The Classics Shelf: The Top Ten Golden Bear Winners
The Classics Shelf: Ranking the ten best Golden Bear winners in the storied history of the Berlin Film Festival, including La Notte, Head-On, and The Wages of Fear.
Ang Lee
Andrew Ahn on The Wedding Banquet and Shifting Culture
An interview with Andrew Ahn about adapting The Wedding Banquet and shifting culture by queering traditional representations of family.
Exclusive Interview: Tech supervisor Ben Gervais talks GEMINI MAN’s high tech High Frame Rate presentation
Ben Gervais discusses the ground-breaking visual effects of Gemini Man.
Gemini Man: Ang Lee on Working with Will Smith and Will Smith, Digital Cinema, and His Collection of Experiences
Oscar winner Ang Lee talks about working with Will Smith and Will Smith, the future of digital cinema, and his collection of experiences.
Will Smith Battles Will Smith in the Gemini Man Trailer
Ang Lee’s Gemini Man is an action-thriller that stars Will Smith as an elite assassin who battles a younger version of himself.
News Shelf: 3/1/14
To wrap up the week, we talk about some places in Toronto where you can get together to watch the Oscars tomorrow, we look ahead to next week's Canadian Screen Awards, we look at two TIFF Bell Lightbox series about books and food on film, and talk a little bit about how TIFF's Paul Verhoeven retrospective is just starting to get really good.
This Week in DVD: 3/12/13
This week brings out some heavy hitters at the video store including Life of Pi, The Master, Hitchcock, Smashed, Playing for Keeps, This Must be the Place, and A Late Quartet.
Life of Pi Review
Life Of Pi is an undeniably impressive film-going experience that delivers both the visceral thrills and subtler joys to be found in any great movie. To pretend it’s perfect would be unfair though. As grounded as diretctor Ang Lee and his cast try make the story, there’s no denying that this is a stylized allegorical fantasy with all of the potential audience alienation that implies.
