TIFF Retrospective

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  Boy Meets Girl

  Leos Carax

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2013

  When Leos Carax shot Boy Meets Girl, his first feature film, he was in his early 20s. His youthful whimsy and corresponding pretense are a...

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  Holy Motors

  Leos Carax

  PUBLISHED Aug 9, 2013

  In its opening, Leos Carax's overly nostalgic and predominantly referential Holy Motors features the emaciated director emerging from a bed...

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  Superbad

  Greg Mottola

  PUBLISHED Aug 7, 2013

  In the pantheon of high-school movies depicting an unforgettable night in the lives of its young characters, Superbad stands alongside only...

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  The Blues Brothers

  John Landis

  PUBLISHED Jul 18, 2013

  A manic blockbuster that veers intermittently from comedy to action to musical, John Landis's The Blues Brothers is rewarding precisely bec...

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  The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

  Jacques Demy

  PUBLISHED Jun 29, 2013

  After following up his critically praised directorial debut Lola with the sombre and exceedingly didactic gambling drama, Bay of Angels, it...

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  Lola

  Jacques Demy

  PUBLISHED Jun 27, 2013

  Though associated with the French New Wave by timing, proximity and a moderately vanguard approach to the existentialism and ennui omnipres...

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  Rikyu

  Hiroshi Teshigahara

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  The great Hiroshi Teshigahara's second last film, released in 1989, is an insular, ponderous affair, albeit one with flashes of subtle beau...

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  A Scanner Darkly

  Richard Linklater

  PUBLISHED Apr 3, 2013

  Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly holds the distinction of being both the most faithful adaptation of a Philip K. Dick novel for the scr...