#TIFF19: “THE OBITUARY OF TUNDE JOHNSON”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Tunde Johnson (Steven Silver) keeps reliving the day he dies at the hands of Los Angeles police officers.
While the concept of reliving a day repeatedly has been done before, this Film does an entirely unique take on it. Screenwriter Stanley Kalu uses the repeated day to address racial stereotypes, race relations, and police brutality. Kalu’s focused Script is also a story of accepting one's identity and presenting oneself honestly. Silver is a ...
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#TIFF19:”WASP NETWORK”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
Wasp Network focuses on a few Cuban intelligence agents who pose as dissidents during the country’s 90s post-Soviet Union economic collapse.
Director Olivier Assayas is a master of telling multiple character storylines and making them all come together naturally. With Wasp Network, he continues on this path. This time around he focuses on three different intelligence agents with different things to lose and gain. Although the Film does get a bit ...
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#TIFF19: “HARRIET”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
The Film follows the story of Harriet Tubman (Cynthia Erivo) in her quest to not only claim her own freedom but the freedom of all slaves.
This Film documents the pivotal moments in Harriet Tubman’s adult life, with a focus on her efforts in transporting those enslaved to freedom areas. For those who know this empowering and inspiring Story, the Film won’t tell you anything you didn’t already know. It that has been brought to the big screen ...
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#TIFF19: DAY SIX – NATALIE PORTMAN, ZAZIE BEETZ + JON HAMM
Things finally are reaching a simmering point now at TIFF '19, giving us a chance to catch some screenings finally! Tonight's big ticket was Noah Hawley's LUCY IN THE SKY at Princess of Wales Theatre, which saw Natalie Portman narrowly escaped rain! She channeled some major Black Swan tonight!
See some Snaps below. Hover cursor right and left to navigate album.
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#TIFF19: “FRANKIE”
Review by Amanda Gilmore for Mr. Will Wong
After Frankie (Isabelle Huppert) finds out she has a serious illness she summons her family and close friends to join her on a holiday in Sintra, Portugal.
Director Ira Sachs has a way of shooting a Film with many characters and making it feel intimate. The Script is rich with uniquely different characters who have particular quirks in their dialects. These loveable and honest characters are brought to life by a killer Cast consisting of Huppert who ...
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#TIFF19: “WAVES”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
Tyler (Kelvin Harrison Jr.) seems to be on the verge of greatness under the persistent urging of his father (Sterling K. Brown). While everything seems fine initially, things take a drastic turn for the worse after his girlfriend Alexis (Alexa Demie) finds out she is pregnant with his child and his world crumbles. In the face of a tragedy, which threatens to tear Tyler's family apart, his father, mother (Renée Elise Goldberry) and sister (Taylor Russell) are left to ...
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#TIFF19: DAY SIX – RENÉE ZELLWEGER, FINN WITTROCK, STERLING K. BROWN, PEDRO ALMĂ“DOVAR + MORE
It's been a relief getting a breather finally and we actually are finding time to see some movies! We saw Joker which filled two theatres completely at an industry screening and it was enthralling seeing Joaquin Phoenix go all in! While it does a number on you, it is well worth getting shaken for.
Less sightings today, but here are a few we had. Hover cursor right on each album to navigate.
JUDY - Premiere
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#TIFF19: “THE TWENTIETH CENTURY”
Review by George Kozera for Mr. Will Wong
Take a heaping cup of Guy Maddin’s influence, sprinkle liberally with Wes Anderson’s imaginative plot machinations and way with words then finally add just a wee bit of Tim Burton to keep you slightly discombobulated and you have the recipe for Canadian director, Matthew Rankin’s, most bizarre and audacious Feature debut THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. This off-kilter, off-the-wall “biopic” of how William Lyon Mackenzie King became Prime Minister of ...
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#TIFF19: “CHICUAROTES”
Review by David Baldwin for Mr. Will Wong
Cagalera (Benny Emmanuel) and Moloteco (Gabriel Carbajal) want to leave their impoverished lives behind. Cagalera is living in the shadow of an abusive alcoholic father and Moloteco lives alone in a ramshackle house that could blow over at any minute. They need money badly, and must continually look for new and more dangerous ways to find it.
In his second Feature behind the camera, Gael GarcĂa Bernal delivers an intense and uncompromising vision of ...
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#TIFF19: “JUDY”
Review by Mr. Will Wong
While Rupert Goold's JUDY might not be that feel-good Film of the year, it is a fascinating portrait framed around the final weeks of Hollywood icon Judy Garland's (Renée Zellweger) life. Set in 1969, we see her homeless and struggling to support her children, hence taking on a string of sold-out London shows, which pull her away from her children as she fights to retain custody of them. We see her fall in love with her much-younger fifth husband Mickey Deans (Finn ...
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