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TIFF Day 11

Film Recommendation / Blade Runner: 2049 (2017) ‘Blade Runner:2049,‘ is perfect. It’s got everything I’ve been writing about. Whether that’s due to the nature of film storytelling, an inherent quality of human narrative, or my own knack for blending synchronicity…

TIFF Day 10

Film Recommendation / Reprisal (2019) x TOTDY (2019) ‘Reprisal,‘ and ‘Too Old to Die Young.‘ These series are included because I’m making eleven posts instead of ten. This has been a kind of ‘winging it’ effort, of necessity, and I…

TIFF Day 9

Film Recommendation / Exit Through the Gift Shop (2010) There’s not much most can say about Banksy but that he’s committed. ‘Exit Through the Gift Shop,’ is a piece of art manifesting this trait so well it becomes perfect in…

TIFF Day 8

Film Recommendation / The Yakuza Papers: I-V (1973-1974) Narrowing the choice of film for today has probably been the most difficult of the project. There are so many options I might use that I considered writing about the use of…

TIFF Day 7

Film Recommendation / The Sound of Silence (2019) Sound in film has never stopped evolving. Musical accompaniment, voice, stereo and surround, the pairing of film with sound is core to our cinematic experience. ‘The Sound of Silence,‘ is a film…

TIFF Day 6

Film Recommendation / GWH (1997) x HH (2015) ‘Good Will Hunting,‘ and ‘Hardcore Henry.‘ Giving you both barrels here. One barrel is filled with a precocious writing team, the other with extreme violence as framing device. ‘Good Will Hunting.‘ There’s…

TIFF Day 5

Film Recommendation / The Vanishing Lady (1950) – Escape This is another departure from film as a medium. You’ll forgive me. Storytelling elements, even when flawed, have a lot in common across mediums. Media? Mediums? Medium? Whatever. ‘The Vanishing Lady,‘…

TIFF Day 4

Film Recommendation / Lions for Lambs (2007) ‘Lions For Lambs,‘ is a film which only really comes into its own when viewed according to a process. Up front it’s fairly simple. It’s when we grab hold of the film’s story…

TIFF Day 3

Film Recommendation / YOU – Season One (2018) If you haven’t seen this series, you are doing yourself a disservice. It’s funny, and dark, and moving. It’s well written, and well made. Despite being a signal flare, a warning of…

TIFF Day 2

Film Recommendation / You’re Next (2011) Horror is a genre I’ve never found to be worth much time. Standards are consistently low, narratives badly constructed, and stories lazily told. ‘You’re Next‘ is different. Well-paced and solidly built, ‘You’re Next,‘ is…