathan Glazer Movie Mezzanine Scarlett Johansson TIFF13 TIFF Review: Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer, 2013) I wasn't the biggest fan of Birth , as this blog will attest, but I found Jonathan Glazer's return to feature filmmaking one of the...
By Unknown 12:30 PM Film.com Wong Kar-Wai Love Is a Battlefield: The Romantic VIolence of Wong Kar-wai With Wong Kar-wai's masterful (if you stick to the Chinese cut) The Grandmaster out now, I was drawn to the parallels between this oste...
By Unknown 10:00 AM Brian De Palma Film.com Lists Brian De Palma, Ranked I hear a lot of valid objections to ranking a director's filmography, most of which I share, but the format at least allows me to argue ...
By Unknown 7:05 AM Dork Shelf Leos Carax Leos Carax Retrospective This event was Toronto-specific and has since passed, but I still got to write some words about each of Leos Carax's remarkable features...
By Unknown 7:03 AM 2013 James Callis Jennifer Coolidge Keri Russell Austenland (Jerusha Hess, 2013) My slackness in updating this blog has gotten embarrassing. I still need to link to all my TIFF coverage and even put up links for material ...