
Barry Hertz
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Film Editor & Chief Film Writer, @globeandmail. Author of Welcome to the Family: The Explosive Story Behind Fast & Furious (@GrandCentralPub)
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HER PRIVATE HELL turns out to be our collective misery as Refn delivers flaccid piece of coffee-table fetishism, drenched in neon-slop aesthetic. Too dull to be future camp classic, too painful to be anything but endurance test. Kinda shocked it wasn’t booed off screen. #Cannes
Barry Hertz118,276 次观看 • 1 个月前

So well-sourced word re: delay in adding PAPER TIGER to #Cannes lineup was Netflix wanted it, and was going to pay premium. But Cannes doesn’t deal with Netflix (for now), and Neon has theatrical wherewithal. James Gray has up-and-down history with Cannes, but it helped seal deal
Barry Hertz41,751 次观看 • 1 个月前

While onstage to mark his film’s inclusion in TIFF’s Canada’s Top Ten program, THE THINGS YOU KILL director Alireza Khatami rips into TIFF’s programmers for rejecting his film from the fest itself (and after, in his words, paying $600 to rent a Lightbox screen to show it to them)
Barry Hertz94,583 次观看 • 4 个月前

"No to war and Free Palestine," says Javier Bardem as he presents the #Oscar for Best International Film. (Took three hours and four minutes for someone to mention Palestine, and given THE VOICE OF HIND RAJAB just lost to SENTIMENTAL VALUE, I'm going to wager it's the last?)
Barry Hertz42,236 次观看 • 3 个月前

ALPHA: A+. Ducournau moves from Cronenberg to raiding tomb of Clive Barker (and dispensary of Aronofsky). Two amazingly hellish needle-drops, and more needles than SAW trap. So thoroughly intense a Palais attendee had a (medical?) emergency during relatively tame moment. #Cannes
Barry Hertz68,088 次观看 • 1 年前

Big ovation (I’ll never time it) as UNSTOPPABLE’s real-life subject Anthony Robles embraces Jennifer Lopez at #TIFF24 world premiere, which erupted in several mid-film bursts of applause. The platonic ideal of conventional underdog sports dramas. I’ll place bet on People’s Choice
Barry Hertz56,580 次观看 • 1 年前

Huge standing ovation for NIRVANNA THE BAND THE SHOW, whose #SXSW world premiere might have just seen a record for the highest number of times I cry-laughed. A *lot* to process, but this is going to slay Matt Johnson fans dead. (If they end up getting to see this version.)
Barry Hertz42,324 次观看 • 1 年前

“I’m an artist and refuse to be silent. Ceasefire now!” says QUEEN OF MY DREAMS’ Amrit Kaur, winner of #CdnScreenAward for Best Lead Performance. First onstage so far to mention “genocide,” tho winners for BRIA MACK GETS A LIFE and DRAG RACE mentioned “Gaza” & “ceasefire.”
Barry Hertz22,356 次观看 • 2 年前