It’s time to start thinking about your plans for TIFF 17! We now know about a quarter of the films scheduled to come to town in September and already we’re excited for Benedict Cumberbatch, Daniel Craig, Angelina Jolie, Jake Gyllenhaal, George Clooney, Tatiana Maslany, Elle Fanning, Julianne …
Interview: ‘Lady Macbeth’ Director William Oldroyd
William Oldroyd’s stunning adaptation of Nikolai Leskov’s novel, with its unique ties to Shakespeare’s tragedy offers a radically new view of a time and place usually idealised in film, wealthy rural Britain in the middle 1800’s. Gone are the demure, delicate flowers of the novels replaced by a …
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TIFF 2017 Gala and Special Presentations Announced
The 42nd edition of TIFF is on. Today Piers Handling and Cameron Bailey let the world know ours is still the festival to beat. They shared films in the Gala and Special Presentations sections in a news conference today at TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto. The 14 Galas and 33 Special Presentations …
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An Interview with David Lowery, Writer and Director of A Ghost Story
[youtube url="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FpNGK_t60eM" width="500" height="300"] David Lowery’s ground breaking psychological drama A Ghost Story is a rarity. It looks at life and death from the point of view of the departed as they suffer and journey to wholeness. It has tremendous …
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An Interview with Satinder Sartaaj, Star of ‘The Black Prince’
Kavi Raz’ historic drama The Black Prince brings to life the incredible story of a five year old Maharaja of Punjab, Duleep Singh, the last king of the Sikh Kingdom, who ascended to the throne at age five. At age ten, during the British / Sikh war, he was kidnapped, and in 1849 was sent to live in …
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