Stay-at-Home Cinema: Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's interpreter Sharon Choi on the best film of 2019
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Blinded by the Light
Director Gurinder Chadha introduces her boss musical-comedy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Clemency
Alfre Woodard introduces this Sundance ’19 Grand Jury Prize winner
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Normal Heart
Matt Bomer, star Stay-at-Homer
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Widows
Director Steve McQueen discusses his clever, star-studded caper
Movie-Poster Challenge
Grab whatever household objects, furniture, and/or pets you have to reimagine a movie poster from the comfort of your own home
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Sense and Sensibility
Kate Winslet takes Books on Film online
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Falls Around Her
Canadian acting icon Tantoo Cardinal discusses this TIFF '18 favourite
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Looper
Director Rian Johnson talks time travel and twists
Stay-at-Home Cinema: A League of Their Own
Actor and activist Geena Davis steps up to the plate
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Crazy Rich Asians
Director Jon M. Chu introduces this rags-to-riches romance
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Slumdog Millionaire
We use our Phone-a-Friend lifeline on director Danny Boyle
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Bridesmaids
An intro from best man, director Paul Feig, and maids of honour Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Before Sunset
Julie Delpy revisits Richard Linklater's romantic-series sequel
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Actor Shameik Moore — the voice of Spidey — joined us for some World Wide Web–slinging
Introducing Robyn Citizen
TIFF’s Senior Manager of Festival Programming shares her insights on women in the industry
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Firecrackers
Canadian director Jasmin Mozaffari and her debut feature burn bright
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Big Lebowski
Author Adam Nayman really ties this Coen brothers classic together
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Before Sunrise
Ethan Hawke explains why we all love this Richard Linklater romance
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Pan’s Labyrinth
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro talks TP, chili, and his anti-fascist fantasy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: HBO’s Bad Education
TIFF Rising Star Geraldine Viswanathan home-schools us on this true-crime comedy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Hate U Give
Director George Tillman, Jr. gives u some love
Stay-at-Home Cinema: ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
Directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their timely documentary
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Yesterday
Yesterday came suddenly, but you can relive Himesh Patel’s Instagram intro
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Breakfast Club
Emilio Estevez joined us to introduce the quintessential ’80s teen movie
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Twentieth Century
Peter Kuplowsky chatted with director Matthew Rankin about his Midnight Madness movie.
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Belle
Director Amma Asante joined us to introduce her period drama
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Producer and co-writer James Schamus introduced Ang Lee’s wuxia classic
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen found his way onto Instagram to chat with Cameron Bailey
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Beetlejuice
Catherine O’Hara and Bo Welch joined us to look back on Tim Burton’s bonkers classic
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Away from Her
Cameron Bailey discussed Away from Her with the film’s director, Sarah Polley
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Princess Bride
Mandy Patinkin helped us kick off Stay-at-Home Cinema in an Instagram Live Q&A with Cameron Bailey
Catherine the Great: In Praise of Catherine O’Hara
Worship at the altar of this character-comedy goddess
Oliver Laxe: Modern Mystic
The Franco-Spanish filmmaker transcending boundaries and borders
Call Me Jimmy: The Films of James Stewart
"The most complete actor-personality in the American cinema." —Andrew Sarris
The New American Nightmare
The living dead of winter
Reclaiming the Past: Romanian Cinema Before the New Wave
A remarkable survey of the 50 years of Romanian filmmaking that preceded the country’s arrival on the international arthouse scene in the mid-2000s
Let’s Dance: The Films of Angela Schanelec
The first-ever North American retrospective devoted to this Berlinale Best Director prize winner
The Poetry of Precision: The Films of Robert Bresson
"Robert Bresson is French cinema as Dostoevsky is the Russian novel and Mozart is German music." —Jean-Luc Godard
From Noir to New Wave: A Tribute to The Film Foundation
A Very Personal Story: The Video Art of Lisa Steele
Soliloquies and collaborations from this innovative artist
25 Years of Mongrel Media
A quarter-century salute to the Toronto distributor that brought the films of many top international auteurs to Canadian audiences, while also providing unsurpassed support to Canadian filmmakers
News from Home: The Films of Chantal Akerman
“I don’t feel I belong anywhere. On the contrary, I have the feeling that I am only attached to the land under my feet. And even there the ground is often a bit shaky.” —Chantal Akerman
Poet of Relation: The Essential Euzhan Palcy
A spotlight on the Martinique-born filmmaker who became the first Black woman to direct a major Hollywood production with the hard-hitting apartheid drama A Dry White Season
In the Realm of Oshima: The Best of Japanese Master Nagisa Oshima
This select retrospective confirms the boundary-pushing radical’s status as perhaps the greatest director of postwar Japanese cinema
Scorsese: A Retrospective
“One of the source points of modern movies.” —Roger Ebert
Seeing the Unseen: Re-Encountering Chinese Cinema
Persecuted by state censors for a variety of transgressions (political, sexual, ethnic), the daring Chinese films in this retrospective received acclaim abroad even as they went largely unseen by domestic audiences
Announcing the TIFF '19 Award Winners
And the awards go to...
On the TIFF '19 Red Carpet
See you next year!
TIFF x Samsung Studio
Do the photos on your phone look this good?
The World Premiere of Once Were Brothers: Robbie Robertson and The Band will kick off TIFF 2019
The Festival’s got its opening act
Bibi Andersson: From Princess to Persona
Bergman’s idealized innocent explored darker territory in the director’s self-reflexive masterpiece
Here and Now: Contemporary Arab Women Filmmakers
Explore this vital and growing cinema that remains lamentably underscreened in North America
Jeanne Moreau, L’Immortelle
“The greatest actress in the world.” —Orson Welles
Time After Time: The Films of Alain Resnais
“The cinema’s most profound meditator on the human mind.” —Andrew Sarris
Buster’s Best: Keaton Classics Restored
“The greatest actor-director in the history of the movies.” —Roger Ebert
Rules of the Game: The Best of Jean Renoir
“The films of Jean Renoir are among the greatest treasures bequeathed by, and to, the cinema.” —Richard Brody, The New Yorker
Camera Work: The Cinema of Lynne Ramsay
We need to talk about this uncompromising Scottish auteur
Wayward Heroes: A Survey of Modern Icelandic Cinema
From vengeful Vikings to surly sheep farmers, the cinema of this remote island nation is as unique as its landscape
David Lynch: The Big Dream
The maverick of both the big and small screens ascended from cult favourite to cultural icon
Insolent Enigma/Arrogant Auteur: Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg
“A triumph of pure style and sensual excess.” —David Thompson
Godard in the ’60s: Breathless to Weekend
The passion, politics, and process behind the French master's defining decade
Rendezvous in August: Discovering Jacques Becker
“Before us, the only person who tried to see France was Jacques Becker.” —Jean-Luc Godard
Meet Helen Haig-Brown, the co-director of Edge of the Knife
How do you make a movie in an endangered language that only 24 people on the planet understand?
The Radical, Radiant, and Revelatory Cinema of Agnès Varda
Celebrating a half-century of the French film legend’s marvellous “pictures with words”
Agnès Varda: The Horror of Perfection
Exploring the dark side of the French film legend's gentle universe
The Invention of Joan Crawford
How the silent-era “jazz baby” remade herself as the quintessential Golden Age star
Forever "The Girl from God's Country"
Nell Shipman gave Canadian cinema its first action heroine, movie mogul — and nude scene
Claire Denis: Close Encounters
With her stunning new sci-fi epic High Life, the ever-daring French auteur continues to create a cinema without borders
Med Hondo is the African Auteur You Need to See
His films are virtually impossible to find and more relevant than ever
Jalisco Jukebox
From the Golden Age to the Time of Hysteria, we trace a labyrinth of connections between Mexican music and cinema
Meet the 2018–2019 TIFF Next Wave Committee
These young film lovers know what's next — and what's good
Katharine Hepburn: Warrior Woman
Honouring the legacy of an icon whose ceaseless challenge to Hollywood’s prescriptive gender roles helped define the idea of the "modern woman"
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 103: Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson on the life and legacy of Broad City
The duo reflect on the end of their show and the future of comedy
The Gilded Cages of Max Ophüls
The opulent films of the great German director concealed darkness and rueful irony within their bounty of visual delights
Aki Kaurismäki Finds Laughter in the Dark
With his recent "Refugee Trilogy," the Finnish master of deadpan comedy has become one of cinema’s most important chroniclers of the chief humanitarian crisis of our time
The Dream of the '90s is Alive at TIFF
What's the best movie from 1999? Help us decide
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 102: How is France keeping its art-house cinemas packed?
Even in the age of SVOD, the country’s independent theatres have continued to thrive
Legrand Allusions
The late Michel Legrand's score for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg yielded two big '60s hits and a Hollywood career for the composer
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 101: Bing Liu on the making of Minding the Gap
The young documentarian talks about how he made one of this year’s best — and most personal — films
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 100: Can a film preserve an endangered language?
The producer of Edge of the Knife discusses making the world’s first Haida-language feature film
Dorothy Arzner's Working Girls
Classic Hollywood's leading female director was also a fiery feminist and queer pioneer
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 99: How the Oscars addressed its diversity problem
Four years after #OscarsSoWhite, what progress has been made?
James Gray: The Ties That Bind
As the writer-director prepares to release his Brad Pitt-starring science-fiction epic Ad Astra, we celebrate an American filmmaker whose fidelity to cinematic tradition has often placed him at odds to the movies of the moment
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 98: What we’re looking forward to in 2019
A look into the most anticipated titles of the new year
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 97: Year in Review (Part 2)
More lessons from 2018
The 18 Best Movie Posters of 2018
The sequel to our smash-hit 2017 edition offers another totally scientific ranking of completely subjective choices
The Hidden History of the Jurassic Park Logo
The blockbuster franchise's iconic T. Rex emblem has some troubling genes in its DNA
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 96: Year in Review (Part 1)
What did we learn in 2018?
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 95: How will blockchain transform the film industry?
The CEO of MovieCoin explains why game-changing technology might be the answer to Hollywood’s transparency problem
Bringing the Good News: Khalik Allah on Black Mother
The acclaimed street photographer and filmmaker discusses his complex collage of contemporary Jamaica
These are the Best Canadian Films of 2018
The Freaks, Firecrackers, and Giant Little Ones that topped our list
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 94: Why Netflix set its sights on cinemas
Advance theatrical runs for several of the streaming giant’s films signal a major shift in its release strategy
Bluebeard at the Movies
Joan Crawford’s superlative noir Sudden Fear offers a nifty twist on a classic plot
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 93: What is the state of independent film in 2018?
See-Saw Films executive Negin Salmasi explains how the independent landscape has evolved over the last decade
Fearful Symmetry: Nicolas Roeg & Donald Cammell
The notorious Mick Jagger vehicle Performance launched its two directors on diverging yet uncannily mirrored paths
A Tale of Two “Serás”: How Heathers references Doris Day and Sly Stone’s non-family affair
Two soundtrack cuts from the teen classic slyly cite a long-running Hollywood rumour
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 92: Zoe Kazan on writing, westerns, and working with the Coen Brothers
The actor and screenwriter stars in the new anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Rules of the Game: Corneliu Porumboiu on Infinite Football
The Romanian master discusses his new film, the tension between rules and freedom, and his lifelong devotion to the Beautiful Game
Marie Dressler: From “Ugly Duckling” to Screen Queen
The Canadian-born Oscar winner was one of this country’s most lucrative showbiz exports
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 91: How Bodied director Joseph Kahn made this year’s most subversive film
The filmmaker’s look at battle-rap culture is being praised as one of 2018’s best satires
How Jean Peters Survived Howard Hughes
Karina Longworth considers the reluctant '50s sex symbol's brief career and creepy courtship by the mercurial movie mogul
Everyone an Island: Ingmar Bergman’s Second Trilogy
Following his acclaimed “Trilogy of Faith,” the Swedish auteur pushed his dark vision even further in three subtly connected films
The Great War on Film
100 years after the Armistice, we look back at the cinematic depictions of the 20th century’s first modern war
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 90: How Sam Esmail took Homecoming from hit podcast to hit TV show
Are podcasts primed to become the next major generator of Hollywood source material?
A Man’s World? Bergman, Tarkovsky, and The Sacrifice
The mutual admiration between the two filmmakers did not preclude their very different perspectives on gender
Harriet Andersson: Bergman’s Aphrodite
The director’s first superstar was a master at suggesting the deep feeling lying beneath her coquettish characters’ coyness and frivolity
Eva Dahlbeck: Bergman’s “Battleship Femininity”
The star of Smiles of a Summer Night unleashed the comic savvy of the Swedish master of seriousness
Ingrid Thulin: Bergman’s Dark Magus
The strikingly androgynous actor probed some of the furthest extremes of the director's dark universe
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 89: Why it's finally time to take horror seriously
Academy Awards, critical adoration, and hip distributors have brought the genre to a whole new audience
Branding Bergman — Part Two: The Janus Years and Beyond
How the famed US art-house distributor transformed Ingmar Bergman from a maker of Swedish skin flicks into a synonym for Quality Cinema
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 88: How Dee Rees went from film school to Oscar nominee in a decade
The director of Mudbound tells us how a Dr. Scholl's commercial shoot changed her life
Branding Bergman — Part One: “Bad Girls” and “Naked Nights”
How the Swedish master was sold to North American audiences
The A–Z of Ingmar Bergman
The Swedish master’s oeuvre doesn’t just begin and end with “Angst”
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 87: How David Gelb revolutionized food documentary
The creator of Chef’s Table explains how he developed his signature style
Liv and Ingmar: Face to Face
Tracing the artistic and spiritual kinship of legendary actor Liv Ullmann and master filmmaker Ingmar Bergman
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 86: How to build a career in an emerging film market
Ada Solomon, executive producer of 2016’s award-winning Toni Erdmann, tells us how she’s made a name for herself in Romania’s artistically rich, but relatively young, film industry
The Cinema According to Idrissa Ouédraogo
Aboubakar Sanogo on the legacy of one of the greatest of all African filmmakers
Black Star’s Rhythm of Love
Denzel, Dee Rees, and Isaac Julien are just some of the spotlighted artists in Volume Two of our celebration of Black excellence onscreen
Concrete Islands: Brian M. Cassidy and Melanie Shatzky’s Interchange
A stunningly formalist new doc explores the blasted late-capitalist wasteland outside Montreal
This is Happening: Olivier Assayas on Cold Water
The French auteur remembers a moment of revelation from the shooting of his breakthrough film
Stalker’s Curse
From video games to Atomic Blonde, Tarkovsky’s sci-fi masterpiece haunts contemporary culture
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 85: What are the biggest challenges facing African cinema?
Steven Markovitz, the producer of Rafiki, talks about how we can get more African films on the world stage
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Poet of Apocalypse
Discovering the mystical world of the greatest postwar Russian filmmaker
Ten Questions about Joan Crawford
(And no answers)
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 84: Facebook enters the world of prestige TV with Sorry for Your Loss
Kit Steinkellner takes us through her experience making Facebook Watch’s flagship series
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 83: Looking Back on TIFF ’18
The Black List’s Franklin Leonard walks us through what this year’s Festival says about the industry at large
On the TIFF '18 Red Carpet
Missed a premiere or two? We've got you.
Announcing the TIFF '18 Award Winners
And the awards go to...
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 80: Piers Handling on TIFF’s Past and Future
The Festival’s Director reflects on his 24 years at the helm
Salut Piers
Memories of TIFF’s Handling years
Your Backstage Pass to TIFF '18
The Roy Thomson Hall green room in black and white
TIFF x Huawei Portrait Studio
Who will show up for their official portrait? There are 300+ films and only 11 days, so only time will tell...
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 82: How Steven Yeun went from The Walking Dead to Burning
One of the film industry’s rising stars speaks about how Korean cinema is giving him the richest roles of his career
The Eye of the Storm: Shayne Laverdière, Xavier Dolan's photographer
Behind the scenes of The Death and Life of John F. Donovan with the Montrealer's permanent all-access pass
Seven road trips that will refuel your TIFF ’18
Are we there yet?
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Chaz Ebert
Pro tips on how to watch five films a day
Every single trailer (so far) for TIFF '18
Gotta watch 'em all
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Kazik Radwanski (MDFF)
The man behind MDFF Selects picks five films for Festival
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: cléo
The film journal edits it down to five choices
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 81: Icebox takes us inside the world of child migrants
The film’s director, Daniel Sawka, and activist Karine Jean-Pierre discuss using film to challenge Trump’s immigration policies
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: TIFF Long Take
Rob and Geoff's Excellent Adventure
Meet Elena López Riera, the director of Those Who Desire (Los que desean)
How a "carnal" pigeon competition inspired her latest short
Meet Adina Pintilie, the director of Touch Me Not
She just won the Golden Bear in Berlin. What have you done this year?
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: April Reign
Featuring a short TED Talk on why you need to see Green Book
Meet Nino Zhvania, the director of PARADE (AGLUMI)
The lesson of her story: don’t fall asleep in film class
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Tre'vell Anderson
"Amandla is the future — and the now — of Hollywood"
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Colin Geddes
Tips from a 30-year Festival veteran
Meet Sandhya Suri, the director of The Field
Shooting your film at the golden hour yields perfect shots and steep learning curves
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Yolanda Machado
The critic (and Little Monster) plots her first trip to TIFF
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Boosie Fade
This pair of DJs (and film fans) let TIFF host the party
Meet Astra Taylor, the director of What is Democracy?
A Festival-bound film produced from the back seat of Neutral Milk Hotel’s tour van
Meet Emma Tammi, the director of The Wind
The filmmaker’s horror turn has her hooked on fiction
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: David Ehrlich
"My body is ready."
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Alicia Malone
Witnessing people pass out at Midnight Madness since 2011
Meet Carmel Winters, the director of Float Like A Butterfly
“No one else can be you as well as you can.”
What I'm Watching at TIFF '18: Franklin Leonard
The Black List founder battles the space-time continuum at TIFF '18
Women in the Director's Chair at TIFF '18
The future is female-identifying
Meet Alejandra Márquez Abella, the director of The Good Girls (Las niñas bien)
The Mexican filmmaker's "long walk" with TIFF continues with her second feature
We Love TIFFR
Like chocolate and peanut butter, TIFFR and TIFF are finally together.
Meet Imogen Thomas, the director of Emu Runner
A feature film debut that’s 15 years in the making
Meet Pella Kågerman, the co-director of ANIARA
A film of modest means with a surplus of ingenuity, featuring shopping malls — in space!
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 79: Are we in a golden age of documentary film?
TIFF’s Documentary Programmer Thom Powers tries to explain the genre’s recent boom
Meet Wanuri Kahiu, the director of Rafiki
The Afrobubblegum filmmaker flies to Toronto for Rafiki, which was banned in her home country of Kenya
The final films heading to TIFF '18
Last, but not least: Discovery, plus a whole lot more
Taika Waititi, Tantoo Cardinal, and Jiang Wen lead the way at the TIFF '18 Industry Conference
Let's get down to business
Nico, 1988 Playlist: All That Was Her Own
Susanna Nicchiarelli's anti-biopic captures the art-rock legend in her final year, but is also an ideal entry point to an astounding two decades of work
115 new films added to the TIFF '18 lineup
From Masters and Wavelengths, to Galas and Special Presentations
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 78: What does a festival award mean to a young filmmaker?
Desiree Akhavan talks about her long and difficult journey to making The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Films of Nadav Lapid
The most internationally acclaimed Israeli filmmaker in recent memory presents his celebrated films at TIFF Cinematheque
Michael Myers vs. Predator: This is your Midnight Madness lineup at TIFF '18
10 films to keep you up at night
Short Cuts at TIFF '18: The world in short form
Good things come in small packages
TIFF ‘18 Docs: 27 stories we couldn’t make up if we tried
The year’s best in non-fiction
13 filmmakers compete for the TIFF '18 Toronto Platform Prize
12 films, 1 prize
“A Perversion of a Fairy Tale”: Nathan Silver on Thirst Street
The American indie auteur heads to France for this twisted tale of amour fou
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 77: What the Disney–Fox merger means for audiences and the industry
Here’s everything you need to know about one of the largest deals in entertainment history
Everything Canadian at TIFF '18
You oughta know
Secret Songs and Lunatic Cries: The Mad Modernism of Yasuzo Masumura
The renegade of Golden Age Japanese cinema blazed the trail for the eruptions of the Japanese New Wave
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 76: Is artificial intelligence good for the future of film?
The CEO of ScriptBook thinks that AI will soon be influencing which films get the green light
How 1977’s Demon Seed predicted 2018’s high-tech misogyny
The Julie Christie fantasy is a black mirror of our sci-fi reality
Like a River: Hideko Takamine
Though she claimed she had “no special characteristic,” the veteran star was one of the defining figures of classic Japanese cinema
Sympathy for Mr. Sadness: In Praise of Mikio Naruse
The fourth master of classic Japanese cinema had a longer road to renown
The Smile of Setsuko Hara
Japan’s “Eternal Virgin” contained multitudes beneath her serene surface
Kinuyo Tanaka: Fragility and Resilience
Perhaps the greatest actress in classic Japanese cinema, Mizoguchi’s muse was also one of the country’s only female directors
The Five Most Influential Films of the 1990s Teen Horror Cycle
Do you like scary movies?
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 75: A Guide to Festival 2018
TIFF’s Director of Programming walks us through some of the films to look forward to this September
Toronto International Film Festival reveals first Gala and Special Presentation titles for 2018
TIFF's first 47 films for its 43rd year
The Odd Obsessions of Kon Ichikawa
The prolific director’s thematically daring and stylistically innovative films formed a link between classic and New Wave Japanese cinema
Toshiro & Me: A Japanese Diasporan's Love Affair
Prize-winning novelist Kerri Sakamoto on her ongoing infatuation with “jungle Asian” Toshiro Mifune
Days of Glory: Luchino Visconti’s Cinema of Contradictions
The Italian maestro’s politics (and sexuality) set him at odds with his cherished aristocratic heritage
The Mask of Monica Vitti
Durga Chew-Bose on the haunting visage of Antonioni's muse
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 74: Boots Riley on the long road to making Sorry to Bother You
The screenwriter and director behind one of this year’s most original films tells how he went from veteran rapper to freshman filmmaker
Nagisa Oshima’s True-Crime Tales
The Japanese New Wave figurehead found inspiration for his “beefsteak” cinema in scandal-sheet sensationalism
For Indian audiences, Sridevi will never die
TIFF's tribute to the tragically departed Indian superstar begins this weekend
Sex and Death in Japan: The Kino-Fist Cinema of Nagisa Oshima
The Japanese New Wave rebel made movies to “burn the throat”
Kenji Mizoguchi’s “Art of Paradox”
The revered filmmaker found beauty and transcendence through often ferocious depictions of chaos and cruelty
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 73: Debra Granik on how to direct a breakout role
The director of Winter’s Bone and Leave No Trace breaks down her remarkable talent for spotting — and directing — the “next big thing”
William Friedkin: A Man Possessed
The Exorcist director’s passionate perfectionism changed the Hollywood game and sent him Cruising towards controversy
Discovering the Poetry of Yasujiro Ozu, or I Also Wrote, But…
Previously untranslated verses from the director’s diaries reveal new facets of the Japanese master’s complex, many-sided character
The Many Faces of Yasujiro Ozu
Long viewed as the “transcendental” master of domestic dramas, the Japanese giant was equally adept at crime films, film noirs, social critiques and vulgar comedies
“The Emperor and the Wolf”: Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune
The volatile relationship between the imperious director and his wild-man star produced a dazzling run of masterpieces
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 72: How Ben Foster became one of his generation's greatest chameleons
One of the business’ most versatile performers walks us through his wide range of characters
#MeTootsie
Can we still enjoy the Dustin Hoffman hit in a time when proven predators are being outed?
The Furious Five of the Japanese New Wave
An introduction to the insurgent generation of filmmakers who challenged the traditions of Japanese cinema
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 71: Is the Future of TV not on TV?
Ghost BFF creator and star Vanessa Matsui tells us why so many creators are choosing web series
The “Big Five” of Japanese Cinema
An introduction to the directors who shaped the image of their nation’s cinema in the West
Playlist: A Blow-Up rave-up
Herbie Hancock, The Yardbirds, and the mod sounds of Antonioni's swing through London
The Age of Innocence shows the other Scorsese
Finding power in the silence of heartbreak
TIFF Celebrates National Indigenous Peoples Day 2018
Hear from a collection of Indigenous filmmakers, musicians, and artists about the stories they tell
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 70: How to Breathe New Life Into a Classic Genre
Indonesian director Mouly Surya's Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts reimagines the spaghetti western
Molly Haskell on Lauren Bacall and “the Hawksian Woman”
The pioneering film critic and feminist explains why she still loves the heroines of director Howard Hawks
Winter’s Child: Olivier Assayas on Gérard Blain
The French filmmaker remembers his friend and former star, “one of the great and under-recognized filmmakers of his time”
How the “French James Dean” became the heir to Bresson
Screen heartthrob Gérard Blain moved behind the camera to direct a series of masterful films
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 69: The Perks of Working at Pixar
Animator Domee Shi tells us how she went from studying at Sheridan College to directing her first Pixar short in less than 10 years
All-American Sex and Murder: The Postman Always Rings Twice Around the World
Exploring the many screen lives of James M. Cain’s noir classic
Dante Speaks (Part Two): A Conversation with Gremlins Guru Joe Dante
A new batch of remembrances from the dauntless Dante, including how he got away with making Gremlins 2, how a fast-food giant burned Small Soldiers, and how his long-held dream of making a Bugs Bunny movie became a nightmare
“I was born when she kissed me”: The Love Song of Bogart & Bacall
On and off the screen, the unlikely lovers were Classic Hollywood’s ultimate power couple
Call of Duty: A Film Critic Goes Before the Camera
Adam Nayman recounts his experiences as an actor in Antoine Bourges’ first feature Fail to Appear
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 68: How to Build a Career in Documentary Filmmaking
Director Sarah Burns tells us why she decided to stay in the family business
Elaine May is “a punk-f*****ing-rocker”
How the former “funny girl” and fearless filmmaker became the scourge of Hollywood suits
Dante Speaks (Part One): A Conversation with Gremlins Guru Joe Dante
The director and die-hard cinephile on the bait-and-switch ad campaign for Gremlins, convincing Roger Corman not to use the title Hollywood Hookers, and "the worst poster in history"
Michelangelo’s Gaze: The Art of Antonioni
How the Italian master created the foundations for contemporary art cinema
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 67: How to Crowdsource the Cure to an Industry Problem
Producer Adi Shankar challenges the public to solve The Simpsons’ Apu controversy
All the Young Dudes: Solo and the Plight of the Prequel
How do young versions of iconic movie characters measure up to the originals?
"Sometimes you have to be a high-flying bitch"
Sophie Fiennes' documentary, Grace Jones: Bloodlight and Bami, returns to TIFF
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 66: Ramin Bahrani on Updating a Classic Work for 2018
The director’s newest film puts a contemporary spin on Ray Bradbury’s novel Fahrenheit 451
The Double Life of Juliette Binoche
Sofia Bohdanowicz on how the French icon influenced the making of her first feature
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 65: Can MoviePass Save the Cinematic Experience?
The revolutionary company is making theatre-going more affordable than ever — but will this model survive?
“The Most Naked Fix”
Stan Brakhage’s Pittsburgh Trilogy blurs the line between experimental, documentary, and body horror
How Sid and Nancy turned punk cinema into punk nostalgia
Alex Cox’s Sid Vicious biopic marked a new paradigm for punk on film
The Art (and Challenge) of Making Painterly Cinema
As we welcome Art Cinema: Painters on Screen to the Lightbox, we explore films that blur the lines between the canvas and the moving image
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 64: Mark Duplass on the Changing Economics of Film
The acclaimed indie filmmaker gives a crash course on his DIY philosophy
Dreams of Light
From Rembrandt to Basquiat, Frida to Mr. Turner, we explore The Agony and the Ecstasy of some of history’s greatest painters
Star Wars Around the World
Even though Star Wars Day is definitively not a thing, we revisit some of the greatest (and strangest) posters from the original trilogy
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 63: Jason Reitman: From Outback Steakhouse to the Oscars
The celebrated filmmaker takes us through his career
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 62: The Path of the Modern Auteur
Filmmaker Andrew Haigh takes us inside his decision-making process
Cameron Bailey appointed Co-Head of TIFF
The Board of Directors of TIFF announced today the appointment of the newly-created position of Artistic Director & Co-Head
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 61: How A Fantastic Woman is Advancing Transgender Rights In Chile
The film has helped reignite the country’s long-stagnant gender identity bill
Janus Metz’s Visions of War
For the Borg vs. McEnroe director, everything’s a battle — even on the tennis court
Ninotchka meets The Wild Child: Serge Bozon on Madame Hyde
The French auteur discusses his offbeat, Isabelle Huppert-starring adaptation of the Robert Louis Stevenson horror classic
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 60: Steve Buscemi’s Unconventional Path to Movie Stardom
The iconic actor discusses how he got big by staying small
Serge Bozon’s Pop-Psych Cinema
Syd Barrett meets Sam Fuller in the genre-bending oeuvre of the French auteur/vintage garage-rock enthusiast
TIFF enters losing Webbys battle against Idris Elba and the solar eclipse
Please do not vote for the absence of the sun
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 59: April Reign's Plan to Make Hollywood Not So White
The activist behind #OscarsSoWhite is launching a new site to help the industry hire creators of colour
Jacques Demy: Songs of Innocence and Experience
Exploring the bittersweet universe of Agnès Varda’s personal and professional partner
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 58: Was The Shape of Water’s Oscar a Victory for Canadian Film?
Producer J. Miles Dale explains what the win means for our national cinema
The Affiches of Agnès
Scanning the 60-year career of Agnès Varda with 30 great (and five not-so-great) posters
Glorious Feelings: Gene Kelly and the Evolution of the Movie Musical
The Hollywood legend was looking for more than just the same old song and dance
Flower Grrrl Power: Riot Grrrl, #MeToo, and Věra Chytilová’s Daisies
How the riotous Czech New Wave classic anticipated the insurgent movements of contemporary feminism
Wakanda (and Sweden) Forever: Black Panther's Ludwig Göransson
Behind the music of Childish Gambino, Chance the Rapper, and the films of Ryan Coogler, there is a 33-year-old Swede
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 57: Understanding the Art of Film Editing
The editor of I, Tonya walks us through her process
Criticizing Kiarostami
The great Iranian filmmaker was not always celebrated in his own homeland
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 56: How A24 Made Film Distribution Cool
The company has gone from new kid on the block to perennial Oscar favourite in just over five years
Make Your Kid a TIFF Kids Kid this March Break
Our resident TIFF Kids enthusiast shares his most anticipated films that your kids will love, too
When Lois Met Anna
The silent epic The Dumb Girl of Portici put a dance legend on screen for the first and only time — and brought together two of the greatest female artists of the era
Life/Dreamlife/Afterlife: Jacquelyn Mills on In the Waves
Filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz interviews the director about being a one-person production crew, living in the present, and making your grandmother your star
Lillian Gish: Mama with a Shotgun
Before she packed heat in The Night of the Hunter, the screen legend helped give birth to the movies as we know them
The Ladies of Lloyd
Celebrating the three actresses who helped shape silent comedy’s “third genius”
From Musidora to Maggie Cheung: Celebrating a century of Irma Vep
The legacy of French film’s first screen supervillainess
Love, Lulu
Sifting through TIFF’s cache of correspondence from legendary silent-screen siren Louise Brooks
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 55: Dissecting the 90th Academy Awards
What can this year’s list of winners teach us about the direction film is going?
Sidney Lumet: Prince of New York
How the Serpico and Dog Day Afternoon director evolved from upstart stylist to gritty, hard-nosed realist
Want to bet that the Oscars will be boring?
Prop bets will keep you occupied until Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway give it a second go
Pin-Ups: David Bowie Goes to the Movies
Exploring the Starman's sometimes rocky voyages on the big screen
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 54: Alex Garland on Annihilation, Adaptation, and the Future of Sci-Fi
The reigning godfather of science fiction walks us through his process
For the hungry boys and girls: Paul Thomas Anderson's official pre-Phantom Thread playlist
You probably think these songs are about you, don’t you?
Can You See What I See?
Director Lina Rodriguez on the elusive artistry of Lucrecia Martel
Twin Peaks in Pictures
Blake Morrow’s 2017 exhibition paid homage to the cult series’ iconic characters and locations
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 53: What Happened to the Sports Movie?
One of Hollywood’s most lovable genres has fallen on hard times
Holy Girls, Headless Women and Hapless Men
The peculiar family matters of "Argentine genius" Lucrecia Martel
"No one wants Call Me by Your Name to become a Rocky movie"
André Aciman on the peach, the speech, and the fireplace
Philippe Garrel goes mainstream
Well, not quite — but Bruce LaBruce has some thoughts on the French renegade’s latter-day turn toward the “conventional”
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 52: The History of Oscar Campaigns
Making a great film is often not enough for the Academy
Before the Dora Milaje: The Black female heroes who led the way to Black Panther
Jamie Broadnax, Editor-in-Chief of Black Girl Nerds, on #WhatBlackPantherMeansToMe
The Good Lucky Story of Bad Lucky Goat
Director Samir Oliveros discusses the amusing challenges of shooting his debut feature
The Solitude of Jean Seberg
How Godard’s Breathless star was hounded to her death by the FBI
The Family Tree of the Noir Western
How the doom-haunted shadows of film noir made their way to the open range
"Existing is Resisting"
Daniela Vega, star of the Oscar-nominated A Fantastic Woman, talks with Canadian trans filmmaker Luis De Filippis about representation and resistance
Intention and Circumstance: With Hong Sangsoo in Hamburg
Cinema Scope’s Mark Peranson recounts his experience working on (and acting in) the Korean master’s On the Beach at Night Alone
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 51: Is Padmaavat the Most Controversial Blockbuster Ever?
The film has sparked protests, attacks on the set, and threats to the cast
How Thunder Road became a Southern-fried cult phenom
Robert Mitchum's car-chase classic put the mountain South on the Hollywood map
Thoroughbreds is "American Psycho meets Heathers"
Their teen angst bullshit is about to have a body count
Mitchum, Madsen, and Me
Writer-director Simon Ennis on learning the lessons of old-school cool
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 50: Lessons From This Year's Sundance
Is the Park City slate a preview of what's to come in 2018?
The A-Z of Robert Mitchum
Learn the lexicon of that laconic, lazy-eyed epitome of old-school cool
“An Eye Unruled by Manmade Laws”
Stan Brakhage’s adventures in perception
On to Zanzibar: Philippe Garrel and the “Dandies of May ’68”
Excavating the strange history of the radical French film collective
Harold Lloyd: Jazz Age Daredevil
The bespectacled comic genius put his own safety last in his spectacular "thrill comedies"
Philippe Garrel Can Hear the Guitar
From the groan of Nico’s harmonium through the pulse of Ash Ra Tempel’s primeval synths, a playlist tracking the sounds that inspired the filmmaker — and vice versa
Salut, Sandrine
A tribute to Sandrine Bonnaire, the daring, dimpled and dignified doyenne of modern French film
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 49: Is it Time For a New Bechdel Test?
FiveThirtyEight.com proposes a revamped version to address Hollywood’s core inequalities
“The Secret Child of French Cinema”
For the past fifty years, the films of Philippe Garrel have been the least accessible body of work of almost any major filmmaker
Growing up, I only had Mulan
Pretty Little Liars' Janel Parrish talks about the need to see herself on screen
Bethune: The Unmaking of a Canadian Epic
Critically scorned upon release, the Donald Sutherland-starring biopic demands reappraisal today
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 48: Why More Directors are Choosing TV over Film
How Jeremy Podeswa went from Canadian indie darling to helming Game of Thrones and The Handmaid’s Tale
Ava is Not So Delicate
With eight nominations at the Canadian Screen Awards and a selection in the Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival, director Sadaf Foroughi talks about the making of her breakout film
“I want to create new images for Québécois culture”
Director Simon Lavoie discusses his new film The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
You Can Now Stream 11 of Canada's Best Short Films from 2017
Running January 15 to 19, #SeeTheNorth from your couch with a free digital showcase of the best short films in the country
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 47: Should Canadian Actors Aspire Beyond Their National Cinema?
To expat or not to expat?
15,000 Sparklers Were Harmed in the Making of This Film
Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin on his strange and beguiling short The Tesla World Light Project
"Long before I knew I was a woman, I knew I was an actress"
Actor Pascale Drevillon tells the story behind the making of the award-winning short film Pre-Drink
Short Filmmakers Don’t Get the Recognition They Deserve
Watch a video interview with Academy Award–winning animator Torill Kove
Michael Haneke Tells Stories with Snapchat Now
The Austrian auteur discusses his new film Happy End and why social media is the greatest cultural revolution in human history
Judy Greer Finally Gets the Role She Deserves
Are you even ready for how charming she is in Adventures in Public School?
Luk'Luk'I: Opportunistic and prejudiced, or bold and empathic?
How Wayne Wapeemuka collaborated with the people of Main and Hastings for "the stories we don't tell"
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 46: What We’re Looking Forward to in 2018
You know, besides Black Panther. But also: Black Panther.
Christopher Nolan on the form and film formats of Dunkirk
"Well, sometimes it's just like, 'fuck it,' you know?"
The Best of The Review
Counting down our favourite newsletter editions of 2017
The Walkie-talkies were a Mistake
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is 35 years old and doesn’t need a facelift
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 45: Year in Review
What did we learn in 2017?
From Oklahoma! to Dunkirk: A Brief History of 70mm (in posters)
Charting the ups and downs of widescreen moviemaking over six decades
The Signature Moves of Johnnie To
Hear from the Hong Kong legend on the Tao of To
TIFF’s Year in Quotes: 2017
Tracking the most inspirational, hilarious, and surprising things filmmakers and artists said this year
Alanis Obomsawin and Amanda Strong Discuss the Future of Indigenous Film
The two artists explain why they're believers in each other's work, as part of the RBC x TIFF Someday Conversation Series
Magnificent Obsession: Berry Gordy, Diana Ross, and the Rise and Fall of Motown Productions
How the music mogul's mad love for his superstar singer led him to crash and burn in Hollywood
Confronting Sexual Harassment in the Canadian Screen Industry
Watch a Breakfast at TIFF panel discussion featuring Patricia Rozema and representatives from ACTRA and the CMPA, with a closing note from Sarah Polley
The 25 Best Movie Posters of 2017
FilmArt's Craig Caron gathers his favourite posters of the year in a series of completely arbitrary categories
Soul Survivor and the Dream of “the Black ’90s”
Cultural critic Rinaldo Walcott remembers the promise and the brutal demise of a Black Canadian Golden Age
#YearinReview: Canadian Invaders of 2017
We’re not apologizing for the prolific talent and success of these homegrown artists
In It for Love
Daniel Warth, director of the Slamdance Jury Prize–winner Dim the Fluorescents, explains how making his first independent film put him at risk of financial ruin
How Set It Off raked it up
The heist-movie hit brought Black (and Black queer) women into the liberating space of action cinema
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 44: The Pros and Cons of Co-Pros
Are co-productions the future of Canadian film?
Canadian Film Heroes of 2017: Éléphant
Meet the Indiana Joneses of the Canadian film restoration world
The Car Wash soundtrack marked the move from Motown to disco
How veteran Motown producer Norman Whitfield helped usher in the sound that dominated the ’70s
Paul Scheer's Guide to Bad Movies
How did The Disaster Artist get made? Enter: Paul Scheer.
How the L.A. Rebellion reinvented Black cinema
Cameron Bailey on the groundbreaking movement that reinvigorated African American filmmaking in the ’60s and ’70s
How The Harder They Come created Jamaican cinema
Reggae authority Klive Walker revisits the genesis of the island’s legendary first feature film
Aki Kaurismäki’s films always go to the dogs
Exploring the Finnish master’s canine obsession
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 43: The Fight for On-Screen Diversity
How can programmers encourage their audiences to embrace new stories?
The Teenage Heartbreak of Sofia Coppola's Mary Corleone
Why the auteur's much-hated appearance in Godfather 3 is actually the key to her entire oeuvre
These are the Best Canadian Films of 2017
#SeeTheNorth at the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival, January 12–21
Sofia Coppola's Certain (and Uncertain) Women
The Cannes-feted filmmaker's empathy for the plight of young women has generated as much backlash as it has acclaim
Will Smith, Sidney Poitier, and the Burden of Representation
In Six Degrees of Separation, future superstar Smith invokes ’60s icon Sidney in one of his only films to directly tackle racial dynamics
Anne Wiazemsky: The Muse Become Creator
TIFF Cinematheque’s James Quandt remembers the late star of Godard’s La Chinoise
Our Queer Heritage
How to Survive a Plague on World AIDS Day
Life's a Peach
Watch Armie Hammer, Timothée Chalamet, and Luca Guadagnino talk Call Me By Your Name at TIFF ’17
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 42: Where Does Hollywood Go After #MeToo?
How film can be used to make A Better Man
Honky Tonk Cinema: From Nashville to Brantford, Ontario
Senior Programmer Steve Gravestock looks at the long, complicated history of country and western music on screen
"It's just a human story"
An interview with Sherwan Haji, the Syrian star of Aki Kaurismäki’s affecting new film, The Other Side of Hope
Stormy Weather in a Time of Global Warming
Poet and author Ed Pavlić on “soul in music” and a vital (and continuing) tradition of Black performance
Circle of Three
Beyond the Festival, TIFF Founders Bill Marshall, Henk Van der Kolk and Dusty Cohl made a mark as ambitious (and sometimes outrageous) independent producers
Earl Cameron, the Forgotten Black Star
The Bermudan actor found British screen stardom in a daring interracial romance
From Grandmaster Flash to Working With Brie Larson
TIFF Rising Star Mamoudou Athie, behind 2017's The Get Down, Patti Cake$, and Unicorn Store, reveals why he needs to work with the outliers
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 41: How to Write the Best Sequel of the Century
The screenwriter of Creed did just that
A Sense of Otherness
Colombian filmmakers Laura Huertas Millán and Lina Rodriguez talk about filmmaking between cultures, the visible and invisible, and how to cook on film
The Music of Black Star
Listen to four Spotify playlists, guest curated by the series’ programmer and speakers
The Monstrous Vision of Guillermo del Toro
The Art Gallery of Ontario’s Guillermo del Toro: At Home with the Monsters allows us to step inside the director’s world
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 40: How David Gordon Green Became Hollywood’s Most Eclectic Filmmaker
From "the next Terrence Malick" to stoner comedies to Stronger
Kidlat Tahimik: Godfather of the Filipino New Wave
The “indie-genius” brings his slyly anti-colonial cinema to TIFF Bell Lightbox
Sharing Histories and Building Narratives
How libraries, archives and museums help us define our communities
“It was the first time a Black man had slapped a white man back”
Norman Jewison talks about the 50-year influence of In the Heat of the Night
Listen in on the secrets of Hollywood composers
Say "oh, hi..." to the musicians behind the TIFF '17 titles The Disaster Artist, Mary Shelley, and Downrange
Paul Robeson: The First Black Star
Curator Ashley Clark on the legacy of the (in)famous actor, singer, and political activist
Tarkovsky’s Madonnas
The Mirror is Tarkovsky’s greatest fusion of his twinned obsessions: time, and suffering women
Oscar Micheaux: American Independent
Jesse Wente on the first Black writer-director-producer in American cinema history
Accentuate the Negative: Danny Glover, the Untraditional Black Star
Glover's Southern devil finds work in Charles Burnett's indie classic To Sleep with Anger
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 25: Stella Meghie is a Hollywood Outlier
The writer-director discusses breaking into the studio system, despite the odds
The Last Taboo: Stephen Rea talks The Crying Game
The Oscar-nominated actor reflects on the legacy of Neil Jordan’s notorious thriller
Canadian Head Trip
Michael Snow’s La Région Centrale is Canadian cinema’s ultimate psychedelic experience
Uncle Tom is dead — why won't his nephews and nieces disappear too?
Dalton Higgins scans for Black stereotypes in today's mediascape
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 38: How Horror Slayed the Competition in 2017
From Split to It, why audiences gave their money and their love to the horror genre this year
FUBAR’s “Fucking Free Beasts”
Mike Dowse discusses the lasting legacy of FUBAR and its second life on VICELAND
Ruben Östlund Wants to Provoke You
An interview with the writer-director behind Palme d’Or winner The Square
What Makes a Black Movie Star?
Black Star curator Ashley Clark reflects on the roots of this ambitious retrospective
"They're not characters who say 'I love you,' so they call each other 'faggots'"
Writer-director Francis Lee on breaking through with God’s Own Country
The Road to Moonlight
Cameron Bailey on a century of Black excellence on screen
The Sly and Savage Cinema of Ruben Östlund
The director of The Square has been pushing buttons from the beginning
The Black performers who shaped Nelson George's life
The Top Five producer picks his own top five
The Year in Horror: 2017
Was 2017 "horrorshow" for horror shows?
Remembering Irish Filmmaker Simon Fitzmaurice
Making film as an affirmation of life
Agnès Varda Goes from Film Buff to Filmmaker
A conversation with the legendary director, whose new documentary Faces Places is playing now at TIFF Bell Lightbox
It Came from the Booooooooooooooooooooooth
This October 31, let TIFF’s programming inspire a costume made for Film Twitter
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 37: Can Bad Data Kill a Film?
Running the numbers with FiveThirtyEight's Walt Hickey
"Put the Mask on... NOW!"
Julian Roffman’s 3D Canuxploitation classic is one hell of a trip
Cruel Stories of Youth
Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard reflects on the coming-of-age classic The 400 Blows
That Toronto Love
Here’s what to expect from TIFF’s annual fundraising event Boombox, which showcases emerging artists and exciting performances on a packed dance floor
Castlemania
A Halloween homage to horror maestro William Castle, "The King of the Gimmicks"
A Part of Our Heritage
TIFF premieres a brand new Canadian Heritage Minute celebrating the history of Kensington Market
Johnnie To: Man on a Mission
David Bordwell breaks down the director's action-movie masterpiece
Window Shopping
Durga Chew-Bose writes on Hitchcock's classic, Rear Window, which will screen at TIFF for free October 25 for the UNESCO World Day for Audiovisual Heritage
“We could all be potential refugees”
Ai Weiwei discusses the refugee crisis with TIFF CEO Piers Handling
“Where do you get your creepy ideas?”
Watch a Festival Q&A with Yorgos Lanthimos and the cast of The Killing of a Sacred Deer
Johnnie To throws down at TIFF
Expect the unexpected when the Hong Kong action ace joins us at the Lightbox
Metallica, Star Wars, and Eric Rohmer: Alex Ross Perry talks Golden Exits
The indie writer-director discusses the diverse inspirations of his new film
“Indigenous existence is resistance”
The artists of 2167 discuss Indigenous Futurism, their impressions of VR, and why Canada 150 isn’t the milestone they’re interested in
New York Groove: Alex Ross Perry's Golden Exits
The acclaimed NYC indie filmmaker introduces his new film at TIFF Cinematheque
Making Movies on Location
Director Richard Shepard curates The Review and explains how a case of professional jealousy led to him filming a love story in Japan with Elisabeth Moss
From an iPhone 5 to a 35mm camera
The Florida Project’s Sean Baker has access to more gear, but he isn’t done telling universal stories about marginalized people
I Feel Love
BPM (Beats Per Minute) chronicles the AIDS epidemic with tenderness — and house music
A Brief History of Soviet Sci-fi
Exploring the wild and woolly futuristic visions from behind the Iron Curtain
A Death Foretold: Time to Die
Scripted by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, Arturo Ripstein’s feature debut is an absorbing revenge western with an ironic, literary twist
78/52: The Bates Motel, Janet Leigh’s body double, and a shower scene that changed cinema
Director Alexandre O. Philippe discusses the lasting influence of Hitchcock’s most famous murder scene
“Erik Matti is one of the greatest Filipino directors of all time”
ScreenAnarchy’s Todd Brown and CBC’s Romeo Candido discuss the hitman thriller On the Job
Inside the secret cinema club of Reel Talk
TIFF’s longest-running programme is also its most mysterious
“Directing in pasties is interesting”
Katie Boland talks about the process of writing, directing, and starring in her first short film Lolz-Ita, opposite Sarah Gadon and Don McKellar
“Canada is a cultural experiment that is working”
Filmmaker Clement Virgo describes his vision of Canadian culture
The Possibilities of Pleasure
In Filipino cinema, “wrongful” desire is a weapon against a repressive regime
10 Family Dinner Scenes to Distract You from Your Family Dinner
A time to give thanks for YouTube
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 34: Character Actors Directing Character Actors
How John Carroll Lynch came to direct Harry Dean Stanton's swan song
Beauty and the Beast and Jane Eyre are the Same Story
Vanessa Hodja breaks the conspiracy wide open for a special screening of Jean Cocteau's 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast, one of Guillermo del Toro's favourite films
Denis Villeneuve’s Blade Runner Marks the Biggest Cinematic Event of 2017
In 2049, will Ryan Gosling dream of electric sheep?
Sharing Her Journey Since 1976
A history of TIFF’s Womanscene programme, which put the spotlight on female directors way back when
Painting Vincent
Loving Vincent animator Valerie Fulford gives us the inside scoop on the world’s first fully oil-painted film
When Billie Beat Bobby
Plus a side helping of John McEnroe vs. Serena Williams in the extended TIFF '17 Q&A
“Every Scene is a Trap”
Watch a scene breakdown of Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us
Fighting Back
Modern Filipino cinema was born from resistance
By the Time We Get to Woodshock: A Brief, Selective History of Psychedelic Cinema
The Mulleavy sisters’ Kirsten Dunst–starring directorial debut joins a proud tradition of fantastic big-screen freak-outs
Elder Wisdom
A monumental interview with Canadian avant-garde giant Bruce Elder
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 33: Are the Oscars Losing Relevance?
The three seasons: Spring, Summer, and awards season
"There's no slut-shaming in Soviet film"
Guy Maddin on the bizarre beauties and progressive (sexual) politics of Soviet silent cinema
Postering Potemkin
Eisenstein's revolutionary classic has inspired generations of poster artists
Into the Woods: Alessandro Comodin's Dark Fairy Tale
The genre-bending Italian filmmaker discusses his fascinating second feature Happy Times Will Come Soon
Overheard at TIFF '17
Chris Nolan, Priyanka Chopra, Drake, and more have words to say about Festival
Even Directors Have to Eat
TIFF celebrates the filmmakers behind TIFF '17 with an annual Director's Dinner
Alias Grace Embodies Female Subjectivity
The CBC miniseries, created by Sarah Polley, is another stellar Atwood adaptation that reflects the past and present of women
Do the Revolution
Soviet silent film redefined the seventh art
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 32: Jim Carrey on Comedy, Characters and Existence
"They're all characters that I've played. Including Jim Carrey."
In His Own Words: David Gordon Green
The director of TIFF ‘17 Official Selection Stronger discusses the intimidation factor in adapting someone else’s true-life story
Denis Villeneuve's High-Concept Cinema
The Blade Runner 2049 director is a big-picture filmmaker with an eye for detail
TIFF '17 in 3D (No Glasses Required)
Get up close and personal with the stars of TIFF '17
On the TIFF '17 Red Carpet
Hollywood descended upon the 6ix
Announcing the TIFF '17 Award Winners
And the awards go to...
"You don't project yourself into the future when you have a disease"
Quebec auteur Denis Côté talks about the inspiration for his new body building documentary Ta peau si lisse
Glenn Close is at the peak of her power
Watch an in-depth conversation with the iconic actor on the TIFF Industry stage
Welcome to Studio 9
Conversations direct from the official TIFF '17 interview suite
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 7
Short Cuts: Making Every Second Count
The filmmakers behind the five longest and five briefest short-film selections at TIFF ’17 talk tight run times, tough decisions, and what ends up on the cutting room floor
The Future of Iranian Cinema
Three emerging Iranian filmmakers at TIFF ‘17 describe how they’re making their own cinema in their country’s image
Wonder Woman: Truth, Justice, S&M, and the American Way
Director Angela Robinson on the dominance of DC's lasso-wielding hero
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 6
Alicia Vikander, Andrew Garfield, and the women of Alias Grace stop by
Making a Genre Picture for No Money
The directors behind two of TIFF ’17’s most exciting genre pictures The Crescent and High Fantasy discuss making a big impact with few resources
An interview with Amr Salama, the director of the feel-good religious extremist comedy Sheikh Jackson
"What's this Michael Jackson doing in a mosque?"
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 5
Guillermo del Toro returns home
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 6
Sarah Gadon's Grace is courageous, inscrutable, and deranged
2017’s Rising Stars
Nine emerging actors explain how they navigate their careers in a rapidly changing industry
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 5
Director's cinema led by Guillermo del Toro, Armando Iannucci, and Joe Wright
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 4
The busiest day of Festival welcomed JLaw, Idris, and more
Yours to Discover
We profile 10 international auteurs who got their start in TIFF’s Discovery programme, including Christopher Nolan, Steve McQueen, and Ingrid Veninger
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 3
Can you resist Jake Gyllenhaal's smoulder?
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 4
Oscar hopefuls Darren Aronofsky, Jennifer Lawrence, and Benedict Cumberbatch make their TIFF pitstop
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 2
Fall in love with Call Me By Your Name's leading men
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 3
True-life high drama from David Gordon Green and Aaron Sorkin
TIFF '17 x Huawei Portrait Studio: Day 1
The cast of Borg/McEnroe serves up looks
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 30: How Sales Agents Became the Champions of Indie Film
Charlotte Mickie lifts the veil on just what it is they do - and how it affects a changing industry
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 2
Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet star in Luca Guadagnino's hot ticket, plus Lady Gaga
Empathy Without Sympathy
The writers and directors behind the Canadian TIFF ‘17 titles Never Steady, Never Still and Cardinals discuss their craft and how they built complex, layered performances with their legendary stars Shirley Henderson and Sheila McCarthy
TIFF '17: 11 Days of Free
From Festival Street to TIFF Cinematheque: Here's what's free.
TIFF '17 Press Conferences: Day 1
Game on, Shia
The fine line between fiction and reality
Six TIFF ‘17 directors discuss where the boundaries between narrative filmmaking and documentary become blurred in their own artistic practice
“You’re this super-polite liberal Canadian who says the most horrible shit ever”
Cadence Weapon interviews Alex Larsen, a.k.a. Torontonian battle rapper Kid Twist and the screenwriter of Bodied
TIFF Next Wave knows what’s up
The young programmers behind the Next Wave Committee recommend 12 killer coming-of-age films for TIFF '17
Canadian producer Erika Olde is making waves for women in Hollywood
The producer behind TIFF '17's Woman Walks Ahead talks about carving out a career by being unapologetically yourself
Judex, the Original Screen Superhero
Before Batman, Louis Feuillade's caped crusader battled villainy in pre-WWI Paris
Memories of Midnight
Programmers Colin Geddes and Peter Kuplowsky discuss the brotherhood of Midnight Madness
Au revoir, Mr. Lewis
Artist, humanitarian, and monster, Jerry Lewis leaves behind a complicated body of work full of brilliance, bad taste, and innovation
How Do You Define Yourself?
Ann Marie Fleming fulfilled her dream of writing and animating feature films by telling stories about her family
George R. R. Martin’s advice for those who know nothing (and for those who know a little something, too)
How you can tame your own creative dragons
A Lot Like Going on Tour
Luke Lalonde and Pavan Moondi discuss their anti-wedding movie Sundowners, and the destination shoot in Colombia that almost killed them
The Classy Kind of Dirty Movie
In the Realm of the Senses and the seedy history of the X-rated art-house film
Women in the director's chair at TIFF '17
The Future is Female-identified
Every Single Trailer (So Far) for TIFF '17
Gotta watch 'em all
Guess Who's Coming to TIFF '17
The 6ix becomes a City of Stars
The final films and events of TIFF '17 are here
Helen Mirren, Javier Bardem, Angelina Jolie, Gael García Bernal, and so much more
Watch the TIFF '17 mashup trailer and get excited
And this is only a taste...
Building an industry
The programmers behind TIFF ‘17’s Industry Conference detail how this year will get filmmakers more inspired, encouraged, and connected than ever
There is no “male" or “female” when it comes to making a good movie
Filmmaker Omoni Oboli shares how she put Nigerian cinema on the map
Hou Hsiao-hsien and the Infinite Sadness
As our Olivier Assayas retrospective comes to a close, we spotlight one of the French director’s greatest influences
The TIFF '17 Industry Conference Lineup Features Trailblazers and Creative Luminaries
Some of the world's most brilliant creators and producers will be here in September
Inventing Africa: Casablanca and Pépé le Moko
Exploring the colonial fantasies of the surprisingly similar French and American classics
The Normalization of Kristen Stewart
Personal Shopper, her second collaboration with French filmmaker Olivier Assayas, realizes her layered potential to craft her best performance yet
The Rise of Cinematic TV
Primetime programmer Michael Lerman unveils his slate of episodic content, destined for big and small screens at TIFF '17
TIFF '17 expands its slate with a slew of new Festival films
Masters, Contemporary World Cinema, Wavelengths, and more Gala and Special Presentations films announced
Toronto Plays Itself
Canadian filmmaker Kazik Radwanski, whose new short film Scaffold premieres at TIFF '17, curates his favourite city films
“I Like the Scar Better than the Wound”
TIFF '17 filmmakers Connor Jessup and Hirokazu Kore-eda discuss the messy business of filmmaking
Jessica Chastain: "Talking about diversity is not a courageous thing"
Hear an in-depth Q&A from the actor who will appear in Woman Walks Ahead and *Molly's Game" at TIFF '17
Filmmaking in Between Cultures
Lina Rodriguez describes how she makes movies between Toronto and Colombia, as well as the past, present, and future
The Trip from A to Z
A glossary for the Michael Winterbottom trilogy that’s seen our heroes eat their way across Europe
Does hard-hitting cinema need hard-sell tactics?
Indie pioneer Ida Lupino tackled some of the most pressing social issues of the day — but you wouldn't guess it from the posters for her films
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 26: Karina Longworth on the woman who changed film forever
A podcasting master on a filmmaking legend
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 24: The Biggest Challenges Facing Emerging Filmmakers
How does the next generation get their films made?
Walt Disney's Silent Inspirations
Before the House of Mouse cornered the market in filmic fairy tales, the silent screen was full of fantasy
The Most Expensive Psychoanalysis You Could Get
Quebec cinema pioneer Denys Arcand discusses his long life in cinema
Denis Côté's advice to young filmmakers
Get out of your basement, basically
Continuity Errors: An Appreciation
Filmmaker Daniel Cockburn, whose short film The Argument plays TIFF '17, explains why the mistakes in movies are his favourite part
Cory Bowles Hears Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song
The director behind TIFF '17's Black Cop was inspired by Melvin Van Peebles' "by-any-means" filmmaking
What You Wear to Make a Movie
Chandler Levack, writer/director of the TIFF '17 short We Forgot to Break Up, shares her obsession with filmmaker's wardrobes
Rejection is How You Become a Filmmaker
Molly McGlynn describes the long hard road taken to get her first feature, Mary Goes Round, to TIFF '17
Nova Scotia’s Swiss Army Knife Filmmakers
Werewolf producer Nelson MacDonald interviews the emerging crop of exciting auteurs across Nova Scotia, many of whom are playing TIFF ‘17
TIFF '17's Short Cuts: Big Films in Small Packages
Legendary musicians, a president, fashion royalty, and so much more
The Changing Face of Canadian Features
Canadian programmers Magali Simard and Steve Gravestock discuss their robust lineup of emerging and seasoned filmmakers playing TIFF ‘17
Illeana Loves Ida
Illeana Douglas, the host of TCM’s Trailblazing Women, says that Ida Lupino’s career as a director in 1950s Hollywood illustrates how history repeats itself
Pushing Keanu Reeves to the limit
Running, surfing, and skydiving in Point Break
Shit-kicker Heaven: Celebrating Kathryn Bigelow’s dark, twisted vampire western
Jesse Wente on Near Dark, "the greatest modern vampire movie"
Visionary works headline TIFF '17's Platform slate
Directors' cinema now
How May ’68 Changed the World
Olivier Assayas remembers the upheaval that “changed the way we lived”
That Time Nicolas Cage Ruined My Life
And what happens when the internet, nor Anderson Cooper, will never let you live it down
Morgan Spurlock on the horror films that warped his mind
Watching David Cronenberg at age nine isn't always a bad thing
The Crime-Movie Mastery of Ida Lupino
Toronto filmmaker Simon Ennis on the risk-taking greatness of the remarkable actor-director
The Solitary Journey of the Short Filmmaker
An interview with TIFF Short Cuts Programmer Danis Goulet
Make The Room Great Again
James Franco's The Disaster Artist is heading to Midnight Madness
The Method Behind Midnight Madness
Peter Kuplowsky, the new programmer of Midnight Madness, tells us what to expect from TIFF '17's deadliest lineup
TIFF Docs features stories of boundary breakers in 2017
Legendary musicians, a president, fashion royalty, and so much more
Beyond the Square
Ivan Herrera, winner of last year’s Jury’s Choice Award at the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, discusses the medium’s infinite potential with music video director Nabil
The Day I Had Tea with Jeanne Moreau
TIFF CEO Piers Handling remembers his meeting with the legendary star
Silent Fantasies
Long before Harry Potter or Peter Jackson’s Tolkien trilogy, silent cinema was a fount of fantasy
Ida Lupino, Filmmaker
Hard, fast, and beautiful on screen, the 1940s leading lady was even more formidable behind the camera
Deepa Mehta Shares Her Journey in Film (Death Threats Included)
The acclaimed filmmaker details why women must make films and live life on their own terms
Meet Carol Nguyen
The 19-year-old wunderkind has won Jump Cuts three times
What makes an Auteur Rock Doc?
How feature filmmakers bring visual punch to music documentaries
The Toronto International Film Festival unveils first slate of films for 2017
14 Galas and 33 Special Presentations kick off TIFF '17
A Mandate to Change
Jennifer Baichwal on the film industry's gender imbalance
Hauling Gear with Win and Régine
Montreal artist Vincent Morisset on his decade-long collaboration with Arcade Fire
Can't Stop the Franco
The King of All Media headlines this month's edition of Reel Reads
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 23: Is There Room for Censorship in Modern Film?
Two Indian filmmakers tell their story
“Everyone’s Had An Existential Crisis”
Writer/director David Lowery on his haunting new film, A Ghost Story
Did Strange Days predict the future of Virtual Reality?
The Verge's Adi Robertson weighs in
From “so polite” to burning effigies: Why making a film in Canada is a political act
Igniting social change on screen
Who Says Female Characters Have to Be Likeable?
Canadian actor/writer/producer Sarah Kolasky on the making of her first feature, Great Great Great
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 22: Has Game of Thrones Transcended Television?
All men (and TV shows) must die
Albert Serra's Fassbinder Touch
An interview with the enfant terrible of experimental cinema
Kathryn Bigelow's Histories of Violence
The Academy Award-winning director has been pushing buttons from her very beginnings
Panic and Violence: Olivier Assayas’ Paris
How the director’s darkest experience impacted his work
Three Faces of the French Tough Guy
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo defined Gallic crime cinema
Guy Ritchie can't find a Middle Eastern actor who can sing and dance
Apparently it's really, really difficult
Lilly Singh's Lessons from a Bawse
Lesson One: Get Uncomfortable
Seeing Stars
Can modern movie posters be cured of Floating Head Syndrome?
She's Lost Control: demonlover's New Media Prophecy
Olivier Assayas' techno-thriller eerily predicted the shape of media (and capitalism) to come
The Highs and Lows of Writing and Directing Your Own Work
This year's TIFF Studio participants curate The Review and share their feelings on writing, directing, and how to fix the Canadian film industry
From Clueless to Cold Water: An Indian Cinephile's Teen-Movie Odyssey
"Teen movies [were] a storehouse of cultural knowledge that helped initiate me into my new, adopted society"
"This is An American in Paris on wheels and crack smoke"
Edgar Wright's Baby Driver is an adrenaline rush with the bravado of a Gene Kelly musical
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 20: Star Wars: Is there room for risk in the Empire?
I've got a mixed feeling about this
The Signature Moves of Jean-Pierre Melville
Your three-step guide to becoming a master of crime cinema
Colm Tóibín: "This part was filled for me, that I had left empty"
The Brooklyn author's favourite scene is the one he didn't write
Bong Joon Ho: You Got to Move
The visionary director of Okja puts the "motion" in motion pictures
Deepa Mehta: "Being an immigrant in Canada means displacement"
Making a masterful Canadian film about life in India
The Uniform of the Male Gangster
The clothes make the wise guy
"Don't audition for this if you're a wuss"
Watch the director and star of The Bad Batch tell the story behind this summer's best (and only) post-apocalyptic cannibal love story
The Risky Business of Patty Jenkins
How the director of an Oscar-winning indie became Hollywood's apparent "gamble"
Ice-Cold Angels
Jean-Pierre Melville’s existential tough-guy thrillers forged the link between Classical Hollywood and the French New Wave
Prepare to be Babashook
The Babadook comes out of the closet to slay
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 19: How The New York Times ranked a century of cinema
The NYT's chief film critic A.O. Scott breaks it down
Olivier Assayas Playlist: Pre-punk to post-punk, Paris to Timbuktu
A comprehensive if not-quite-complete guide to the filmmaker's sound world
Awkward Dinner Parties in the Age of Trump
Mike White, screenwriter of Beatriz at Dinner, describes why his latest film was nearly impossible to get made
Olivier Assayas: At the Speed of Life
With the Kristen Stewart–starring Personal Shopper, the brilliant French auteur has reached a new level of international acclaim
Vampire Diary
A filmmaker’s 20-year obsession with Olivier Assayas’ Irma Vep
Raised on MuchMusic
Shad curates The Review and remembers the station that shaped his adolescence
Bong Joon Ho: "I cause a stir everywhere I go"
Bong Joon Ho is one of South Korea’s most popular directors, but his new film Okja is shut out of 93% of the country’s movie theatres
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 18: Why Edgar Wright Chose Originality Over IP
The Baby Driver director thought he was going to "director jail" after Ant-Man
Phyllis Nagy: “Being gay is Tom Ripley’s kryptonite”
The Carol screenwriter talks Patricia Highsmith, homosexuality, and how the movies keep getting Ripley wrong
The Strange Saga of Billy Jack
How indie maverick Tom Laughlin changed Hollywood and created a ’70s pop-culture icon
Seven Angry Filmmakers
A group of Canadian directors discuss the challenges of making films in an age of political upheaval
A Community of Rebels
Filmmaker Sílvia das Fadas chases the “fugitive dream” of resistance
A Town of Abandoned Movie Theatres
Eric Hatch explains how Baltimore's film scene keeps evolving, past John Waters and The Wire
"A Radical Movie for Disney": Mira Nair talks Queen of Katwe
The director on how she made a movie with an all-African cast — including her former intern, Lupita Nyong’o
The Dead Ends of the Romanian New Wave
For the country’s three top filmmakers, there’s no exit
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 15: Has Prestige TV Become Boring?
And what does "cinematic" mean when applied to television, anyway?
The Endless Indignity Of I, Daniel Blake
Ken Loach’s “final” film reprises the systemic housing crisis of Cathy Come Home
Can-Lit Heats Up
How many Canadian authors does it take to recommend your summer reads and summer movies? We got 12.
Kelly Reichardt Was My Film Professor
Director Miles Joris-Peyrafitte shares how his teacher shaped his career, from watching Wendy & Lucy at age 16 to his Sundance premiere at age 23
From the Vault: An unexpected cause célèbre
How Patricia Rozema’s Cannes debut signalled the Toronto New Wave
The Most Remarkable Performance of the Year is Lily Gladstone’s
The emerging Indigenous actor talks to Jesse Wente about performing in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women opposite Kristen Stewart
Hearth, Home and Horror
David Lynch’s idyllic childhood birthed dreams of dark and troubling things
Buster’s Mal Heart shows the emotional extremes of Rami Malek
Director Sarah Adina Smith discusses her intense collaboration with her actor and her new feature’s timely vision of the American Dream
The New Narrative of Music Videos
How the next generation of Canadian auteurs found themselves through an old medium
When a Great Film is like a Diner
Chef Matty Matheson curates The Review and shares his feelings on film, food, and Forrest Gump
Ladies of Burlesque brings peelers to Peaks
The brassy film/live performance series offers a tantalizing take on Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
Woke Up Screaming: The Get Out Roundtable
Musicians, comedians, film programmers and writers discuss Jordan Peele's smash-hit "social thriller"
May the 4th is not Star Wars Day
The joke is bad and you should feel bad
Richard Kerr's Cinematic Beacons
A look at TIFF's current exhibition Postindustrial and Richard Kerr's ruminations on his filmmaking and artistic practices
Capturing Space in Film and Making Space for Female Filmmakers
TIFF Next Wave’s Chloe Bhumgara interviews local Toronto filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz, whose new film Maison du Bonheur opens at Hot Docs this week
The Cult (Gems) of Demme
From Caged Heat and “Gidget Goes to Hell” to Cousin Bobby and Storefront Hitchcock, the director’s most obscure work is among his most inspired
Documentary filmmaking became Jonathan Demme’s oxygen
TIFF programmer Thom Powers tells the stories behind the late filmmaker’s most celebrated docs
Celebrating Jonathan Demme, eclectically brilliant Academy Award winner
Remembering a cinematic master
Weaves Plans Your Spring Reading, Watching, and Listening List
Our favourite Toronto indie rock band curates The Review and has all the feelings
The Town Jane Jacobs Built
Citizen Jane: Battle for the City cements the urban-planning advocate’s legacy as a hero for Toronto and beyond
Reel Reads: Accentuate the Positif
The other great French film magazine gets the history it deserves in this round-up of the best film and film-related books on the shelves of TIFF Shop
How 10 Legendary Canadian Filmmakers Reached Their Someday
Celebrating local celluoid heroes, from their humble beginnings to historic careers
Room 213 is a Really Scary Swedish Horror Movie for Tweens
We spoke to the film’s director Emelie Lindblom about making spooky films for young audiences
The Man Who Would Be Dolemite
Exploring the wonders of the Rudy Ray Moore Cinematic Universe
Lines on Paper
Georgia Webber talks to Dash Shaw about his first animated feature, My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea
The Chance to Be Called “Dickbrain” by the Writer You Most Admire
David Lipsky talks about David Foster Wallace and The End of the Tour
The TIFF Kids '17 Filmmaker Lightning Round
The directors behind Jeffrey and Little Wing explain how they made their movies
Landscapes of Resistance: Jeff Reichert & Farihah Zaman
"In this day and age, does aggressively staying small represent an act of resistance?"
Movies are Time Machines
Elan Mastai curates The Review and explains why every filmmaker wants to change the past
20 Years of the TIFF Kids Festival
Programmers share the story behind TIFF’s premier event for children
TIFF Kids Q&A: Ask Liz
TIFF Kids’ director and lead programmer offers advice on some of the many smart things to see at this year’s festival
Death Wish
How novelist, filmmaker and right-wing revolutionary Yukio Mishima sought to transform his life into a beautiful (and fatal) work of art
“Suddenly My House Became a Tree of Sores”
The dark art of David Lynch began in his paintings
Landscapes of Resistance: Nicholas de Pencier
"It’s human to resist the unravelling of our brief mortal coil, and so I feel it’s natural to be in awe of the landscape that resists time itself"
Soul Men
Revisiting Paul Schrader’s transcendental trio of Bresson, Ozu and Dreyer
Outside the Box: Vertical Features
A new series that spotlights the grassroots film programmes (and programmers) bringing cinema to our city
“Obituaries are documentaries in print”
An interview with director Vanessa Gould about Obit, her new doc chronicling the work of five New York Times obituary writers
Deep Cuts: "Moon River"
From Breakfast at Tiffany's to Bad Education, Michael Stipe and Morrissey to Nelson Muntz, we trace the long history of the croon-tastic classic
"For 150 years, people have been told lies about Canada's history"
At 84, documentarian Alanis Obomsawin is still uncovering truths about Indigenous rights
First Blood, Last Laugh
Canadian director Ted Kotcheff emerges from the shadow of Rambo
In Almodóvar’s world, everyone’s queer
Bruce LaBruce on how the Spanish auteur finds the universal in the extreme
“They’re absolutely at home in the world, which means they don’t fit anywhere in it”
NYC artist Sam Lewitt on Straub-Huillet, the art world, and the politics of vision
“Going Back There and Doing All That Again”
Never Eat Alone director Sofia Bohdanowicz and her stars Joan Benac and Deragh Campbell discuss the fine line between fiction and documentary
Landscapes of Resistance
A new series of visual essays from filmmakers and artists exploring sites of struggle, revolt and revolution in a troubled modern world
What Can Straight White Guys Do to Help Women in Film?
The female filmmakers of the Canadian Screen Awards share some constructive advice
Pedro Almodóvar’s posters are as sumptuous as his films
For many, Juan Gatti’s designs were an introduction to the Spanish auteur
Window Horses’ Poetic License
“I didn’t realize what my point of view was because I had too many ‘me’s’ looking around me”
Change Makers
In honour of 2017's International Women's Day theme, #BeBoldForChange, today we’re celebrating some of the inspiring voices who are helping to forge a better working world for everyone
Modern Muses: Nadia Litz Interviews Pamela Anderson
The director and star of The People Garden talk feminism, Federico Fellini, art, and the betrayal of rock star boyfriends
Picking up the Pieces
The music director of the celebrated Against the Grain Theatre opera company considers Schoenberg, Straub-Huillet, and the dangers of "difficulty"
Deep Cuts: "In Heaven"
From Devo and the Pixies to Bauhaus and Modest Mouse, we trace the 40-year odyssey of the immortally creepy music number from David Lynch's Eraserhead
Reel Reads: Vallée Girls
Find the truth behind Big Little Lies in our round-up of the best film and film-related books on the TIFF shelves
Before I Fall turns Mean Girls into Human Beings
Director Ry Russo-Young and star Zoey Deutch talk double standards in Hollywood, and how they backed each other up to make the best teen movie of the year
“The Gates are Not Open”
For James Baldwin, Fritz Lang’s lovers-on-the-run noir was a vision of American society as prison
Oscar-Nominated Cinematographer James Laxton on how Moonlight Changed His Life
Hear him on empathy, working with Barry Jenkins, and his favourite Almodóvar film
"The Wind in the Trees"
The poetic precision of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Ice Cream and Fury
For James Baldwin, Sylvia Sidney was "the only American film actress who reminded me of reality"
Now Reconciled
Nearly 50 years later, the director of a landmark First Nations film gets his rightful recognition
"Frog-Eyes" and "the Disaster of the Lips"
James Baldwin finds his onscreen image — in Bette Davis
From TIFF to the Oscars 2017
Explore some of our favourite Oscars-related content from 2016
Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Female writers, performers, and film scholars discuss the legacy of Anna Magnani and the fine art of “giving no fucks”
“There is an Incentivized Path to Mediocrity”
Filmmaker Kevan Funk responds to Cameron Bailey’s call for Canadians to tell true stories — and why Funk thinks the industry is standing in the way
Uncensored: Hisham Fageeh and Fatima Al-Banawi
The actors of Barakah Meets Barakah on life in Saudi Arabia, the importance of art and social media, and challenging gender expectations
“Imagine If You Knew our Stories Already”
Watch Jesse Wente’s keynote speech advocating for First Nations, Métis and Inuit representation in Canadian cinema
Matters of the Heart
We indulge in a little self-love on Valentine's Day
TIFF Next Wave Two-Way Q&A
TIFF Next Wave's Ben Sagar and Sleeping Giant's Andrew Cividino talk coming of age
TIFF Next Wave Takes Over The Review
Our committee of high school students across the GTA talks political activism, representation in cinema, and the dankest memes on the internet
“His Films Opened a Window to the Deep Blue”
Discovery’s Ziya Tong remembers her friend Rob Stewart
“A Revolution of the Mind”
Cameron Bailey and George Elliott Clarke discuss the legacy of James Baldwin
Chasing the Dragon
Hollywood bad boy Michael Cimino’s “comeback movie” was a lurid potboiler with an autobiographical edge
Deep Cuts: "Wild is the Wind"
Anna Magnani's magnificent melodrama yielded a title track that enchanted Nina Simone, Cat Power and David Bowie
Roberto Minervini: "Anna Magnani transcends cinema"
The director of the Trump-predicting docu-fiction The Other Side offers his appreciation of the great Italian star
“C’est belle, la vie”
Remembering the exquisite Emmanuelle Riva (1927–2017)
Master of Light: Raoul Coutard, 1924–2016
Saluting the cinematographer who put the "pow" in the French New Wave
Funnel Vision
Mike Hoolboom excavates the history of Toronto’s pioneering film collective
All Hail "La Lupa"
Celebrating the fire, ferocity and fabulousness of Anna Magnani
Truth and Power
A provocative new series spotlights injustice, resistance, and reconciliation in Canada's fractious history with its First Nations
Angry Inuk wins the Canada's Top Ten People's Choice Award
Alethea Arnaquq-Baril's doc investigates the global anti-sealing movement's damaging impact on Inuit communities.
The Werewolves and The Destroyers
A conversation between Canadian filmmakers Ashley McKenzie and Kevan Funk
DigiPlayspace 2017 Returns this Winter!
Learn to code, control robots, paint with light, travel through space and visit Canada’s National Parks through high-tech experiences at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Remembering Bill Marshall
Festival Founder, Chair Emeritus of TIFF, and Canadian cultural giant
The Year in Quotes: 2016
They said it
TIFF '16: A Year in Photos
Looking back at the #InfiniteViews of TIFF in 2016
#SeeTheNorth: Canada's Top Ten Film Festival '16 is here!
Come out and see the best of Canadian cinema
Kenneth Lonergan Captures the Storm
Talking to the acclaimed director and playwright about Manchester by the Sea, being open to surprises, and how Michelle Williams broke his heart
Technicolor Yarns
Guy Maddin tests the palettes of Douglas Sirk and Rainer Werner Fassbinder
12 Years Later, The New French Extremity is Still Pissing People Off
TIFF Senior Programmer James Quandt is not sorry
The Wes Craven Chain
When the horror legend died, two film programmers remembered the man behind the screams
Primer: Blood Simple
Everything you ever wanted to know about the Coen brothers' film, but were afraid to ask
TIFF Election Year Special
A cinematic deep dive into American madness
All That Heaven Allows: Fassbinder's Favourite Films
Starting this November at TIFF Bell Lightbox
Imitations of Life: The Films of Rainer Werner Fassbinder
An extensive retrospective, beginning in late October at TIFF Bell Lightbox
The Fifth Quadrant: Sci-fi Cinema After Star Trek
Explore the film universe post-Trek
50 Years of Star Trek
Fan Log – Stardate 70154.9
Watch Three Short Films From The Axe Collective
Filmmakers Tabi Bonney, Shema Jones and Francisco Cabrera find their voice during TIFF '16
TIFF '16 Photo Studio: Day Three
Up close with the cast of Snowden, American Pastoral, and Rage
The Enduring Wisdom of Grey Gardens
"You can't have your cake and eat it, too in life."
