Another Toronto Film Festival has come and whooshed by! I’ve been asked what my favourite films from this year’s fest are. And what a coincidence – I made a running video about them. Another coincidence? Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, which won the Grolsch People’s Choice Award was my top film too. Frances McDormand needs to win all the awards for her role in it, where she plays a grieving mother who takes up a drastic move to solve the mystery of her daughter’s brutal death. Sam Rockwell, too, shines, in this film from director Martin Mcdonaugh, who brought us In Bruges and Seven Pyschopaths.
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Trapped in the Bubble – Highlights from Toronto Film Fest ’14
When you’re at a film festival, you’re in a bubble – a cinema-wide bubble that includes only the story playing out on the screen in front of you. Walking out of my second film of the fest, the bubble was popped by the news of Joan Rivers’ death. But hurrying off to catch another film on the oh-so-tight schedule meant there was only time for a few quick obit reads and celeb tweets before it was time to go back into it. And so my bubble grew, screening after screening, bigger and bigger, until I was deep inside a world where Jake Gyllenhaal was a entrepreneurial maniac and Minnie Driver the mother of a pop-star. While…
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TIFF Time: The Toronto International Film Festival
I know I shouldn’t keep saying it, but where does the time go? I can’t believe it’s already a year since I experienced my first TIFF. Ah, T.Dot. The films, the cocktail functions, the running. Yes, running – not just from cinema to cinema but along Lake Ontario, in preparation for the NYC Marathon, (which is less than 60 days away!) In anticipation of Nadia’s 2nd TIFF, which is also TIFF ’13, or, more accurately, The 38th Toronto International Film Festival, here are 13 of the films I’m most looking forward to seeing: 1. Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom This goes without saying. Not just because I am South African,…
