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NYFF 64: Currents Program #4 - "The Real World" Confronts Reality Head-On
by Joanna Sodeman-Taylor We’re coming to you live from the 64th New York Film Festival with the hottest ticket of the whole event: The Currents short film programs! Program #4 is cheekily subtitled...
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NYFF 64: “Clarissa” is the best “Mrs. Dalloway” adaptation you’ll ever see
by Cláudio Alves Between Wuthering Heights and The Odyssey, much has been said this year about the merits and demerits of film adaptations straying from their source material. Most of the time, I’m a...
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Review: "Digger" is as Frustrating as it is Confounding
By Ben Miller Alejandro G. Inarritu's Digger is sure to be divisive. While you might have an understanding of the film's tone and messaging early on, a sharp-left turn in the narrative reframes your...
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NYFF 64: Austria’s “Rose” is much more than merely another Sandra Hüller...
by Cláudio Alves While our TIFF 51 coverage isn’t over – sometimes, it feels like it will go on forever, with Eurocheese and I falling into Sisyphus' fate – one must acknowledge the other big festival...
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TIFF 51: Germany’s “Everytime” and Italy’s “The Spiral”
by Cláudio Alves Every year, a good part of my TIFF journey involves seeking the films that will eventually compete for the Best International Film Oscar. After all, here at The Film Experience, we’ve...
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TIFF 51: Jury of Two, Part I
Let’s take another break from those endless TIFF reviews, with Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese appointing themselves juries to choose the best of the fest, beyond Best Actress chatter. I AM ROCKY was the...
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TIFF 51: Denmark’s “Woman Unknown” is an unnerving proposition
by Cláudio Alves It’s funny, sometimes, how films can converse with each other. And those conversations aren’t even limited to a festival’s program. As I watched May el-Toukhy’s somewhat controversial...
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TIFF 51: “Tender Loving Care” could be Mike Leigh’s perfect swan song
by Cláudio Alves In 1971, Mike Leigh appeared on the scene with Bleak Moments, an exercise in social realism that wouldn’t immediately open the doors one might hope for in the British film industry....
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TIFF 51: Who were the best lead actresses at the fest?
Cláudio Alves and Eurocheese pause the current onslaught of TIFF reviews to discuss a topic near and dear to their hearts – actressing! Julianne Moore might just fake-smoke her way to a second Oscar...
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TIFF 51: Hamaguchi’s “All of a Sudden” is the best film of the year, bar none
by Cláudio Alves Everyone gets to vote for the TIFF People’s Choice Award, even the press. And while I can’t reveal some personal award votes later in the season, I can safely tell you my pick this one...
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TIFF 51: “La Bola Negra” is this year’s People’s Choice Award champion!
by Cláudio Alves Ever since its third edition, the Toronto International Film Festival has allowed its audiences to vote for their personal favorites. Back in 1978, Claudia Weill’s Girlfriends took the...
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TIFF 51: Andrew Scott delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in “Elsinore”
by Eurocheese Heading into my screening of Elsinore on the last day of the festival, I had heard a number of mixed things on the ground. Some said the film pulls too readily at heartstrings without...
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TIFF 51: Best Actress Watch – “Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!” and “Prima Facie”
by Eurocheese Rinko Kikuchi could become the first Japanese Best Actress Oscar nominee ever if HA-CHAN, SHAKE YOUR BOOTY! goes all the way. Continuing our quest to find potential Best Actress...
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TIFF 51: Mahershala Ali learns to be a better father in “Your Mother Your...
by Cláudio Alves In the current political climate, it feels incredible, nigh impossible, for such a movie as Your Mother Your Mother Your Mother to come out of a major Hollywood studio. Yet, here it...
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TIFF 51: “Tangles” packs a personal punch, wrestling with Alzheimer’s through...
by Eurocheese One of the top reasons to attend festivals is to find surprises, films that far exceed expectations and become unforeseen favorites. I had no plans to write up Leah Nelson's Tangles,...
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Review: "Resident Evil" perfectly toes the line between Comedy and Horror
by Ben Miller It should come as no surprise that director Zach Cregger knows how to blend horror and comedy together successfully. Even when taking a piece of well-established IP such as Resident Evil,...
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TIFF 51: Best Actress Watch – “Being Heumann” and “Onwards and Sideways”
by Eurocheese Ruth Madeley might be a new Best Actress contender for her work in BEING HEUMANN. Coming into the fall festivals, no category has been a larger question mark in the Oscar race than The...
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TIFF 51: “A Long Winter” leads Andrew Haigh up the Rocky Mountains
by Cláudio Alves The human figure against the grandeur of the natural world has obsessed visual artists for centuries, if not millennia. In A Long Winter, his latest film and follow-up to the highly...
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TIFF 51: “The Difficult Bride” takes body horror to the bridal salon
by Cláudio Alves Women are often called difficult when they’re just standing up for themselves, refusing mistreatment, expressing anxiety openly and unmasked. When it comes to the matter of weddings...
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TIFF 51: “The Debut” Explodes off the screen and into the Oscar race!
by Eurocheese In Jesse Eisenberg's The Debut, heltered housewife Mona Friedman (Julianne Moore) is the only person who applies for a small role in her local community theater musical other than...
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