Cinema is Dead. Long Live Cinema. The 38th Annual Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes December 2013 Festival Reports By coincidence, the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival began and ended for me with strikingly similar images. The first film I saw, Jafar Panahi’s Closed Curtain, opens with a minutes-long shot through a ...
Where More Meets MORE: The 37th Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes November 2012 Festival Reports “Where OMG Meets WTF”. This was the first tagline I spotted at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. Others included “Where Fantasy Meets Reality”, “Where Indie Meets Epic”, “Where Wow Meets Huh?” an...
Measuring Distance: A Review of the 24th Images Festival Genevieve Yue June 2011 Festival Reports Despite the attention given to the Toronto International Film Festival, the Images Festival may be the city’s most ambitious, if not in scale, then in programming, which ranges across film, video, expanded proj...
New Directions: The 33rd Toronto International Film Festival Darren Hughes February 2009 Festival Reports 4-13 September 2008 In the weeks preceding the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), there was, among industry watchers, critics and amateur cinephiles alike, a shared curiosity - and in many corne...
