TIFF

[TIFF Review] A Heavy Heart

A Heavy Heart is a film about the almosts, or to be more precise, the almost almosts. It takes place somewhere in Germany in a town/city full of bull headed men...

[TIFF Review] Cemetery of Splendour

If it is by now redundant to say that Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who understands pronunciation troubles and insists people call him “Joe”) is tru...

[TIFF Review] Hitchcock/Truffaut

We’ve heard it many times before: back in the '50s and '60s, Alfred Hitchcock was considered just a vulgar entertainer, making box-office hits for the unwashed ...

[TIFF Review] Mekko

Seeking to bridge the divide between contemporary filmmaking and Native American spiritualism, writer/director Sterlin Harjo's Mekko provides a tale of redempti...

[TIFF Review] The Other Side

Italian filmmaker Roberto Minervini has long held his ever-fascinated gaze on America's unwanted, isolated or forgotten people. Last year, he finalized his Texa...

[TIFF Review] Victoria

If director/co-writer Sebastian Schipper wanted, he could have easily turned Victoria into a first-person adventure through the streets of Berlin. It practicall...

[TIFF Review] Spear

Interpretative dance is not something to be lightly taken. You either have the propensity to let it wash over you in its loose gyrations of emotional expression...

[TIFF Review] Ninth Floor

The 1969 Sir George Williams Affair seems like something we should all know about. It occurred only a year after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and prov...