The prestigious international festival, which unofficially kicks off awards season, features everything from a “Joker” sequel to a Maria Callas biopic starring Angelina Jolie.
The staff picks for the best films of the first half of 2024.
The February physical media and streaming column includes The Fabelmans, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Empire of Light, Strange World, and Decision to Leave.
On three of the biggest films of fest season this year by Sarah Polley, Sam Mendes, and Florian Zeller.
Our predictions for the winners at Sunday night's Academy Awards.
A look at the work of composer Emile Mosseri, the man behind the scores for The Last Black Man in San Francisco, Homecoming, Kajillionaire, and Minari.
The best films of 2020, according to each individual contributor.
A critic looks at the best film scores of the 2010s.
Our staff choices for the best films from 2010 through 2019.
Warm but not sentimental, Jonah Hill's directorial debut is a hard-edged drama, made in the style of films from the era it depicts.
A review of the new drama series "Ozark," now streaming on Netflix.
An interview with Fisher Stevens, the director of Before the Flood, from TIFF.
Sheila writes: Steven Soderbergh may be retired from movies, but he continues to be a very busy man, primarily with his Cinemax show "The Knick." But in the last couple of weeks, he also launched a conversation-starter on his own site, about the issue of "staging" scenes in film. Soderbergh writes that staging "(roughly defined) refers to how all the various elements of a given scene or piece are aligned, arranged, and coordinated." To show what he means, Soderbergh took a film with a high level of visual staging, "Raiders of the Lost Ark," stripped its sound, made it black-and-white, and overlaid the whole thing with the Trent Reznor/Atticus Finch synethized scores for David Fincher films. The result is a fascinating experiment in visual style. Soderbergh writes, "I operate under the theory a movie should work with the sound off." You can watch Soderbergh's "Raiders" experiment at his site.
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