Since its world premiere at Montreal’s Fantasia Festival in the summer, Repo! The Genetic Opera has emerged as one of the year’s most unique and divisive movies.
BY Philip Brown
Next to Quentin Tarantino, Kevin Smith had the most fabled film-career path of the ’90s, going from convenience store clerk to writer/director of a no-budget indie hit about convenience store clerks ...
BY Jason Anderson
When he realized that the negative for one of his most sublime ’90s features was in danger of falling apart, Wong Kar-wai did not look back in anger.
BY Nick Flanagan
Clark Duke is in a nice spot. He has a supporting role in the new randy-teen comedy Sex Drive, he shot a well-received, CBS-funded series of online shorts with his sometime comedy partner Michael Cera...
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 ...
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 TIFF with a higher-profile project, Nick and Norah’s Infinite...
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.
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 the comedy heap. (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 ...