Baby Clyde's TIFF Diary Finale

by Baby Clyde

TIFF travelsIt’s over. I’m done. Managed 25 films in all. 3 down from 2019 but I did start a day later. The Fabelmans winning The Audience Award was as inevitable as me getting this final round up in 2 days late . Have to say that I did not think this was a vintage year. There were loads of big premiers and highly anticipated movies being shown but I was pretty underwhelmed by much of what I did see. Luckily, things perked up a bit towards the end.

Here’s a run down of my last 2 days which turned out to include some of the best in show.

Friday started with The Inspection the narrative feature debut from documentarian Elegance Bratton. For some reason I’d assumed this was a period piece so the opening 10 minutes of a homeless Jeremy Pope jumping the turnstile on the contemporary New York subway, meeting up with a gang of queer friends and visiting his estranged mother (An unrecognisable Gabrielle Union) took me by surprise. Both were a real thrill and suggested something less generic to come...

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"World War III" and other new titles join the Oscar race

Bosnia, Iran, Nepal, Portugal, and Romania have announced their submissions to the 95th Oscars. Here's a little info about those choices... 

🇮🇷 WORLD WAR III (Houman Seyyedi)
IRAN  (3 nominations, 2 wins, and 2 additional finalists from 28 submissions)

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TIFF: A Mother on Trial in ‘Saint Omer’

By Abe Friedtanzer

Last week, France narrowd its list of contenders for the Oscar submission to five. Three of them played at TIFF – One Fine Morning, Paris Memories, and Saint Omer. The last of those has the advantage at the moment thanks to its two prizes at the Venice Film Festival. It’s a difficult, focused drama that deals with motherhood, national identity, and the justice system in France…

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TIFF prizes: The Fabelmans, Weird Al, Black Ice, and more...

by Nathaniel R

The first wave of the bridge festivals, taking us from summer to the fall film season and thereby kicking off the Oscar race have ended with TIFF wrapping hot on the heels of Venice and Telluride. It's time to update the Oscar charts which we're busy with at the moment and will start posting very soon. While you wait for those updates, here are the winners from TIFF. While TIFF is a non-competitive festival unlike the other "big five" festivals (Sundance, Venice, Canes, Berlin) they do have audience awards as well as a few juries for very specific things, just not the main slate. Their "People's Choice" audience awards get a lot of press partially because the winners often go on to Oscar nominations and sometimes wins.

AUDIENCE AWARDS

PEOPLE'S CHOICE: The Fabelmans (Steven Spielberg)
runners up: Women Talking (Sarah Polley) and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (Rian Johnson)...

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TIFF: Looking for Richard III in ‘The Lost King’

By Abe Friedtanzer

 

Everyone has their “thing,” and some interests are a bit more niche than others. Take Philippa Langley, a writer inspired by her attendance at a staging of Shakespeare’s Richard III to clear the name of the ruler cast as a villain, going so far as to commission a dig that she hopes will reveal his final resting place. Sally Hawkins plays Langley in Stephen Frears’ entertaining and involving The Lost King…

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