All Toronto articles – Page 2
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Reviews‘A Difficult Year’: Toronto Review
This French social satire sees two lost souls find some purpose in an environmental action group
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NewsCJ Cultural Foundation, Korean Film Council, TIFF launch fund
“It is our hope that this fund helps filmmakers in North America who are of Korean backgrounds, unleash their creative potential.”
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: David Yates on swapping ‘Harry Potter’ for opioid drama ‘Pain Hustlers’
After 15 years in JK Rowling’s Wizarding World, Yates was keen to get back to the type of work that saw him noticed by Hollywood in the first place.
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Reviews‘NYAD’: Toronto Review
Annette Bening goes the distance as real life endurance swimmer Diana Nyad
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Reviews‘Wildcat’: Toronto Review
Ethan Hawke directs his daughter Maya Hawke as Southern Gothic writer Flannery O’Connor
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Reviews‘Fingernails’: Toronto Review
Jessie Buckley and Riz Ahmed fight the laws of attraction in this near-future set drama in which love is a science
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NewsTIFF ‘Stop Making Sense’ screening powers Imax to record live event gross
Release via A24 to follow later in September.
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NewsIndie producers at TIFF voice packaging fears amid SAG-AFTRA interim agreement logjam
“This isn’t just an American strike; it’s a global strike.”
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Reviews‘The Burial’: Toronto Review
Jamie Foxx and Tommy Lee Jones are the odd couple of flashy lawyer and small town client in this mid-90s set crowdpleaser
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NewsNetflix buys Lucy Walker’s TIFF doc ‘Mountain Queen’ as heat builds on handful of acquisition titles
Wicked Little Letters, Hit Man, Knox Goes Away also generating interest.
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Reviews‘The Holdovers’: Toronto Review
Alexander Payne reunites with his ‘Sideways’ star Paul Giamatti for this wistful 1970-set character study
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Reviews‘Sorry/Not Sorry’: Toronto Review
Louis CK documentary reveals the deadly serious abusive underbelly of the US comedy circuit
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Reviews‘Pain Hustlers’: Toronto Review
Emily Blunt shines in this otherwise muted true-life tale of a corrupt American pharmaceutical company
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NewsNetflix pounces on US, remaining international rights at TIFF to Anna Kendrick’s ‘Woman Of The Hour’
France, Italy, Japan also sell.
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NewsSpike Lee recalls 9/11 at TIFF: ‘You can make the case that the world has changed since that day’
New York filmmaker talks tragedy, love of music in film.
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Reviews‘The Critic’: Toronto Review
Ian McKellan is a gloriously acerbic 1930s theatre critic in a film that proves too genteel for its central character
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Reviews‘Rustin’: Toronto Review
Colman Domingo plays the man behind the March on Washington - who found himself sidelined because he was gay
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FeaturesTIFF spotlight: The story behind ‘City Of Wind’, the first Mongolian film to play at both Toronto and Venice
Director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir’s feature debut City Of Wind explores life as a young Mongolian in the modern world.
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Reviews‘Next Goal Wins’: Toronto Review
Michael Fassbender stars in Taika Waititi’s crowdpleasing underdog sporting drama set in American Samoa
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FeaturesTIFF Spotlight: Lone Scherfig on shooting ‘The Movie Teller’ in Chile’s Atacama desert
The Danish filmmaker’s latest project was shot in Chile’s Atacama desert