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L’affaire Farewell

L’affaire Farewell (Director: Christian Carion): It’s the early 1980s and KGB colonel Serguei Grigoriev (Emir Kusturica) knows that the Soviet system isn’t working. He wants change, and so he decides to set events in motion that might sweep him away, … Continue reading

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TIFF 2009: Preliminaries, Part 3

Today the full schedule was announced and I picked up my TIFF programme book. There are way more films than I’ll be able to see, but here are a few more that I’m hoping not to miss: Mr. Nobody (Director: … Continue reading

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TIFF 2009: Preliminaries, Part 2

Here’s my next batch of TIFF hopefuls. I’ll be narrowing it all down to somewhere around ten films in total, but this at least reminds me what films are on my radar for follow-up should I not be able to … Continue reading

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TIFF 2009: Preliminaries, Part 1

TIFF season is upon us again. For the past few weeks, I’ve been patiently entering each batch of announced films into a spreadsheet, and noting with growing alarm the number of great films that are making their way to my … Continue reading

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