Tag: tiff2017
Podcast: Talkin' Flicks With Pals Ep 1 - Talkin' Toronto 2017
Hello, and welcome to Talking Flicks With Pals, a new ScreenAnarchy podcast that aims to capture a bit of good old fashioned screen-related conversation. Should these first few episodes yield quality talks that film pals from around the world consider...
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...
AnarchyVision: #TIFF17 Edition!
A look at a slew of Toronto International Film festival (TIFF) films, from Darren Aronofsky's Mother! to the fantastic I, Tonya, The Shape of Water and Jane, as well as Canadian indie Porcupine Lake....
Review: INDIVISIBLE, The Pain and Joy of Constant Companionship
If we are only truly ourselves when we are alone, what would it mean if you were, quite literally, never alone? If both your private and public identity was entwined with another person whose presence was constant? If your body,...
Toronto 2017 Review: UNICORN STORE, A Clever, Oddball Delight
Is there such a thing as the 'woman-girl' film? The female equivalent to the man-boy film (which describes far, far too many films) about someone who allegedly refuses to 'grow up', or be the kind of adult that their families...
Toronto 2017 Review: VERÓNICA, Treading Familiar Teenage Ground
Teenage girls have always been ripe fodder for horror filmmakers. Either as monsters or victims (or both), the body changes (not to mention the change in treatment by other people, especially men) and vulnerability of girs at this age can...
Toronto 2017 Review: FIVE FINGERS FOR MARSEILLES, Cowboys & Corruption, South Africa Style
The western genre, long associated either with American film and the lone cowboy holding fast to independence in a changing landscape, or the spaghetti western, in which European directors examined more forcefully the often insidious nature of the more corrupt...
Toronto 2017 Review: LES AFFAMÉS, The Things They Carried
While many zombie films are set in rural areas, the characters of such films are usually urban dwellers who have escaped cities in the hopes that the countryside is safer, that any possible survivors might be more welcoming, and remoteness...
Anarchyvision: Toronto 2017, CLOSE ENCOUNTERS, TULIP FEVER, More
In the videos below, I take a look ahead to the beginning of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), as well as the long-gestating Tulip Fever and the return of Close Encounters of the Third Kind to the big screen....
KISSING CANDICE: Watch The Visually Stunning Trailer For Aoife McArdle's Debut
High level commercials director Aoife McArdle makes the step to features with her Toronto selected debut Kissing Candice and while the film may have been funded via the Irish Film Board's low budget Catalyst program she certainly hasn't allowed the...
Toronto 2017: There Will be Many Tears Over Spilled Milk After This Clip From LATCHED, Count on it
Here in Canada there is a campaign stating that it is okay to cry over spilled milk, countering the old adage, because Canadian dairy products are awesome and their loss should be mourned like the passing of a family member...
Toronto 2017: THE SWAN Exclusive, An Emotional And Visually Poetic Trailer Debut
Ása Helga Hjörleifsdóttir's feature film debut, a coming-of-age story called The Swan, will have its world premiere here in Toronto during the opening weekend of the festival. Hjörleifsdóttir will be in town to present her film. Screen Anarchy is...
Watch The Exclusive GUTLAND Trailer
There's something strange brewing in Luxembourg and it will be arriving on cinema screens with the premiere of Govinda Van Maele's thriller Gutland at the Toronto International Film Festival. And we are pleased to give a taste of Van Maele's...
LET THE CORPSES TAN: Watch The Amazing Full Trailer For AMER Duo's Western!
Belgian filmmaking duo Bruno Forzani and Helene Cattet won a legion of dedicated fans around the world with their dazzling neo-giallo debut Amer several years back and they remain some of the most striking talents in European cinema today. While...
Slow Motion, Dove Flying, Bang Bang! It's The First Teaser For John Woo's MANHUNT!
Do you miss the John Woo of old? The one deeply in love with baroquely over the top gun fire wedded to large scale melodrama and softly fluttering doves? It appears John Woo misses the John Woo of old and...
HIGH FANTASY: Watch The Trailer For Toronto Selected, Body Swapping, South African Indie
It was back in 2014 that I was raving in these pages about South African director Jenna Bass and her debut feature, Love The One You Love. An entirely improvised romantic drama with thriller overtones, Love The One You Love...
Toronto 2017: Key Art And Stills From Brian O'Malley's THE LODGERS
Brian O'Malley's upcoming gothic horror flick The Lodgers will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8th, 2017 at Scotiabank 3 at 7:15 PM. Fear not if you cannot get premiere tickets because it will...
Toronto 2017: An Exclusive Clip From Gustavo Salmerón's LOTS OF KIDS, A MONKEY AND A CASTLE
Gustavo Salmerón (VHS: Viral, Twice Upon A Yesterday, Not Love, Just Frenzy) is bringing his new documentary Lots of Kids, A Monkey and a Castle to the Toronto International Film Festival next month. Screen Anarchy has been given an exclusive...
Toronto 2017: First Wave Led By Women, the Sporting Life, and Favourite Filmmakers
The annual cavalcade of cinematic joy, otherwise known as the Toronto International Film Festival (or simply "Toronto 2017," in our headline parlance) has released its first wave of programming. The gala titles (14) and special presentations (33) lead the way....
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