Struggling behind the scenes
STORY BY BRITTANY PREOCANIN For aspiring filmmakers and cinema fans, TIFF’s Higher Learning: First Things First open forum unspooled the reels to show what it’s like to create a coming-of-age film. “You hold the film in your mind and your heart and you know it has unique qualities and it deserves to be told,” said […]
Walking through the life of Kubrick at TIFF
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN From his self-taught roots in the trenches of anti-war filmmaking, to a space odyssey that would set a precedent for an entire genre — Stanley Kubrick is the subject of the most ambitious exhibition to hit the TIFF Bell Lightbox. TIFF’s largest show to date, it features nearly 1,000 artifacts and […]
The Seduction of the Movies
STORY BY CHAD MASON-AUBERTIN September means back to school, cooler weather and for Torontonians, a chance to see the likes of Ryan Reynolds in your neighbourhood bar or Reese Witherspoon browsing through the racks of your favourite boutique. Its TIFF time. For those who don’t want to navigate hoards of screaming fans or risk a […]
TIFF Cinematheque launches Godard retrospective
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF TIFF Girls, guns and style. Fans and newcomers alike can now experience Jean Luc-Godard’s films by attending TIFF Cinematheque’s massive, two-season retrospective. Godard Forever Part One spans the French New Wave master’s “Golden Age” beginning with Breathless (1959) and ending with his apocalyptic black comedy Weekend (1967). The […]
Sheridan and TIFF bring Cronenberg’s evolution to life
STORY BY NICHOLAS OLSEN PHOTOS COURTESY OF GEOFFREY GUNN, TIFF Provocative, horrific, audacious, Freudian and most importantly, Canadian. These are just a few words used to describe the legendary David Cronenberg. Becoming a prominent filmmaker in the 1980s with notorious body-horror films such as The Fly and Videodrome, he ushered in a new era of […]
