Friedland drew inspiration from her paternal grandmother, a poetry editor who turned nonverbal in her dementia while ...

A standard festival story: I had plans to see a particular film at the end of TIFF 2024 day one, but my schedule had to be hastily rearranged, I had time to kill and thought I might as well see a ...

In Jeremy Saulnier’s breakthrough films Blue Ruin and Green Room, the writer-director thrust protagonists into violent ...

I wanted [it] to be anchored much more to reality,” Kurosawa told me, “ordinary people, ordinary lives.” Yet those around ...

Since the late 1990s, Lav Diaz’s cinema has explored the Philippines’ troubled history with colonization, authoritarianism, ...

“When George W Bush becomes president, for the first time, I knew someone dumber than me was president, and the whole fucking ...

One of the cinematic highlights of this year’s TIFF, Olivier Sarbil’s Ukraine-set (and Darren Aronofsky-produced) Viktor ...

Waiting for Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Cloud to start, I wondered how much time I’d spent over the years watching his signature warehouses, offices and apartments. The man loves a purpose-built soundstage set ...

Click here to read our summer 2024 issue, featuring Jonathan Lethem in conversation with Between the Temples 's Nathan Silver, Daniel Garber on how true crime series are edited and more... With the ...