TIFF Retrospective

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  Speed Racer

  Wachowski Brothers

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

  Devoid of context, the critical coal-raking Speed Racer received and its resounding underperformance at the box office is completely unders...

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  The Iron Giant

  Brad Bird

  PUBLISHED Mar 19, 2013

  In many ways, the Cold War era was about the loss of American innocence. The country had fought Civil and World wars by this time, waging...

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  The Mask

  Chuck Russell

  PUBLISHED Mar 17, 2013

  That The Mask was based on an underground Dark Horse comic series of the same name was almost completely overshadowed by its position as th...

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  Astro Boy

  David Bowers

  PUBLISHED Mar 16, 2013

  The 2009 CGI film version of Osamu Tezuka's classic manga didn't exactly set the world on fire upon its release. Hardly surprising, given i...

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  Repast

  Mikio Naruse

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Famed Japanese author Fumiko Hayashi's final unfinished novel Repast was the first of many adaptations of her works by director Mikio Narus...

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  Fall Guy

  Kinji Fukasaku

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  Best known for the quirky, ultra-violent hipster hallmark, Battle Royale (it's often the only Japanese film pop culture gluttons have seen)...

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  The Face of Another

  Hiroshi Teshigahara

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  While a plot, central characters and a general application of narrative structure—premise, building blocks, application of didactic a...

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  Monsters Vs. Aliens

  Rob Letterman and Conrad Vernon

  PUBLISHED Mar 15, 2013

  In premise, Monsters Vs. Aliens has some intriguing thematic material to play with: when aliens land on the planet Earth and invade, the go...