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Hasta La Vista, Toronto, You Ended Strong

September 22, 2026September 28, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0 Comments Ah Girl, Arthur Harari, Canadian cinema, coming of age, documentary, French cinema, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Ian Bawa, Iranian cinema, Japanese cinema, La Gradiva, Léa Seydoux, Look Back, Mandeep Sodhi, Marine Atlan, Niels Schneider, Ong Xuan Jing, Pegah Ahangarani, psychological thriller, Rehearsals for a Revolution, Singapore cinema, Strong Son, The Unknown, TIFF 2026, Toronto International Film Festival

TIFF 2026’s final set of films include Marine Atlan’s stunning ‘La Gradiva’ to daring works from Iran, France, Japan, and Singapore

Cannes Has Some Serious (and Some Comic) Daddy Issues

May 19, 2026May 19, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments A24, Adam Driver, art house cinema, arthouse film, arthouse films, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, award season, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema criticism, cinema culture, Club Kid, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, daddy issues, directorial debuts, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, European film, fatherhood in film, Fatherland, festival acquisitions, festival buzz, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film distribution, film festival coverage, film festivals, Fjord, Friday the 13th, Gentle Monster, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Havana Rose Liu, Hirokazu Kore-eda, independent filmmaking, Indie Film, international cinema, Ira Sachs, James Gray, Jane Schoenbrun, Javier Bardem, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Lennon The Last Interview, John Travolta, Jordan Firstman, Kristen Stewart, Léa Seydoux, LGBTQ cinema, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, midnight movies, movie industry news, Nicolas Winding Refn, Oscar contenders, Palme D'Or, Paper Tiger, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Quentin Dupieux, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Scarlett Johansson, Sean Lennon, Sebastian Stan, Slasher Movies, Sophie Thatcher, Steven Soderbergh, The Beatles, The Beloved, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel, Woody Harrelson, world cinema

Family ties are being stretched for drama and laughs in festival film after film

Cannes 2026 Opens With Sheepish Glamour and a Surprise Masterpiece

May 16, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments arthouse film, Asghar Farhadi, auteur cinema, Camp Miasma, Cannes 2026, Cannes Film Festival, cinema culture, cold war cinema, Cristian Mungiu, Disney Plus, Elijah Wood, European cinema, Fatherland, Festival Coverage, film criticism, film festivals, Friday the 13th, Gillian Anderson, Hannah Einbinder, Hirokazu Kore-eda, international cinema, Ira Sachs, Jane Schoenbrun, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Travolta, meta horror, Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Michelle Rodriguez, Palme D'Or, Paweł Pawlikowski, Peter Jackson, Pierre Salvadori, postwar Germany, queer cinema, Ryusuke Hamaguchi, Sandra Hüller, Slasher Movies, The Beatles, The Electric Kiss, The Fast and the Furious, Thomas Mann, Un Certain Regard, Vin Diesel

Storied film festival honors Peter Jackson, debuts Hannah Einbinder in Jane Schoenbrun’s messy meta-slasher, and shows an early Palme d’Or frontrunner

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The Needless Puzzle of Kore-eda Hirokazu’s ‘Monster’

December 27, 2023December 29, 2023 London Faust 0 Comments Hiiragi Hinata, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster

Avant-garde narrative structure doesn’t help out an ultimately conventional drama

The Truth

You Can Handle ‘The Truth’

July 6, 2020July 5, 2020 Sara Stewart 0 Comments Catherine Deneuve, Ethan Hawke, Hirokazu Kore-eda, Juliette Binoche, Shoplifters, The Truth

Japanese director Hirokazu Kore-eda teams up with Catherine Deneuve for an intimate French family drama

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Check Out Boeing in ‘Freefall’

September 23, 2026September 28, 2026 Robert Dean 0

New documentary show crashes don’t come from just one lil’ engineering failure

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Hasta La Vista, Toronto, You Ended Strong

September 22, 2026September 28, 2026 Kaveh Jalinous 0

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No Need for Monster Logic in ‘Resident Evil’

September 22, 2026September 25, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

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BFG Podcast #315: Venice, Oasis and Hope

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