Festivals: Toronto Film Festival Interviews
Toronto 2019 Interview: Julie Delpy Creates MY ZOE
There are two excellent films contained within My Zoe, Julie Delpy’s latest turn as writer/director and co-star. One is a bleak breakup drama, worthy of Ingmar Bergman at his starkest, that relentlessly explores a former couple’s escalating worst nightmare. The...
Toronto 2019 Interview: SYNCHRONIC Directors Moorhead & Benson's Favorite Cinematic Representations of Altered States
Aaron Moorhead and Justin Benson have wowed audiences with their mind-bending (and genre-bending) films Resolution, Spring, and The Endless. All of these films share the similarity of slyly tackling complex philosophical and/or metaphysical subject matter in an entertaining package. The...
Toronto 2018 Interview: Kristen Stewart, Laura Dern, Savannah Knoop, and Justin Kelly on JEREMIAH TERMINATOR LEROY
The JT LeRoy story - or hoax, as some would prefer to call it - all comes down to how one chooses to perceive it. Those who say “nay”, scoff it off as the story of a malicious literary swindler...
Toronto 2017 Interview: Brian O'Malley and Charlotte Vega Talk THE LODGERS
While most horror films of today struggle to out-shock one another, thankfully there are still auteurs like director, Brian O'Malley (Let Us Prey), who delight in a slower, more gracefully paced approach to eeriness. Like a rich work of gothic...
Toronto 2017 Interview: VALLEY OF SHADOWS Director Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen on the Blurring of Fantasy and Reality, Time and Space
I was settling into my afternoon, the sun at its highest point in Toronto, when Jonas Matzow Gulbrandsen popped onto Skype. The physical window inside the virtual chat window, showed the sun was just starting to set in Norway....
Exclusive Interview: Steve James on ABACUS: SMALL ENOUGH TO JAIL
Steve James has been consistently crafting some of the smartest, most groundbreaking, most effective works of non-fiction for decades. Vaulted to the public eye with the majestic Hoop Dreams, his works have ranged from intimate portrayals of troubled men (Stevie),...
Exclusive Interview: Talking THE HANDMAIDEN With Park Chan-Wook
For several decades now Park Chan-Wook has been at the forefront of Korean Cinema that’s finding International audiences. His films are often breathtaking and full of bravado, solidifying sensuality and revenge in equal measure to craft works that both thrill...
Interview: Patricia Rozema And Ellen Page Talk INTO THE FOREST
Cinematic audiences have been subjected to their fair share of post-apocalyptic films in recent years. Most allegories for Western society's destructive treatment of the environment are told from either a central male protagonist's perspective or from a distinctively male gaze. Into...
Toronto 2015 Interview: Robert Eggers And Anya Taylor-Joy Talk THE WITCH And Puritan Excess
At any moment in human history, no matter how civilized we may think we are, dark woods have a long reach for scaring us. The Witch viscerally demonstrates how easily fear and superstitions take over in early 17th century New England...
Interview: Jemaine Clement Talks WHAT WE DO IN THE SHADOWS
Jemaine Clement is just as lovely in person as you'd expect. He's quiet, well mannered, and only occasionally displays the acerbic nature we've come to expect from his characters. While many grew to know him as an integral part of...
Toronto 2014 Interview: Talking BIG GAME, Character Actors And 1980s Blockbusters With Director Jalmari Helander
In between screenings of the ridiculously fun and Amblin-esque popcorn muncher Big Game at the Toronto International Film Festival, I managed to have a chat with Finnish director Jalmari Helander and his young star Onni Tommila. The young actor was a little...
TIFF 2013 Interview: ScreenAnarchy Talks R100 With Matsumoto Hitoshi
Thursday, September 12, 2013 proved to be one of those extraordinary festival days for me. I found myself closing the day with a trio of highly interesting films from Asia, the last two forming one of the most perfect...
TIFF 2013 Interview: CANNIBAL Director Manuel Martín Cuenca Talks About Representing Evil
Manuel Martín Cuenca's masterful Cannibal has had its first public screenings at TIFF (one more on Saturday September 14th, you can read my review). It's a mermerizing story of love and evil, with a man committing crimes so horrible that only...
Farrell, Walken, Rockwell, & McDonagh Talk SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
During this year's Toronto International Film Festival, ScreenAnarchy had a chance to sit down with the stars and director of the upcoming Seven Psychopaths. Here are some of the highlights: ScreenAnarchy: Seven Psychopaths was a big hit with the...
Joseph Gordon Levitt Talks Redemption, Art And LOOPER
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is like a poster child for what there is to admire about American cinema today. Between really entertaining ambitious films he's made any number of powerfully good small indies. I myself am a big fan of Mysterious Skin...
Emily Blunt Talks LOOPER, Acting & Her Desire For 'An Obnoxious Number Of Guns'
Rian Johnson's Looper makes an appearance at Fantastic Fest today prior to its US theatrical release. ScreenAnarchy had the opportunity to sit down with leading lady Emily Blunt in Toronto, as part of a roundtable interview following the film's world...
Stephen Fung Talks Finding The Next Generation For TAI CHI ZERO
Stephen Fung was on top of the world in 2005. The popular actor had made a successful transition to directing with both his debut feature, Enter The Phoenix, and sophomore effort, House Of Fury, embraced by fans and critics alike....
TIFF 2011: ACQUA (2011): Interview With Raha Shirazi
Raha Shirazi was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of eleven. Her short film Four Walls premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, and has gone on to screen at international...
A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (2010): Interview With Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen & Amy Seimetz
Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way to Die (2010) had its world premiere in the Vanguard sidebar at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where--in his official description--Colin Geddes noted: "While the title might imply a degree of exploitation and...