TIFF Retrospective

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  Point Break

  Kathryn Bigelow

  PUBLISHED Feb 8, 2013

  Though still early in her career, coming just four years after her critically renowned cult hit Near Dark--a staple of a feminist and auteu...

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  Rusty Knife

  Toshio Masuda

  PUBLISHED Feb 7, 2013

  Feeling the pressure to manufacture some homegrown competition for the noir films of America and France that were eating up box office doll...

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  Woman in the Dunes

  Hiroshi Teshigahara

  PUBLISHED Feb 6, 2013

  For an avant-garde art film that so fastidiously layers existentialist metaphors, Hiroshi Teshigahara's brilliant visual translation of Kob...

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  Les Biches

  Claude Chabrol

  PUBLISHED Feb 4, 2013

  In its time, Claude Chabrol's slow-building psychological thriller, Les Biches, was considered taboo. Barbarella had come out a year prior...

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  Red

  Krzysztof Kieslowki

  PUBLISHED Feb 3, 2013

  Red, the final film in Krzysztof Kieslowki's Three Colours trilogy about contemporary French society (the others being Blue (Liberty) and W...

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  Killer of Sheep

  Charles Burnett

  PUBLISHED Feb 2, 2013

  Though screened very rarely outside of underground circuits and its initial festival run, Killer of Sheep, Charles Burnett's wildly indepen...

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  Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure

  Stephen Herek

  PUBLISHED Jan 31, 2013

  For the many highs (The Matrix, My Own Private Idaho) and lows (The Watcher, The Lake House) that followed, we have Bill & Ted's Excellent...

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  Tokyo Story

  Yasujirô Ozu

  PUBLISHED Jan 30, 2013

  While devastating social commentaries that transcend the surface narrative by utilizing tone and pacing to heighten feelings and examine gr...