As the biggest lineup of the fall festival circuit, the Toronto International Film Festival gave critics and journalists a lot of new movies pick through. With close to 300 features from around the world, the small crop of titles that tend to dominate the buzz at this time of the year are just one small piece of a very large cinematic equation. Nevertheless, consensus has formed around a handful of highlights, as the results of IndieWire’s annual Tiff critics survey demonstrate. Over 300 critics and journalists covering the festival participated this year, and while many of them singled out lower-profile films, some of the most anticipated movies of the year dominated the categories for best film, best documentary, and best performance.
Barely a week after it scored the Golden Lion in Venice, Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” continued its winning streak by topping the Tiff survey for best film. Cuaron’s black-and-white...
Barely a week after it scored the Golden Lion in Venice, Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma” continued its winning streak by topping the Tiff survey for best film. Cuaron’s black-and-white...
- 9/17/2018
- by Eric Kohn
- Indiewire
Welcome to Monrovia, Indiana. With a dwindling population of 1,083, the small town, first founded in 1834 as one of many farming communities that served as the backbone of early America, is a compelling new subject for prolific documentarian Frederick Wiseman’s latest look inside the kind of places, people, and systems that make up the country.
In his latest documentary, “Monrovia, Indiana,” the filmmaker endeavors to explore “the importance of rural America as a formative center of American politics and values was demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election.”
Per its official synopsis, “The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important in America but whose influence and force...
In his latest documentary, “Monrovia, Indiana,” the filmmaker endeavors to explore “the importance of rural America as a formative center of American politics and values was demonstrated in the 2016 presidential election.”
Per its official synopsis, “The film explores the conflicting stereotypes and illustrates how values like community service, duty, spiritual life, generosity and authenticity are formed, experienced and lived. The film gives a complex and nuanced view of daily life in Monrovia and provides some understanding of a rural, mid-American way of life that has always been important in America but whose influence and force...
- 8/14/2018
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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