Bill Meyer
LATEST ARTICLES BY Bill Meyer
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The Middle East at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival
November 19, 2019The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) has supported famed Palestinian director/actor Elia Suleiman from the beginning of his career.
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Overview of tenth anniversary DOC NYC Film Festival
November 7, 2019The DOC NYC Film Festival has now become the largest documentary film festival in the U.S. It screens over 300 films, including many U.S. and world premieres, and runs for 10 days, Nov. 6-15.
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Docu- and mockumentaries at Toronto International Film Festival
October 30, 2019Just like with the news, it’s getting difficult to draw the line between fact and fiction—truth or lies—in movies.
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Marie Curie, Patty Hearst, Agnès Varda at Toronto International Film Festival
October 10, 2019She’s the only woman who won the Nobel Prize in two scientific fields—physics and chemistry. And now she's the subject of the first biopic by Iranian-born director, Marjane Satrapi.
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Biopics on Helen Reddy and Jean Seberg at TIFF: Part 1
October 4, 2019The story of this courageous woman has finally reached the big screen where her commitment to peace and justice will now be appreciated by a world audience.
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‘Martin Eden’ and ‘1982’ at Toronto International Film Festival
October 2, 2019Another award winner at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is Pietro Marcello’s Martin Eden, based on the 1909 novel by famed American socialist writer Jack London.
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Fascism and cinema at the Toronto International Film Festival
September 26, 2019Although the film is well directed and intentioned, I question the choice of focusing on a person who simply refuses to be in a war.
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Toronto International Film Festival unveils daring comedy satire ‘Jojo Rabbit’
September 25, 2019The extreme comedic approach is not for everyone, but at its best, the film subtly reveals how innocent youth are indoctrinated into extreme forms of intolerance and hatred.
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