Toronto 2006
..Festival News
..Festival Reviews

..Thursday Films
..Friday Films

railers

..,.Gary Dretzka
..,.Leonard Klady
...David Poland
...Doug Pratt
...Ray Pride
...S.T. VanAirsdale

 

Sunday Shorts ...

 

Penelope is the love/hate movie for sale right now. The verdict is so profoundly mixed that someone might mistake the pig-faced girl movie for Napoleon Dynamite.

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Rescue Dawn, fresh with MGM logo, is a small, intimate, truly Herzogian wonder. No sign of compromise here... Except perhaps with the unusually exuberant (for Herzog) freeze-frame ending, which might have been tacked on.

 

 

 

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The Prisoner, Or How I Planned to Kill Tony Blair got a warm reception from an audience including Michael Moore and, to the surprise of many, a special guest... One of the Abu Gharib guards who is refered to in the film by "The Prisoner" as a friendly. Another chapter for the film? Could be.

 

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Stanger Than Fiction got a warmer than expected reaction at its gala, with the audience going wild for the wacky, warm film. Yes, it's a fest. But every woman I've spoken to has loved the film.

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"I think this movie is not a monster novie, but a very emotional family drama.". Director of The Host

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For Your Consideration is getting mixed reaction, but the most amusing game in Hollywood is likely to be matching the wacky charcters to real life actors, execs, agents, and publicicts. The TV hosts are pretty obvious.... it's all of 'em.