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14 Sep FIN-AIFF 2018 quick-hit must-see picks

Posted at 14:34h in Festival Journal, Halifax Screening Picks by James Covey 0 Comments
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The "2018 FIN Atlantic International Film Festival" (I think you're supposed to shout "FIN!!" when saying the name) is upon us and, well, people keep asking me if I have any must-sees, so instead of giving you well-thought-out reasons to see them, I will just...

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28 Sep TIFF 2017—10 notable films

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If you haven't already, you can check out my five favourite films from this year's Toronto International Film Festival. Here are ten others that didn't make that list but which I saw and can recommend. (Above—my photos from TIFF screenings of: Foxtrot, The Killing of...

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26 Sep my TIFF 2017 top 5

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At the close of my TIFF experience this year I was waylaid by a flu bug for more than a week, but in the spirit of better-late-than-never, here is the my personal top five from my 18-film binge at this year's festival in Toronto. (I...

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14 Sep Halifax screening picks — September 14-21 (film festival edition)

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The Atlantic International Film Festival runs September 14-21. Here are the ten films that I am most interested in (*asterisks indicate that I've already seen and I'm recommending personally): Friday (Sep 15) — The Other Side of Hope, 8:30pm [info/tickets] The latest from Aki Kaurismäki...

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19 Aug Netflix Canada picks—2017 festival season tee-up edition

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Some of the hottest directors in world cinema will be screening new work at festivals next month. Here are some defining films by key directors of the season that you can watch right now on Netflix. A Bigger Splash – Luca Guadagnino, Italy/France, 2015, 124 minutes ...

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13 Sep Atlantic Film Festival 2016 top ten picks

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Here, briefly, are the 10 films I'm most eager to see at this year's AFF, September 17-24: Victoria (AFF | TIFF) — Greg Cruse, TOfilmfest.ca developer and editor, says: "With more than 150 extras across 22 locations, this 12-page script required six assistant directors to capture the...

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15 Sep film festival season is TIFFing my AFF

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The best thing about the two-week marathon that ensues when you do the Toronto+Halifax film festivals back to back as I have this year is the wall-to-wall films. The worst thing aside from the sleep deprivation is the abiding feeling that you're rather letting down...

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08 Sep Iraqi Odyssey (Samir): first look

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Twelve years on from the 2002 documentary Forget Baghdad—an essential, if not widely known, film about the tragic dismantling of the Jewish community of Iraq—director Samir is back with the story of his own Iraqi family's global diaspora. As with Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell, we have a...

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07 Sep The Face of an Angel (Michael Winterbottom): first look

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Instead of a theory of what really transpired in the death of Meredith Kercher, and what role if any was played in that by Amanda Knox, The Face of an Angel comes at us as a deconstruction of how the media represents such a story. But...

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25 Aug so this is film festival madness, again

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Last year I attended TIFF for the third time, but it was the first year that I stayed in Toronto through the entirety of the festival. This left me feeling like some kind of seasoned vet. When I started to plan for this year I decided that...

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