by Jason Smith for FILMbutton What I absolutely love about Lars Von Tier’s Melancholia is its – accurately frank – depiction of depression: a gargantuan planet with an erratic orbit, and a gravitational pull whose affects are felt across great distances that cause much disruption, as it’s predicted to collide with Earth. In attempting to […]
by john davidson for FILMbutton The first thing you need to know about director Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project is that the hugs are free. And if free hugs sound good to you right about now, then seek out this new Canadian Indie gem and start feeling the love yourself. Aaron Poole stars in this […]
The 2014 Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in just 85 days, and audiences can once again expect a variety of ticket-buying options to help tailor their Festival experience. Designed to suit any film fan’s schedule and cinematic taste, Festival ticket packages include daytime, evening and weekend options, as well as programme-themed packs and new […]
by john davidson for FILMbutton The first thing you need to know about director Ingrid Veninger’s The Animal Project is that the hugs are free. And if free hugs sound good to you right about now, then seek out this new Canadian Indie gem and start feeling the love yourself. Aaron Poole stars in this […]
imagineNATIVE will commemorate National Aboriginal History Month with several special free events. Below are the events running throughout June. The 15th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival returns to Toronto and runs from October 22-26, 2014. June 6, @ 6pm, Toronto Public Library, Bloor/Gladstone, 1101 Bloor Street West: imagineNATIVE’s indigiFLIX Community Screening Series is […]
Martin Scorsese Presents: Masterpieces of Polish Cinema – June 5 to July 1 – TIFF Bell Lightbox “This is a cinema of personal vision, social commitment and poetic responsibility from which we’ve all learned and which sets a high standard that, as a filmmaker, I strive to achieve with every film, every time out.” — […]
CALLING ALL FILM LOVERS TIFF seeks enthusiastic volunteers to join its dedicated team during the 39th Toronto International Film Festival®, which runs from September 4 to 14, 2014. Selected volunteers will engage in a variety of tasks, providing vital assistance and support in welcoming the hundreds of thousands of Festivalgoers who descend upon the city […]
from TIFF Conceived as a status report on the long-term restoration project on Canadian avant-garde great David Rimmer’s oeuvre undertaken by preservationist Mark Toscano at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles, these two programmes of restorations and newly struck prints — David Rimmer I: Surfacing and David Rimmer II: Variations — offer Toronto audiences […]
Luca Caminati, Italian cinema scholar and Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University gives some insight into the filming of MAMA ROMA with Mary Wall for FILMbutton. Luca will open the TIFF retrospective – PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: THE POET OF CONTAMINATION with a discussion before the first screening in the retrospective – MAMA ROMA […]
Luca Caminati, Italian cinema scholar and Associate Professor of Film Studies at Concordia University discusses the resurgence of Pier Paolo Pasolini in North America & around the world with Mary Wall for FILMbutton. Luca will open the TIFF retrospective – PIER PAOLO PASOLINI: THE POET OF CONTAMINATION with a discussion before the first screening in […]
