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TIFF: Exclusive Interview with The Wolves Always Come at Night Director Gabrielle Brady

Families around the world have long cherished the locations and enduring, unique traditions of the places they call home. Unfortunately, their foundations can ultimately forever change as their situations become tenuous, which forces them to adapt to a new way of life. Young couple Davaasuren Dagvasuren and Otgonzaya Dashzeveg, along with their four children, are…

TIFF: ‘My Sunshine’ is an Affecting Story of Young Love and Skill

There are many reasons that people might enter the world of sports. Often it’s true talent or the support – or enthusiastic encouragement, however warranted by ability – of a family member, friend, or coach. It can also just be the oldest and most basic motivation of all, to be close to and impress someone…

TIFF Review: Chaos is Saturday Night’s Neighbor

Not even Lorne Michaels himself could describe what the show was about. The turmoil around the founder of Saturday Night Live, America’s longest running sketch variety show and one of the most famous institutions in the history of television, is the focus in Jason Reitman’s latest film Saturday Night (as the show used to be…

TIFF: Walking to Keep Going in ‘The Salt Path’

People walk long trails for a variety of reasons. In many cases, it’s to work through and get past something traumatic, extracting a person from a triggering environment to give them some time to heal. In others, however, it’s out of necessity since they simply have no place to live. The Salt Path tells the…

TIFF: Paying for the Past in Japan’s Oscar Entry ‘Cloud’

Actions are rarely without consequences, even if takes a while for them to materialize. One unfortunate or regrettable decision may bring with it an undue and disproportionate response, but a pattern of illegal or unethical behavior will eventually incur some sort of justice, even if it’s merely cosmic and not literal or cut-and-dry. Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s…

TIFF: Modern-Day Old School Antics in ‘Young Werther’

Can a popular book from the eighteenth century be adapted into a modern-day movie? That’s the question that filmmaker José Avelino Gilles Corbett Lourenço explores in Young Werther, based on what the film introduces in its opening titles as the 1774 hit novel comparable to Beatlemania, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s The Sorrows of Young Werther….

TIFF / The Last Showgirl Review: Pamela Anderson Stuns in the Role of a Lifetime

Las Vegas, showgirls and Pamela Anderson. One can easily imagine this film to be filled with sparkle, glitter, neon signs and energetic dancing, perhaps a sibling film to Paul Verhoeven‘s “Showgirls” (1995). But Gia Coppola‘s “Palo Alto” (2013), latest film is everything but. This is a dreamy and intimate character study of a veteran Las…

TIFF: Exclusive Interview with Boong Director Lakshmipriya Devi

Boong: Schoolboy Boong (Gugun Kipgen) doesn’t see long distances and state borders as significant obstacles. At least not when it comes to giving his mother, Mandakini (Bala Hijam), the best surprise gift ever: bringing back his father, Joykumar (Hamom Sadananda). After leaving their home city of Manipur, India for the border city of Moreh, near…

TIFF: Playing the Hero in ‘Sharp Corner’

There’s a popular expression which describes how it’s impossible to look away from a car crash. No one wants to be the victim, and a combination of horror and genuine curiosity often lead to increased traffic around the site of an accident as drivers slow to see what could have happened to them but instead…

TIFF: Forging Her Own Path in ‘Bird’

The home in which a person is raised can have a strong effect on building character. Positive role models and attentive parents may produce a child who is well-behaved and capable, though potentially less used to doing things on their own if too much is done for them. When there isn’t someone who is putting…

TIFF: A Harsh Homecoming for Odysseus in ‘The Return’

Returning home after a long time away with no communication is always uncomfortable. In the age of cell phones and emails, not being in touch feels like a deliberate choice, but in the time of the Trojan War long before the advent of modern technology, failure to send word was considerably more excusable. Literature fans…