Features archive
I’ll Take That, Thanks: Genre Films and Horror Hybridity
October 16, 2014
As much fun as their gene-splicing, cliché-mashing and shameless pilfering can be, genre filmmakers may have become worryingly risk-averse. With Toronto After Dark 2014 creeping its way into town, Jason Anderson looks at Wyrmwood and Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter as examples of a mongrelized tradition defined by cross-pollination
Music and Lyrics: God Help the Girl and True Stories
October 9, 2014
“Some pop songs feel like short films.” Adam Nayman explores musicians who have also turned to filmmaking.
Sleeping with the Enemy: Gone Girl and the challenge of movies about marriage and murder
October 2, 2014
Jason Anderson dissects the wreckage that results when two people who’ve pledged to love and care for one another instead come to feel very differently about the person on the other side of the bed.
In a Future Canada: Sizing Up Canada’s Oscar Hopeful Mommy
September 25, 2014
Angelo Muredda writes about Xavier Dolan’s “Mommy” and how it reflects against recent Canadian Oscar contenders.
FIPRESCI Diary: Toronto International Film Festival, part two
September 19, 2014
Thom Ernst recounts the experience of being a member of the FIPRESCI jury at the Toronto International Film Festival.
Platforms for Performance: A Conversation with Matías Piñeiro
September 10, 2014
José Teodoro chats with filmmaker Matías Piñeiro.
What’s old is new: TIFF’s “retro” Cinematheque programme
September 9, 2014
Adam Nayman discusses the current state of TIFF’s Cinematheque program.
FIPRESCI Diary: Toronto International Film Festival
September 8, 2014
Thom Ernst details the initial experience as a member of the TIFF FIPRESCI jury.
What makes a Master?
September 6, 2014
Of all the programs at the Toronto International Film Festival, Masters is at once the most rarified and the most difficult to define, Adam Nayman writes.
Why Can’t Every Day Be Bill Murray Day?
September 5, 2014
Phil Brown expresses his fondness for the man TIFF created a day for.