Roger Ebert with his "star" -- outside Dusty Cohl's annual Floating Film Festival Chinese dinner in Toronto. (photo by Jim Emerson -- with Kim Robesons's camera) I've got several planes backed up on the runway (and by that I mean…
By Roger Ebert
TORONTO, Ont.--It's the Cinderella story of this year's Toronto Film Festival. Girl is born in Chicago, grows up, graduates from college, moves to Minneapolis to join her boyfriend Jonny, who she met on the net. Works in advertising, finds it…
View image Look familiar? A redacted web image from Brian De Palma's "Redacted." Because of the whole "Hitchcockian thriller" rep that's stuck to Brian De Palma for so many years and so many movies ("Sisters," "Obsession," "Carrie," "Dressed to Kill,"…
View image Todd on Bob: Woody Guthrie (Marcus Carl Franklin), as one incarnation -- a name-dropping bluesman in 1959 (with tales of Blind Willie McTell and Gorgeous George) who seems to think he's still in the Great Depression. Others include…
From: Prof. David Bordwell, Univerity of Wisconsin, Madison
From: Jacob Sager Weinstein, London, England
Look at this woman. Do you hate her character yet? Noah Baumbach's "Margot at the Wedding" is one of the scariest films ever. Because it plays like a hidden-camera home movie as psychological x-ray. And no one is spared its…
Guest commentary by Matt Withers, Brunswick, MD
View image Song Kang-ho ("The Host") and Cannes 2007 best actress Jeon Do-yeon in "Secret Sushine." The use of pastel blues and pinks in this movie is... disturbing. Lee Chang-dong's "Miryang" ("Secret Sunshine") begins with a CinemaScope view of a…
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