Film Festival Today - The Business of Film and Entertainment - Part 403

“Subservience” Replicates

September 12, 2024

“Speak No Evil” Mixes Fright and Fun

September 12, 2024

TIFF Review: “Santosh”

September 12, 2024

McKellen and Arterton Save “The Critic”

September 12, 2024

“Girls Will Be Girls” Finds Honesty in Uncomfortable Moments

September 12, 2024

Breaking

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September 8, 2009

Christopher Llewellyn Reed

REDucation Returns to LA Center Studios Dates Announced for the Only RED Approved, Fully Immersive, Hands-on Education and Training

September 8, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

Toronto FF Highlights Canadian Crème Of The Crop

September 8, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

A Showcase Of New Czech Cinema

September 8, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

Film In Focus: Entre Nos

September 8, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

Toronto FF Opens With Historical Biopic

September 8, 2009

Breaking

The 25 Highest Grossing “Indiewood” Releases of Summer 2009

September 7, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

Festroia 2009 Golden Dolphin Competition

September 6, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

66th Venice Film Festival-The International Competition

September 3, 2009

FFT Festival Coverage

Line-Up For 36th Telluride Film Festival

September 3, 2009

TIFF Review: “Santosh”
By Christopher Llewellyn Reed
September 12, 2024
Santosh (Sandhya Suri, 2024) 3½ out of 5 stars Director Sandhya Suri (Around India with a Movie) moves into narrative filmmaking with Santosh, her fiction debut. The titular lead character is a woman forced to navigate the patriarchal demands of the workplace after her husband, a constable, is killed during a riot. At risk of losing the apartment they shared, Santosh (Shahana Goswami, Zwigato) has few options to remain independent from either ... >>
“Girls Will Be Girls” Finds Honesty in Uncomfortable Moments
By George W. Campbell
September 12, 2024
Girls Will Be Girls (Shuchi Talati, 2024) 4 out of 5 stars In choosing the title for Girls Will Be Girls, writer/director Shuchi Talati (A Period Piece) takes a well-known phrase designed to excuse young men’s unruly behavior and flips it on its head. You will be pleased to learn that this is an apt summary of both the film and its intentions. Marking Talati’s feature-directorial debut, Girls Will Be Girls is a tense coming-of-age story that ... >>
TIFF Review: “I’m Still Here”
By Christopher Llewellyn Reed
September 9, 2024
I’m Still Here (Walter Salles, 2024) 4 out of 5 stars Brazil’s military dictatorship lasted 21 years, from 1964-1985. Starting in the 1970s, the government began to crack down with greater force than before on the voices of dissent, or even just on those perceived to potentially offer resistance. Many such unfortunates were “disappeared,” their bodies never to be recovered. If you wonder why today’s Brazil has reacted more strongly ... >>
TIFF Review: “Temporary Shelter”
By Christopher Llewellyn Reed
September 7, 2024
Temporary Shelter (Anastasiia Bortuali, 2024) 4 out of 5 stars Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to widespread trauma inside the latter country, once linked to its larger neighbor through empire. Actually, the first large-scale Slavic state was centered in Kiev (now the capital of Ukraine), though in the centuries following the downfall of Kievan Rus the power shifted East, to Moscow, with a switch West to St. Petersburg under Tsar Peter ... >>
TIFF Review: “Mistress Dispeller”
By Christopher Llewellyn Reed
September 6, 2024
Mistress Dispeller (Elizabeth Lo, 2024) 4 out of 5 stars There is a profession in China known as a “mistress dispeller,” where the role is to end a romantic affair that a husband is having outside of marriage. If done well, the business is concluded without undue drama, though feelings will most certainly be hurt. In her eponymously titled documentary, director Elizabeth Lo (Stray) follows one such case, taking the viewer from start to finish, ... >>

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