TIFF Retrospective

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  Child's Play

  Tom Holland

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

  As was the status quo for the '80s, Child's Play, like most horror films of the era, reiterated the dominant cultural anxiety of familial d...

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  All Things Were Now Overtaken by Silence

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 24, 2012

  Though the films of Nicolás Pereda are typically quite loose, having more to do with the tone and the impressions of silence between events...

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  Summer of Goliath

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 21, 2012

  As Mexico-born Nicolás Pereda's fifth film, Summer of Goliath, unfolds, the subtle blurring between fact and fiction, or documentary and na...

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  Perpetuum Mobile

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 20, 2012

  Taking its name from the world of classical composition, Perpetuum Mobile fulfills a key requirement of its musical reference by establishi...

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  Goldeneye

  Martin Campbell

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2012

  In the six years since Licence to Kill underperformed at the box office and turned the Bond franchise into a humourless bloodbath, MGM/UA w...

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  Juntos

  Nicolás Pereda

  PUBLISHED Nov 19, 2012

  Something consistent through the works of Nicolás Pereda is the visual and thematic trajectory of being lost, or being at odds with ones su...

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  Halloween

  John Carpenter

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2012

  While many of its visceral thrills have been eroded by the passage of time, John Carpenter's blueprint for a thousand imitators is still im...

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  OSS 117: Lost in Rio

  Michel Hazanavicius

  PUBLISHED Nov 16, 2012

  Even though Michel Hazanavicius's bullshit ode to male nostalgia for the days when you could beat a gay or rape a woman without consequence...