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Echoes: HANGING BY A WIRE, Pakistan's First Academy Award Documentary Entry, Was Shot Entirely on a Phone
On the morning of August 22, 2023, people in the Allai Valley, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, looked up. No one could believe their eyes when they saw a cable car hanging hundreds of feet above, suspended by the last cable that was...
Opening This Week: OTHER MOMMY, FJORD, ANIMALS, TENZING
Plus: 'Once Upon a Time in the Middle East,' 'The Beast,' 'The Social Reckoning.'
Now Playing: VERITY, DIGGER, BEWARE BOIUNA, GHOST IN THE CELL
Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.'
Echoes: Pakistan Wants A Film Industry. Does It Have the Crew to Build One?
The recently launched Punjab Film City is like a light at the end of a dark tunnel for the Pakistani film industry, since enough has been discussed about the lack of resources and weak infrastructure in this area. This is,...
Opening This Week: VERITY, DIGGER, GHOST IN THE CELL, BEWARE BOIUNA
Plus: 'Appofeniacs' and 'Misty Green.'
Now Playing: NEVER AFTER DARK Frights, PRIMETIME Boldness, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER Demands
Of the six new genre films that we're highlighting today, I've seen three, and of those, Dave Boyle's Never After Dark stands out. Our critic J Hurtado goes into much more detail in his review, linked below, but I'll add...
Echoes: The Changing Art of Pakistani Film Posters
Pakistani cinema had streets, walls, billboards, and cinema entrances long before a YouTube trailer or social media existed. One year after independence, Pakistan entered cinema with its first film, Teri Yaad, which ran for five weeks on cinema screens, as...
Opening This Week: NEVER AFTER DARK, PRIMETIME, YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER YOUR MOTHER
Plus: 'Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!,' 'Heart of the Beast,' 'Ryuichi Sakamoto: Diaries.'
Toronto 2026: Wrap -- All Our Coverage (So Far)
Our curtain raiser, our reviews, our poster columns, and an interview.
Sound And Vision: Olivia Wilde
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we discuss a duo of music videos by Olivia Wilde. Olivia Wilde might be known mostly as an actor. But after...
Now Playing: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
Also: John Wilson's delightful doc 'The History of Concrete,' plus Ethan Hawke and Russell Crowe in tough-minded period adventure 'The Weight.'
Friday One Sheet: MINOTAUR
Refraction and separation are the key elements in the CREATE's release poster for Andrey Zvyagintsev's superb festival prize-winner, Minotaur. There are some echoes and rhymes with the design work of Akiko Stehrenberger, specifically the remake of Funny Games, one of the best posters of the...
Echoes: Pakistan Has An Indie Film Movement. Why Aren't We Talking About It?
Traditional Pakistani cinema relies on commercial Eid releases, celebrity-led projects, and box-office numbers, implying a risk-averse industry culture. However, there's another kind of cinema that is quietly in the making: Pakistani indie cinema. I have talked about films that we...
Opening This Week: RESIDENT EVIL, BAD APPLES, SHAUN THE SHEEP: THE BEAST OF MOSSY BOTTOM
Plus: 'The History of Concrete' and 'The Weight.'
Now Playing: HOPE Rises, BLACK ZOMBIE Illuminates, ON A STRING Amuses
Plus: 'Don't Play With Fire,' 'The Uprising,' 'Practical Magic 2,' and 'The Fix.'
Toronto 2026 Curtain Raiser: Discover With Us What TIFF Is Offering Audiences This Year
As the first year after the Toronto International Film Festival (colloquially known as tiff, in all lower case) turned 50, the 2026 edition feels like a more low-profile year for the festival. A back to basics, nuts & bolts, and...
Echoes: 10 Pakistani Performances That Deserved Far More Attention
Despite financial and infrastructural challenges, Pakistani industry has produced some truly extraordinary performances, both in film and TV. Some of the actors deserved far more appreciation than they received when they first went on air or hit the big screens....
Opening This Week: HOPE, THE UPRISING, PRACTICAL MAGIC 2
Plus: 'Black Zombie,' 'On a String,' 'The Fix.'
Sound And Vision: Mascha Halberstad
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week we look at The Prodigy's Wild Frontier, directed by Mascha Halberstad. If you aren't Dutch Mascha Halberstad might need an introduction,...
Now Playing: ONSLAUGHT, BY ANY MEANS, FALL 2: DEADPOINT
Plus: 'Chronovisor,' 'Cocoon: One Summer of Girlhood,' 'Ever After,' 'Dear You.'
