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Thursday, August 2, 2012

Additions to the 2012 film-fest line-up

On Tuesday, the Toronto International Film Festival announced many additions to the 2012 line-up...
  • Vanguard
      • “ROOM 237” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Rodney Ascher)“PEACHES DOES HERSELF” (2012 feature film directed by Peaches)“ILL MANORS” (2012 feature film directed by Ben Drew)
    • 90 Minutes Eva Sørhaug
    • Beijing Flickers Zhang Yuan
    • Berberian Sound Studio Peter Strickland
    • Blondie Jesper Ganslandt
    • Here Comes the Devil Adrián García Bogliano
    • iLL Manors Ben Drew
    • Motorway Soi Cheang
    • Painless Juan Carlos Medina
    • Peaches Does Herself Peaches
    • Pusher Luis Prieto
    • Room 237 Rodney Ascher
    • Sightseers Ben Wheatley
    • Thale Aleksander Nordaas
    • The We and the I Michel Gondry

  • Docs
      • “STORM SURFERS 3D” (2011 feature film directed by Christopher Nelius and Justin McMillan)“REINCARNATED” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Andy Capper)“MORE THAN HONEY” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Markus Imhoof)“FIRST COMES LOVE” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Nina Davenport)“9.79*” (2012 feature documentary film directed by Daniel Gordon)
    • 9.79* Daniel Gordon
    • The Act of Killing Joshua Oppenheimer
    • Artifact Bartholomew Cubbins
    • As if We Were Catching a Cobra Hala Alabdalla
    • Camp 14 — Total Control Zone Marc Wiese
    • The Central Park Five Ken Burns
    • Far Out Isn't Far Enough: The Tomi Ungerer Story Brad Bernstein
    • Fidaï Damien Ounouri
    • First Comes Love Nina Davenport
    • The Gatekeepers Dror Moreh
    • The Girl from the South José Luis García
    • How to Make Money Selling Drugs Matthew Cooke
    • Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp Jorge Hinojosa
    • London – The Modern Babylon Julien Temple
    • Lunarcy! Simon Ennis
    • Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God Alex Gibney
    • Men At Lunch Seán Ó Cualáin
    • More Than Honey Markus Imhoof
    • No Place on Earth Janet Tobias
    • Reincarnated Andy Capper
    • Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out Marina Zenovich
    • The Secret Disco Revolution Jamie Kastner
    • Shepard & Dark Treva Wurmfeld
    • Show Stopper: The Theatrical Life of Garth Drabinsky Barry Avrich
    • State 194 Dan Setton
    • Storm Surfers 3D Christopher Nelius 
    • The Walls of Dakar Abdoul Aziz Cissé
    • A World Not Ours Mahdi Fleifel

  • City to City: Mumbai
      • “MISS LOVELY” (2012 feature film directed by Ashim Ahluwalia)“GANGS OF WASSEYPUR” (2012 feature film directed by Anurag Kashyap)
    • The Bright Day Mohit Takalkar
    • Gangs of Wasseypur Anurag Kashyap
    • Gangs of Wasseypur II Anurag Kashyap
    • Ishaqzaade Habib Faisal
    • Miss Lovely Ashim Ahluwalia
    • Mumbai’s King Manjeet Singh
    • Peddlers Vasan Bala
    • Shahid Hansal Mehta
    • Shanghai Dibakar Banerjee
    • Ship of Theseus Anand Gandhi
  • Kids
      • “ERNEST & CELESTINE” (2012 animated feature film directed by Benjamin Renner, Vincent Patar, Stéphane Aubier)
    • Ernest & Celestine Stéphane Aubier, Vincent Patar, Benjamin Renner
    • Finding Nemo 3D Andrew Stanton, Lee Unkrich
    • Hotel Transylvania Genndy Tartakovsky
    • Igor & the Cranes' Journey Evgeny Ruman
  • Cinematheque
      • “TESS” (1979 feature film directed by Roman Polanski)“DIAL M FOR MURDER” (1954 3-D feature film directed by Alfred Hitchcock)
    • The Bitter Ash [1963] Larry Kent
    • The Cloud Capped Star [1960] Ritwik Ghatak
    • Dial M for Murder [1954] Alfred Hitchcock
    • Loin du Viêtnam [1967]  Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Agnès Varda + more
    • Stromboli [1950] Roberto Rossellini
    • Tess [1979] Roman Polanski
    • The War of the Volcanoes Francesco Patierno
  • Masters
    • The End of Time Peter Mettler
  • Wavelengths
    • Bestiaire Denis Côté
  • Midnight Madness
      • “DREDD 3D” (2012 3-D feature film directed by Pete Travis)“THE ABCS OF DEATH” (2012 feature film directed by Angela Bettis, Hélène Cattet, Ernesto Díaz Espinoza, Jason Eisener, Bruno Forzani, Adrián García Bogliano, Xavier Gens, Noboru Iguchi, Thomas Cappelen Malling, Jorge Michel Grau, Yoshihiro Nishimura, Banjong Pisanthanakun, Simon Rumley, Marcel Sarmiento, Jon Schnepp, Srdjan Spasojevic, Timo Tjahjanto, Andrew Traucki, Nacho Vigalondo, Jake West, Ti West, Ben Wheatley, Adam Wingard, Mikael Wulff, Yûdai Yamaguchi, Lee Hardcastle)
    • The ABCs of Death (26 directors!)
    • Aftershock Nicolás López
    • The Bay Barry Levinson
    • Come Out and Play Makinov
    • Dredd 3D Pete Travis
    • Hellbenders J.T. Petty
    • John Dies at the End Don Coscarelli
    • The Lords of Salem Rob Zombie
    • No One Lives Ryûhei Kitamura
    • Seven Psychopaths Martin McDonagh
...and next week, we'll have all the Canadian films to add as well...  :-)

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Wednesday, August 3, 2011

2011 Midnight Madness!

Film titles for the 2011 Midnight Madness program were announced earlier today. One of the most anticipated film programs at the festival, Colin Geddes brings his 10 picks to enthusiastic audiences at the Ryerson Theatre.

“THE DAY” (2011 feature film directed by Douglas Aarniokoski)“GOD BLESS AMERICA” (2011 feature film directed by Bobcat Goldthwait)“THE INCIDENT” (2011 feature film directed by Alexandre Courtes)“KILL LIST” (2011 feature film directed by Ben Wheatley)“LIVID” (2011 feature film directed by Julien Maury, Alexandre Bustillo)“LOVELY MOLLY” (2011 feature film directed by Eduardo Sanchez)“THE RAID” (2011 feature film directed by Gareth Evans)“SLEEPLESS NIGHT” (2011 feature film directed by Frédéric Jardin)“SMUGGLER” (2011 feature film directed by Katsuhito Ishii)“YOU'RE NEXT” (2011 feature film directed by Adam Wingard)

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Friday, October 1, 2010

Sat.02/Oct: Nuit Blanche film-fest events

Toronto's annual sunset-to-sunrise contemporary art celebration Nuit Blanche returns this Saturday (October 2nd, 2010), with a number of film-fest related events:
  • The Essential Cinema

    The 100 films that represent the "best" and the "most influential" works of all time – filling a gallery with iconic objects, images and video clips that mark these achievements and their ripple-effect through the history of cinema and world culture.
    Two of Canada's greatest living filmmakers contribute new media art projects that dig deeper. Atom Egoyan explores the unusual relationship between the viewer and the screen with 8 ½ Screens, while Guy Maddin's Hauntings I and Hauntings II re-imagines the lost work of master filmmakers to produce the ghosts of cinema's past.

  • Arcadian Renaissance

    Remember the days of darkened arcades, bleeps and bloops in the dark? Remember being wrapped in a cocoon of sound and light, transported to another reality with a button under one hand and a joystick in the other? For some, it was a cultural blip. For others, utterly formative. The Indie games community is made up of the latter.

    Working solo or in tiny teams with an experimental and creatively singular approach, artists make the simple and engaging games that turned them on to the potential of a medium. For Nuit Blanche, the videogame culture collective Hand Eye Society is presenting several new arcade-style games by Toronto gamemakers in the classic stand-up arcade cabinet context they were meant to be played. For one night, regain the lost feeling of what it felt like to play games in public, without losing any quarters.

    Here are the games presented (click for info/download):




    And, here's a video, from the exhibit, at Lightbox:



  • A Girl and a Camera /
    A Girl and a Gun

    SUNSET TO 1:00AM: The first female director, producer and studio owner, cinema pioneer Alice Guy Blaché's keen sense of storytelling helped the cinema evolve from documentary actualités into an intricate narrative art form. The films on display also demonstrate her pioneering broaching of sexual and political issues and her remarkable formal experimentation.
    AFTER 1:00AM: The Toronto premiere of Austrian montage master Gustav Deutsch's "Film Ist: A Girl and a Gun", compiling archival footage from the first four decades of film history into a carnal celebration of the quasi-supernatural energy of erotic desire and a dark rumination on the battle of the sexes, set to a spectral score by electronic icons Christian Fennesz, Martin Siewert and Burkhard Stangl.
    [Mature content, suitable for audiences 18+]

  • Singin' in the Dark

    The tunes you remember, from the movies you can’t forget.
    7:00PM-MIDNIGHT: Join us and a special on-stage host for a riotous sing-along featuring hit tunes from movie musicals. [Suitable for all ages.]
    AFTER MIDNIGHT: As the night gets later, the movies get darker and the songs get... surprising! [Suggested for mature audiences.]



  • Grindbox!

    A tribute to the beloved American institution of the grindhouse – a term for theatres that mainly showed exploitation films, named after the defunct burlesque theaters located on New York City's 42nd Street where "bump n' grind" dancing and striptease were featured – this presentation of vintage trailers for horror and exploitation films from around the world is a cinematic celebration of the weird, the wild and the wonderful, balanced on the border between art and trash. Curated by Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes.
    [Mature content, suitable for audiences 18+]
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Monday, August 16, 2010

Midnight announcement madness!

Earlier today, Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes said — via Twitter...
@mmadnesstiff: Because you have all been patient in this EXTRA long wait, tonight at midnight I will tweet 3 of my MM picks! YES! Stay up! The remaining MM films will be announced Tuesday at 11AM
and later...
@mmadnesstiff: Cause I love being a tease, I am going to share some cropped photos of some of the Midnight Madness picks! Hang tight....



Images above, are linked to their film; and
the film titles below, are listed with their sources...These join the previously announced...
  • Fubar II, Michael Dowse — Opening Midnight Madness
The final two films will be announced tomorrow (Tuesday) at 11AM EST.

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Saturday, July 31, 2010

Midnight Madness with Colin Geddes

Last year, Midnight Madness programmer Colin Geddes announced his complete 2009 line-up via Twitter — before the official press release was posted.

Yesterday, Colin announced (via Twitter) that this year's program announcement might be delayed:
"Now bad news is the Midnight Madness press release might be delayed. Bummed, bc I am DYING to talk about my picks! Stay tuned!"
Today, he confirmed:
"Delayed. Bummed but its strategic..."
Well, while we are waiting... we put together a linked-list of Colin's past picks as Midnight Madness programmer — enjoy the look back... :-)
This list comes from the source — Colin's own history of the midnight madness programme.

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