Film Review: Blair Witch
★★★☆☆ Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the woods… It’s been seventeen years since unprepared audiences were first scared...
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7 July 2023
KVIFF 2023: Our festival highlights
There are few better ways to spend the first weekend of July than roaming between the picturesque pastel-coloured buildings of Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic, sipping a glass of Becherovka and revelling in the vibrant energy and summery glamour of KVIFF. This year, Russell Crowe was in attendance, opening the festival with a performance by his band Indoor Garden Party.
20 April 2023
Interview: Albert Serra, dir. Pacifiction
Albert Serra is a filmmaker with uncompromising vision. Whether he is reworking Cervantes’ Don Quixote with Honour of the Knights (2006), throwing together Dracula and Casanova in Story of My Death (2013), or depicting the final days of an aging monarch in The Death of Louis XIV (2015), Serra’s singular perspective shines through.
26 November 2022
Interview: Alejandro Loayza Grisi, dir. Utama
Coming from a background in photography and cinematography, Alejandro Loayza Grisi embarked on his directorial career with Utama, the tale of an elderly Quechua couple wrangling llamas in the Bolivian highlands.
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Toronto 2016: Mimosas review
★★★★☆ Ben Rivers’ The Sky Trembles and the Earth is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers began with behind-the-scenes footage from two films...
Toronto 2016: Austerlitz review
★★★★☆ “We who are still alive are unreal in the eyes of the dead.” This quote from W.G. Sebald’s novel Austerlitz proves a useful...
Toronto 2016: The Woman Who Left review
★★★★☆ By his own gargantuan standards, Lav Diaz’s Golden Lion winner The Woman Who Left is a mere morsel. His second picture of 2016...
Toronto 2016: The Net review
★★★☆☆ Kim Ki-duk’s career has often progressed in distinct waves – from the nasty sexual violence of his dark early work to the magical...
Toronto 2016: Goldstone review
★★★★☆ Two thirds of the way through Ivan Sen’s Goldstone a brothel madame combats the defiance of one of her trafficked girls with some...
Toronto 2016: Manchester by the Sea review
★★★★☆ Grief is shovelling snow in Kenneth Lonergan’s highly-anticipated third film Manchester by the Sea. The taciturn Lee (Casey Affleck) literally does it by day...
Toronto 2016: Our picks of the festival
The Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) comes rolling back into town today with the world premiere of Antoine Fuqua’s remake of classic western The...
