All Toronto articles – Page 40
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News
‘Arab Blues’ starring Golshifteh Farahani scores Canada deal (exclusive)
Farahani as a French-trained psychoanalyst attempting to build a practice in post-revolutionary Tunisia.
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Features
‘Saint Maud’ director Rose Glass on religious fanaticism and the gender debate
“I don’t want people to support me and my film because they want to be seen to be backing and programming films by women, rather than it being a good film.”
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Alice Winocour talks ‘Proxima’: “Cinema doesn’t often show women as both a mother and a super-heroine”
Alice Winocour talks to Screen about her Platform title Proxima, the story of an astrophysicist juggling astronaut training with bringing up her young daughter.
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How Coky Giedroyc and Monumental brought Caitlin Moran’s ‘How To Build A Girl’ to the screen
The film is adapted from Moran’s semi-autobiographical 2014 novel of the same name and stars Beanie Feldstein.
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Chile’s Pablo Larrain on creating an unapologetic modern heroine in ‘Ema’
The fiery, dance-obsessed mother at the heart of Pablo Larrain’s Ema had some Venice critics blushing.
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Reviews
‘How To Build A Girl’: Review
Beanie Feldstein stars in the big-screen adaptation of Caitlin Moran’s book.
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Reviews
‘Blackbird’: Toronto Review
Susan Sarandon is the terminally ill mother presiding over one final family get-together
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Reviews
‘Hope Gap’: Toronto Review
Bill Nighy and Annette Bening excel as a long-married couple facing an uncertain future
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Reviews
‘Just Mercy’: Toronto Review
A powerhouse performance from Michael B. Jordan anchors this legal justice drama
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Reviews
‘The Friend’: Toronto Review
Jason Segel, Ben Affleck and Dakota Johnson star in this earnest real-life drama about terminal illness
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Reviews
‘Black Conflux’: Toronto Review
Canadian debut set in 1980s Newfoundland is a striking calling card for Nicole Dorsey
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News
Focus Features acquires international rights to TIFF selection ‘Waves’ (exclusive)
Deal with A24 excludes Canada, China, Japan.
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Reviews
‘The Sleepwalkers’: Toronto Review
The fraught relationship between a mother and daughter comes to the boil at a family celebration
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Reviews
‘Human Capital’: Toronto Review
The lives of two families become intertwined after a fatal hit-and-run accident and shady business deal
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‘Hope’: Toronto Review
Stellan Skarsgård co-stars in a strong Scandinavian drama about love and illness
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‘Maria’s Paradise’: Toronto Review
Big-screen treatment of a controversial Finnish preacher who claimed she could communicate with the dead
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‘Proxima’: Toronto Review
Eva Green puts in a career best performance as the astronaut faced with a choice between her ambitions and her only child
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Reviews
‘Radioactive’: Toronto Review
Rosamund Pike plays Marie Curie in Marjane Satrapi’s thoughtful biopic of the ground-breaking scientist
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‘True History Of The Kelly Gang’: Toronto Review
Justin Kurzel returns to form with this gritty Australian gothic