多伦多的缩放板岩特色是关于毁灭性大火的纪录片，监狱起义和肯尼·G（Kenny G）
Toronto’s Scaled-Down Slate Features Documentaries on Devastating Fires, a Prison Uprising and Kenny G
今年缩放的多伦多INTL。 9月9日，电影节在阵容中进行了14部非小说类电影，这是相当大的降低，比非杂货店的平均22个脱颖而出。像他往常一样，“使他感到惊讶”。但是，随着较少的工作机会，Powers承认，今年的选择“标准更高”。因此，什么使他投降了？关于澳大利亚毁灭性大火的故事（伊娃·奥纳（Eva Orner）的“燃烧”）；美国历史上最大的监狱起义（斯坦利·尼尔森（Stanley Nelson）的“ Attica”）；以及纽约市最长的人质围困（由斯特凡·福布斯（Stefan Forbes）撰写和执导的“握住你的火”）。他的选择的几个人都在其他主要电影节上放映：乔纳斯·波斯·拉斯穆森（Jonas Poher Rasmussen）的“逃亡”，关于一个关于一个难民，他是一个男孩，他是一个男孩，他是一个男孩。 ，将在蒂夫（Tiff）进行正式选择2020年的正式选择，并在Janu的圣丹斯（Sundance）举行全球首映Ary。“逃亡”主要是通过动画告诉人士，在圣丹斯（Sundance）获得了世界电影纪录片大陪审团奖，并被霓虹灯（Neon）收购，霓虹灯与参与者合作在北美分发了该文档。圣丹斯（Sundance）在如此强烈的聚光灯下已经首映的事情。”鲍尔斯说。 “但是'Flee'也是一部罕见的电影，这就是今年赢得的。”纪录片阵容还将包括三部电影，这些电影刚刚在Telluride：Liz Garbus的国家地理电影“ Bo. Cousteau”有关法国海探险家；奥斯卡获奖导演E. Chai Vasarhelyi和Jimmy Chin（“ Free Solo”）的“救援”，内容涉及2018年从洪水淹没的洞穴中抢救12个泰国男孩及其足球教练；以及“ RBG”导演朱莉·科恩（Julie Cohen）和贝蒂·韦斯特（Betsy West）的“朱莉娅（Julia）”，讲述了不太可能的电视明星和厨师朱莉娅·克里斯（Julia Child）。“在大多数情况下，我们正在寻找拥有世界或北美总理的电影ES，” Powers说。 “还有很多电影正在寻找这些机会。因此，我讨厌让我们的部分超负荷，这些电影已经有很大的机会，但是每年都有某些电影真正脱颖而出，我们想带给多伦多的观众。圣丹斯说：“特柳赖德是电影院的一个非凡周末，在很大程度上是美国的首映活动，而Tiff确实是全球发射。”早在2018年，Vasarhelyi和Chin在Tiff放映的“免费独奏”。但是，与“自由独奏”不同，他们的最新文档“ The Rescue”在很大程度上依赖档案材料。“我们从来没有在没有参加实际事件的情况下拍摄过电影，” Vasarhelyi解释说，他追踪了从未有过的电影。看到泰国海军海豹突击队在洞穴内拍摄的镜头。 “（制作电影）的第一年半就像是在国际新闻报道中的寻宝游戏，我们可以从同一活动中找到两个不同的角度，但是，一个来自美国有线电视新闻网（CNN），一个来自泰国本地新闻来源。在影片中，赫尔默（Helmer）记载了萨克斯管演奏家的名声，同时又幽默地探索了他易于欣赏，光滑的爵士乐的反弹，并继续在这么多听众中引起人们的挑衅。项目是他有一种幽默感，并且对自己有幽默感。并非每个人都这样做，”莱恩说。 “我可以接受这个概念的艺术家，并像肯尼（Kenny）那样获得了热情的'是'。”爵士评论家，学者，克莱夫·戴维斯（Clive Davis）和肯尼·G（Kenny G）的粉丝在整个Docu中都有HBO音乐盒系列的一部分。 。 Powers.Fellow HBO音乐盒Doc“ Jagged，Jagged，Jagged，”关于Alanis Morissette，将在Tiff的晚会部分首映。艾莉森·克莱曼（Alison Klayman）导演了“锯齿状”，该纪录片《迪昂·沃里克（Dionne Warwick）：不要让我结束》（Dionne Warwick：Do nove Me Over），研究了这位歌手的流星1990年代崛起。这部电影由Dave Wooley和David Heilbroner执导，讲述了这位标志性歌手的六个十年的职业和激进主义。令人信服的名人的问题包括昆西·琼斯（Quincy Jones），艾丽西亚·凯斯（Alicia Keys），比尔·克林顿（Bill Clinton），史努比·杜格（Snoop Dogg）和卡洛斯·桑塔纳（Carlos Santana）参加了文档。“很多人出现在这部电影中，因为他们实际上与狄恩恩（Dionne）有着长期的个人联系，”伍利解释说。 “他们不被用作谈话的头脑，而是讲述了这个故事。”“狄奥尼·沃里克：我所看到的我的生活：自传”花了五年时间才能制作，这部分归因于歌手的持续职业。“她还在做饭，伙计，”海尔布罗纳说。 “她仍在创造历史。”尽管今年提交了许多文档，但鲍尔斯决定保持阵容的无关。“我觉得我们去年在76天里拍了一部关于考维德的精彩电影。”权力。 “关于Covid的电影面临的挑战是，我们进行的每次谈话都是关于Covid的，所以我觉得节日的观众对其他事情感兴趣。”但是Powers坚持认为“ Julia”是一部与Covid相关的电影“通过不同的镜头。”我们中的许多人不得不重新与厨房重新接触，或者第一次以更深的方式与我们的厨房互动（在过去的18个月中）。” Powers解释说。 “看这部电影讲述的是一位奉献自己的生活，使人们对家庭烹饪的恐惧感不那么恐吓真是太棒了。因此，在2021年，它的命中率与两年前一样。这些电影有点相似之处，因为他们是年轻的（导演），他们正在研究世代相传的周期及其家人，并问自己：“我如何改变家庭功能障碍前进？”让我们希望他们能得到答案。
This year's scaled-down Toronto Intl. Film Festival gets underway Sept. 9 with 14 non-fiction films in the lineup – a sizable reduction from the average of 22 in non-COVID outings.
Thom Powers, lead TIFF documentary programmer, winnowed down the list from 800 submissions, looking for films that “took him by surprise,” as he always does. But with fewer slots to work with, Powers admits that “the bar was set higher” for selections this year.
So, what bowled him over? Stories about the devastating fires in Australia (Eva Orner’s “Burning”); the largest prison uprising in U.S. history (Stanley Nelson’s “Attica”); and New York City’s longest hostage siege ( “Hold Your Fire,” written and directed by Stefan Forbes).
Several of his choices have screened at other major film festivals: Jonas Poher Rasmussen’s “Flee,” about a refugee who fled Afghanistan as a boy, will screen at TIFF after being an official selection of Cannes 2020 and having a world premiere at Sundance in January.
“Flee,” told mostly through animation, earned the grand jury prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at Sundance and was acquired by Neon, who partnered with Participant to distribute the doc in North America.
“It's extremely rare for us to show something that has already premiered in such a strong spotlight at Sundance,” says Powers. “But 'Flee' is also a rare film and that was what won me over this year.”
The documentary lineup will also include three films that just had their world premieres at Telluride: Liz Garbus’ National Geographic film “Becoming Cousteau” about the French sea explorer; “The Rescue” from Oscar winning directors E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin (“Free Solo”) about the 2018 rescue of 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave; and “RBG” directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West’s “Julia" about the unlikely television star and chef, Julia Child.
“For the most part, we're looking for films that are having world or North American premieres,” Powers says. “And there's so many films that are looking for those opportunities. So, I hate to overload our section with films that have already had great opportunities but, there are certain films every year that really stand out to us that we want to bring to Toronto's audiences.”
Garbus, who has launched many of her films at Sundance, says that “Telluride is an extraordinary weekend of cinema and largely a premiere event for America, while TIFF is really a global launch.”
Back in 2018, Vasarhelyi and Chin’s “Free Solo” screened at TIFF. But unlike “Free Solo,” their latest docu “The Rescue” relied heavily on archival materials.
“We had never made a film before where we weren't present for the actual events,” explains Vasarhelyi, who tracked down never-before-seen Thai Navy Seals footage shot within the cave. “The first year and a half (of making the film) was like a scavenger hunt amongst international news stories where we could find two different angles from the same event, but one was from CNN and one was from a Thai local news source.”
Finding archival footage of Kenny G. for the doc “Listening to Kenny G” was not a problem for director Penny Lane. In the film, the helmer chronicles the saxophonist’s rise to fame while also, humorously exploring the backlash his easy-listening, smooth jazz provoked and continues to provoke in so many listeners.
“One of the reasons that I thought Kenny would be perfect for this project is that he has a sense of humor, and he has a sense of humor about himself. Not everyone does,” Lane says. “There’s not many artists I could have approached with this concept and gotten an enthusiastic ‘Yes,’ like I did from Kenny.”
Jazz critics, academics, Clive Davis and Kenny G fans are featured throughout the docu, part of HBO's Music Box series. “The brilliance of this film is that you could be a Kenny G lover or a Kenny G hater and still find a lot to enjoy in this film,” says Powers.
Fellow HBO Music Box doc "Jagged," about Alanis Morissette, will premiere in TIFF's Gala section. Alison Klayman directed "Jagged," which examines the singer’s meteoric 1990s rise to rock stardom.
Another music documentary, “Dionne Warwick: Don’t Make Me Over,” is part of TIFF’s Special Presentations Section. Directed by Dave Wooley and David Heilbroner, the film recounts the iconic singer’s six-decade career and activism.
Wooley, who co-wrote “Dionne Warwick: My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography” with the singer, says he had no problem convincing celebrities including Quincy Jones, Alicia Keys, Bill Clinton, Snoop Dogg and Carlos Santana to participate in the doc.
“So many people showed up for this film because they actually have a longstanding personal connection with Dionne,” explains Wooley. “They were not used as talking heads, but instead they narrate the story.”
“Dionne Warwick: My Life, as I See It: An Autobiography” took five years to make, which Heilbroner in part attributes to the singer’s ongoing career. “She’s still cooking, man,” Heilbroner says. “She's still making history.”
While many docs submitted for consideration this year were pandemic related, Powers decided to keep the lineup COVID-free.
"I felt like we had a great film about COVID last year in '76 days.'" says Powers. "The challenge for films about COVID are that every conversation we have is about COVID, so I felt festival audiences were interested in something else.”
But Powers maintains that "Julia" is a COVID-related film “through a different lens.”
“So many of us have had to re-engage with the kitchen or engage for the first time with our kitchen in a deeper way (in the last 18 months),” explains Powers. “It was marvelous to watch this film about a woman who dedicated her life to making people feel less intimidated about home cooking. So that hits in a very different way in 2021 then it would have two years ago.”
Gian Cassini’s “Comala” and Rebeca Huntt’s “Beba” are also part of this year’s TIFF lineup.
Says Powers: “These films share a little bit of similarity in that they are young (directors) who are looking at generational cycles and their families and asking themselves, ‘How do I change family dysfunction moving forward?’
Let's hope they have an answer.
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