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September 18, 2019

Episode 652: TIFF 2019 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

In this episode, David is joined by Mashable’s Angie Han to discuss what they saw at this year’s TIFF.

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September 14, 2019

TIFF 2019: First Love, by David Bax

Takashi Miike’s world is one of commonplace sociopathy. In his newest film, First Love, as in his others, the criminals aren’t just criminals. They’re ice cold sadists and slavering maniacs. And yet, also as in so many of his other...

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September 12, 2019

TIFF 2019: A Hidden Life, by David Bax

Terrence Malick’s transcendent A Hidden Life is informed and bolstered in every way by Christian philosophy and yet, despite including numerous men of cloth as characters, none of them has the fortitude to fulfill the purpose of their vocation. But...

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September 12, 2019

TIFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit, by David Bax

Jojo Rabbit‘s opening titles play out against stock footage of Germans “heil”ing Adolf Hitler soundtracked by The Beatles singing “Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand” and the sound of screaming fans. There is satirical potential in reducing Hitler to the level...

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September 11, 2019

TIFF 2019: Ema, by David Bax

With Ema, Pablo Larraín, plumbs the harrowing depths of depression. But he’s also made a movie that would be fun to watch with the sound off. From the opening shot of a burning traffic light dripping flames into a midnight...

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September 10, 2019

TIFF 2019: Knives Out, by David Bax

From, I suppose, a marketing standpoint, the major selling point of Rian Johnson’s Knives Out is its cast. The Hercule Poirot-esque private investigator is played by Daniel Craig; his police detective liaison is LaKeith Stanfield; and the family of wealthy...

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September 9, 2019

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

Robert Eggers’ thrilling, garish, wonderfully off-putting and hilarious portrait of insanity, The Lighthouse, starts with a churning, percussive score indicating the two main characters’ level-headed determination on their way to get a job done. That sense is comically short-lived, though,...

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September 8, 2019

TIFF 2019: Coming Home Again, by David Bax

Like so many Wayne Wang films, Coming Home Again is deceptively, almost detrimentally, slight. Perhaps one of the least pretentious directors working today, he has once again made a film that is sly in its straightforwardness, ultimately overcoming its occasional...

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September 8, 2019

TIFF 2019: Pain and Glory, by David Bax

In many ways, Pedro Almodóvar’s Pain and Glory feels like a departure. It’s not that the hothouse melodramas that make up most of his output have resisted personal touches; 2004’s Bad Education was arguably overflowing with them and some of...

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September 8, 2019

TIFF 2019: Sound of Metal, by David Bax

There’s a small but revealing moment early in Sound of Metal, Darius Marder’s fiction feature debut. When our protagonist is offered help from a faith-based initiative, he reflexively refuses it on the grounds that he is “very much not religious,”...

Tagged: film festival

Episode 652: TIFF 2019 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

TIFF 2019: First Love, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: A Hidden Life, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Jojo Rabbit, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Ema, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Knives Out, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: The Lighthouse, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Coming Home Again, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Pain and Glory, by David Bax

TIFF 2019: Sound of Metal, by David Bax

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