Festivals: Toronto Film Festival
Toronto 2026: Frontières And TIFF: The Genre Co-production Market Announces Seven Projects For Inaugural Showcase
Our friends at Frontières have announced the seven projects the will present during their inaugrual showcase at TIFF: The Market.
Friday One Sheet: THE DEVILS, 2026 and 1971
As you can tell, in these parts we are super excited for the October re-release of Ken Russell's 1971 masterpiece, The Devils. The aptly named Sister Hyde Design (who we have featured in these parts in the past for the Faces of...
Toronto 2026: Midnight Madness Drops Its Full Lineup. Duncan Jones! Anna Biller! SABU! Matthew Rankin! Na Hong-jin! Oh My!
With the capable and unpredictable curation of Peter Kuplowsky and his team of brave pre-screeners, the Midnight Madness (MM) sidebar at the Toronto International Film Festival continues to be one of the favourite parts of TIFF here at Screen Anarchy....
Friday One Sheet: THE FURIOUS
Today we have a rather abstract poster from Vietnam-based visual artist Khang Giate for the forthcoming mega-action picture The Furious. Given the 'dog-pile' martial arts style practically pioneered by this film (it is indeed something to behold) this poster does a bang-up...
Friday One Sheet: ROSE OF NEVADA
Featuring neither flowers nor the desert state of America, Rose of Nevada is a deeply authentic, and thoroughly strange time-travel fishing movie that is mainly drama, but, as the red typesetting suggests, with elements of dread and horror. The credits...
Friday One Sheet: SOUND OF FALLING
As an amateur photographer (who focuses mainly on candid and street photography) my favourite content trope when capturing photos is the shot where everyone is going about their business, but one person is looking directly into the camera. This is...
Friday One Sheet: MAGELLAN
The majestic ode to the age of exploration and sail show in today's key art belies the revisionist historical film from slow cinema maestro Lav Diaz. With its hazy sunrise and high grain, and jaunty tilt (note the waterline, and...
Toronto 2025 Wrap: Reviews, Interviews, News, and More
Our coverage of the 50th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) is drawing to a close. A couple of weeks ago, the festival announced their 2025 award winners. We saw a lot of winners, too, which is great...
Toronto 2025 Review: FOLLIES Portrays Polyamory's Awkward Learning Curve
Canadian filmmaker Eric K. Boulianne examines the shifting dynamics of long-term intimacy through the lens of non-monogamy, framing a comedy of sexual curiosity that doubles as a study of identity, desire, and generational change.
Toronto 2025 Review: LOVELY DAY Turns a Wedding Movie Into a Neurotic Comedy of Errors
Philippe Falardeau adapts Alain Farah's autobiographical novel into a formally restless portrait of anxiety and memory, using the wedding-movie framework less to stage a union than to examine the unstable ground beneath it.
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANZ Uses a Fragmented, Hybrid Form to Portray Kafka Beyond the Conventional Biopic
Selected as Poland's submission for the Academy Awards, Agnieszka Holland's film approaches the challenge of depicting Franz Kafka through a fragmented docu-fiction form that reflects the author's elusive legacy.
Toronto 2025 Interview: LOVELY DAY, Philippe Falardeau Talks Adapting Alain Farah's Novel, Visualizing Anxiety, Deconstructing the Wedding Film
Philippe Falardeau discusses the making of his bold and unconventional adaptation of Alain Farah's autobiographical novel, which reframes the wedding film as a playful yet unsettling exploration of memory, anxiety, and cultural identity.
Toronto 2025 Interview: TO THE VICTORY!, Valentyn Vasyanovych Talks Dystopian Comedy, Wartime Filmmaking, His Lead Role
Valentyn Vasyanovych discusses the making of his latest film, from stepping in front of the camera to navigating wartime production realities.
Toronto 2025 Review: FUZE, Twists and Tough Guys Power Muscular Heist-Thriller
Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Theo James and Sam Worthington lead David Mackenzie's twisty actioner.
Toronto 2025 Review: NUREMBERG, Holocaust Courtroom Drama Fails to Justify Its Existence
Russell Crowe, Rami Malek and Michael Shannon star in James Vanderbilt's historical drama.
Toronto 2025 Review: COUTURE, Angelina Jolie Stars in Parisian Fashion Tale
Angelina Jolie makes her French-language debut in Alice Winocour's haute couture drama.
Friday One Sheet: COPPER
This highly unusual poster instantly communicates that it is for a highly unusual film. Completely at odds with the look of the film (which is dust and tan) or the title of the film, Copper, the washed out blue looks...
Toronto 2025 Review: FRANKENSTEIN, Guillermo del Toro's Handsome, Empathetic Monster
“Can you contain your fire, Prometheus, or will you burn your hands?” The line is spoken by Christoph Waltz’s polymath gentlemen of curiosities, a 19th century military-industrial baron who got rich off the Crimean War, and whose hobbies get in...
Toronto 2025 Review: THE CURRENTS, Oblique and Tactile Nightmare
At the peak of her career, Catalina (or Cata, or Lina, depending on what social context she is in) appears to have it all: a successful career, a tasteful modern home, a sensitive, engaged husband, and a beautiful young daughter....
Toronto 2025 Review: COVER-UP, Takes A Closer Look at Seymour Hersh and The Ongoing American Experiment
“In case anyone cares, this is getting less and less fun. I’d like to quit this doc.” Seymour “Sy” Hersh spars with director Laura Poitras at several points during her feature length documentary ,Cover-up, a career retrospective of the iconic journalist....
