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TIFF ’15: ‘Spotlight’ is one of the finest journalism features in years
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TIFF ’15: Arcade Fire goes inward in documentary ‘The Reflektor Tapes’
The Reflektor Tapes Directed by Kahlil Joseph Canada, 2015 After Arcade Fire won the Grammy for The Suburbs in 2010, they went from becoming the biggest indie rock band in the world to simply one of the biggest bands in the world. In turn, their sound on their 2013 album Reflektor grew far more eclectic, […] More
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TIFF ’15: Deepa Mehta’s ‘Beeba Boys’ is a whirlwind of wasted potential
Beeba Boys is acclaimed Canadian director Deepa Mehta’s frenetic entry into the crime movie genre. Mehta’s latest film hits the audience like a sugar rush, walloping them with a fury of colour and violence. More
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TIFF ’15: ‘The Rainbow Kid’ comes close to finding its pot of gold
The Rainbow Kid is the debut feature film from writer/director Kire Paputts. The film is a wistful story of a young man with Down syndrome’s loss of innocence as he strikes out across Ontario to prove his self-sufficiency. More
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TIFF ’15: Interview with ‘She Stoops to Conquer’ director Zack Russell
She Stoops to Conquer, the innovate and expertly crafted new short film from Canadian director Zack Russell, makes its TIFF debut this weekend as part of Short Cuts Programme 5. More
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Top Ten Must See Films At TIFF
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is one of the largest and most prestigious film festivals in the world. With hundreds of films screening over 10 days, even TIFF veterans find it difficult to catch every movie on their wish list. More
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2015 Toronto International Film Festival Canadian Press Conference
After Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) organizers announced the majority of their Canadian feature films, shorts, and installations Wednesday morning, Piers Handling (Director and CEO of TIFF) and Cameron Bailey (Artistic Director) took to the stage to address the media at the 2015 Festival Canadian Press Conference. Now in its 40th year, TIFF is a […] More
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I For Iran: Is ‘Hamoun’ Iran’s Greatest Film?
Hamoun, playing at the Toronto Film Festival on Sunday 28th March, was voted the best Iranian film of all time in 1997 within film critic circles in Iran. It was directed by Dariush Mehrjui, the Tehran-born giant of Iranian cinema, and one of the co-founders of the most modern end of Iranian New Wave cinema. More
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TIFF Presents: I for Iran: A History of Iranian Cinema by Its Creators (March 5 to April 5)
Kicking off the I for Iran: A History of Iranian Cinema by Its Creators on March 5th is a short film program introduced by Roya Akbari, an actress from Kiarostami’s acclaimed film Ten. A filmmaker in her own right, her poetic short Only Image Remains headlines the day’s programming and initiates a month long series […] More
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Night Train to Tokyo: ‘Café Lumière’ and Ozu’s Legacy
Taiwan’s Hsiao-hsien Hou has often spoken of his admiration for Japanese master Yasujirō Ozu. In the 1993 documentary Talking with Ozu, attached to the Criterion edition of Tokyo Story and featuring such commentators as Claire Denis and Aki Kaurismäki, he compares the man’s work to that of a mathematician: one that observes and studies in a detached, clinical fashion. Often, returning to […] More
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‘Dust in the Wind’ is a great starting point if you’ve never seen a Hou Hsiao-hsien film
If you have never seen a Hou Hsiao-hsien film, Dust in the Wind is the perfect starting point. Preceding the Taiwanese historical dramas he is best known for—City of Sadness (1989), The Puppetmaster (1993), Good Men, Good Women (1995)—Dust is the most assured work of Hou’s early career, and one of the best examples of Taiwanese New Wave Cinema. More
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‘A City of Sadness’ is a landmark film in the Taiwanese New Wave
Hou Hsiao-Hsien made this film after directing nine features in Taiwan and was awarded the prestigious Golden Lion at the 1989 Venice Film Festival. A City of Sadness was written by two key screenwriters from the Taiwanese New Wave: Chu Tien-wen and Wu Nien-Ju, both of whom worked with Hou and Edward Yang (the other great director from this film movement) before and after A City of Sadness. The first film of a trilogy by Hou that would deal with Taiwan’s tragic past (followed by The Puppetmaster (1993) and Good Men, Good Women (1995)), A City of Sadness does the seemingly impossible task of distilling an unrepresentable experience into the fate of one family struggling to make sense of their situation following WWII. More
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