TIFF17 – The Beginning and My Last Days
The Saturday afternoon when the Charlottesville situation was exploding on television and social media, I retreated to my back porch, …
Category Archives: Musings
TIFF17 – Day Seven: Gone But Not Forgotten
Stars so far away and so bright, we only glimpse after-images of them, when in fact they have been gone …
TIFF17 – Day Six: Seasonal Change
The tides of the festival started to recede a day earlier this year. I started more attention to the shift …
TIFF17 – Days Four & Five: The Currents Running Through The Festival
You plan and the movie gods laugh. That should be the motto of film festivals everywhere (or, at least, for …
TIFF17 – Day Three: My Morning of ‘Mercy’
Prior to arriving in Toronto for the festival, I had an amazing sit-down with Kristen Schlotman, the executive director of …
TIFF17 – Day Two: The Muted Voices of ‘Suburbicon’ Matter
You just have to love it when progressive white folks tackle complex periods in American history. Like George Clooney’s take …
TIFF17 – Day One: And So It Begins…
Sometimes, the best way to recap the first day of a film festival is to find an easy quotation like, …
‘BOSCH’ IS A COMPELLING SCREEN READ
Our screens are littered with adaptations of stories of all types and genres, from graphic novels to plays, fiction, …
The Rising Star of ‘American Honey’
There is a reason why I chose this image to introduce this interview. The bold poster – busy with information …
Infinite Views of TIFF 2016: Offscreen, Onscreen
A week ago, during the first day of TIFF, with a precious extra 90 minutes of time between afternoon screenings, …
