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Sundance 3: Mary and Max

Sundance 3: Mary and Max

One of the surprises of this year’s festival is that the opening night film is a stop-motion animation about the penpal relationship between a lonely Australian girl and a profoundly overweight man with Asperger’s Syndrome living in New York.  If ‘Mary and Max’ had been a live action drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni [...]


Sundance Short Films Available for Free on Apple's iTunes / Netflix / Xbox

Via Digg user AmyVernon comes the news that at least 10 short films being seen at Sundance this year are available for free on Apple’s iTunes: Sundance from the Comfort of Your Home If you have iTunes and want to go directly to the Sundance Shorts download area then click below: Sundance Film Festival 2009, [...]


Waltz with Bashir

Waltz with Bashir is at the Belcourt from January 30th. I recommend you see it – a war documentary shot in an innovative style – the interviewees, participants in yet another war, were recorded and then animated, (yet not rotoscoped – thank goodness), to impressive effect. The style is intense, hallucinatory – done in the [...]


The Film Talk – Part 44 – Australia / Transporter 3 / Bolt

The Film Talk - Part 44 - Australia / Transporter 3 / Bolt

Films Reviewed This Week: Australia / Transporter 3 / Bolt (Photo above: Nicole Kidman in a typically fanstastic shot from Australia)


The Film Talk – Part 29 – Hello Wall-E!

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