Tag: TIFF

TIFF 2023: ‘Limbo’ is Film Noir in the Australian Outback

He looks worn down. Something is weighing on him. A cold case he’s been assigned is 20 years old. And now here he is, in the middle of the Australian outback, an arid landscape of opal mines and an unsolved…

TIFF 2023: Ava DuVernay Attends the ‘Origin’ Premiere

Director Ava DuVernay’s newest movie Origin made its Atlantic crossing from the Venice Film Festival to TIFF for its North American premiere earlier this week. Based on a adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the Long…

TIFF 2023: Harmony Korine’s Rorschach Test ‘AGGRO DR1FT’

Leave it to 50-year-old Harmony Korine to bring the most experimental and derided film to TIFF. AGGRO DR1FT is unintelligible, irritating, deliberately one note and careless of the ways in which people watch movies. Yes, pushing the envelope is part…

TIFF 2023: ‘Aggro Dr1ft’ Brings Harmony Korine to Toronto

As Hollywood continues its war on the future of cinema, cult American filmmaker Harmony Korine descended upon TIFF with something completely different. Included as part of the festival’s popular Midnight Madness programming, the director was accompanied by a crew of…

TIFF 2023: Lil Nas X Doc Premiere ‘Long Live Montero’

The world premiere of Lil Nas X‘s documentary Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero at TIFF 23, scheduled for its gala screening at 10 pm on Saturday evening, was halted after a bomb threat was called in singling-out the artist….

TIFF Celebrates Pride Month with Films that Reflect ‘Queer Becoming’

To celebrate 2021’s Pride Month, the Toronto International Film Festival’s digital streaming platform has curated a selection of Queer films with a slight twist. Entitled Queer Becoming, the month-long event aims to refocus the narrative trope of “coming out” –…