http://www.rowthree.com/tiff Mon, 15 Sep 2008 00:00:42 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en There are so few bonafide movie stars these days. These are actors that can light up the screen in such a way that even in a highly stylized and kinetic motion picture about an infamous personality, all eyes are riveted on the curve of the mouth or the lift ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-public-enemy-number-one-part-1/ Coming into Christian Petzold's rural neo-noir, it might be helpful to have an understanding of the films that he is aiming to re-create. Like his previous film, Yella, which played with the conventions of An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge in the context of modern Germany, Jerichow (presumably named after ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-jerichow/ Now that Don LaFontaine is narrating trailers for the big guy in heaven, I would like to nominate actor Stephen McHattie as the logical successor to the phrase, "In a World, where..." Bruce McDonald's latest film takes the omnipresent zombie subgenre and turns it on its ear (literally). Yes, ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-pontypool/ You are reading this because you want to know if Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is a good film, and perhaps you want me to compare and contrast it with the great screenplays he has written, and hopefully in the process provide a categorical frame to this new commodity. What ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/synecdoche-new-york-2/ JT Petty's The Burrowers really should be a bit better than it actually is. The idea of combining the western and horror genres is quite intriguing and Petty has a good basis for a strong movie but unfortunately he falls a bit short with its implementation. Many times throughout the ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-the-burrowers/ The prints of Darren Aronofsky's new film, The Wrestler, have barely dried (or what is the digital equivalent?) and already it has won the top prize at the Venice Film Festival and is on its way, possibly, to the Peoples Choice Award at Toronto. After the emotional and visual epic ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-the-wrestler/ I don't have time for another review right now so I figured I'd just post a brief update. Things are hectic but definitely fun. My days are spent running from movie to movie with a quick jump into the occasional spot for food or for drinks. The highlight of the ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-update/ It is sometimes hard to review a movie that does everything very well but that just does not connect. The German fable Krabat is one such movie. David Kross is Krabat a young beggar who at the end of the 30 Years war in German answers a call from a ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-krabat/ When a new Michael Winterbottom film comes out it is always interesting to see where exactly he is going to go with it. Certainly Winterbottom has one of the most diverse CV's in the cinema with things ranging as far as Tristram Shandy to Welcome to Sarajevo to 24 Hour ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-genova/ You will not hear me say this often when it comes to a review of a movie but I do not believe I can do Danny Boyle's Slumdog Millionaire justice in a review. I could star listing of hyperbole after hyperbole and I would not be exaggerating one bit on ... http://www.rowthree.com/tiff/tiff-review-slumdog-millionaire/