Luo Li Discusses His Self-Reflexive Cinema, Being Inspired By Robert Bresson, and More
With a new retrospective at TIFF Bell Lightbox, we discuss his cinema and speak with the director....
Ethan Vestby
Director Mark Christopher on Resurrecting ’54,’ Which Films Deserve Director’s Cuts, and More
"I will say that it was very painful at the time, but I’m not the first director to have his movie re-cut by a studio, and I will not be the last director unfortunately to have his movie re-cut by the studio."...
Ruben Östlund Talks ‘Force Majeure,’ Learning Filmmaking Through Skiing, the Future of Cinema & More
With only four feature films under his belt -- including one of 2014’s most acclaimed films, Force Majeure, newly available to stream -- Sweden's Ruben Östl...
Ethan Vestby’s Top 10 Films of 2014
In order to make the rote activity of yearly list-making more interesting, there seems to be some need to frame it around a greater narrative. Take your pick:...
The Dance of Reality in Steven Spielberg’s ‘1941’
We re-evaluate what was widely considered Steven Spielberg's first outright failure and see how it fits in the rest of his career....
[TIFF Review] It Follows
A teenage girl, captured through a static wide shot, runs through a quaint Detroit suburb, her body dwarfed by its trees and middle-class homes. The sense that ...
[TIFF Review] Tokyo Tribe
Though a hip-hopera (the last film to earn that label possibly being R. Kelly’s everlasting epic, Trapped in the Closet), Sion Sono’s Tokyo Tribe puts itself in...
[TIFF Review] Force Majeure
Near the very beginning of Ruben Östlund's Force Majeure, we come to understand the impetus for a family’s vacation when the wife, Ebba (Lisa Loven Kongsli), ex...
[TIFF Review] Horse Money
Often, when defining the auteur, one of the first things we go to is the consistency of location -- that through a certain booming metropolis, quaint small town...
[Fantasia Review] The Zero Theorem
The comparisons between The Zero Theorem and Terry Gilliam’s most-beloved film are inevitable: dystopian sci-fi, a looming corporation, one lone man navigating ...
