Tag: Alan Zweig

TIFF ’17 Loads Up on Canuck Offerings from Côté, Nguyen, Lavoie, Zweig, Veninger, Pat Mills & Blake Williams

Denis Villeneuve and Xavier Dolan might not make it to the party with their studio and Cannes 2018 bound anticipated pics, but the Toronto...

The Conversation: The Totality of Toronto (Plus 2015 TIFF Top Ten)

In the nine consecutive years I’ve attended the Toronto International Film Festival, it remains an elusive monstrosity of an event. With its hundreds of...

2015 TIFF: Wheatley, Trapero, Lafosse, Verbeek & Sue Brooks in Platform Comp

The TIFF folks have unveiled their slated dozen features for their spanking brand new competitive section and they've managed to lasso some high profile...

15 Reasons To Live | Hot Docs 2013 Review

Zweig Somberly Celebrates Human Resilience Occasionally, moments of epiphany can boil down the colossal essence of mortality into simple, elegant terms. For Alan Zweig, director...

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Ken Russell’s The Devils – 2010 Fantasia International Film Festival

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.