The Toronto International Film Festival has added over 75 titles to its mammoth and impressive 2012 lineup, including new films in the Special Presentations and Gala sections from Paul Thomas Anderson, Dante Ariola, Susanne Bier, Nick Cassavetes, Daniele Ciprì, Lee Daniels, Brian De Palma, Ha...
Read More »The Toronto International Film Festival has announced guests and programming for the TIFF Asian Film Summit, which will take place on Monday, September 10 at the Shangri-La Hotel, Toronto.
Read More »It took six years for Sarah Polley to follow up her Academy Award-nominated directorial debut "Away From Her" with this summer's "Take This Waltz," so we were surprised (like many) to learn that her third feature, a documentary, will be screening at the upcoming Venice and To...
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Markus Imhoof's "More Than Honey" makes a convincing argument for the role of bees sustaining both organic and industrial concerns, not to mention their own complex set of behaviors. Facing crises that threaten to impact their existence as well as various marketplaces that rely on thei...
Read More »There are moments in "Leviathan" so breathtaking that it's easy to forget they're also familiar. The movie could take place on another planet; instead, it peers at this one from a jarring and entirely fresh point of view.
Read More »The Toronto International Film Festival announced the Canadian features lineup at a press conference in Toronto this afternoon. The lineup includes first-time feature filmmakers Jason Buxton, Brandon Cronenberg, Igor Drljaca and Kate Melville, as well as filmmakers returning to the Festival &m...
Read More »While the closest point of comparison for Strickland's eerie audiovisual thriller is Francis Ford Coppola's "The Conversation," its later scenes shift to Hitchcockian mode.
Read More »All eyes will be on Beijing-born actress Zhang Ziyi of "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" fame at this year's Toronto International Film Festival, following China Free Press' recent shocking allegation that Zhang carried on sexual relationships for money with a number of high-ranking...
Read More »Prolific documentary filmmaker Alex Gibney ("Taxi to the Dark Side") will be back at the Toronto International Film Festival this year with his Vatican expose, "Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God." Ahead of the film's world premiere in Toronto, check out the just-r...
Read More »The Locarno Film Festival begins its 65th edition tonight with the world premiere of Nick Love's Ray Winstone crime vehicle "The Sweeney" at the famous outdoor Piazza Grande, which typically seats some 8,800 people. But while the Piazza has evolved into Locarno's most emblematic in...
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