Word: toronto
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...This is the first scene of The Hurt Locker, which has its world premiere here at the Venice Film Festival before playing Sunday at the Toronto fest. No U.S. opening or distributor has been secured, but that should change once festival people strap themselves in for this dynamite drive through the Iraq occupation. (Make that war.) Except for a few digressive scenes - a solo sortie of personal vengeance, a conversation about what it all means - that could easily be cut from the 2 hr. 11 min. running time, The Hurt Locker is a near-perfect movie about...
...Anybody else could see most of the Oscar nominees by spending 10 days in Toronto...
...Toronto International Film Festival, which opened its 33rd edition on Thursday, is many things to the 100,000 or so cinephiles who each year make it the premier movie bash in North America. TIFF, as it's known, is a gourmand's glut of international product, a one-stop shop for documentaries, a gallery for experimental films. To sustain the pride of the locals, there's also a barrage of Canadian movies...
...Movies, movies and more movies. Whereas Telluride's festival, the Rocky Mountain redoubt that runs before Toronto, and New York's, which starts in late September, put only a few dozen films on display, TIFF has hundreds. Even if a Toronto cinemaniac were to get no more than a few hours' sleep a night and renounce all food except popcorn, he or she would be able to see eight or 10 pictures a day - less than a third of the festival offerings...
...this desultory spy caper - which had its world premiere as the opening night selection at the Venice Film Festival, and will play the Toronto Film Festival later this week - they take George Clooney and Brad Pitt, those modern icons of sex and savoir-faire, drop them in the world of Washington, D.C., espionage, then keep ratcheting down their emotional IQs. They turn Frances McDormand (Mrs. Joel Coen off-screen) into a mad-man loser with a severe self-image problem. The characters' lives get more desperate as the camera style retains its affectless sheen...