Joseph Belanger
About Joseph Belanger
Joseph Belanger is a Toronto-based film enthusiast who was born and bred in Montreal. He has been published in the National Post and on CBC Arts Online. He also writes a monthly column for The Movie Network website. He has been writing about film since 2005 on Black Sheep Reviews, a site he created and still writes for today. Joseph's favorite film is "Annie Hall", which coincidentally won the Oscar for Best Picture on his first birthday.
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  • 15 May 2012
    Review: Morgan – Inside Out Film Festival 2012
    For a movie about how no obstacle can stand in the way of true love, Morgan is awfully depressing. When we first meet the title character in Michael D. Akers’ latest love story, he’s waking up to a pretty meaningless existence. He’s recently handicapped and, after wheeling himself to the...
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  • 01 Jul 2011
    Books on Film Club: Breakfast at Tiffany’s
    If there is one thing I know about women, it is that they are both beautiful and complicated. One such perfect example of this, in both literature and film, is Holly Golightly, the central character in Truman Capote’s novella and Blake Edwards’ film of the same name, Breakfast at Tiffany’s....
    Archived in Articles TIFF Programming
  • 20 Jun 2011
    Beautiful still: An interview with Shawn Ku
    I remember thinking that I had already seen Beautiful Boy before I actually saw it.  Not to say I had seen the film itself already, but that I had come across a number of variations on the plot prior. Michael Sheen and Maria Bello play parents who lose a child...
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  • 20 Jun 2011
    From scratch: An interview with Mike Mills
    Ordinarily, by the time a filmmaker is sitting in front of me for an interview, the film they are promoting is a distant memory in their mind. They finished it months beforehand and whatever issues went into making it have been dealt with in the process. Sitting down to speak...
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  • 03 Jun 2011
    Books on Film Club: Double Indemnity
    Billy Wilder’s 1944 film, Double Indemnity has been cited as the birth of Film Noire as a genre. As a film critic, it was pretty embarrassing for me to admit that I had not actually seen the film before this week. Of all the TIFF Books on Film Club selections,...
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