TIFF16 DAY FIVE: BOOK READING & PROPOGANDA
NOCTURNAL ANIMALS (TOM FORD) When a filmmaker like Tom Ford sets out to make a story we all love to start by discussing the film’s beauty. However, before I state the obvious, I want to…
TIFF16 DAY FOUR: SLAVES & WITCHES
BIRTH OF A NATION In a stage of American History slavery ruled the land. Nate Parker brings to us a tale of Nat Turner, an enslaved preacher who ends up inciting an uprising in the…
TIFF16 DAY THREE: DOCS & WORK BLUES
THE CINEMA TRAVELLERS (SHIRLEY ABRAHAM & AMIT MADHESHIYA) We love cinema. I say this as I sit in line for my fourth film for the day wondering whether I need to get more coffee or…
TIFF16 DAY TWO: FRAUD, DANCE & BRUISED KNUCKLES
GODLESS (RALITZA PETROVA) We watch on as Gana (Irena Ivanova) continues to do her job with an absurd level of apathy. Gana takes care of the elderly for a living. She checks in on them,…
TIFF16 DAY ONE: ACTION, CRYING, BETTER ACTION
MESSAGE FROM THE KING (FABRICE DU WELZ) I feel there’s a small population of the world that feels like small dumb revenge films aren’t around anymore. Not the kind of revenge films that feels like the…