Québécois filmmaker Anne Émond talks about depicting suicide, family intimacy, and her hometown in her moving new film.
Toronto International Film Festival
A Month of Sundays director Matthew Saville talks TV vs. film
Writer-director Matthew Saville discusses his film A Month of Sundays and TV show Please Like Me at TIFF15.
This Changes Everything doesn’t preach on climate change
Avi Lewis’ documentary This Changes Everything looks at the narrative for civilization that allowed climate change to happen. Without preaching, the film takes a look at grassroots movements that are helping to mitigate climate change.
Schneider vs. Bax is a masterful black comedy
In Schneider vs. Bax, the tension is always high, but there’s less of van Warmerdam’s characteristic black humour.
My Internship in Canada is a smart farce
We review Philippe Falardeau’s hilarious political satire My Internship in Canada, which was selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten Films of 2015. Read our interview with director Falardeau here.
Jafar Panahi’s Taxi is an absorbing day out in Tehran
As Jafar picks up passengers, meets friends, and runs into others, key political and economic issues get discussed. The film feels realistic, much like the conversations and performances in “Before Sunset” and “Conversations with Other Women” have the ring of real interactions. But even as the film touches on imprisonment from unsubstantiated charges, interrogation and torture, rampant crime, and government censorship of films, it does so with a light touch. Because the characters treat these things as commonplace, as casual conversation topics, we understand just how deep the problems run. And Jafar remains an affable presence even as some of his passengers’ actions would try anyone’s patience.