Stay-at-Home Cinema: Parasite
Bong Joon-ho's interpreter Sharon Choi on the best film of 2019
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Blinded by the Light
Director Gurinder Chadha introduces her boss musical-comedy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Clemency
Alfre Woodard introduces this Sundance ’19 Grand Jury Prize winner
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Normal Heart
Matt Bomer, star Stay-at-Homer
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Widows
Director Steve McQueen discusses his clever, star-studded caper
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Sense and Sensibility
Kate Winslet takes Books on Film online
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Falls Around Her
Canadian acting icon Tantoo Cardinal discusses this TIFF '18 favourite
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Looper
Director Rian Johnson talks time travel and twists
Stay-at-Home Cinema: A League of Their Own
Actor and activist Geena Davis steps up to the plate
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Crazy Rich Asians
Director Jon M. Chu introduces this rags-to-riches romance
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Slumdog Millionaire
We use our Phone-a-Friend lifeline on director Danny Boyle
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Before Sunset
Julie Delpy revisits Richard Linklater's romantic-series sequel
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Bridesmaids
An intro from best man, director Paul Feig, and maids of honour Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Actor Shameik Moore — the voice of Spidey — joined us for some World Wide Web–slinging
Introducing Robyn Citizen
TIFF’s Senior Manager of Festival Programming shares her insights on women in the industry
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Firecrackers
Canadian director Jasmin Mozaffari and her debut feature burn bright
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Big Lebowski
Author Adam Nayman really ties this Coen brothers classic together
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Pan’s Labyrinth
Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro talks TP, chili, and his anti-fascist fantasy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Before Sunrise
Ethan Hawke explains why we all love this Richard Linklater romance
Stay-at-Home Cinema: HBO’s Bad Education
TIFF Rising Star Geraldine Viswanathan home-schools us on this true-crime comedy
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Hate U Give
Director George Tillman, Jr. gives u some love
Stay-at-Home Cinema: ANTHROPOCENE: The Human Epoch
Directors Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas de Pencier discuss their timely documentary
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Yesterday
Yesterday came suddenly, but you can relive Himesh Patel’s Instagram intro
Stay-at-Home Cinema: The Breakfast Club
Emilio Estevez joined us to introduce the quintessential ’80s teen movie
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Belle
Director Amma Asante joined us to introduce her period drama
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
Producer and co-writer James Schamus introduced Ang Lee’s wuxia classic
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Captain Fantastic
Viggo Mortensen found his way onto Instagram to chat with Cameron Bailey
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Beetlejuice
Catherine O’Hara and Bo Welch joined us to look back on Tim Burton’s bonkers classic
Stay-at-Home Cinema: Away from Her
Cameron Bailey discussed Away from Her with the film’s director, Sarah Polley
Bibi Andersson: From Princess to Persona
Bergman’s idealized innocent explored darker territory in the director’s self-reflexive masterpiece
Meet Helen Haig-Brown, the co-director of Edge of the Knife
How do you make a movie in an endangered language that only 24 people on the planet understand?
Claire Denis: Close Encounters
With her stunning new sci-fi epic High Life, the ever-daring French auteur continues to create a cinema without borders
Med Hondo is the African Auteur You Need to See
His films are virtually impossible to find and more relevant than ever
Meet the 2018–2019 TIFF Next Wave Committee
These young film lovers know what's next — and what's good
The Gilded Cages of Max Ophüls
The opulent films of the great German director concealed darkness and rueful irony within their bounty of visual delights
Aki Kaurismäki Finds Laughter in the Dark
With his recent "Refugee Trilogy," the Finnish master of deadpan comedy has become one of cinema’s most important chroniclers of the chief humanitarian crisis of our time
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 102: How is France keeping its art-house cinemas packed?
Even in the age of SVOD, the country’s independent theatres have continued to thrive
Legrand Allusions
The late Michel Legrand's score for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg yielded two big '60s hits and a Hollywood career for the composer
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 100: Can a film preserve an endangered language?
The producer of Edge of the Knife discusses making the world’s first Haida-language feature film
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 99: How the Oscars addressed its diversity problem
Four years after #OscarsSoWhite, what progress has been made?
James Gray: The Ties That Bind
As the writer-director prepares to release his Brad Pitt-starring science-fiction epic Ad Astra, we celebrate an American filmmaker whose fidelity to cinematic tradition has often placed him at odds to the movies of the moment
Bluebeard at the Movies
Joan Crawford’s superlative noir Sudden Fear offers a nifty twist on a classic plot
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 93: What is the state of independent film in 2018?
See-Saw Films executive Negin Salmasi explains how the independent landscape has evolved over the last decade
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 92: Zoe Kazan on writing, westerns, and working with the Coen Brothers
The actor and screenwriter stars in the new anthology film The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
The Rules of the Game: Corneliu Porumboiu on Infinite Football
The Romanian master discusses his new film, the tension between rules and freedom, and his lifelong devotion to the Beautiful Game
Marie Dressler: From “Ugly Duckling” to Screen Queen
The Canadian-born Oscar winner was one of this country’s most lucrative showbiz exports
How Jean Peters Survived Howard Hughes
Karina Longworth considers the reluctant '50s sex symbol's brief career and creepy courtship by the mercurial movie mogul
Andrei Tarkovsky: The Poet of Apocalypse
Discovering the mystical world of the greatest postwar Russian filmmaker
Meet Astra Taylor, the director of What is Democracy?
A Festival-bound film produced from the back seat of Neutral Milk Hotel’s tour van
Meet Emma Tammi, the director of The Wind
The filmmaker’s horror turn has her hooked on fiction
Meet Imogen Thomas, the director of Emu Runner
A feature film debut that’s 15 years in the making
Nico, 1988 Playlist: All That Was Her Own
Susanna Nicchiarelli's anti-biopic captures the art-rock legend in her final year, but is also an ideal entry point to an astounding two decades of work
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 78: What does a festival award mean to a young filmmaker?
Desiree Akhavan talks about her long and difficult journey to making The Miseducation of Cameron Post
The Films of Nadav Lapid
The most internationally acclaimed Israeli filmmaker in recent memory presents his celebrated films at TIFF Cinematheque
The Double Life of Juliette Binoche
Sofia Bohdanowicz on how the French icon influenced the making of her first feature
Criticizing Kiarostami
The great Iranian filmmaker was not always celebrated in his own homeland
From Musidora to Maggie Cheung: Celebrating a century of Irma Vep
The legacy of French film’s first screen supervillainess
Love, Lulu
Sifting through TIFF’s cache of correspondence from legendary silent-screen siren Louise Brooks
Can You See What I See?
Director Lina Rodriguez on the elusive artistry of Lucrecia Martel
Twin Peaks in Pictures
Blake Morrow’s 2017 exhibition paid homage to the cult series’ iconic characters and locations
15,000 Sparklers Were Harmed in the Making of This Film
Winnipeg filmmaker Matthew Rankin on his strange and beguiling short The Tesla World Light Project
"Long before I knew I was a woman, I knew I was an actress"
Actor Pascale Drevillon tells the story behind the making of the award-winning short film Pre-Drink
The Walkie-talkies were a Mistake
E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial is 35 years old and doesn’t need a facelift
How Set It Off raked it up
The heist-movie hit brought Black (and Black queer) women into the liberating space of action cinema
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 44: The Pros and Cons of Co-Pros
Are co-productions the future of Canadian film?
Paul Scheer's Guide to Bad Movies
How did The Disaster Artist get made? Enter: Paul Scheer.
How The Harder They Come created Jamaican cinema
Reggae authority Klive Walker revisits the genesis of the island’s legendary first feature film
Aki Kaurismäki’s films always go to the dogs
Exploring the Finnish master’s canine obsession
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 43: The Fight for On-Screen Diversity
How can programmers encourage their audiences to embrace new stories?
These are the Best Canadian Films of 2017
#SeeTheNorth at the Canada’s Top 10 Film Festival, January 12–21
Will Smith, Sidney Poitier, and the Burden of Representation
In Six Degrees of Separation, future superstar Smith invokes ’60s icon Sidney in one of his only films to directly tackle racial dynamics
Anne Wiazemsky: The Muse Become Creator
TIFF Cinematheque’s James Quandt remembers the late star of Godard’s La Chinoise
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 42: Where Does Hollywood Go After #MeToo?
How film can be used to make A Better Man
Honky Tonk Cinema: From Nashville to Brantford, Ontario
Senior Programmer Steve Gravestock looks at the long, complicated history of country and western music on screen
Stormy Weather in a Time of Global Warming
Poet and author Ed Pavlić on “soul in music” and a vital (and continuing) tradition of Black performance
From Grandmaster Flash to Working With Brie Larson
TIFF Rising Star Mamoudou Athie, behind 2017's The Get Down, Patti Cake$, and Unicorn Store, reveals why he needs to work with the outliers
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 41: How to Write the Best Sequel of the Century
The screenwriter of Creed did just that
A Sense of Otherness
Colombian filmmakers Laura Huertas Millán and Lina Rodriguez talk about filmmaking between cultures, the visible and invisible, and how to cook on film
“It was the first time a Black man had slapped a white man back”
Norman Jewison talks about the 50-year influence of In the Heat of the Night
Paul Robeson: The First Black Star
Curator Ashley Clark on the legacy of the (in)famous actor, singer, and political activist
Tarkovsky’s Madonnas
The Mirror is Tarkovsky’s greatest fusion of his twinned obsessions: time, and suffering women
The Last Taboo: Stephen Rea talks The Crying Game
The Oscar-nominated actor reflects on the legacy of Neil Jordan’s notorious thriller
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 38: How Horror Slayed the Competition in 2017
From Split to It, why audiences gave their money and their love to the horror genre this year
Ruben Östlund Wants to Provoke You
An interview with the writer-director behind Palme d’Or winner The Square
"They're not characters who say 'I love you,' so they call each other 'faggots'"
Writer-director Francis Lee on breaking through with God’s Own Country
The Road to Moonlight
Cameron Bailey on a century of Black excellence on screen
The Sly and Savage Cinema of Ruben Östlund
The director of The Square has been pushing buttons from the beginning
“Indigenous existence is resistance”
The artists of 2167 discuss Indigenous Futurism, their impressions of VR, and why Canada 150 isn’t the milestone they’re interested in
A Brief History of Soviet Sci-fi
Exploring the wild and woolly futuristic visions from behind the Iron Curtain
A Death Foretold: Time to Die
Scripted by Carlos Fuentes and Gabriel García Márquez, Arturo Ripstein’s feature debut is an absorbing revenge western with an ironic, literary twist
“Every Scene is a Trap”
Watch a scene breakdown of Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us
By the Time We Get to Woodshock: A Brief, Selective History of Psychedelic Cinema
The Mulleavy sisters’ Kirsten Dunst–starring directorial debut joins a proud tradition of fantastic big-screen freak-outs
Elder Wisdom
A monumental interview with Canadian avant-garde giant Bruce Elder
Every Single Trailer (So Far) for TIFF '17
Gotta watch 'em all
Jessica Chastain: "Talking about diversity is not a courageous thing"
Hear an in-depth Q&A from the actor who will appear in Woman Walks Ahead and Molly's Game at TIFF '17
Filmmaking in Between Cultures
Lina Rodriguez describes how she makes movies between Toronto and Colombia, as well as the past, present, and future
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 24: The Biggest Challenges Facing Emerging Filmmakers
How does the next generation get their films made?
Rejection is How You Become a Filmmaker
Molly McGlynn describes the long hard road taken to get her first feature, Mary Goes Round, to TIFF '17
Pushing Keanu Reeves to the limit
Running, surfing, and skydiving in Point Break
Shit-kicker Heaven: Celebrating Kathryn Bigelow’s dark, twisted vampire western
Jesse Wente on Near Dark, "the greatest modern vampire movie"
Visionary works headline TIFF '17's Platform slate
Directors' cinema now
How May ’68 Changed the World
Olivier Assayas remembers the upheaval that “changed the way we lived”
The Crime-Movie Mastery of Ida Lupino
Toronto filmmaker Simon Ennis on the risk-taking greatness of the remarkable actor-director
Make The Room Great Again
James Franco's The Disaster Artist is heading to Midnight Madness
The Method Behind Midnight Madness
Peter Kuplowsky, the new programmer of Midnight Madness, tells us what to expect from TIFF '17's deadliest lineup
TIFF Docs features stories of boundary breakers in 2017
Legendary musicians, a president, fashion royalty, and so much more
Beyond the Square
Ivan Herrera, winner of last year’s Jury’s Choice Award at the TIFFxInstagram Shorts Festival, discusses the medium’s infinite potential with music video director Nabil
The Day I Had Tea with Jeanne Moreau
TIFF CEO Piers Handling remembers his meeting with the legendary star
Deepa Mehta Shares Her Journey in Film (Death Threats Included)
The acclaimed filmmaker details why women must make films and live life on their own terms
Meet Carol Nguyen
The 19-year-old wunderkind has won Jump Cuts three times
What makes an Auteur Rock Doc?
How feature filmmakers bring visual punch to music documentaries
The Toronto International Film Festival unveils first slate of films for 2017
14 Galas and 33 Special Presentations kick off TIFF '17
A Mandate to Change
Jennifer Baichwal on the film industry's gender imbalance
Hauling Gear with Win and Régine
Montreal artist Vincent Morisset on his decade-long collaboration with Arcade Fire
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 23: Is There Room for Censorship in Modern Film?
Two Indian filmmakers tell their story
“Everyone’s Had An Existential Crisis”
Writer/director David Lowery on his haunting new film, A Ghost Story
From “so polite” to burning effigies: Why making a film in Canada is a political act
Igniting social change on screen
Who Says Female Characters Have to Be Likeable?
Canadian actor/writer/producer Sarah Kolasky on the making of her first feature, Great Great Great
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 22: Has Game of Thrones Transcended Television?
All men (and TV shows) must die
Panic and Violence: Olivier Assayas’ Paris
How the director’s darkest experience impacted his work
Three Faces of the French Tough Guy
Jean Gabin, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo defined Gallic crime cinema
She's Lost Control: demonlover's New Media Prophecy
Olivier Assayas' techno-thriller eerily predicted the shape of media (and capitalism) to come
The Highs and Lows of Writing and Directing Your Own Work
This year's TIFF Studio participants curate The Review and share their feelings on writing, directing, and how to fix the Canadian film industry
From Clueless to Cold Water: An Indian Cinephile's Teen-Movie Odyssey
"Teen movies [were] a storehouse of cultural knowledge that helped initiate me into my new, adopted society"
The Signature Moves of Jean-Pierre Melville
Your three-step guide to becoming a master of crime cinema
Colm Tóibín: "This part was filled for me, that I had left empty"
The Brooklyn author's favourite scene is the one he didn't write
Deepa Mehta: "Being an immigrant in Canada means displacement"
Making a masterful Canadian film about life in India
Ice-Cold Angels
Jean-Pierre Melville’s existential tough-guy thrillers forged the link between Classical Hollywood and the French New Wave
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 19: How The New York Times ranked a century of cinema
The NYT's chief film critic A.O. Scott breaks it down
Bong Joon Ho: "I cause a stir everywhere I go"
Bong Joon Ho is one of South Korea’s most popular directors, but his new film Okja is shut out of 93% of the country’s movie theatres
Phyllis Nagy: “Being gay is Tom Ripley’s kryptonite”
The Carol screenwriter talks Patricia Highsmith, homosexuality, and how the movies keep getting Ripley wrong
Seven Angry Filmmakers
A group of Canadian directors discuss the challenges of making films in an age of political upheaval
"A Radical Movie for Disney": Mira Nair talks Queen of Katwe
The director on how she made a movie with an all-African cast — including her former intern, Lupita Nyong’o
TIFF Long Take - Ep. 15: Has Prestige TV Become Boring?
And what does "cinematic" mean when applied to television, anyway?
Buster’s Mal Heart shows the emotional extremes of Rami Malek
Director Sarah Adina Smith discusses her intense collaboration with her actor and her new feature’s timely vision of the American Dream
How 10 Legendary Canadian Filmmakers Reached Their Someday
Celebrating local celluoid heroes, from their humble beginnings to historic careers
Soul Men
Revisiting Paul Schrader’s transcendental trio of Bresson, Ozu and Dreyer
Ice Cream and Fury
For James Baldwin, Sylvia Sidney was "the only American film actress who reminded me of reality"
"The Wind in the Trees"
The poetic precision of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet
Now Reconciled
Nearly 50 years later, the director of a landmark First Nations film gets his rightful recognition
Matters of the Heart
We indulge in a little self-love on Valentine's Day
