The audience-choice award winner at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which concluded today, was “Precious.” Although the wrenching drama is about an obese, illiterate teen impregnated by her father, some see it as inspirational. The movie also won the…
Friday was the anniversary of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 (which, by the way, I spent in Toronto, unable to return to the U.S. until the borders opened); but Saturday was my day for honoring some (admittedly lesser) heroes.
On…
My first full day at the Toronto filmfest comprised four screenings, an interview with Ladue High grad Karyn Kusama about her movie “Jennifer’s Body,” a sidewalk rally for Steven Soderbergh’s “The Informant,” and a shouted hello to Ivan Reitman (the…
My trek to the 2009 Toronto International Film festival was delayed at the border because the mounties didn’t believe that the white powder in my knapsack was a flea remedy for my sled dogs. But when I showed them my…
The end of summer vacation means that teen comedies and 3-D horror flicks will be vacating the multiplex, making room for the grown-up movies that will be previewed at the fall film festivals. The biggest and most important of the…
