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Ken Loach vs Israel, round four.
Fri, Oct 16 2009 2:00 PM

Throughout the summer and fall festival season, Ken Loach has gotten more headlines for his statements against Israel than his new movie "Looking For Eric." Now his Israeli distributor is fighting back. Loach first pulled the comedy from the Melbourne International Film Festival in July because the Israeli government had given the festival funds to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Controversy, Toronto 2009, Ken Loach, Looking For Eric, Vanessa Redgrave, Israel, Melbourne International Film Festival

Monday morning massacre?
Mon, Sep 21 2009 12:45 PM

The recession is officially fading and box-office grosses are as strong as ever, but the entire film industry seems to contracting in pain today, from major to micro. Variety reports that Universal has frozen development for the rest of the year -- if your project wasn't already realistically getting made, there'll be no more cash for rewrites and meetings... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Biz, Slumdog Millionaire, Toronto 2009, Universal, Creation, The Boys Are Back, A Single Man, Get Low

Buying in and selling out.
Fri, Sep 18 2009 5:30 PM

The Toronto International Film Festival ends tomorrow, but most journalists have already skipped ahead to extrapolating trends. There's much loose talk about potential Oscar front-runners -- "Up In The Air" apparently has a lock -- and much free-floating despair about the tough climate for making, purchasing and marketing indie films. But at least... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Critic watch, Steven Soderbergh, Werner Herzog, Todd Solondz, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Toronto 2009, Chloe, Atom Egoyan, Ivan Reitman, The Informant!

Michael Moore marches out the door.
Tue, Sep 15 2009 6:30 PM

Michael Moore may be abandoning documentaries. In an AP interview from Toronto, he complains "I've done this for 20 years. Two years ago, I tried to get the health-care debate going, and it did eventually, and now where are we? We may not even have it. What am I supposed to do at a certain point?" As usual, Moore's stuck somewhere between good... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Michael Moore, Toronto 2009, Capitalism: A Love Story, Barack Obama, Activism, Sicko, Roger and Me

"Creation" vs. America.
Tue, Sep 15 2009 9:45 AM

Biopics about Important Men ironically tend to be Very Mediocre. So the fact that Toronto opening night film "Creation," a Charles Darwin drama directed by Jon Amiel (who once helmed the original "The Singing Detective" but lately has turned out the likes of "The Core") premiered to roundly indifferent reviews is no great surprise... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Coming attractions, Toronto 2009, Jeremy Thomas, Creation, The Singing Detective, The Core, Paul Bettany, Charles Darwin, Jon Amiel

A small festival buzzkill.
Wed, Sep 9 2009 9:45 AM

According to a widely cited number from Film-Releases.com I can't actually find on their site, American distributors will release 40% fewer films this award season, compared to last year. (This figure presumably doesn't take into account the five-plus niche releases flooding New York and LA -- and nowhere else -- every week.) For those lucky enough to... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Festivals, Venice 2009, NYFF 2009, Toronto 2009, Wild Bunch, Cineaste, Paolo Sorrentino

"Chloe" and Canadians
Mon, Aug 31 2009 6:00 AM

The Toronto International Film Festival starts next Thursday! September 10! Who's excited? Well, you should be: even if you (like me) can't attend, Toronto unveils much of what devoted filmgoers can look forward to over the next half-year or so. I'll be keeping an eye on the festival's high-profile premieres (and perhaps even more so the low-profile... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Guy Maddin, Coming attractions, Canada, Toronto 2009, Natasha Richardson, Chloe, David Cronenberg, Atom Egoyan, Liam Neeson, Ivan Reitman

Herzog/Lynch > Herzog/Ferrara.
Mon, Aug 17 2009 1:05 PM

The cracktastic footage and ongoing directorial snippiness have made "Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans," Werner Herzog's maybe remake of Abel Ferrara's 1992 drama, one of the most anticipated films set to screen at the Toronto International Film Festival (though it'll first premiere at Venice). And who could outdo Bavaria's finest... Read More...

by IFC.com - Indie Eye

Filed under: Watchy, Werner Herzog, David Lynch, Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Michael Shannon, Abel Ferrara, Mark Yarovsky, Toronto 2009, Grace Zabriskie, My Son My Son What Have Ye Done