Anyone who spends more than a few days at a major festival like the Toronto International Film Festival gets used to hearing the same question: “What’s the best thing you’ve seen?”
For this year’s edition of the Tiff Critics Poll, we asked a variety of writers covering the festival exactly that. The results, culled from 45 ballots, point to a particularly interesting mixture of awards season hopefuls and some of the festival’s standout international offerings.
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The quartet at the top? Fan favorite “La La Land” (which was named by seven different critics), followed closely by Barry Jenkins’ tender coming-of-age story “Moonlight” (six), Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” (five) and Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” (four). However, there were many other votes cast for under-the-radar titles.
The close race partly reflects...
For this year’s edition of the Tiff Critics Poll, we asked a variety of writers covering the festival exactly that. The results, culled from 45 ballots, point to a particularly interesting mixture of awards season hopefuls and some of the festival’s standout international offerings.
Read More: ‘La La Land’ Review: A Lively Supercut of Classic Musicals Starring Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone
The quartet at the top? Fan favorite “La La Land” (which was named by seven different critics), followed closely by Barry Jenkins’ tender coming-of-age story “Moonlight” (six), Maren Ade’s “Toni Erdmann” (five) and Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” (four). However, there were many other votes cast for under-the-radar titles.
The close race partly reflects...
- 9/22/2016
- by Steve Greene and Zipporah Smith
- Indiewire
Music plays a big role in “Morris From America,” the story of a 13-year-old African-American boy who moves to Heidelberg, Germany. While unable to make friends at his new school, Morris has a ’90s rap-loving dad (Craig Robinson) who tries to be his friend. Ultimately, Morris takes his frustration out in the music he writes.
To create the film’s music, director Chad Hartigan turned to Wild Cub frontman Keegan DeWitt, who mixed original retro-sounding hip hop with a selection of Edm.
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“The idea was to always have the music we made for the film feel authentic but not distracting,” wrote Hartigan. “It could be from today, it could be from the ’90s, but really just existed in our movie. Same with the Edm and party music. It was very important to Keegan and I that both these...
To create the film’s music, director Chad Hartigan turned to Wild Cub frontman Keegan DeWitt, who mixed original retro-sounding hip hop with a selection of Edm.
Read More: ‘Morris From America’ Puts a Fresh Spin on Familiar Ingredients
“The idea was to always have the music we made for the film feel authentic but not distracting,” wrote Hartigan. “It could be from today, it could be from the ’90s, but really just existed in our movie. Same with the Edm and party music. It was very important to Keegan and I that both these...
- 9/9/2016
- by Chris O'Falt
- Indiewire
Christopher Nolan made Memento, but he also made The Dark Knight Rises. Great filmmakers can make bad movies: This is not a particularly complicated equation. And Nolan's new space melodrama Interstellar is not a particularly complicated movie. The science is elaborate and insane, but the emotional stakes are simple: Father loves daughter, father saves humanity. But Nolan is one of our plottiest filmmakers. (Most films have three acts; Nolan's movies usually have at least six, usually out of order and/or overlapping.) I attempted to explain the plot of Interstellar, but even I ran up against some impenetrable cosmo-logic. Some...
- 11/10/2014
- by Darren Franich
- EW.com - PopWatch
"Award-winning actor Maury Chaykin, a familiar face in Canadian movies and TV shows since the 1970s, died Tuesday on his 61st birthday," reports the Toronto Sun.
"Boasting an impressive 153 film and television credits, Chaykin was known in and out of the land of the maple leaf," writes Monika Bartyzel at Cinematical. "In Canada, he graced a number of Atom Egoyan films including The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, and Where the Truth Lies, he teamed up with Don McKellar (who recently lost wife Tracy Wright) on Blindness and Cooking with Stella, and more recently played Sam Blecher in the Mark McKinney-produced Less Than Kind. But his accomplishments and impact reached stateside features as well. Chaykin played Major Fambrough in Dances with Wolves, Sam Tipton in My Cousin Vinny, and in recent years, he played 'Harvey Weingard' — aka 'Harvey Weinstein' — in Entourage."
"His death comes just as it was announced that his latest movie,...
"Boasting an impressive 153 film and television credits, Chaykin was known in and out of the land of the maple leaf," writes Monika Bartyzel at Cinematical. "In Canada, he graced a number of Atom Egoyan films including The Sweet Hereafter, Exotica, and Where the Truth Lies, he teamed up with Don McKellar (who recently lost wife Tracy Wright) on Blindness and Cooking with Stella, and more recently played Sam Blecher in the Mark McKinney-produced Less Than Kind. But his accomplishments and impact reached stateside features as well. Chaykin played Major Fambrough in Dances with Wolves, Sam Tipton in My Cousin Vinny, and in recent years, he played 'Harvey Weingard' — aka 'Harvey Weinstein' — in Entourage."
"His death comes just as it was announced that his latest movie,...
- 7/28/2010
- MUBI
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Jay Stone may have gone a bit too far when he claimed that no one else on American Idol has ever done what he does, but we can’t deny that he’s still pretty darn good.
For his audition piece Jay gave a beatboxed version of the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Kara said the rendition was like “a crazy rollercoaster ride,” However the panel wasn’t convinced and after a bit of persuading they allowed Jay to do a second song, this time Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.”
Simon said no, but Randy and Kara’s vote was enough to win him a Hollywood slot! We’re not sure that he’ll get any further than that, but at least he was entertaining!
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Jay Stone may have gone a bit too far when he claimed that no one else on American Idol has ever done what he does, but we can’t deny that he’s still pretty darn good.
For his audition piece Jay gave a beatboxed version of the Beatles’ “Come Together.” Kara said the rendition was like “a crazy rollercoaster ride,” However the panel wasn’t convinced and after a bit of persuading they allowed Jay to do a second song, this time Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine.”
Simon said no, but Randy and Kara’s vote was enough to win him a Hollywood slot! We’re not sure that he’ll get any further than that, but at least he was entertaining!
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- 1/21/2010
- by Lisa McGarry
- Unreality
The Orlando auditions on last night's American Idol (see full recap here) were a dream come true for a few budding musicians. We watched 11 hopefuls take home a Golden Ticket -- even though a grand total of 31 singers were granted one -- and some of those 11 left us wanting more. (Ahem, Jermaine Purifory.) So we took to the Web to find more of the successful auditioners' music: Jermaine Purifory: His rendition of "Smile" made us all, well, smile. But you can find Purifory all over YouTube, performing solo -- like on the track embedded below, written by the musician --...
- 1/21/2010
- by Kate Ward
- EW.com - PopWatch
On Wednesday night's (January 20) episode of "American Idol," the audition tour stopped in Orlando, land of Mickey Mouse and Skiiboski's mugshots!
The proximity to Miami allowed for Simon, Randy and Ryan to party hard and show up to work blatantly hungover (professionalism!) while guest judge Kristin Chenoweth's proximity to Kara DioGuardi turned Kara into a hyperactive eight-year-old child with Sapphic tendencies. (No wonder Simon ditched "Idol" — Kara and Kristin's high-pitched squeals could be used by Jack Bauer to torture hostile suspects.)
None of the talent featured in Orlando inspired me to jump up and down and pack up my Kradison shrine just yet. But the lackluster auditions (and unfortunate positive reinforcement the judges doled out all night long) inspired my wife to coin a new term: The Golden Picket.
The Golden Picket refers to any Golden Ticket given to a contestant out of pity. Golden ticket + Pity = Golden Picket.
The proximity to Miami allowed for Simon, Randy and Ryan to party hard and show up to work blatantly hungover (professionalism!) while guest judge Kristin Chenoweth's proximity to Kara DioGuardi turned Kara into a hyperactive eight-year-old child with Sapphic tendencies. (No wonder Simon ditched "Idol" — Kara and Kristin's high-pitched squeals could be used by Jack Bauer to torture hostile suspects.)
None of the talent featured in Orlando inspired me to jump up and down and pack up my Kradison shrine just yet. But the lackluster auditions (and unfortunate positive reinforcement the judges doled out all night long) inspired my wife to coin a new term: The Golden Picket.
The Golden Picket refers to any Golden Ticket given to a contestant out of pity. Golden ticket + Pity = Golden Picket.
- 1/21/2010
- by Jim Cantiello
- MTV Newsroom
Guest judge Kristin Chenoweth helps hand out 31 golden tickets.
By James Montgomery
Seth Rollins tries out for "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
After Tuesday night's rather listless Chicago auditions, "American Idol" headed to the Sunshine State (or, more specifically, Orlando) on Wednesday (January 20) and boy, were the results different.
While Chicago failed to raise the bar, Orlando positively put it through the ceiling, providing Simon, Randy and Kara — plus guest judge Kristin Chenoweth — with plenty of memorable moments, including some genuinely great voices, a few goofy auditioners and at least one arrest (congratulations, Jarrod Norrell!).
There was Seth Rollins, a 28-year-old raising an autistic son, who wowed the panel with his velvety take on the Gershwin standard "Someone to Watch Over Me"; and Matt Lawrence, who robbed a bank when he was 15, spent four years in jail, then won over the judges with a big, husky version of Ray Lamontagne's "Trouble.
By James Montgomery
Seth Rollins tries out for "American Idol" Wednesday
Photo: Fox
After Tuesday night's rather listless Chicago auditions, "American Idol" headed to the Sunshine State (or, more specifically, Orlando) on Wednesday (January 20) and boy, were the results different.
While Chicago failed to raise the bar, Orlando positively put it through the ceiling, providing Simon, Randy and Kara — plus guest judge Kristin Chenoweth — with plenty of memorable moments, including some genuinely great voices, a few goofy auditioners and at least one arrest (congratulations, Jarrod Norrell!).
There was Seth Rollins, a 28-year-old raising an autistic son, who wowed the panel with his velvety take on the Gershwin standard "Someone to Watch Over Me"; and Matt Lawrence, who robbed a bank when he was 15, spent four years in jail, then won over the judges with a big, husky version of Ray Lamontagne's "Trouble.
- 1/20/2010
- MTV Music News
The new biopic Amelia stars two-time Oscar winner Hilary Swank as the aviation pioneer Amelia Earhart. Often remembered more for her mysterious disappearance than her aerial accomplishments, the new movie tries to steer focus back to her highly publicized, if short lived career as a professional female pilot. Only eight years after the Nineteenth Amendment granted women the right to vote, Earhart burst onto the public radar in 1928 by being the first women to fly across the Atlantic Ocean, becoming an instant celebrity. Just nine years later, on July 2, 1937 while attempting to circumnavigate the globe, her plane disappeared over the Pacific Ocean, giving birth to several theories and myths regarding her death.
Directed by Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) Amelia is a visual feast, as expected by a director that seems to delight in filming rich colors and textures—the only thing Vanity Fair had going for...
Directed by Mira Nair (Salaam Bombay!, Monsoon Wedding, The Namesake) Amelia is a visual feast, as expected by a director that seems to delight in filming rich colors and textures—the only thing Vanity Fair had going for...
- 10/23/2009
- by Renee Garcia
- The Flickcast
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