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Laws of Desire: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar
Stories
How Magnus von Horn Created a Contemporarily Relevant Film Set 100 Years Ago
"For me, it's almost like this story could happen in a contemporary Poland, which is very bad in the way that you watch a film that takes place 100 years ago and you feel that not much has changed."
David Gordon Green Cast His Friend’s Kids in Nutcrackers
"I thought 'we can turn a camera on these kids, in the farm that they live, and make a movie here.' It would have the kind of spirit of 'rough-and-tumble', unmanicured vibe of movies that I loved when I was growing up."
Memoir of a Snail: How Animation Helps Dealing With Tough Subject Manner
“I struggle at times, because I worry the films are getting very dark and bleak, so I try and temper that with as much humour as possible, and just gags – cramming as many visual gags in there as possible to balance out that darkness.”
How Pedro Almodóvar saved Guillermo del Toro's life
“I had just done Cronos and Mimic, and Mimic had almost destroyed me… I couldn’t quite finance a new movie, and a few years earlier, Pedro had seen Cronos in the Miami Film Festival and he said ‘Look, if you ever want to shoot a movie in Spain, call me and my brother.’”
George A. Romero: How He Created Dawn Of The Dead
"I was saying to myself, I can't do another one of these unless I have an idea that's worthy of this kind of attention."
How Thea Sharrock Made a Film About Poison Pen Letters
"I just couldn't quite believe how English and wacky it is. I couldn't believe it was based on a real story."
Guillermo del Toro on His Love for Canadian Cinema
"Oh, Canada is this magical land of illegal whiskey and great animation."
Trailer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan's About Dry Grasses
Set in a tight-knit community that seems to only experience two seasons, Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s masterfully character-driven return to the screen probes into power dynamics and the darkest regions of the human soul.
Trailer: Cody Lightning's Hey, Viktor!
A struggling Indigenous actor tries to rejuvenate his career by getting a sequel made to the beloved film Smoke Signals, in star and director Cody Lightning’s wildly funny debut mockumentary.
Lists
What We're Watching 13 films
A list of new releases and limited screenings that are now playing or coming soon to TIFF Lightbox. Add these…
Laws of Desire: The Films of Pedro Almodóvar 25 films
No one makes films quite like Almodóvar. Embracing the thriller, melodrama, screwball comedy, farce, film noir, sci-fi, and western, Almodóvar…
Dimensional Excursions: A Century of Innovation in 3D Cinema 19 films
Curated by artist and filmmaker Blake Williams, Dimensional Excursions: A Century of Innovation in 3D Cinema celebrates 3D's primal and…
The Films of Angelina Jolie: TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media Honouree – #TIFF24 73 films
Announcing the recipient of the TIFF Tribute Award in Impact Media, presented by Anne-Marie Canning: Angelina Jolie.
As an Academy…
The Films of Amy Adams: TIFF Tribute Performer Award Honouree – #TIFF24 50 films
Announcing the recipient of the #TIFFTribute Performer Award: Amy Adams.
This award recognizes Amy Adams’ outstanding body of work, which…
The Films of David Cronenberg: TIFF Tribute Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award Honouree — #TIFF24 43 films
Announcing the recipient of the Norman Jewison Career Achievement Award: David Cronenberg.
Named in honour of the legendary Canadian filmmaker…
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Recent reviews
An unforgettable lead performance and a vivid sense of setting are just two of the strengths of Spencer Creigh’s vignette about a beach-town fixture who gets thrown for a loop by some sad news.
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By inviting viewers to take a closer look at the birds that serve as one of this country’s hardiest symbols, Karsten Wall’s stunning documentary invites a deeper consideration of the conditions we humans have created for them.
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In this captivating piece by artist and filmmaker Catherine Boivin, morning runs serve as a means of retracing the footsteps of her Atikamekw ancestors and connecting with deeper rhythms.
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A sudden loss and an unusual request highlight the fierce and complicated bond between a mother and her son in this beautifully performed tragicomedy by Malia Ann.
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Chicago’s infamous housing project, Cabrini-Green, is the perilous setting for intimate early-90s period piece We Grown Now. Renewing the coming of age roots she planted in her debut feature Hala, writer-director Minhal Baig captures two Black kids navigating systemic racism, brutal policing and broken promises, while imagining an unlikely better life. An unassuming character study set to poetic rhythms makes for an empathetic study of Black life, full of resolve. This evocative coming of age film premieres at the Toronto…
A poetic, earnest love letter to the Chicago Cabrini-Green projects that reminded me of my youth in Crown Heights. Once said in my Belfast review it was Kenneth Branagh listening to Stevie Wonder’s I Wish. Minhal Baig was listening to the entire “Songs In the Key of Life”
so funny, so dramatic, so french !
magnifique !! the kind of animation that makes film critics want to use gustatory adjectives like “sumptuous” to describe it. silly and chaotic but not at the expense of heart and depth. possibly a perfect film and definitely one of my favorites this year (and perhaps of all time)
No one makes films quite like Almodóvar. Embracing the thriller, melodrama, screwball comedy, farce, film noir, sci-fi, and western, Almodóvar has forged a genre all his own — what the Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante termed “Almodrama”.
He has conjured daring narratives blending the comic and the tragic to powerful effect, realized visionary production designs that seem as alive and dynamic as any one of his characters, and created a gallery of wild and wonderful characters that live on in the viewer’s imagination long after the final credits have rolled.
With his newest film and English-language feature debut, The Room Next Door, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Festival and had its North American Premiere at #TIFF24, Almodóvar shows no sign of slowing down. He continues to make films that matter, films that celebrate creativity as an enabling act, a binding mechanism that brings a broken family together or refashions how the past is remembered.
The films of Pedro Almodóvar show the potential of art to embody the temper of the times with wit, verve, humour, elegance, and profound humanity.
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