By Anne Brodie Writer-director Ruben Östlund is back in his favourite place – the hotel. Bedrooms, dining rooms, common thoroughfares with balustrades, and a vibe of impermanence and mild dread as he looks through keyholes at couples not quite in tune. They struggle with the politics of their …
Guy Maddin’s 1988 Classic Tales from the Gimli Hospital Is Restored and Ready for a New Generation
Winnipeg filmmaker, author, and professor Guy Maddin's audacious 1988 horror/erotic/comedy-drama Tales From the Gimli Hospital begins a new life with a 4K restoration, 34 years after its initial release. Maddin's signature silent and early film sound styles were set here in his first feature; Gimli …
Brett Morgen on TIFF Fave Moonage Daydream, the Definitive David Bowie Doc.
Brett Morgen's brain melt of a documentary Moonage Daydream on the elusive David Bowie is like none other. The Bowie estate handed Morgen 5 million assets including never before seen footage, private concerts, interviews, and Bowie's own words on his 54-year career, his troubled childhood, beliefs, …
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Viola Davis Unbound, Witty Agatha Christie Extension and TIFF Takeaways.
By Anne Brodie Gina Prince-Bythewood's gobsmacking take on the historic warrior women of west Africa - the Dahomey Amazons - feels like a superhero epic but with living, breathing, relatable humans. The Woman King. The warriors are phenomenal - Viola Davis is power personified as Nanisca, …
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A Stunning Peter Jackson-less LOTR, Romeo & Juliet, Rom-Coms, Murder, Simone Signoret and There’s Cake, Too.
By Anne Brodie Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power is reported to be the most expensive production ever made at $1B. Every penny is on the screen. Perhaps the longest end credit list in existence and for good reason. It's stunning; it took a lot of work and a lot of artists. And despite …