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Author Darren Hughes

Darren Hughes

Darren Hughes is a freelance critic and co-founder/co-programmer of The Public Cinema in Knoxville, Tennessee.

A Decade+ in Review: The 2019 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
October 2019
Festival Reports
On 31 December 2018, the fundraising arm of the Toronto International Film Festival sent a year-end email solicitation, urging recipients to support cinema by helping the organisation hit its annual target of 3...

Leadership Transitions, Critical Voices and Experimental Cinema at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2018
Festival Reports
In 2018, the Toronto International Film Festival joined Sundance, Berlin, Locarno and Vienna in announcing major changes in leadership. After 36 years at TIFF, the final 24 of them as chief executive officer, P...
TIFF

Wavelengths at the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2017
Festival Reports
My conversations during the first two days of the 2017 Toronto International Film Festival were dominated by two subjects: Twin Peaks: The Return, which had aired its final episodes earlier in the week (and ult...
TIFF

Wavelengths at the 2016 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2016
Festival Reports
The 2016 Wavelengths shorts program opened auspiciously with Ana Mendieta’s Silueta Sangrienta (Bloody Silhouette). Made in 1975 in Iowa City, the two-minute, Super-8 film begins with a high-angle shot of Mendi...
Toronto International film festival review

No Home Movies: Wavelengths at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2015
Festival Reports
The 2011 edition of the Toronto International Film Festival’s Wavelengths program included Mark Lewis’s short film, Black Mirror at the National Gallery, in which two bulky, fully articulated machines – one man...

Image Problems: The 2014 Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2014
Festival Reports
Feature Image: I am Here “WTF is this movie?!” I scribbled this note midway through I Am Here, Fan Lixin’s trainwreck of a documentary about Super Boy, an American Idol-style talent show that is a ratings s...

Sheer Playfulness and Deadly Seriousness: On Watching Avant-Garde Shorts at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam

Darren Hughes
March 2014
Festival Reports
“Most of the filmmakers I cover don’t get paid to make their films, so why should I expect to get paid to write about them?” – Michael Sicinski To get straight to the point: if the 2014 International Film Fest...

Reasoned Arguments: A Conversation with Frederick Wiseman about At Berkeley

Darren Hughes
December 2013
Feature Articles
Frederick Wiseman’s second documentary, High School (1968), was at the time of its release an unprecedented glimpse into America’s public education system. Throughout his career, Wiseman has bristled at the ter...

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 ...

A Conversation with Nicolas Rey

Darren Hughes
December 2012
Feature Articles
Nicolas Rey’s third feature film, differently, Molussia (2012), is an adaptation of a novel he’s never read. Written between 1932 and 1936, Günther Anders’s The Molussian Catacomb analyzes the rise of fascism...

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...

Nostalgia, Chaos, and Moments of Ecstasy: The 36th Toronto International Film Festival

Darren Hughes
December 2011
Festival Reports
Festival Business The opening weekend of the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival also signalled the beginning of TIFF’s second year in the $200 million dollar TIFF Bell Lightbox. The public side of the ...

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