{"id":11122,"date":"2005-09-12T22:54:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-12T22:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lookingcloser.wordpress.com\/2005\/09\/12\/tracking-toronto\/"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:18:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T23:18:56","slug":"tracking-toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/lookingcloser\/2005\/09\/tracking-toronto\/","title":{"rendered":"Tracking Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

GreenCine Daily<\/a> is providing all kinds of coverage on the Toronto International Film Festival, including some comments on The Smell of Paradise<\/a><\/em>, a film that makes me uneasy just in its summary.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the blogging has begun in earnest at Long Pauses<\/a> by Darren Hughes, who is determined not to be controlled by \u201cblog guilt.\u201d He especially praises Sokurov\u2019s The Sun<\/em>. (Great. Now, in future conversations with film buffs, we\u2019ll have to say, \u201cThe Sun\u2026<\/em>. No, S-U-N<\/em>, not the Dardennes Brothers film!\u201d)<\/p>\n

And of Hou Hsiao-Hsien\u2019s Three Times, <\/em>he raves, \u201cI had a stupid grin on my face during every moment of Three Times. There\u2019s no chance I\u2019ll see a more beautiful film this week.\u201d<\/p>\n

Regarding the Cronenberg film A History of Violence<\/em>, which I\u2019ll be seeing next week and reviewing for Christianity Today, he writes,<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s going to be a lot of fun watching how this one plays to American critics. It works wonderfully as a genre film, and based on the laughter and cheering that errupted throughout the screening, it will definitely play as such to many audiences. But it also subverts the genre and offers an allegory on Bush\u2019s America that, in my opinion, holds together much better than Dogville<\/em>. Another great film.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unfortunately, Darren\u2019s not so enthused about L\u2019Enfer<\/em> (or Hell<\/em>), the second film of a trilogy based on ideas charted out by Krzysztof Kieslowski, from the director of No Man\u2019s Land.<\/em> (The first was Heaven<\/em>, directed by Tom Tykwer, and starring Cate Blanchett and Giovanni Ribisi.) Peter Chattaway has a few notes on that project up at FilmChat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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