TIFF Retrospective

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  Zardoz

  John Boorman

  PUBLISHED Dec 17, 2012

  Try to look past that ridiculous image of Sean Connery clad in a skimpy red banana hammock. Being known for such an absurd image of an icon...

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  Children of Men

  Alfonso Cuarón

  PUBLISHED Dec 15, 2012

  Theo (Clive Owen, in perhaps his best role to date) wakes up day after day, goes to work and feels—if he feels anything—like sh...

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  Phantasm

  Don Coscarelli

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

  Don Coscarelli had low aspirations and even lower funding when he shot and directed Phantasm from his own script in the late 70's. But he a...

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  Logan's Run

  Michael Anderson

  PUBLISHED Dec 14, 2012

  The 70's were an interesting time for science fiction cinema. Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C. Clarke had already changed the game with 2001:...

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  Melancholia

  Lars von Trier

  PUBLISHED Dec 13, 2012

  Melancholia begins with an eight-minute montage of stunning imagery—a bride walking in the slowest-of-slow motion with grey woolen sk...

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  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

  Stanley Kubrick

  PUBLISHED Dec 10, 2012

  When Stanley Kubrick originally started adapting Peter George's novel Red Alert, which was, in part, inspired by and drawn from the writer'...

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  Moonraker

  Lewis Gilbert

  PUBLISHED Dec 8, 2012

  Following the success of Star Wars in 1977, an abundance of throwaway, unremarkable imitators were released throughout the late '70s and ea...

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  Quantum of Solace

  Marc Forster

  PUBLISHED Dec 7, 2012

  In conception and theme, the 22nd Bond film, a direct sequel to the 2006 series reboot, Casino Royale, has a rich and complex focus on char...