TIFF Retrospective
The Devil's Advocate
Taylor Hackford
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2013
It's odd that throughout the '90s, the introspective indie drama was popular alongside some of the smuttiest, trashiest, camp thrillers eve...
Superman
Richard Donner
PUBLISHED Mar 5, 2013
It's only fitting that the godfather of comic book superheroes as we know them was the first exterior underwear-sporting vigilante to recei...
Nobody's Fool
Robert Benton
PUBLISHED Mar 3, 2013
Writer/director Robert Benton has demonstrated a career preoccupation with the nature of trust and the dangers of externalizing and perform...
Tokyo Drifter
Seijun Suzuki
PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013
Seijun Suzuki's most celebrated film is a bizarre experience, especially for the uninitiated. The workhorse director has a peculiar sense...
Violent Cop
Takeshi Kitano
PUBLISHED Feb 28, 2013
Prior to focusing on aestheticism in film, but after his long time stint as television comedian "Beat" Takeshi, Kitano shifted his career i...
Dracula
Francis Ford Coppola
PUBLISHED Feb 27, 2013
In part inspired by Bram Stoker's novel, and embellished with ideas from other incarnations of Dracula throughout the history of cinema, Fr...
Rise of the Planet of the Apes
Rupert Wyatt
PUBLISHED Feb 26, 2013
Of the many possible parables and didactics that could have been injected into a Planet of the Apes origin story, it most likely wouldn't h...
The Innocents
Jack Clayton
PUBLISHED Feb 10, 2013
In The Innocents, Jack Clayton's 1961 adaptation of Henry James' Turn of the Screw, some of the more ambiguous elements of the source text...