Jan 30, 2018
Since its start in 1978, The Sundance Film Festival has served as both an exhibition for the best independently produced films from around the world, and, as the first major film festival of the year, an early predictor of the year’s movie trends. To get the story of the films and themes that shaped this year’s...
Jan 23, 2018
Since the early 1980s, the Bechdel-Wallace test (often just called “The Bechdel Test”) has helped call attention to the gender imbalance in Hollywood by asking two simple questions of a film: Does it have at least two named female characters? And do those characters have at least one conversation that is not about a...
Jan 19, 2018
This week, on a very special live episode of TIFF Long Take, Rob and Geoff sit down with Canadian director Jeremy Podeswa. In his home country, Podeswa is likely best known for his celebrated independent films The Five Senses and Fugitive Pieces, but across the globe he’s quickly gaining notoriety as one of...
Jan 12, 2018
When it comes to contending in Hollywood, Canadian actors have always punched above their weight. But for every Ryan Gosling, Tatiana Maslany, or Rachel McAdams, there’s a Paul Gross, a Mary Walsh, or a Gordon Pinsent — actors who have, for the most part, forgone a career in the US and instead made names for...
Jan 5, 2018
This week on TIFF Long Take, Rob and Geoff put 2017 in the rearview mirror and look ahead to the films, TV shows, events, and conversations that they’re most intrigued by in the coming year. Joining them to discuss are film critic for The Ringer K. Austin Collins and TIFF Programmer Kiva Reardon.
The four talk about...