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Blogging TIFF: Pontypool Changes Everything
A review of "Pontypool", one of TIFF's "groundbreaking films", which screened at the Toronto International Film Festival this month.
September 30th, 2008 | Gillian Moody
Blogger Gillian Moody takes a look at the zombie-esque "Pontypool", a part of Toronto International Film Festival's Vanguard series, which imagines a world where a virus is spread through the English-language.
On Tuesday, Septemer 9, Canadian-made film Pontypool, a movie by director Bruce McDonald of The Tracey Fragments, (starring 2007 Oscar nominee Ellen Page from the movie Juno) screened at TIFF’s Vanguard, a program dedicated to groundbreaking films.
Blogging TIFF: Someone Who Is Nothing Has Everything to Lose
A review of "Slumdog Millionaire", a film by acclaimed director Danny Boyle of "Trainspotting" fame, that screened at Toronto International Film Festival this month.
September 29th, 2008 | Gillian Moody
Blogger Gillian Moody views "Slumdog Millionaire" (see trailer), a film that flirted with the idea of a straight-to-DVD release, becomes a popular favorite at Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) and is picked up by Fox Searchlight for a happy ending to a long journey that parallels the film itself.
On Sunday, September 7, English-made film Slumdog Millionaire made its debut at TIFF, where it handily won the Cadillac People’s Choice Award. All of this considering that Slumdog Millionaire nearly went straight to DVD after Warners’ Independent Pictures closed its doors earlier this year.
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