One Sings, the Other Doesn’t: Hermanus Plays a Tune for the Broken Hearted
“Happiness doesn’t tell stories,” is a sage observation uttered in The History...
The History of Sound, the highly anticipated feature love story featuring Paul Mescal and Josh O’Connor has found a home. Oliver Hermanus who directed...
After front-loading the section with Canadiana last week, we now know the entire make-up of the Contemporary World Cinema Program and there are plenty...
Call Me by Your Shame: Hermanus Mines Historical Trauma in Coming-of-Age Drama
It’s difficult to reconcile the messiness of the past with potential issues of...
Anne Sewitsky's Sundance preemed Homesick, Cannes preemed Romanian imports from Radu Muntean's One Floor Below and Corneliu Porumboiu's The Treasure along with Athina Rachel...
Iconic director Ken Russell was in town to receive a lifetime achievement award from Fantasia for his 50-plus years in the business, a career that has spawned many genre classics including Altered States, Gothic, and The Lair of the White Worm. But it was the little-seen and hard to find The Devils from 1971 that proved to be Russell's most controversial work, and Fantasia managed to snag a copy to be screened on Russell's big night. In the video, Russell discusses the true story behind the film and receives his award with the grace befitting one of the great filmmakers of all time.