TIFF 2015 | The Assassin (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)—Masters
By Jordan Cronk Originally published in Cinema Scope 63 (Summer 2015). The sounds of silence reverberate loudest in The Assassin, Taiwanese master Hou Hsiao-hsien’s first feature in eight years. The...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | Arabian Nights (Miguel Gomes, Portugal/ France/ Germany/...
Cock and Bull Stories: Miguel Gomes on Arabian Nights By Mark Peranson Originally published in Cinema Scope 63 (Summer 2015). Cinema Scope: Miguel Gomes, you need no introduction to the readers of this...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | The Apostate (Federico Veiroj, Spain/ France/...
By José Teodoro Federico Veiroj’s A Useful Life (2010)—in which a middle-aged programmer finds himself out of a career after his Montevideo cinematheque fades to black—considered a post-cinema...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | Anomalisa (Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson, US)—Special Presentations
By Boris Nelepo Charlie Kaufman has been sorely missed. It’s hard to believe that following his series of screenwriting smashes in the early 2000s, and his underrated directorial debut Synecdoche, New...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | An (Naomi Kawase, Japan)—Contemporary World Cinema
By Müge Turan In An, Naomi Kawase returns from the ocean she explored in her ambitious, ultimately stillborn Still the Water (2014) to take up residence in the far more cloistered location of a Tokyo...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | Al Purdy Was Here (Brian D. Johnson, Canada)—TIFF Docs
By Angelo Muredda An old CanLit staple whose braggadocio feels out of tune with the relative civility of contemporary Canadian letters, Al Purdy is a fitting subject for Brian D. Johnson’s doc, which...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | Afternoon (Tsai Ming-liang, Taiwan)—Wavelengths
By Michael Sicinski Following the release of his 2013 film Stray Dogs (a work that some consider his masterpiece), Tsai Ming-liang announced his retirement from feature filmmaking. He’s been busier...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | Cinema Scope 64 Preview | 88:88 (Isiah Medina, Canada)—Wavelengths
Necessary Means: Isiah Medina on 88:88 By Phil Coldiron Originally published in Cinema Scope 64 (Fall 2015). One of the enduring problems of the cinema is that André Bazin’s answer to the question,...
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | 45 Years (Andrew Haigh, UK)—Special Presentations
By Angelo Muredda Andrew Haigh branches out from his chronicles of transitory love among gay male urbanites with 45 Years, one of the shrewdest follow-ups to a calling-card picture in recent memory....
View ArticleTIFF 2015 | 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski, Poland/Ireland)—Masters
By Manu Yáñez In his unorthodox answer to Hollywood action movies, Jerzy Skolimowski has made a film that is more than (or maybe exactly) what it seems. In narrative terms, there’s the (unconscious)...
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