As the Toronto International Film Fest wraps up yet another fortnight of film, it’s time to take a look back at some of the memorable musical tracks from this year’s slate of festival flicks. From the purposefully jarring (the upbeat harmonies of The Beach Boys in the atmospheric Marrowbone and cheery ABBA clashing with the chaos of Three Billboards) to the sublimely perfect (“Love My Way” in Call Me By Your Name‘s already classic dance scene and “I Know Places” soothing nerves over In the Fade‘s …
Category: Film
Given how news from France’s pre-eminent film festival comes at interested on-lookers both fast and furious over the Mediterranean fortnight, it may not be all that surprising that I missed out on the initial hubbub that bubbled out of a Cannes Mad Max: Fury Road Q&A involving the Toronto Star’s own movie critic, Peter Howell. Essentially Howell posed the following question to the film’s titular male star, Tom Hardy: “I’ll preface my remarks by saying that I have five sisters, a wife, a daughter, …
…not, strictly speaking, me. But it’s all fine. I’ve been in London now for just over a week and I’m feeling as at home as I’ve ever felt. It’s the natural fit I’d assumed it would be – at least it is so far. The weather has been rainy but hovering around the 10 degree mark, so absolutely no complaints from this ex-pat girl. The week kicked off (very, very early in the morning) with watching Hollywood’s biggest night…the 87th …
In just over one week, I’ll be (attempting) to snuggle down in my little corner of Air Canada’s Economy Plus seating, hurtling through the air at 30,000 feet, on my way to spend the holidays in my favourite city. That’s right. This blogger is headed across the pond to London-town for three weeks of Christmas markets, holiday lights, cozy pub evenings, museums and galleries, side train trips to Cambridge and Bletchley Park, and general Christmas-y chaos. In the past two …