This week at TIFF begins a retrospective of the work of Turkish filmmaker Yilmaz Güney. He was one of Turkey's greatest stars and directors,

As always, this week at TIFF Bell Lightbox is packed with film programming to suit everyone's tastes. From a princess to a controversial director to some classic 80s

Now this might get uncomfortable… Anyone who’s ever seen the films of Lars von Trier knows the feeling all too well. The film starts out normally enough… we’re introduced

For those uninitiated in fine dining (ie. we eat it, we like it, we'll probably eat it again), it may be difficult to understand why Paul Liebrandt is

It seems these days that we don't get enough culture. We spend too much time with our televisions or computers. Certainly we don't get out to see our

“Although these two films seem largely connected through their breathtakingly bold homoeroticism, they also share a fascination with ancient times, and the absurdity of trying to bring that

There are days when I really love my job. Yesterday was one of them. I arrived at the hotel at around 9:30. I was far from the first there,

Rainer Werner Fassbinder is generally considered to be one of the most important figures in the New German Cinema, a movement beginning in the 1960s and ending in

At the time of its release, The Thin Red Line was unfairly categorized as ‘the other war film’ – a film that had to lurk in the shadows