All stories in: TIFF 2021
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Kenneth Branagh’s Belfast wins the TIFF People’s Choice Award
Kenneth Branagh's Belfast won the People’s Choice Award at the hybrid live and virtual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The film is a crowd-pleasing black-and-white... -
TIFF 2021, Day 9: Festival confirms COVID case at press screening
And here we are, approaching the end of another Toronto International Film Festival. TIFF wraps up tomorrow, most of the international visitors have gone home,... -
TIFF 2021, Day 8: Buckle up for Titane at the Cinesphere
Having learned from years of programming press screenings in the IMAX room at the Scotiabank, TIFF has been really smart about what it’s screened in... -
TIFF 2021, Day 7: CBC show Sort Of is all kinds of great
After the fallout over the way Kim’s Convenience abruptly ended, the new CBC show Sort Of is doing things right. According to the CBC, the... -
TIFF 2021, Day 6: Ranking this year’s music documentaries
An entertaining documentary about Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill album is getting the gala treatment at TIFF tonight (7 pm, Roy Thomson Hall). The Ottawa-raised... -
TIFF review: Jagged
JAGGED (Alison Klayman, U.S.). 97 min. Sep 14, 7 pm, Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 15, 5 pm, digital TIFF Bell Lightbox; Sep 15, 8:30 pm,... -
TIFF 2021, Day 5: Celebrate Alanis Obomsawin
Scott Stevens So I understand the premiere of The Eyes Of Tammy Faye went pretty well last night – and I’m not surprised. It’s a... -
TIFF review: The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
THE EYES OF TAMMY FAYE (Michael Showalter, U.S.). 127 min. Sep 12, 9:30 pm, Princess of Wales Theatre; Sep 13, 5 pm, digital TIFF Bell... -
TIFF 2021, Day 4: Denis Villeneuve gets lost in Dune’s desert
All right, it’s time to tackle Dune. You’ve heard about Denis Villeneuve’s years-in-the-making, super-ambitious adaptation of Frank Herbert’s revered tale of warring houses, all-knowing religious... -
TIFF review: The Guilty
THE GUILTY (Antoine Fuqua, U.S.). 90 minutes. Available on digital TIFF Bell Lightbox September 12 at 3 pm and September 18 at 7 pm, also... -
TIFF review: Spencer
SPENCER (Pablo Larraín, UK, Germany). 111 minutes. Screens September 15, 6 pm, at the Visa Screening Room at the Princess of Wales Theatre. See listing.... -
TIFF 2021, Day 3: Don’t let Learn To Swim be drowned out by bigger pictures
Today is the 20th anniversary of 9/11. It was horrible, and thousands of people died, and hundreds of thousands would die as a result of... -
TIFF 2021, Day 2: The nightmare of Night Raiders
So things are a little wobbly this year. TIFF’s digital screening platform glitched hard yesterday, locking press and industry out of most of the titles... -
StereoVisual wants to make film composers out of BIPOC musicians
Toronto musician and composer TiKA says there’s an insidiousness to film and television scores. "They are most often written by white men who use music... -
TIFF review: Dear Evan Hansen
DEAR EVAN HANSEN (Stephen Chbosky, U.S.). 137 minutes. Available now on digital TIFF Bell Lightbox. Rating: NNN Stephen Chbosky's well-meaning and at times very effective...
