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The Evening Class (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
As Piers Handling characterized Agnès Varda for her most recent film Les Plages d'Agnès ( The Beaches of Agnès ) , which premiered at the 65th Venice International Film Festival and then continued to the 33rd Toronto International Film Festival, Varda is irrepressible, enquiring, and an evident force of nature who even at the age of 80 shows no signs of slowing down. In her essayistic self-portrait...
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Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 09/15/2008
The annual festival trailer has been one of the Viennale’s special features for quite some time n (...) read more
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Eternal Sunshine of the Logical Mind (Free subscription) | 09/14/2008
It's probably best that Agnes Varda couldn't make the Q&A after the recent screening of her new film "Les Plages D'Agnes". I'm not sure she could've withstood the massive group hug that the audience was looking to hand out to her. The film is a set of personal remembrances of her life and her art, but it's packed with so many new ideas that it couldn't be said to be a complete summation of
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Movies (Free subscription) | 09/11/2008
by Eric Kohn (September 11, 2008) If a single lesson emerges from this year's crop of documentaries at the Toronto International Film Festival , it might be this: Who needs Paris Hilton when you have Agnes Varda ? Both the overexposed starlet and the French New Wave legend showed up in Canada this week to watch themselves on the big screen, although at least Varda had the audacity to direct herself....
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Les Plages d'Agnes (The Beaches of Agnes), which will have its North American premiere tonight, is one of the true gems of TIFF '08. But even after the thunderous applause it earned her last week at Venice, the living legend who made this movie is still fussing about details.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
"Les Plages d'Agnès, a gentle, softly whimsical memoir-like reminiscence on video, pulls at strands of cineaste Agnès Varda's life, from her movies to her childhood, from her husband (filmmaker Jacques Demy, who died in 1990), to her photography and art...
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Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/09/2008
Film Reviews: Approaching 80, Agnes Varda has resolved to film her memoirs in her own inimitable fashion, presenting a strange cocktail of film clips, commissioned photographs, eulogies, family snapshots, thank-yous and reconstructions that is by turns insightful, schmaltzy, anecdotal, critical and nostalgic.
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Festival21.com (Free subscription) | 09/06/2008
Saturday, September 6------- The facts and figures of this year's Toronto International Film Festival go something like this: 312 films from 64 countries, including 249 feature-length films, 76 per cent of which are world, international or North American premieres, and 61 of which are feature directorial debuts. read more
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Explore : Actors and Actresses, Adrien Brody, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Amos Kollek, Anne Hathaway, Antonio Banderas, Arnaud Desplechin, Artists, Barbet Schroeder, Benicio Del Toro, Charlize Theron, Christopher Walken, Cinema, Colin Farrell, Colin Firth, Dakota Fanning, Darren Aronofsky, Directors, directors, Emmanuelle Béart, Ethan Hawke, Frances McDormand, Gael Garcia Bernal, Geoffrey Rush, Greg Kinnear, Guy Ritchie, Isabelle Huppert, Jeff Goldblum, Jeremy Irons, Jonathan Demme, Keira Knightley, Kristin Scott Thomas, Liam Neeson, Marisa Tomei, Mark Ruffalo, Mika Kaurismäki, Mike Leigh, Music, Olivier Assayas, Olivier Assayas, Paul Schrader, Peter O'Toole, Queen Latifah, Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes, Rap and Hip-Hop, Richard Linklater, Robert Carlyle, Spike Lee, Susan Sarandon, Terence Davies, Tilda Swinton, Tom Wilkinson, Toronto
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Ansa (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
21 vying for Golden Lion, eight out of competition
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
"So here it is: The Full List," announces Darren Hughes at 1st Thursday, responding to news that the Toronto Film Festival has completed its marathon round of unveilings. The lineup for the festival running September 4 through 13 is...
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DVD Times (Free subscription) | 08/13/2008
DVD Video Review: Jacques Demy's follow-up to The Umbrellas of Cherbourg - once again a musical but on a much grander scale - gets the double-disc treatment courtesy of the BFI. Anthony Nield takes a peak...
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival got real with their latest press release, announcing a cache of 26 documentaries in several programs, including a feature on legendary director Agnès Varda (Les Plages d’Agnès) under the Masters heading and profiles of African music star Youssou Ndour and designer Valentino in Special Presentations.
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GreenCine Daily (Free subscription) | 08/04/2008
"A hybrid of city symphony, travelogue, nature film, and personal essay, flâneur films are often distinguished by their use of personal, idiosyncratic narration and a comparably intimate scale of production," writes Livia Bloom, who then focuses on films by...
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TO411 Daily (Free subscription) | 07/30/2008
The Toronto International Film Festival will go green in September with world premieres for Robert Kenner's "Food, Inc." and Dan Stone's "At the Edge of the World," a profile of Canadian eco-warrior Paul Watson's fight with Japanese whaling vessels in the Antarctica Sea. Of the 26 documentaries unveiled by Toronto programmers Tuesday, 14 hail from the U.S., underlining increasing equity financing and...
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SpoutBlog (Free subscription) | 07/29/2008
The complete slate of non-fiction films to be unveiled at the Toronto International Film Festival has been announced, and there are some interesting bedfellows on the list. Keven McAlester’sThe Dungeon Master must be the hippest nerd doc of all time (or, at least, since Nerdcore Rising. Or We Are Wizards. Or King of Kong. Or…nevermind.) [...]
