“You won’t believe how lazy I really am” declares Joaquin Phoenix in the middle of our conversation, as he flicks ash that’s fallen from the cigarette he is smoking off his jeans. The 39-year-old actor, his hair currently at jaw-length and slightly unkempt, is making this admission while talking about how working with the same director again can make it harder to get away with ‘faking it’ on set. Not that any part of Her, the actor’s latest movie, in which he teams up with director Spike Jonze for the first time, feels phony. In fact, the film, in which Phoenix plays a man of the 21st Century who develops…
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TIFF 2012: End of Watch, The Impossible, The Master
It takes physical stamina and a particular kind of mathematical skill to work out a schedule for TIFF, and then try make it happen, dashing about the streets of Toronto to fit in press conferences, interviews, screenings and bites of food – grabbed on the run, usually with a cup of coffee in tow. It’s the wonderful world of film festivals, where you don’t always have the time to process everything you see and do, which is why it’s so great to be able to relive some of the experience through looking at pics taken and listening back to recorded audio. There isn’t always time to digest the subject matter…
