TIFF Cinematheque
The five films you need to see at TIFF's Mexican series
Curated by Diana Sanchez and Guillermo del Toro, TIFF's month-long survey of Mexican cinema includes rarities and works by renowned auteurs Read more
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Video: Feminist film pioneer Dorothy Arzner finally takes the spotlight
TIFF’s Cinematheque's Working Girls: The Films Of Dorothy Arzner showcases six classics by the queer female director who helped launch the careers of Lucille Ball and Katharine Hepburn Read more
The six films you need to see at TIFF's James Gray retrospective
The director's sci-fi epic Ad Astra, starring Brad Pitt, opens in May. But here, in order of must-see-ness, are a half dozen of his best films to watch before then. Read more
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TIFF’s winter 2019 season spotlights Hepburn, Denis, Ophüls and the year 1999
TIFF Bell Lightbox's programming also includes a retrospective of Mexican films co-curated by Guillermo del Toro, feminist film hero Dorothy Arzner and a talk by director James Gray Read more
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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read 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." Read 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 Read 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 Read 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 Read more
