Memo to Distributors: Buy These 2020 Movies from TIFF and Venice
Even in a pandemic, distributors are buying movies, but these gems still deserve homes. Somebody do something!
Even in a pandemic, distributors are buying movies, but these gems still deserve homes. Somebody do something!
TIFF: Michelle Latimer’s award-winning documentary turns Thomas King’s 2012 book into a hypnotic portrait of Canadian indigenous culture.
137 critics and journalists voted in the survey, with results that single out buzzy festival hits and discoveries alike.
People’s Choice winner “Nomadland,” “Ammonite,” “Pieces of a Woman,” “One Night in Miami,” and “The Father” are among TIFF’s Oscar contenders.
The festival’s big winner often goes on to receive a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars.
TIFF: Ben Sharrock’s quirky look at a Syrian refugee in Scotland is a touching rumination on the quest to belong in an empty world.
Despite the circumstances, acquisitions activity out of the fall’s biggest festivals is off to a productive start.
TIFF: Dry as a bone and more chuckle-inducing than haha-funny, the latest entry in the Pereda cinematic universe is a head-spinning treat.
TIFF: 90-year-old documentary legend Frederick Wiseman delivers another sprawling and enlightening work at the way society is supposed to work.
TIFF: A nearly two-and-a-half-hour running time threatens the emotional impact of Kawase’s latest, which nevertheless shimmers with beauty and melancholy.
TIFF: A fascinating meta portrait of pianist Billy Tipton, a transgender man who died in 1989, as told by trans masculine actors and thinkers.
TIFF: Star Nika McGuigan, who plays one half of a sibling set dealing with old psychic wounds, died while this wrenching film was in post-production.