Tag: Toronto International Film Festival
Video Interview: Kazik Radwanski – Anne at 13,000 ft
Making friends can be easy...unless you happen to be the central character in Radwanskian cinema. In Toronto-based filmmaker Kazik Radwanski's third feature film, we...
Video Interview: Peter Strickland – In Fabric
We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
In Fabric | Review
Dress to Kill: Strickland Strikes Again in Luscious Homage to 70s Cinema
“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress; dress impeccably and they remember the...
Interview: Filmmaker Andrew Renzi & Subject Hector Barajas – Ready for War
What does it mean to be stuck behind enemy lines? For his third docu feature, Andrew Renzi (Fishtail, The Benefactor, They Fight) adds a...
Our Time | Review
Love Like Poison: Reygadas Returns with Frustrating but Forthright Marital Drama
Interminable? Yes. Navel-gazing? Perhaps. But furious in its candor? Absolutely. Carlos Reygadas returns for...
Non-Fiction | Review
The French Publisher’s Wife: Assayas Straddles Digital Criminals and Corporate Cannibals in Playful Bon Mot
Hardly a stranger to the back room wheeling and dealing...
High Life | Review
An Outpost of Progress: Denis Gets Daring with Esoteric Sci-Fi
Of Claire Denis’ impressive English language debut High Life, perhaps a famous line from Alien...
Gloria Bell | Review
I Think They Know Her Alias: Lelio Revisits His Breakout Title with English Language Remake
Chilean auteur Sebastian Lelio, who recently took home an Academy...
Greta | Review
She Will Always Beat You: Huppert Get Homicidal in Jordan’s B-Thriller
There’s more than one way to depend on the kindness of strangers, including using...
Hotel by the River | Review
Heartbreak Hotel: Estrangement and Reunion Synchronize in Latest Sangsoo Slice of Life
It’s a short-lived distinction to be called the latest anything from South Korean...
Touch Me Not | Review
Touch All This Skin: Pintilie’s Hybrid Sexcapade Explores the Fleeting, Obscure Nature of Intimacy
With her narrative debut Touch Me Not, Romanian director Adina Pintilie...
Destroyer | Review
Sabotage Triage: Kusama and Kidman Break the Bank in Riveting Revenge Thriller
Robert Burns’ eternal line “The best laid schemes o’ Mice an’ Men/Gang aft...
Video Interview: Maxime Giroux – The Great Darkened Days
From working with a text about a path that is crossed with improbable odds in Felix et Meira, to the alienating, but nonetheless road...
Video Interview: Tuva Novotny & Pia Tjelta – Blind Spot
A film about the invisible manifestation of pain and sufferance, a good title substitute for Annihilation actress-turned-filmmaker Tuva Novotny's debut would be along the notion of...
Video Interview: Alejandra Márquez Abella – The Good Girls
Following her debut film Semana Santa (also a TIFF selection in 2015), which deals with the absence of a boy's father, Alejandra Márquez Abella...
Video Interview: Nadine Labaki – Capernaum
There is a sequence in Nadine Labaki's Capernaum where Zain (who now belongs to the Antoine Doinel film canon) proactively attempts to save the...
If Beale Street Could Talk | Review
I Can Feel the Beale: Jenkins Does Justice to Classic Baldwin Novel
Following his history making Best Picture winner Moonlight, stakes are set high for...
Video Interview: Elizabeth Chomko – What They Had
Compassionate, introspective and quietly in your face, What They Had makes a case for coming to terms....on your own terms. Films where the focal...
Halloween | Review
To Grandmother’s House We Go: Green Succeeds with Obedient Resurrection of the Carpenter Classic
The original tagline for John Carpenter’s 1978 horror classic Halloween, which...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Sibel
Our final portrait before we go "mute", Franco-Turkish filmmaker team Çagla Zencirci and Guillaume Giovanetti made their way from Locarno Film Fest into TIFF's...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Saf
Filmmaker Ali Vatansever arrived at TIFF (a Discovery programme selection) with his sophomore film --- a feature that our Nicholas Bell suggested "should be classified as...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Blind Spot
With acting and filmmaking in her blood, is was perhaps only a matter of time when Tuva Novotny would make the move behind the...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles)
An official selection at the Karlovy Vary, Sébastien Pilote's The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) would receive its North American showcase at...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Twin Flower (Fiore Gemello)
Italian helmer Laura Luchetti's coming-of-ager both pairs and juxtaposes the harshness and beauty of the backdrop with the realities of displacement, running towards and away...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: In Fabric
It was a major coup for TIFF to nab the world premiere for Peter Strickland's fourth feature film. Selected for the Midnight Madness programme, In...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Good Girls
Her feature debut Semana Santa was selected for the 2015 edition of TIFF, and so it was a special homecoming of sorts for her...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Mothers’ Instinct (Duelles)
A dozen years after he premiered his directorial debut in Cages (2006) at the Toronto Intl. Film Festival, Olivier Masset-Depasse reteamed with his muse Anne...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Maya
In a creative spurt that will have given us give her seminal film Things to Come (review) in 2016, the TIFF world preemed Maya (2018)...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Float Like a Butterfly
Receiving some major acknowledgment in the form of the FIPRESCI Prize at TIFF (a Discovery Programme prize), Carmel Winters’ sophomore project comes eight years...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Vita & Virginia
My favorite sub-genre in cinema happens to be films about filmmaking and second place, before the biopic, are films about the lives of authors,...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: The Chambermaid
This year's TIFF presented two portraits about Mexico's working class. We have Alfonso Cuaron's take and then we have theatre director turned filmmaker Lila...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Before the Frost
Making it two for two, with the premiere of Before the Frost following 2017's Papillon as TIFF premieres, Michael Noer landed in Toronto with players...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Phoenix (Føniks)
Up until the inception of the naughts, Camilla Strøm Henriksen was a face we'd find on television and she would parlay this experience in front of...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Hidden Man
We first discovered Jiang Wen in Zhang Yimou’s Red Sorghum (1988), and so it was with a certain delight when TIFF announced that Yimou’s...
Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series: Girl
The first in our Off Set 2018 TIFF Portrait Series is Belgium's Foreign Language Oscar nom in Lukas Dhont's Girl. The Un Certain Regard...
Retrospekt | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Domestic Disturbance: Rots Presents a Puzzle with Portrait of Troubled Woman
Female agency and fractured fellowship form the basis of Dutch director Esther Rots’ sophomore...
Maya | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Maya Love is Your Love: Hansen-Love Stumbles with Sluggish Romantic Drama
Following on the heels of her most widely acclaimed feature to date, 2016’s Things...
Saf | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
This Land is Our Land: Vatansever Presents Caustic Portrait of Urban Gentrification
Politically and economically motivated displacement is at the heart of Turkish director Ali...
Angel (Un Ange) | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Wheels of Desire: Mortier Breaks Silence with Funereal Portrait of Dead Celebrity
It was a major punchline in Mike Nichols’ version of The Birdcage (1996)...
Where Hands Touch | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
I See a Dark Stranger: Asante Examines Obscured Holocaust Perspective in Anglo Period Piece
British director Amma Asante rounds out a thematic trilogy of sorts...
Angelo | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
The Moor the Merrier: Schleinzer Returns with Incendiary Portrait of Indentured Servitude
Austrian director Markus Schleinzer returns with his long-awaited sophomore film Angelo, a follow-up...
Sew the Winter to My Skin | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Or Else It Gets the Hose Again: Qubeka Recuperates a Rebel from Apartheid South Africa
South Africa’s film industry remains somewhat on the fringe of...
One Last Deal | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Art to Art: Haro Conjures Another Character Study in Crowd-pleasing Drama
Much like his contemporary Dome Karukoski, Finnish director Klaus Härö is one of his...
The Vice of Hope | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Hope to It: De Angelis Tackles Child Trafficking in Latest Neapolitan Drama
Life may be bleak, but it’s also textured with fascinating possibilities in the...
The River | 2018 Toronto Intl. Film Festival Review
Bury the Sins & Wash Them Clean: Baigazin Presents the Dysfunction of Isolation in Simmering Drama
Over the last decade, several prominent voices out of...
Interview: Michel Hazanavicius – Godard Mon Amour (aka Redoubtable)
Declared sacrilege the moment the project was announced, Michel Hazanavicius focuses on a critical, artistic, existential, and perhaps creative calamity period in both the masses...
