Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'romtheatre'
September 13, 2007
Today’s Contest: For your chance to win one pair of tickets to Saturday’s screening of Just Like Home, directed by Lone Scherfig (Wilbur Wants To Kill Himself) at 11:00 p.m. at the Cumberland 3, email us your name at contests@torontoist.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified by tomorrow morning with ticket pick-up information. This is our last contest and it’s one of the last films of the festival, so if you haven’t taken......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: Cassandra’s Smiley Face"September 12, 2007
Today’s Contest: For your chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to tomorrow’s screening of Reclaim Your Brain, starring Run Lola Run’s Moritz Bleibtreu (at 12:30 p.m. at the Scotiabank 2) email us your name at contests@torontoist.com. Winners will be randomly selected and notified by the morning of the screening with ticket pick-up information. Today’s Reviews: No Country For Old Men BY DANU MANDLSOHN The villain is Javier Bardem, looking like a......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: No Country for Old Men"September 11, 2007
We’re pleased to announce that we’ve teamed up with the Toronto International Film Festival Group to run a contest each day until the end of the festival for tickets to next-day screenings. Today’s Contest: For your chance to win one of five pairs of tickets to tomorrow’s Doc Talks panel discussion Covering War (at 4:00 p.m. at the ROM Theatre), featuring directors Michael Tucker, Phil Donahue and Ellen Spiro debating filmmaking in war-torn nations,......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: Run, Filmmaker, Run"September 8, 2007
Today's Review: The Orphanage BY DANU MANDLSOHN With Guillermo del Toro’s name attached to a film about undead children at a haunted Spanish orphanage, you might think it would it be scary. Muy bien. Although the Pan’s Labyrinth auteur is merely the producer on this one, debut director Juan Antonio Bayona strikes gold, cherry-picking from modern gothic classics like The Sixth Sense and The Others. He knows that true horror comes from the unseen,......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: The Orphanage"September 7, 2007
No Film Friday today as we’re too busy with the festival, but we can let you know that this week sees releases of some pretty decent-sounding films: 3:10 to Yuma, Shoot ‘Em Up and Hatchet. Er, and also The Brothers Solomon, starring Will Arnett and directed by Bob Odenkirk but apparently dire. Let's Go To Prison wasn't great either. Sob. Today’s Reviews: Captain Mike Across America Captain Mike Across America is an interesting proposition:......
Continue Reading "TIFF 2007: Lust, Control"September 16, 2006
Contemporary World Cinema 9:00pm - Red Road (Varsity 8) Short Cuts Canada 9:30am - Programme 3 (ROM Theatre) - See our review. Featuring The Saddest Boy in the World! Special Presentations 9:30am - Exiled (Ryerson Theatre) - See our Day 7 coverage. Midnight Madness 12:15pm - Princess (Cumberland 2) - See our Day 9 coverage. 3:30pm - Severance (Paramount 3) Gala 12:00pm - The Banquet (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) 3:00pm - After The Wedding (Visa......
Continue Reading "TIFF Picks: Day 10"September 15, 2006
Real to Reel 9:30am - This Filthy World (Cumberland 3) - See our review. 8:00pm - Manufactured Landscapes (Varsity 1, 7) Visions 2:35pm – Time (Paramount 1) 2:45pm Bugmaster (Paramount 4) - See our Day 6 coverage. 3:45pm - Zidane: Un Portrait du XXIe Siècle (Varsity 4) - See our Day 7 coverage. Midnight Madness 3:45pm - S&Man (ROM Theatre) 11:59pm - Princess (Ryerson Theatre) Canadian Open Vault 4:45pm - Paperback Hero (Isabel Bader Theatre)......
Continue Reading "TIFF Picks: Day 9"September 12, 2006
Special Presentations 10:30am - The Last King of Scotland (Paramount 2) - See our day 4 round-up. 6:00pm – The Fountain (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) Contemporary World Cinema 11:45am Offside (Paramount 1) Real to Reel 12:00pm – The Killer Within (ROM Theatre) Dialogues 2:30pm – La Haine (Al Green Theatre) Midnight Madness 4:45pm – Black Sheep (Paramount 1) Gala 6:30pm - Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (Roy Thompson Hall) Mavericks 8:30pm – Vanguard Cinema:......
Continue Reading "TIFF Picks - Day 6"