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Ryuhei Kitamura first came to the Festival in 2001 with the gonzo Japanese mobster zombie cult film, Versus. Now 11 years later, he has returned with the American-made No One Lives. Although it doesn't quite match Versus for over the top insanity, it is a nice bag of chills, thrills and laughs.
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Shores of Hope is the first feature film from director Toke Constantin Hebbeln. Set in Cold War era eastern Germany, the film follows the story of two young men whose lives are shaped by the paranoia, suspicion and betrayal of the Stasi-monitored country.
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Michel Gondry's latest film, The We and the I, follows the bus ride home on the last day of high school before the summer break. Brimful of teenagers with their loud energy and careless behaviour, an adult passenger might think it a ride from hell. But scratch a little below the surface and you'll [...]
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To kick off our 2012 Toronto International Film Festival coverage, we got an early look at an often over looked part of the festival: the Canadian short films programme called Short Cuts Canada. The programme is broken into six sections that screen like a single feature film, and each section runs roughly 90 minutes, [...]
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Cinema in Toronto has experienced a resurgence in the last few years with the opening of the Tiff Bell Lightbox, the newly opened Bloor Hot Docs Cinema and the ever increasing crowds attending Toronto’s many film festivals.
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When you get a film recommendation prefaced with “It’s not what you think it is”, you know that that something went awry in the marketing. Coupled with the fact that it opened on the same weekend as one of the highest grossing films of all time, Transsiberian sank with hardly a ripple. Yet it [...]
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Andrew Garfield was a relative unknown in North America until, and perhaps even after, he played Eduardo Saverin in The Social Network. This will likely change this month as he becomes the new Spider-Man. But back in 2007, the English actor played the eponymous role in the small but impressive British indie film, Boy [...]
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Meet Tony Wilson, the Cambridge-educated presenter of forgettable filler segments for daytime TV shows. He is not above a bit of buffoonery but that does not make him a fool.
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