It’s hard to imagine a greater challenge for a filmmaker than this: concocting a convincing screen adaptation of a much-honoured novel that is set in an unspecified place and features a cast of unnamed characters, only one of whom has not been affected by an epidemic of sightlessness.
BY Adam Nayman
Peter Sollett came to the Toronto International Film Festival in 2002 with a lovely, under-the-radar debut feature called Raising Victor Vargas. Six years later, the 32-year-old director returned to ...
BY Damian Rogers
Patti Smith was in Toronto Sept. 10 for a private screening of Dream of Life, photographer and director Steven Sebring’s beautiful documentary about the 61-year-old poet-turned-punk-prophet.
BY Philip Brown
Armed with an infectious laugh, acidic wit, a keen sense of human interaction, and what David Bowie once described as “a pug nosed face,” Ricky Gervais has, in half a decade, ascended to the top of ... (1)
One of a tiny few contemporary screenwriters who is as famous and acclaimed as the people who shoot his scripts, Charlie Kaufman conceived three of the most inventive American films of the last decade: Being John Malkovich, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless ...
Though it most certainly would’ve squashed a lesser actor, the burden of playing the one person who can actually witness a society’s descent into squalour, cruelty and degradation during an epidemic of sightlessness falls on one of America’s most capable ...
Unfortunately, this year’s Toronto International Film Festival Short Cuts Canada program won’t feature a new film by Knock Knock (Who’s There?) Comedy! members (and former EYE WEEKLY cover boys) Adam Brodie and Dave Derewlany. But Friday’s one-night only ... (1)
Having established himself as one of television’s finest ensemble players on The Office, Rainn Wilson makes his requisite bid for big-screen stardom in The Rocker (see On Screen page 24), in which he plays a faded-superstar drummer who hooks up with his ...
At 42 years old, Steve Coogan seems as if he’s been around a lot longer than he has. He’s a comedy icon in the UK due to his TV creation Alan Partridge and, recently, the quietly brilliant Saxondale, and genre-bending film work with director Michael ...
The permanently cool cultural icon spoke to EYE WEEKLY about his career and the upcoming Fan Expo.