First off for our last day, we spoke with the director and the stars of LYMELIFE, respectively Derick Martini and the Culkin bros. Next we talked with Christophe Barratier about his wonderful FAUBOURG 36. We managed to convince Paul Dano to help us packup the van (not really) and talk with us about his role in the wonderfully touching film GIGANTIC.
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We talked with both the star and the director of what people are insisting on calling an "urban romantic tale", but what I call simply one sweet, honest and entertaining flick. Barry Jenkins and Tracey Heggins talk with us about MEDICINE FOR MELANCHOLY. We also sit down with the unbeatable Elyn Burstyn to talk about her role in LOVELY, STILL which I promise, she is.
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On day 8 we caught up with both the director and star of ADAM RESURRECTED. Jeff Goldblum's portrayal of a Jewish comedian in the time of the Holocaust is being hailed as ground breaking. It is widely agreed that Paul Schrader has directed another masterpiece. We also sat down with the extrodinary director of ADORATION, Atom Egoyan to speak about his much lauded new film.
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One week in Toronto and the interviews are just getting better and better. We start off the day interviewing Barbet Schroeder about his intellectually sexual INJU, THE BEAST IN THE SHADOW. Later we talked with Richard Eyre about his international tale of love and deception, THE OTHER MAN. We finished the day by talking to Joseph Gordon-Levitt about his electrifying performance in the new film UNCERTAINTY.
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We managed to bring it again today with three new interviews that will blow your socks off. We started off talking to Arnaud Desplechin about his new film A CHRISTMAS TALE, a dramatic loose retelling of the Dickens classic. Later we got straight gangster with Matteo Garrone when we were talking with him about his new film GOMMORAH which follows fuve stories about the Itallian mafia. We managed to get out of there without getting whacked which is good because we were able to catch up with the directing team Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck about their new film, SUGAR, about US satelite baseball teams in the Dominican Republic. What a day!
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We got three new hot interviews today, starting off with an interview with one of our personal favorites here at FilmCatcher, Mr. Ramin Bahrani of Man Push Cart fame. We talked with him about his new film GOODBYE SOLO. Matt Aselton is here with his debut feature, GIGANTIC, which follows the twisted family relations and mattress sales. We finished up the day with a conversation of Michael Winterbottom and Colin Firth talking about their new film GENOVA. Can't wait to see what happens tomorrow.
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Day 4 of the Toronto Film Festival starts off with an odd couple extreme. Veteran actor Martin Landau and first time director Nik Fackler talk about their experiences working together on the romantic film LOVELY, STILL. We also caught up with Marbouk El Mechri to talk about his unique action film JCVD, starring Jean-Claude Van Damme as himself.
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Day 3 of the Toronto film festival was filled with stars. Daniel Bruhl, co-star of the German fantasy thriller KRABAT talked to us about the new German self-confidence. So Yong Kim talked about her experiences directing the tragic TREELESS MOUNTAIN. We also caught up with Scott Speedman and Rachel Blanchard to talk about their roles as siblings in Atom Egoyan's introspective ADORATION.
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Defiance and disaffection have been themes in youth movies since Rebel Without a Cause, and two NYFF films deal intriguingly with this legacy. First, director Antonio Campos dropped by the Walter Reade Theater to chat with us about his provocative prep-school drama AFTERSCHOOL. Later, we caught up with Gerardo Naranjo, whose I'M GONNA EXPLODE details the darkly romantic exploits of a rebellious teen couple in Mexico.
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Our first day at the Toronto Film Festival set a pretty high precedent for the rest of our week. Our first interview was with Jeffrey Levy-Hinte, director of SOUL POWER, which documents the Zaire '74 music festival held concurrently with the famous "Rumble in the Jungle" between Muhammad Ali and future grill master George Foreman. Next, we caught up with Ari Folman, director of WALTZ WITH BASHIR, an animated documentary based on the director's personal experiences as a young Israeli soldier caught up in the hostilities with Lebanon in the early '80s. Finally, we interviewed Norwegian writer-director Bent Hamer, who's here with the deadpan comedy O'HORTEN. Hamer's story follows a reluctantly retired train engineer who soon learns that life really does begin at retirement.
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