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‘The Sessions’ an emotional dual acting powerhouse
The Sessions Directed by Ben Lewin Written by Ben Lewin USA, 2012 Sometimes, all a movie needs to be even moderately successful is great acting. Though The Sessions (a big hit at this year’s Sundance Film Festival under its original name, The Surrogate) has a compelling nugget of a plot, what makes it powerful is […] More
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Saturday Shorts: Oscar Winning Documentary ‘Breathing Lessons’
Today’s film is the 1997 short Breathing Lessons. A documentary written and directed by Jessica Yu, this short tells the story of Mark O’Brien, who was afflicted with polio at a young age that left him unable to operate without an iron lung. O’Brien’s story was made into a feature film titled The Sessions, with […] More
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‘The Sessions’ is quietly humble, yet raucous with pathos
The Sessions Directed by Ben Lewin Written by Ben Lewin USA, 2012 All animals have sex for reproduction. Some even have sex for pleasure. But human beings are distinct and distinguishable as the only species on earth that has sex for love. As a physical manifestation of our desires, and as a way of expressing […] More
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TIFF 2012: Staff lists the biggest discoveries, waste of time and their favourite film
Ricky D Biggest Discovery: My biggest discovery came the morning of the very last day, Sunday September 16th when I missed my screening to my most anticipated film, Michael Heneke’s Amour, because for some strange reason, Toronto is the only major metropolitan in the world whose subway stations only open at 9:00 am – the […] More
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TIFF 2012: ‘The Sessions’ is quietly humble, yet raucous with pathos
The Sessions Directed by Ben Lewin Written by Ben Lewin USA, 2012 All animals have sex for reproduction. Some even have sex for pleasure. But human beings are distinct and distinguishable as the only species on earth that has sex for love. As a physical manifestation of our desires, and as a way of expressing […] More
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TIFF 2012 Gala and Special Presentation Films Announced
Toronto – On July 24th, Piers Handling, CEO and Director of TIFF, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, unveiled some of the films that will headline the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. According to Bailey, TIFF 2012 will include the “most diverse Gala programme to date with films from Japan, China, India, the United Kingdom, Denmark, […] More
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Sundance 2012: ‘The Surrogate’ a film about sex for romantics
The Surrogate Directed by Ben Lewin Screenplay by Ben Lewin 2012, USA John Hawkes (of Deadwood and from last year’s Martha Marcy May Marlene) portrays Mark O’Brien, a real life poet and advocate for the physically disabled who decides at age 38 to lose his virginity. O’Brien spends his life in an iron lung, paralyzed […] More