The People's Republic of China celebrates its 60th anniversary tomorrow and, as you've no doubt heard, it's going to be one helluva show. Sharon LaFraniere has detailed the meticulous preparations
Stepping out of the sullen romantic echo chambers of Balzac and the Bourbon Restoration in Ne touchez pas le hache, Jacques Rivette moves into the light with a gentle, simple masterwork, Around a
Four films from TIFF's documentary program wound up with entries of their own this year. Here are notes on several more... Alissa Simon in Variety: "An affecting portrait of an inspiring woman, fine
An interview with the director about his film Hadewijch.
Its conditional sexism and the immortal protestations of Oscar expert Tom O'Neil notwithstanding, I think we can all agree that F.W. Murnau's post-Expressionist paean to monogamy and such, Sunrise, is
"Less is more in the sophomore feature by Cannes Camera d'or winner Corneliu Porumboiu (12:08 East of Bucharest), a filmmaker attentive, like his fellow under-40 countrymen Cristi Puiu and Cristian
Afterschool opens in U.S. theatres October 2.
Yesterday someone quipped on Twitter something to the effect that it was hard to believe Roman Polanski had fallen for the old Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zurich Film Festival trick. As you're
Lars von Trier's hoot-of-a-new-film may inspire a lot of boring critical bile—we still stand by our take from Cannes—but it is also inspiring a lot of great graphic art. The original US poster is striking
"With rugged reverence," begins Nick Schager in Slant, "Sweetgrass depicts the final sheepherder drive into Montana's Beartooth mountains, a saga that begins on farms where sheep are born and shorn
The Details is a column that catches the small within the big, focusing on the individual elements that make cinema so expressive. *** Not so long ago there was a discussion in our forums about off-screen
Halloween got off to an early start up north with the Toronto After Dark Film Festival in August (see Bob Turnbull's enthusiastic coverage). The spirit then moved through TIFF's Midnight Madness program