TIFF ’09: Day One
Film festivals are fun, but lord do they crush the body: no sleep, starvation, hectic running around, plus bouts of terrible, on-the-run eating. How some do this and manage to party on top of this while churnin...
TIFF Review: ‘Trash Humpers’ Shows Beauty In Garbage
The ever-interesting Harmony Korine has always found new and bizarre ways of expressing himself. His versatile style is always changing from the beautifully shot "Mister Lonely” to his new, lo-fi experiment, “T...
Harmony Korine’s ‘Trashumpers’ Gets A Weird-Ass Trailer
We surely all remember Harmony Korine's recently (and somewhat secretively) announced new bizzaro and demented-sounding film called "Trash Humpers."Premiering at TIFF 2009, the oddball, lo-fi project evidently ...
TIFF Tix
Individual tix for the Toronto International Film Festival went on-sale this morning... we could say something here, but hopefully the TIFF organizers are well aware. Switch them servers next year, and in advan...
Magnolia Pictures Picks Up Bong Joon-Ho’s ‘Mother’
Finally! It's like the movie gods have been listening or just really wanted us to stfu (which is admittedly understandable once in a while).One thing that we've been carping on about in recent weeks is that the...
Trailer: Cannes Favorite, Bong Joon-ho’s Creepy, Absurdist Murder Mystery, ‘Mother’
Alright. Now we're talking. The English-language trailer for Bong Joon-ho's "Mother" has finally arrived.
Don't know Bong Joon-ho? Yes, you do, he's the South Korean auteur behind the crowd-pleasing, box offic...
First Look: Harmony Korine’s Bizarro Experiment, ‘Trash Humpers’
And you thought Todd Solondz's "Life During Wartime" contained freaks and geeks and was more than a little weird.A few weeks ago a new project came out of nowhere. It wasn't announced in the trades or anywhere ...
For The Love Of Film
If Jeffrey Wells can do it — in a piece titled Early TIFF Screenings...Please? — why can't we, right? (Yes, we'd also jump off a cliff if everyone did so too; obviously we're lemmings and semi-desperate). The ...
Recession Leaves TIFF Films Up For Grabs? Not So Fast…
With the Toronto Int. Film Festival just a couple of weeks away, the stars, publicists, journalists, critics and bloggers are getting hotels, meetings and film screenings into place. That said, writers still ne...
‘Antichrist’ & ‘White Ribbon’ Added To TIFF ’09 Line-Up; Festival Completes Final Slate
Alright, if you weren't impressed before, you probably won't be now, but you also might just be impossible to please. The Toronto International Film Festival finalized its complete line-up today adding 45 more ...