#TIFF23: “PERFECT DAYS” REVIEW
By Mr. Will Wong
Wim Wenders is back with a gorgeous portrait of every day life, that leaves its audience with a renewed sense of appreciation of life and living.
The Film centers around Japanese screen legend Kôji Yakusho who plays Hirayama, a middle-aged man working as a toilet cleaner in Tokyo, residing within a throw's reach of the Tokyo Tower. He lives a quiet, mundane life, obsessed with caring for his plants, clocked down to a routine. A series of unexpected encounters with ...
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#TIFF23: DAY ONE PHOTOS: PATRICIA ARQUETTE, WILLEM DAFOE AND CAMILA MORRONE FOR “GONZO GIRL”
It's official TIFFMAS! It was a bit of running about today but thrilled that TIFF '23 finally has kicked-off. While the Opening Night Gala took place at Roy Thomson Hall and Princess of Wales Theatre for Hayao Miyazaki's THE BOY AND THE BLUE HERON, it was just like every other TIFF we've loved with King Street lit abuzz with starpower in front of Royal Alexandra Theatre for the Premiere of GONZO GIRL, based on true accounts by Hunter S. Thompson's assistant. This marks Oscar winner Patricia ...
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#TIFF23: “ANATOMY OF A FALL” REVIEW
By George Kozera
Winner of the Palme d'Or this year at the Cannes Film Festival, Co-Writer and Director. Justine Triet's, ANATOMY OF A FALL makes its Canadian Premiere at TIFF and this auspicious movie deserves a plethora of critical and awards laden attention. Sandra Hüller plays Sandra, a successful German Novelist on trial for the murder of her husband Samuel (Samuel Theis). Living in a chalet not far from Grenoble with her husband and their visually impaired 11-year- old son Daniel ...
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#TIFF23: “ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE” FEATURETTE
In this exclusive new video, go behind the scenes for a sneak peek at TIFF '23 selectiin All the Light We Cannot See, a groundbreaking new limited series premiering on November 2, 2023.
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by Anthony Doerr and starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, Dark breakout Louis Hoffman, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti, the series is directed and executive produced by Shawn Levy, written by Steven Knight (Peaky Blinders), and will have its world premiere at TIFF this ...
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#FIRSTLOOK: CELEBRATE STAR TREK DAY WITH PLUTO TV
Ahead of #StarTrekDay on September 8, Pluto TV is expanding its ever-growing content library with a brand-new channel dedicated to the iconic Star Trek series, streaming now in Canada. The Star Trek channel revisits the mission of the U.S.S. Enterprise with two classic series from one of Sci-Fi’s most beloved franchises, including all three seasons of the original series Star Trek and all seven seasons Star Trek: The Next ...
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#TIFF23: “QUIZ LADY” TRAILER
The trailer for 20th Century Studios’ “Quiz Lady,” a hilarious and heartfelt comedy starring Awkwafina and Canada’s own Sandra Oh about a dysfunctional family and the game show which just might be the key to their salvation, is now available. “Quiz Lady” will premiere November 3, 2023, exclusively on Disney+ in Canada.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-bZI9JAcZU
The original film will premiere at the 48th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival, on ...
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#TIFF23: NEW TRAILER FROM “NYAD”
Today we get a new official Trailer from NYAD, premiering at TIFF '23!
ABOUT NYAD
DIRECTORS: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy ChinWRITER: Julia CoxBASED ON: The Book "Find A Way" by Diana NyadPRODUCERS: Andrew Lazar, Teddy SchwarzmanEXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Bill Johnson, Jim Seibel, Michael Heimler, Vanessa Humphrey, Julia Cox, D. Scott LumpkinKEY CAST: Annette Bening, Jodie Foster, Rhys Ifans, Ethan Jones Romero, Luke Cosgrove, Jeena Yi, Eric T. Miller
RELEASE DATE | In Select Theaters ...
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#TIFF23: VIGGO MORTENSEN AND BARRY JENKINS ARRIVING FOR 2023 TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
We approach the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival with managed expectations and full-on expect things a little lower key this year. But how exciting is it to capture some of the first sightings already around town?
Seen in-town tonight already are Oscar-nominated Actor Viggo Mortensen who tries writing and directing a second time in his feature THE DEAD DON'T HURT, premiering Friday at the Princess of Wales Theatre. The Feminist Western also stars TIFF Tribute Gala honouree Vicky ...
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#TIFF23: “THE FEELING THAT THE TIME FOR DOING SOMETHING HAS PASSED” REVIEW
By Amanda Gilmore
Writer-Director Joanna Arnow’s feature debut follows thirty-something Ann (played by Arnow) in a series of vignettes. Over the course of these vignettes, we watch her idle in her meaningless corporate job, dabbling in different BDSM relationships while stagnating in a long-term submissive sexual relationship with an older man, Allen (Scott Cohen).
Arnow has crafted an acerbic Dark Comedy about being a millennial. Right from the start it’s clear that no one listens ...
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#TIFF23: “HOMECOMING (Máhccan)”
Sámi voices are being given a significant elevation at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival, with acclaimed documentarians Suvi West and Anssi Kömi's quietly powerful indigenous repatriation non-fiction feature Homecoming (Máhccan) leading a trio of Sámi films at the festival for the first time ever.
Homecoming (Máhccan), premiering as part of the prestigious TIFF docs section, joins fiction features Sara Margrethe Oskal's The Tundra Within Me from Norway and Katja ...
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