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...