Tag Archives: #TIFF2024

#TIFF24 Wrap: The Best of the Fest

September 13, 2024 flawintheiris

I'm back in Halifax, flying in from Pearson and landing around 4pm Atlantic Time. I ran into Haligonian screenwriter Noah Pink (Tetris, Eden) at the airport, the second time in as many days — we chatted on the sidewalk outside the TIFF Lightbox on Wednesday morning. … Read More

The Knox Office: Live from #TIFF24

September 12, 2024 flawintheiris

ICYMI earlier this week I was on CBC Nova Scotia with my column, The Knox Office, giving listeners the scoop on a few of the best movies I saw at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, including The Shrouds, Nightbitch, and We Live In Time. Click here if you'd care to give it a… Read More

#TIFF24 The Life Of Chuck, Saturday Night, Universal Language

September 12, 2024 flawintheiris

I mentioned in my mini-review on Insta (@Flaw_In_The_Iris) that I was still digesting this film and its themes, but I think I’ve got my head around it. Filmmaker Mike Flanagan adapts his third Stephen King story after Gerald's Game and Doctor Sleep, and The Life Of Chuck lies somewhere between the supernatural horror that King built… Read More

#TIFF24 Road Diary and Babygirl

September 11, 2024 flawintheiris

The full title of that first film is Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. It's a documentary written and produced by Springsteen and directed by his cinematic biographer of recent years, Thom Zimny. It covers a lot of ground — a basic history of the band whose longtime members now find themselves… Read More

#TIFF24 Relay, Conclave, and Queer

September 10, 2024 flawintheiris

David MacKenzie is the talent who directed the excellent Hell Or High Water and pretty damn good Outlaw King, so when I saw he had something new here at TIFF I made a point of catching it. This picture is a pure thriller of the sort we sadly rarely see these days — a movie… Read More

#TIFF24 Eden, Nightbitch, and Heretic

September 9, 2024 flawintheiris

I think of Ron Howard as Hollywood's highest profile journeyman director, someone who's comfortable in multiple genres while being best known for blockbuster entertainments. Here he's stepping into a new frame late in the game, and more power to him. Eden is based on a true story of a group of Europeans who, post economic… Read More

#TIFF24 We Live In Time, Men Of War

September 7, 2024 flawintheiris

I've never been much of a fan of the cancer drama — the maudlin but massively successful Love Story set the stage for the genre in 1970, starring Ryan O'Neal and Ali MacGraw. These movies have reared their ugly heads a number of times since. They tend to indulge in a little class or generation clashing… Read More

#TIFF24: Meet The Barbarians, Sharp Corner

September 7, 2024 flawintheiris

You'll find me a longtime fan of Julie Delpy the actor, writer, and director — in the Before series, Three Colours: White, and Two Days in Paris. She's back with this quite broad, clever comedy called Meet The Barbarians, (in French, Les barbares) where a well-meaning group of village folk in a corner of Brittany… Read More

#TIFF24: The Shrouds, Daniela Forever, and The Apprentice

September 6, 2024 flawintheiris

A gorgeous, sunny day in Toronto and I'm the idiot that chose two films about grief for my first two screenings — not intentionally, but that's sometimes how it rolls. The first was The Shrouds, written and directed by David Cronenberg, and the second also an auteurist drama, Daniela Forever, by the fantastically named Nacho… Read More

The Knox Office: Summer Movies 2024, Blink Twice, and #TIFF24

September 5, 2024 flawintheiris

Regular readers of FITI will note I'm in Toronto at the moment at the Toronto International Film Festival, but last Friday I was on CBC Information Morning with Portia Clark with my column talking about what I was looking forward to seeing while I'm here. I also did a brief review of the big blockbuster… Read More