Gary Oldman, Jack Lowden, and Kristin Scott Thomas star in the spy series; its latest season debuts Wednesday, September 4, exclusively on Apple TV+.
Uprising, the highly anticipated period action film produced and co-written by Park Chan-wook, has been set as the opening film of this year’s 29th Busan International Film Festival, which is set to open its doors on October 2. Closing the festival will be Eric Khoo’s Singapore-France-Japan co-production Spirit World, featuring Catherine Deneuve. A Netflix original, Uprising is directed by Kim Sang-man (Midnight FM) and stars Gang Dong-won (Secret Reunion) and Park Jung-min (Time to Hunt). It is is the most high-profile opening film selection at BIFF since the HK action-thriller Cold War, directed by Sunny Luk and Longman Leung, in 2012. All told, this year’s BIFF will screen 224 films from 63 countries, an 8% increase over last year, intruding a mix of major festival…
In the article series Sound and Vision we take a look at music videos from notable directors. This week: two music videos by Brady Corbet. Brady Corbet, the sometime actor has carved out a singular movie career as the director of films like Childhood of a Leader , Vox Lux and his new film The Brutalist, which premiered in Venice this week. His films are highly formalistic pieces that found inspiration in real life woes. They feel partly heightened and partly darkly realist. The push and pull between real life and performativity is there in his two music videos too. We see this in his music video for Edward Sharpe and The Magnetic Zeros’ Man on Fire (below). On the one hand it is a…
I don’t remember it like it was yesterday, I remember it like it was 2005. But first, 2004. When we first ventured out as a proper website, that September during TIFF, we quickly established this ritual where we’d meet up at the Imperial Pub, have a couple pops then saunter up to the Ryerson Theatre for the Midnight Madness screenings. Folks would come and go, in and out, grab a drink with us, and so on. Good times. Then, in 2005, our founder Todd and I sat down across from a very energetic and enthusiastic fellow Englishman who shared their vision with us about creating a brand new genre and horror film festival for Toronto that would run every October, during spooky…
It was 2021 and most film festivals, big or small, were in an online only model. Perhaps due to its late summer sweet spot, The Toronto International Film festival managed a soft-hybrid, with a significantly reduced number of films, some of them at drive-ins or at un ultra low cinema capacity. Because there were only a few Midnight Madness movies at that year’s festival, MM programmer and Speed Racer superfan Peter Kuplowsky, rented the pandemic-shuttered Royal Cinema for the nights where there were no midnight screenings. He brought in the Racer Trash collective, a diverse bunch of film editors who remixed, mashed up, and outright demolished, pop cinema and cultural ephemera, and showcased them on the Twitch streaming platform. According to a The Verge piece at the…
Bertrand Mandico’s latest work presents a unique exploration of the filmmaker’s experimental foray into theatre captured through film essays.
Emerging British director Richard Hunter takes a darkly comic lens to human behavior, blending mundane misfortunes with moral ambiguity in a series of vignettes.
Ben Rivers’ latest film revisits the life of Jake Williams, presenting a meditative exploration of solitude and simplicity in a world that constantly changes.
Courtney Stephens and Callie Hernandez created a film that intricately blends personal history, archival footage, and fictional narrative to explore themes of grief, memory, and the fine line between reality and fantasy.
Adele Tulli’s documentary is an exploration of the blurred boundaries between physical and digital existence.