We sat with filmmaker Peter Strickland following the premiere of his latest film In Fabric at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival. Strickland shares...
As the Toronto International Film Festival continues to downsize its programming and say adieu to CEO and Director Piers Handling for its 2018 edition,...
Sifting through the pu-pu platter of cinematic offerings in the Toronto International Film Festival’s program is no small feat, even after the venue has...
Two major studio films studio reboots in Shane Black’s The Predator and David Gordon Green’s Halloween, and three non world premieres (one Sundance and...
In Fabric
British director Peter Strickland is responsible for three formidably distinct genre tinged recuperations of the past decade---and remains frustratingly underrated. Arriving with 2009’s...
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.