Same time, next year…TIFF 2015 is over, but not forgotten

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The Toronto International Film Festival finished yesterday. Hope you all enjoyed the sneaky-peak reviews from Our reviewer in… Maysa Moncao, giving a flavour of what the rest of 2015’s and 2016’s movie release schedules have to offer. Here, she sends us a brief summary of 10 other films she saw which you should keep an eye out for over the coming weeks and months, in order of preference.

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Septembers Of Shiraz (2015)…and in conversation with Salma Hayek

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Our reviewer in…Toronto, Maysa Moncao, saw the drama September Of Shiraz starring Adrien Brody and Salma Hayek, who also spoke at a press conference for the film.

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The Program (2015) / Q and A with director Stephen Frears

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Maysa Moncao’s review of the Lance Armstrong film starring Ben Foster. Directed by Stephen Frears, who provided a Q&A to Maysa and other reviewers at the Toronto International Film Festival/TIFF 15.

5stars-Excellent-genius-a-classic

 

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Where To Invade Next (2015)

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Film review, by Maysa Moncao, of the latest Michael Moore documentary, which has just had its world premier at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF 15).

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Director: Michael Moore.

5stars-Excellent-genius-a-classic

 

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Black Mass (2015)

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Film review of the crime drama starring Johnny Depp and Benedict Cumberbatch. Review is from the Toronto Film Festival/TIFF, courtesy of Maysa Moncao.

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4stars-Very good lots to enjoy 1

 

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Sicario (2015)

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Maysa Moncao’s film review (from the Toronto International Film Festival) of the law enforcement/drug cartel drama starring Emily Blunt and Josh Brolin.

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Youth (2015)

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Film review, written by Maysa Moncao (Our reviewer in…Toronto) of the drama starring Michael Caine and Harvey Keitel. To leave your comments or to like this review, please scroll to the bottom.

4stars-Very good lots to enjoy 1

 

 

It is no secret that whenever there is a preview by Paolo Sorrentino there is a kind of foggy frisson in the air. What is he bringing to us this time?

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Every Thing Will Be Fine (2015)

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Our reviewer in…Toronto, Maysa Moncao, checks out the latest Wim Wenders film, a drama starring James Franco as a man who accidentally kill a young boy.

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Hitchcock/Truffaut (2015)

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Maysa Moncao’s film review of the documentary about the creation of the seminal biography of film director Alfred Hitchcock, authored by fellow director Francois Truffaut, via the Toronto  International Film Festival.

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If you desire to be more than an ordinary film-goer, you should spend some of your time reading ’Hitchcock/Truffaut’.

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Dheepan (2015)

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Our reviewer in…Maysa Moncao sends back her first report from the Toronto International Film Festival, of the French drama Dheepan, directed by Jacques Audiard (Rust and Bone, 2012)

Recently, our eyes were moistened by a photo of a little Syrian boy drowned and washed up on a beach after the frustrated attempts of his parents to escape war and misery….

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