August 2011
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Tentative TIFF Schedule
Thursday, 9/8 This is Not a Film (Jafar Panahi) Elena (Andrey Zvyagintsev) Play (Ruben Östlund) Friday, 9/9 House of Tolerance (Bertrand Bonello) A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg) The Kid with a Bike (Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne) Outside Satan (Bruno Dumont) OR The River Used to Be a Man (Jan Zabeil) Wavelengths 1: Analogue Arcadia Saturday, 9/10 The Silver Cliff (Karim Aïnouz)...
Aug 26th
January 2011
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Films of 2010
John Price’s Home Movie isn’t on any of my Top 10 lists but I’ve thought about it as much as any film I saw in 2010. The title is literal: Price shot Home Movie in and around his house with an old Russian 35mm camera and processed the film by hand. In some ways, it’s not so different from those silent 16mm films your uncle would shoot at birthday parties and family...
Jan 2nd
August 2010
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2010 TIFF Schedule
Thursday 9 Film Socialism (Jean-Luc Godard, Switzerland) Friday 10 A Married Couple (Allan King, Canada) The Light Thief (Aktan Arym Kubat, Kyrgyzstan) Guest (Jose Luis Guerin, Spain) Saturday 11 Poetry (Lee Chang-dong, South Korea) The Four Times (Michelangelo Frammartino, Italy) What I Most Want (Delfina Castagnino, Argentina) Wavelengths 2 In Conversation with … Philip Seymour Hoffman...
Aug 31st
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July 2010
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By Brakhage
Another capsule review for the Arts & Faith Top 100. Writing a brief introduction to Brakhage for an audience that might not even be aware of the existence of a-g cinema proved to be a really fun challenge. “When film subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional...
Jul 12th
May 2010
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The Apu Trilogy (Satyajit Ray)
Another capsule review for the Arts & Faith Top 100. Between 1955 and 1991, Indian director Satyajit Ray made more than thirty feature films, but he’s best remembered in the West for the “Apu trilogy,” which launched his career. Pather Panchali (1955), Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) are based on the novels of Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhya and follow their hero,...
May 31st
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Vivre sa vie (Jean-Luc Godard, 1961)
I’ve been an occasional participant in the Arts & Faith discussion forum for nearly a decade. They recently polled members to determine a Top 100 film list, and the results are notable. In previous incarnations, we used the vague criterion, “spiritually significant,” to determine what did and did not belong on the list. This time out there were no explicit guidelines. Members...
May 22nd
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The Song of Bernadette (Henry King, 1943)
For the first hour or so, The Song of Bernadette is a tough slog. An unapologetic hagiography of the young woman whose visions of the Virgin Mary transformed the French town of Lourdes, its script is never less than on-the-nose and its director, studio journeyman Henry King, does little of real interest with it. The most intriguing moment in the first act might be the title card that introduces...
May 21st
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Ecstasy'll Kill You: Written on the Wind (Douglas...
May 18th
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Cut to Melanie: The second half of The Birds is a...
May 18th
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"Making Peace"
“Making Peace” By Denise Levertov A voice from the dark called out,      ”The poets must give us imagination of peace, to oust the intense, familiar imagination of disaster. Peace, not only the absence of war.”             But peace, like a poem, is not there ahead of itself, can’t be imagined before it is made, can’t be known except in the words of...
May 17th
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About Darren Hughes
Darren Hughes is a communications manager, web developer, occasional writer, and wannabe photographer in Knoxville, Tennessee. For nearly a decade he maintained a regularly updated blog (now archived) that focused mostly on film, literature, religion, politics, and other subjects ill-suited for polite conversation. He’s published a couple book chapters, several magazine articles, and a...
May 16th
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Iron and Wine and Tarkovsky and Mirror
May 7th
July 2009
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Sonic Youth "The Sprawl" at The Bijou
Jul 24th
May 2009
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When My Worlds Collide
May 30th
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"Ain't You Wealthy, Ain't You Wise?" by Bonnie...
May 27th
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575 Castro St.
May 8th
April 2009
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Revanche Trailer
Apr 28th
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March 2009
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TCM's Tarkovsky Promo
Mar 22nd
January 2009
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"Home" Electric
Jan 21st
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"Home" Acoustic
Jan 21st
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"Johnny Appleseed" by Joe Strummer & The...
Jan 5th
December 2008
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Steve Reich's 8 Lines
Dec 17th