Falcon Lake, the directorial debut of Canadian performer Charlotte Le Bon, takes a premise and themes familiar to those well versed in national cinema and offers clever, intelligent variation.
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Although Steven Spielberg is the undisputed king of blockbuster filmmaking, he’s never been the recipient of a TIFF Cinematheque retrospective until now, and there might not be a better time …
TIFF’s annual celebration of the best in Canadian cinema feels more essential than ever before. Canada’s Top Ten (running from Friday, January 12 to Sunday, January 21) comes at a …
TIFF Bell Lightbox plays host to a wide range of classic and modern films shot on the nearly extinct, yet somehow resurrected large scale 70mm film format with a retrospective …
Legendary performer and filmmaker Ida Lupino could burn up the screen and cut a cad down to size with a well timed quip or passing glance. She also continually kicked …
Although award winning American filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow has only directed ten theatrically released feature films across her almost forty year long career (including the forthcoming Detroit, opening in early August), …
TIFF Bell Lightbox plays host to a wide array of unique visions, hidden gems, and auteurist masterpieces in their Cinematheque sidebar screening series Panique: French Crime Classics (running through September …
No filmmaker has made a life of crime look as cool, confident, and stylish as French legend Jean-Pierre Melville. Often imitated by big name filmmakers of the modern era (but …
Unlike many filmmakers that he sometimes gets lumped into company with, French writer-director Oliver Assayas can’t fully be regarded in rigid terms as an auteur. More of a masterful experimenter …
Writer David Lipsky’s greatest contribution to the literary world to date might be a recounting of a lengthy encounter he had with a fellow author,. Before his appearance as part …