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TIFF 13 Review: Rock the Casbah
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Jovana Jankovic on Sep 10, 2013
Rock the Casbah operates squarely within a couple of familiar categories: national cinema and narratives about troubled family dynamics. Both can, of course, be rich grounds for exploration of identity and relations between self and other. Rock the Casbah (Laila Marrakchi, 2013) attempts both and y read more
Movie Review: Meet Me In St. Louis
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Laura Grande on Sep 10, 2013
Meet Me in St. Louis — one of those big, bold musicals from MGM that, to this day, remains a classic example of how to incorporate song and dance when weaving together a story. The picture itself is a slice of life — one year in the life, to be exact, of the Smith family (the last name read more
Enter to Win THE FLY on Blu-ray
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 10, 2013
Enter to Win The Cinematic Classic ‘The Fly” Starring Vincent Price Landing on Blu-ray September 10 When a scientist (David Hedison) attempts to transfer matter through space, things go horrifically wrong and two grotesque man-fly hybrids are created. Now, with the head of a fly and a wing in place read more
TIFF13 Trends: Cumberbatch v. Radcliffe
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 9, 2013
It happens every year. Some pretty face emerges as the “It” guy or gal of the festival. Oh, how I pine for 2011, when it was the Year of the Gosling and all the local Toronto lady news anchors were dispatched to the red carpet, to giggle their way through reports on how cute he was. But read more
TIFF13 Review: MARY Queen of Scots
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Jovana Jankovic on Sep 8, 2013
Occasionally, a film so affecting comes along that even a wordsmith like myself can only manage to babble out a few descriptors in lieu of an actual, full sentence. Stunning! Poetic! Mesmerizing! Perfect! Now, an attempt at a real sentence: Swiss filmmaker Thomas Imbach‘s MARY Queen of Scots read more
Indie Watch: The Greyness of Autumn
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 8, 2013
Despite their predominant popularity as Muppet-style children’s entertainment, puppets are often used for more subversive purposes on television and in the movies. From Peter Jackson’s outrageously offensive Meet the Feebles to the sewn-up serial killers in the Canadian television series Puppets read more
TIFF13 Review: Under the Starry Sky
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 7, 2013
Dyana Gaye’s debut feature Under the Starry Sky is a rich, textured exploration of African diaspora and the fragile hopes of those looking for a new life or revisiting an old one. The drama tracks three separate but interconnected narratives. Young bride Sophie travels from Dakar to Turin to read more
Top 3 Reasons To Watch The Searchers
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Claire Dunderman on Sep 7, 2013
The Searchers stands as not only one of the greatest Westerns in cinema history, but as one of the greatest films in cinema history. Everyone loves John Wayne, and, more than that, people love a good Western. Not only is The Searchers an amazing Western film, but it features the famous Wayne and Je read more
Four Seasons of Silly Symphonies
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Bennett O'Brian on Sep 7, 2013
There is a season, turn turn turn – Or so the song goes. The changing seasons have always been a source of inspiration for artists, from Antonio Vivaldi to Walter Disney. In 1929 the Disney Studio began a series of cartoons called Silly Symphonies which, as the name suggests, were designed to empha read more
TIFF13: A Grand Canal
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sean Fitzpatrick on Sep 6, 2013
In Wim Wenders’ lyrical 1980 film, Lightning over Water, the German director engages in an extended grieving process over the loss of his friend, Hollywood auteur Nicholas Ray. As the film nimbly jumps between its documentary and fictional elements, it gradually reveals itself as a stunning meditat read more
TIFF13 Trends: Everything Old is New Again
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 6, 2013
There is a film in this year’s TIFF programme that I will DIE if I don’t get to see - Yurusarezarumono, which is Japanese for Unforgiven. YES! A Japanese remake of Clint Eastwood’s Unforgiven, transplanted to period Japan with samurai instead of cowboys. YES! It’s like spagh read more
TIFF13 Review: Hi-Ho Mistahey!
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 6, 2013
Alanis Obomsawin has made quite a body of work centered around the rights of Canada’s native people and she returns in form with Hi-Ho Mistahey!, a look at the deep disparities in the Attawapiskat First Nation’s public education system and Shannen’s Dream, a national campaign to p read more
Review: Escape From New York (1981)
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Wade Sheeler on Sep 5, 2013
Escape from New York airs Friday, September 6 on TCM. Check local listings for times. In 1981, the idea of retro-fitting New York as a prison unto itself seemed far out, but believable. In fact, thanks to director Neil Blomkamp’s Elysium, the logical sci-fi extension of our current future inv read more
TIFF13 Trends: The Toronto International Franco Festival
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 5, 2013
Here’s how I launch TIFF-mas – I sit down with the full programme and I read each and every description of each and every film. And then I make a “short” list of the movies I most hope to see. Then I make complicated graphs, and diagrams, and gantt charts to slowly winnow do read more
Scarlett’s Gowns: Gone With The Wind Costume Restoration
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Christina Stewart on Sep 4, 2013
Everything about Margaret Mitchell’s novel and David O. Selznick’s film Gone With The Wind is iconic. Walter Plunkett’s costumes for Vivien Leigh’s character, Scarlett O’Hara, are no exception. In 2010, the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin embarked on a remarkable campaign read more
TIFF13 Review: Burt’s Buzz
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 4, 2013
Burt’s Buzz, from director Jody Shapiro, ends up as the slickest corporate video ever (and only slightly more exciting). The doc tells the tale of Burt Shavitz, former photojournalist (oh, he took that photo of Allen Ginsberg!) turned backwoods beeswax mogul and founder of everyone’s fa read more
Top 10 Movie Redheads
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Sophie Vickers on Sep 3, 2013
The red head is often associated with a feisty attitude and fiery temper, but there have been many different forms of red haired women in the history of film. Here’s a list of my top 10 movie redheads. Julianne Moore puts on a fancy – if at times vaguely questionable – English acc read more
TIFF13: For Those Who Can Tell No Tales
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 3, 2013
For Those Who Can Tell No Tales, from director Jasmila Zbanic, tracks the summer holiday of Australian tourist Kym as she treks about Bosnia-Herzegovina. The film is a light, sweet travelouge that follows Kym from souvenir shop to picturesque destination and finally to a quaint inn in the village o read more
La Maison de la Radio
Pretty Clever Films Posted by John Munshour on Sep 2, 2013
Radio is an easy medium to take for granted. Even if you’re not discussing radio as a delivery means for something else–news, music, opinion, etc–there’s always a ‘with’ or a ‘while’ involved. It is a beloved accompaniment, something enjoyed while in read more
TIFF13 Review: La última película
Pretty Clever Films Posted by Brandy Dean on Sep 2, 2013
Sigh. Here’s the part where a film review is supposed to provide a brief, yet tantalizing synopsis. For the first time (is this my last review?), I’ll just give you the one-line summary helpfully provided by the press kit: “A famous American filmmaker travels to the Yucatán to sco read more