Toronto round-up.

"Three distinctive new films, from three important established American independent filmmakers, have shared a moment here at the Toronto International Film Festival and emerged as true standouts, confounding film buyers, dividing critics, and provoking audiences." IndieWIRE editor Eugene Hernandez on Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, Lodge Kerrigan's Keane and Todd Solondz's Palindromes. Also: More photos from Brian Brooks and Peter Brunette reviews Eros, finding little to get excited about in either Steven Soderbergh or Michelangelo Antonioni's contributions, while Wong Kar-wai's "in no way represents an aesthetic advance for Wong, but rather a summary re-statement in a moving, minimalist key."

B Ruby Rich in the Guardian: "What has made Toronto unique among an elite cohort of international festivals is the central role of the audience. Ordinary Torontonians go to the movies, react, and shape the out-of-town professionals' idea of what might be possible in the future of cinema."

Over at Movie City News, David Poland and Leonard Klady have been all over Toronto.

J Robert Parks in Toronto: 10e Chambre, instants d'audiences and Buffalo Boy; Day Six: Palindromes, The Holy Girl, Café Lumière, Old Boy and Kontroll.

Tom Hall's "Top 6 Moments of Insanity at the 2004 Toronto International Film Festival."

At Twitch: Mack on Low Life, Café Lumière and Vital; plus Millions, Eros and Zebraman; and The Sea Inside and Kontroll; Nick on The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things and Calvaire; and Todd's take on Vital; and Eros and Zebraman; also Palindromes, Sideways, Café Lumière, The Sea Inside and Kontroll; plus a nifty souvenir.

Briefs from Doug Cummings on Childstar, Earth and Ashes, Midwinter Night's Dream, Trilogy: The Weeping Meadow, Un Pays sans bon sens!, It's Not My Memory of It: Three Collected Documents and Anaconda Targets.

Posted by dwhudson at September 18, 2004 12:43 PM