Tag: 2017 Toronto International Film Festival
Video: Véréna Paravel & Lucien Castaing-Taylor’s Caniba – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Just prior to heading over to NYFF and having just showed at the Venice Film Festival, via Andréa Picard's shrewd programming, the Wavelengths programme...
Five Fingers for Marseilles | Review
Finger Food: Matthews Attempts to Mount a Western in Modern Colonialist Trauma
Kudos to director Michael Matthews and screenwriter Sean Drummond for taking the time...
Let the Corpses Tan! | Review
All that Glitters: Cattet & Forzani Cut Stylish Swath Through Arid Neo-Western
For their third film, Let the Corpses Tan!, another heavily styled recalibration of...
Interview: Andrew Haigh – Lean on Pete
Moving from deep conversations and casual sex (Weekend) to a couple's disentangle and a woman's profound change (45 Years), Andrew Haigh returns to the familiar...
The Third Murder | Review
Murder Was the Case That They Gave Him: Kore-eda Mounts Philosophical Crime Thriller
Revered for his finely hewn dramas so often navigating the subtle isolation...
First Reformed | Review
Through a Glass Starkly: Schrader Delivers a Master Study on Despair and Extremism
Priests, and their psychic struggle with obligation to the cloth, have always...
Interview: Andrea Pallaoro – Hannah
Rare are the film narratives that place so much emphasis on the backstory without...divulging it. Rare in cinema do we find unflappable and muted...
Kings | Review
Ease on Down the Road: Ergűven Presents Tone-deaf, Head-Scratching Portrait of L.A. Race Riots
Joining Kathryn Bigelow (whose searing Detroit, depicting the 1967 riots of...
Zama | Review
Mortal Transfer: Martel Returns with Lush, Dark Comedy on Colonial Maneuvering
Unfairly disposed to doomed distribution prospects and perhaps unfortunate dismissal during its initial reception...
Jeannette: The Childhood of Joan of Arc | Review
The Passion of the Joan: Dumont Approaches Ecclesiastical Fervor in Musical Comedy
If cinema could approach the same sacred realm as any pre-ordained religious doctrine,...
Video Interview: Laura Mora – Killing Jesus
They say write what you know, but to what degree and to what depths is a whole other issue. Colombian filmmaker Laura Mora's second...
Audio Interview: Jens Assur – Ravens
Moving from photo journalism to the short form with sobering portraits in The Last Dog in Rwanda (2006) and one of the best shorts...
Video: Andrew Haigh’s Lean on Pete – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
After being showcased at Venice, TIFF (where we were on hand) and SXSW, A24 releases Lean on Pete in theatres this weekend. There is not much horsing...
Interview: Samuel Maoz – Foxtrot
It's been almost a full decade since Venice Golden Lion 2009's Lebanon (check out our 2009 interview), so it was with considerable anticipation and curiosity as...
Hannah | Review
No Whale Out: Pallaoro Strikes Somber Chords with Pitch Perfect Rampling
You’ll be hard pressed to find another melodrama as inconspicuously tightlipped as Andrea Pallaoro’s...
Video: Samuel Maoz’s Foxtrot: 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Among the fivesome of nominees for Best Foreign Language Film for this weekend's Oscars, Foxtrot finally makes its way into theatres this weekend via Sony Pictures Classics...
The Shape of Water | Review
Creature from the Red Lagoon: Del Toro Gets Sentimental in Cold War Monster Drama
Monsters return as metaphors in Guillermo Del Toro’s latest, The Shape...
Video: Luca Guadagnino’s Call Me by Your Name – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Sony Pictures Classics released Call Me by Your Name this past weekend and was the top indie money making opening weekend this year and...
Video: Chris Smith’s Jim & Andy: the Great Beyond – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Out via the Neflix folks in limited release today is docu bijou which had been unveiled at Venice before hitting Toronto's Winter Garden Theatre...
Video: Michaël R. Roskam’s Racer and the Jailbird – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
Our Tommaso Tocci caught up with Michaël R. Roskam's latest while at the Venice Film Festival calling his cinema "marked by reticence and doomed...
Video: Louis C.K.’s I Love You, Daddy – 2017 TIFF Post Screening Q&A
The pre-fest announcement that Louis C.K. had directed a project that went into production this summer and was going to be ready in September...
Video: Aaron Sorkin’s Molly’s Game – 2017 TIFF Presentation
After Social Network, Moneyball, and Steve Jobs in the tens, Aaron Sorkin finally moves to the front of the camera with his directorial debut...
2017 Toronto Intl. Film Festival: Samuel Maoz & Andrea Pallaoro Lead Eric Lavallée’s Top 10
Naturally not by intent or design, this year my number of films viewed actually matched the festival edition number. My main takeaway from the...
mother! | Review
Portrait of the Artist: Aronofsky Thrashes Wildly with Art-house Freak Show
Three years since his Biblical studio effort Noah, Darren Aronofsky is back in the...
Luk’Luk’I | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Understanding the Ignored: Wapeemukwa Misfires But Manages to Deeply Move
The line between reality and fiction are difficult to separate in this Wayne Wapeemukwa’s feature...
The Motive | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Master of the Universe: Cuenca Returns with Predictable Exercise on the Writing Process
If you can’t find a muse, make one. Or so might be...
Tulipani, Love, Honour and a Bicycle | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Tulip Fevered: Universality Found in Bulbs & Bicycle
In Dutch filmmaker Mike van Diem’s whimsical Tulipani: Love, Honour and a Bicycle, a young Canadian-Italian...
The Journey | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Salam Baghdad! Al-daradji Looks at Second Chances
A young woman walks into a crowded Baghdad train station, her finger poised on a detonator. Sara (played by newcomer...
Mademoiselle Paradis | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Paradis Regained: Albert Explores Thwarted Romantic Episode of Obscured Pianist
Austrian director Barbara Albert revisits 1770s high-society Vienna in her exploration of an attraction between...
Number One | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
One is the Loneliest Number: Marshall Explores White Collar Gender Politics
Gender disparity in the workplace is hardly unique to the American job market, as...
Mrs. Fang | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Death Be Not Proud: Bing’s Chilly Portrait of Death a Cultural Critique of Contemporary China
Celebrated Chinese documentarian Wang Bing scored a major coup with...
Beyond Words | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Stranger in a Strange Land: Antoniak Explores the Black and White of the Refugee Crisis
The ongoing refugee crisis provides the framework of Urszula Antoniak’s...
Disappearance | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
Terms of Estrangement: Koole Poses Familial Woes in Chilly Scenes of Winter
“Family is just accident…,” remarks one of the tortured characters in Marsha Norman’s...
The Price of Success | 2017 Toronto International Film Festival Review
The Price of Life: Lussi-Modeste’s Modest Profile on the Sacrifice of Fame and Fortune
Director Teddy Lussi-Modeste scored positive notices for his 2011 debut Jimmy...
The Conversation: Tipping into TIFF (Top 5 Most Anticipated Films)
As we head into the 42nd edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, change is afoot. Earlier this year, it was confirmed the festival...
