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Tag: Toronto International Film Festival

252: 2023 TIFF Wrap Up

September 19, 2023

We wrap up this year’s Toronto International Film Festival by talking about the big hits and misses, our favourite films and the award winners. Joining the show to help us break it all down is Jeff Bulmer, one half of the Classic Movies. Jeff also contributed some festival movie reviews to Contra Zoom.

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Reviews: Working Class Goes To Hell from TIFF 2023

September 15, 2023

The new Serbian film Working Class Goes To Hell, directed by Mladen Djordjevic, is billed as a satirical horror film. It is about the ends that class consciousness can go to and to ensure our capitalist overlords stop taking advantage of the common man.

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Seagrass

Reviews: Seagrass from TIFF 2023

September 14, 2023

Seagrass is a semi-autobiographical movie from director Meredith Hama-Brown. Judith, a Japanese-Canadian woman (played by Ally Maki), brings her family to group therapy camp so she can work on her strained relationship with her Caucasian husband Steve (Luke Roberts).

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Reviews: Tautuktavuk (What We See) from TIFF 2023

September 11, 2023

Tautuktavuk (What We See), plays out like an Italian Neorealist film, something that is akin to the works of Vittorio de Sica and Roberto Rossellini. The film is set up as two elder sisters, Saqpinak played by one half of the directors Carol Kunnuk, and Uyarak played by the other director Lucy Tulugarjuk, separated in different parts of the country during the initial wave of COVID-19 lockdowns. 

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I Don't Know Who You Are

Reviews: I Don’t Know Who You Are from TIFF 2023

September 8, 2023

After he is sexually assaulted, musician Benjamin spends the weekend trying to get money for HIV-preventative treatment. Embarrassed, confused, and with his pride and life both on the line and at odds with each other, Benjamin turns to extra work and begging old friends for extra cash.

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The Boy and the Heron

251: 2023 TIFF Preview

September 5, 2023

The 2023 edition of the ⁠Toronto International Film Festival⁠ will run from September 7-17th and we are here to preview our picks for the movies we are most excited about.

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210: 2022 TIFF Wrap Up

September 27, 2022

Rachel Ho continues to captain the CZP ship as she recaps the Toronto International Film Festival. Joining her is Prabhjot Bains, a writer for…

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Guest Appearance: The Movie Podcast – Interview with Brendan Fraser and Screenwriter Samuel D. Hunter of Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale (TIFF 2022)

September 15, 2022

Rachel joined The Movie Podcast in a roundtable discussion to interview Brendan Fraser and Samuel D. Hunter, the star and writer of The Whale….

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209: TIFF Interviews – Riceboy Sleeps and The Umbrella Men Directors

September 13, 2022

Rachel Ho flies solo for the first time as she interviews two directors whose films were playing at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival. …

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207: TIFF 2022 Preview

August 30, 2022

With the Toronto International Film Festival just around the corner, running from September 8-18th, we decided to preview what movies we are most excited…

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