To mark the start of TIFF 2018, we delve into the budding careers of 16 of our favourite emerging actors who have films at the festival. Read all our TIFF coverage here.
Essays
Catch up with our 21st Folio podcast: Hamlet, Coriolanus, and Julius Caesar
We recently released three new podcast episodes about Shakespeare productions: The RSC’s 2016 production of Hamlet starring Paapa Essiedu, the Bridge Theatre’s 2018 Julius Caesar starring Ben Whishaw, and the Stratford Festival’s current production of Coriolanus directed by Robert Lepage. (Ralph Fiennes film of Coriolanus was one of our favourite films of the decade.) The […]
Stratford’s An Ideal Husband is timeless in the worst sense of the word
This solid, entertaining, and funny production of Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband at Ontario’s Stratford Festival is nevertheless inert, old-fashioned, and often tone deaf.
Editor Jane Rizzo: ‘There’s very little story, so it is about building the moments’
Editor Jane Rizzo discusses cutting Leave No Trace, developing the father-daughter relationship, building the soundscapes for different locations, and restructuring the story in the edit. This is the sixth article in our Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace , which is now available as an ebook.
Ben Foster on silence and trauma in Leave No Trace
In this interview, Ben Foster discusses how he prepared for his role as Will in Leave No Trace. This is an excerpt from the ebook Leave No Trace: A Special Issue. Get your copy here.
Debra Granik frames poverty as a systemic failure to empathize
Debra Granik’s films — Down to the Bone, Stray Dog, and Leave No Trace — focus on individuals who struggle to navigate an unfriendly social support system in an attempt to get help. This is the fourth piece in our Special Issue on Debra Granik’s Leave No Trace, which is now available as an ebook.