50 Blue Moon Ethan Hawke plays with campy brilliance and criminal combover the lyricist Lorenz Hart as he spirals into vinegary jilted despair after his split from Richard Rodgers in this latest collaboration with Richard Linklater. Read the full review. 49 Happyend Dysfunctional Happyend Teen romance and paranoid surveillance collide to dysfunctional effect in Neo Sora's beguiling debut feature set in an oppressive near-future Japan. Read the full review.
In the midst of responding to Bilge's previous missive, which goes down at least three separate roads I'd love to pursue, I first heard the unthinkable news of Rob and Michele Reiner's deaths. I promptly entered a fugue state and stayed up late into the night, watching clips from Reiner's films and reading about his 50-plus-year career as an actor, director, producer, and industry pioneer.
We're here trying to present so many activities for children to live in a positive vibe, said Minass al-Jabour, the initiative's media coordinator. So we are trying to make them skip the scenes, the hard scenes that they were living during the war in Gaza.
Memory - like cinema, in Andrei Tarkovsky's conception of the form - can be seen as a kind of "sculpting in time". In such an understanding of the term, the process of remembering is less like taking books from a neatly ordered library shelf and more like an act of creation in and of itself, a complex pulling of threads to produce an image that is true only insofar as it expresses something deep about its maker's subconscious.
Eva Victor's film, Sorry, Baby, presents trauma as an idiosyncratic and mutable experience, challenging the prevailing narrative that reduces victims to tragic figures.
Lucija is a shy 16-year-old who is a member of her Catholic school's female choir; she joins the choir's special trip across the Italian border for a week in Cividale del Friuli.
In David Cronenberg's new film, widower Karsh Relikh invites Myrna to a restaurant that doubles as a showroom for his graveyard business, showcasing burial shrouds equipped with livestreaming cameras.
Guillermo del Toro will be presented with the Ebert Director Award at TIFF, recognizing filmmakers who have exemplified greatness, during the TIFF Tribute Awards gala.
Fionnula Flanagan reflects on her role in 'The Others', recognizing the film's potential impact and praising the director's journey to fluency in English alongside the production.
Director Serkan Nihat's 'Exodus' critiques Erdogan's Turkey through multi-character narratives, depicting education, policing, and persecution but suffers from a didactic style that dulls engagement.
Rebecca Pells, co-owner of The Beauty of Aesthetics, expressed her excitement on opening day, stating, "We are ecstatic to get the business off the ground and welcome new faces as well as our returning clients."