TIFF Retrospective
Ugetsu
Kenji Mizoguchi
PUBLISHED Jan 26, 2013
An interpretation of a selection of Udea Akinari's versions of ancient Japanese ghost stories as collected in his classic 1776 book, Tales...
...And God Created Woman
Roger Vadim
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013
French director Roger Vadim's 1956 feature (his first)—the film that launched the career of legendary beauty Brigitte Bardot—is...
The Makioka Sisters
Kon Ichikawa
PUBLISHED Jan 24, 2013
Widely considered to be among the grandmasters of Japanese cinema, Kon Ichikawa displays a lot of deliberate restraint in his 1983 adaptati...
River's Edge
Tim Hunter
PUBLISHED Jan 23, 2013
Generally, anytime a classroom discussion about history or literature arises within a film, the intention is didactic, inserting overt conn...
Ma Nuit chez Maud
Eric Rohmer
PUBLISHED Jan 19, 2013
The fourth film of Eric Rohmer's Six Moral Tales cycle, Ma Nuit chez Maud, gave the French New Wave director a major boost in stature when...
A Man and a Woman
Claude Lelouch
PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2013
Made when director Claude Lelouch was only 28-years-old with a mixture of colour, sepia and black and white film because of budgetary incen...
Youngblood
Peter Markle
PUBLISHED Jan 11, 2013
If anything, the aggressively Conservative, formulaic hockey film, Youngblood, is a testament to the carefree indulgence and id impulse val...
Hiroshima, mon amour
Alain Resnais
PUBLISHED Jan 10, 2013
After achieving near universal acclaim for the 1955 Holocaust documentary short, Night and Fog, French New Wave pioneer Alain Resnais was c...