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Entries from Torontoist tagged with 'woodyallen'

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"

August 3, 2007

Recently, Torontoist went canoeing in Algonquin Park (we got 34 mosquito bites). However, arguably the most amusing thing to happen during our entire trip was passing a billboard on our way into the park advertising a "Dock in a Box." We instantly became distracted by a lengthy fantasy that the company knew exactly what it was doing and included a YouTube video on its website about how it created the Dock in a Box......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: In A Box"

July 6, 2007

Tut tut tut. We’re all very disappointed in you, John Krasinski, for your decision to star in License to Wed. Sure, you’ve been working so hard to build up your hipster cred—interviewing the Shins, playing on stage with Ben Gibbard, but I’m afraid we might have to revoke your hipster privileges. The Sun’s Kevin Williamson claims of the film, “you can at least approximate the experience of sitting through this alleged romantic comedy at home......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: Rescue John Krasinski"

May 4, 2007

David Lynch, man! David Lynch, man! Does whatever David Lynch can! Spins a tale, any size, Confuses viewers, just like flies! Look out! Here comes David Lynch, man! Is he strong? Listen bud — He's got radioactive blood. Actually, wait, that last bit might not be true, but for some reason we keep thinking of that TV theme...no idea why. This week people are going crazy in Toronto queuing up to see the latest massive......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: David Lynch, Man!"

February 9, 2007

After what feels like a surprisingly long gap of film festivals in the city, they’re back, with The Prisoner Justice Film Festival now running and Ozflix starting tonight with screenings of Ten Canoes and 2:37; We pretty much hated 2:37, though (but we’ve heard good things about Ten Canoes). Full details can be found at their respective websites. If you’re looking for a romantic trip to the cinema this week, what with it being Valentine’s......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: UnsatisFactory Girl"

August 14, 2006

or, "Film Friday: Alliteration Edition" Any would-be cinephiles- or people just twiddling their thumbs between the release of "Miami Vice" and "Snakes on a Plane"- should check out the schedule at the Bloor Cinema. After showing "Godfather II" this past weekend, this programming for this week includes Woody Allen's Manhattan, Werner Herzog's Fitzcarraldo, and two films by François Truffaut (Day For Night and Small Change). ...Not to mention cult comedies like Monty Python and the......

Continue Reading "Bloor Cinema Busts Blockbuster Blues"

July 28, 2006

A quick update to an old story before we get onto all the new releases that are going to make us as depressed as ever – Remember You, Me and Dupree? We hypothesised that movie-execs came up with the title “while explaining what was going to happen during some sick, cocaine fuelled orgy”. Turns out we were right, as long as during the sick, cocaine fuelled orgy was to the tune of Steely Dan’s Cousin......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: Steely Dan, Black Squirrels, Awesome"

January 20, 2006

The big film this week is Terence Malik’s The New World, and by big, of course, we mean big (and by that we mean epic). Though, the full theatrical release does shed 15 minutes from it’s previous limited release for Oscar consideration. The majority of the publicity centres on 15 year old Q’Orianka Kilcher, who plays Pocahontas in the feature, because Terence Malik is a legendary recluse, and neither of the male stars (Colin......

Continue Reading "Film Friday: A Whole New World, Same Old Woody"

August 29, 2005

We didn't actually spend the weekend with Crispin Glover (we didn't buy him breakfast or anything), but it got pretty close. On Saturday, Torontoist was creeping around Rue-Morgue’s Festival of Fear in hopes of catching CG for a one-on-one. Instead, we got a front row seat at his ‘Intimate and Interactive.’ Our hopes of questioning Glover regarding hate-on for Jaws director Steven Speilberg was dashed by a combination of fawning questions ("You’ve played some......

Continue Reading "Crispin Hellion Weekend"

April 8, 2005

Are you lookin' at me or are you lookin' at the subtitles below my monstrously huge face? Subtitles. Okay fine. I understand that you don't speak French but you still wanted to come out and see my movie, because it's supposed to be freakin' amazing, so I'll forgive the fact I want you to look at me and my superfine acting alone. Maybe you could see the film twice, so you could read the subtitles......

Continue Reading "Film Fridays: Are You Lookin' at Me?"

March 25, 2005

We're apprehensive to even broach the subject of late period Woody Allen, but we up and saw Melinda and Melinda last night, and lived to tell the tale. What's more, we giggled. Frequently. Sure, some of the giggles derived from glaringly silly detours into Woodywords, like when the hack actor (hacktor?) played angrily by Johnny Lee Miller calls something a 'baseless canard.' Or when the same charactor invites a grade 12 student over to his......

Continue Reading "Film Fridays: Baseless Canards"

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