TIFF Cinematheque
The best weekend events in Toronto: June 15-17
Including NXNE at Yonge-Dundas Square, a rally for fair wages, Pride on the island, Bells on Danforth and Elaine May at TIFF Bell Lightbox more
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Agnès Varda is so much more than her grandmother image
TIFF Cinematheque's feminist-focused retrospective of the French filmmaker Agnes Varda could not have come at a better time more
Deconstructing TIFF's Canada's Top Ten Festival choices
What to see (or skip) at TIFF Cinematheque's annual roundup of the country's best features and shorts more
Canada's Top Ten has some glaring omissions
Tragically Hip doc Long Time Running is snubbed in TIFF's roundup of the best in Canadian cinema more
Black Star and "transformative experiences"
Focusing on TIFF Cinematheque’s new series about Black artists, artistic director Cameron Bailey explains that TIFF’s new mandate is to change what it means to go to the movies more
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Ida Lupino was an innovative filmmaker at a time when women simply didn't make movies
TIFF Cinematheque's summer series honours the actor-turned-indie director by screening 10 of her finest features more
Kathryn Bigelow 101: a guide to the Detroit director's career evolution
TIFF Cinematheque is kicking off a retrospecive on the Oscar-winning producer/director a week before the release of her latest film more
TIFF Cinematheque's summer of crime and complexity
The Lightbox offers a Jean-Pierre Melville retrospective and a program of French crime classics to help pass those sticky summer nights more
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Olivier Assayas on being a feminist filmmaker, Cannes' Netflix problem and shooting with Stallone in Toronto
"If you are free to do what you want, it’s called filmmaking. And when you are defined by what the industry wants, it’s called TV – or bad filmmaking." more
Paul Schrader: slow cinema is dying a slow death
Ahead of his lecture at TIFF Bell Lightbox, the Dog Eat Dog director explains why the art house obsession with slowness is running its course more
If you're sick of Oscar bait and Netflix, TIFF has a retrospective for you
The films of Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet are as thorny and daunting as they are influential and hard to see more
Breaking down TIFF's list of Canada's Top Ten films
There's no overriding theme to this year's group of features, but maybe that's a good thing more
