My final day in Toronto included a screening of Vertigo, “the best film of all time,” a game of street hockey, the best sport ever invented, and a steak meal, the best food of my entire trip. It was my best…
TIFF Report #9 (Mr. Right, Taxi, Beasts Of No Nation)
All you need for a movie is a girl and a gun. D.W. Griffith apparently uttered that phrase during the earlier stages of cinema’s development, and years later, the formula is as prominent as ever. Max Landis, the writer of…
TIFF Report #8 (Youth, Louder Than Bombs)
My 9th day at TIFF brought two foreign directors with new English language films. Paolo Sorrentino, an Italian filmmaker behind the Oscar-winning The Great Beauty, has a movie already getting awards season buzz for Michael Caine. It’s really lame. However,…
TIFF Report #7 (Remember, Office, The Reflektor Tapes)
I wish I could bring some of Toronto home. Every step feels like undiscovered ground. Every street is a different adventure. Although I’m excited to leave behind the toilet paper that is as smooth as sand paper and the key to my…
TIFF Report #6 (The Martian, Room, The Forbidden Room)
They can be found laying in their seats with their heads tilted back while loud growls leave their mouths. They are the snorers who appear at most films during this point of the festival. I mention this because I’m having a…
TIFF Report #5 (Being Charlie, Keeper, February)
“Transforming the way people see the world through film for forty years.” Before every film at TIFF, the festival projects the raison d’être above. Cinema has the power to inspire, challenge and purge emotions deep inside, but it can also shed…
TIFF Report #4 (High-Rise, Evolution, Equals)
We’re almost at the midway point of the fortieth Toronto International Film Festival and common thematic concerns are emerging. There have been a fair amount of LGBT stories in high-profile films like Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, a biopic of Lili…
