Damien Chazelle
An irresistible experience loaded with vulgarity, passion, and energy, Babylon is one big party of an intoxicating cinema explosion.
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of uridled decadence and depravity.
There has never been a film that so thoroughly captures the excitement and danger of space travel as First Man, capturing that intoxicating mix of euphoria and terror of the 1969 Apollo 11 Moon landing.
Curious about Cuarón’s, Chazelle and McQueen’s latest? From Toronto International Film Festival, here are our reviews of Roma, First Man, Widows – and more!
Warm up your pipes and put on your dancing shoes, because this month’s staff inquiry…
First Man is a look at the life of the astronaut, Neil Armstrong, and the legendary space mission that led him to become the first man to walk on the Moon.
In our latest collaboration, we discuss cinematic worlds we want to live in, ranging from John Ford’s Westerns to Jacques Demy’s musicals.
La La Land is a tribute to classic musicals, yet also attempts something different by subverting the romanticized outlook that they have.
When I go to TIFF, I like to mix it up: if I get a ticket to a hot title, I’ll also check out something lesser known (or without a distributor). Most times, my screening schedule alternates so that buzzy films and unknown quantities are spaced out fairly evenly.
Every year, ten movies are bestowed the honor of becoming nominated by the Academy Of Motion Pictures Arts & Sciences. Many of these films will already have had various successes throughout the year: good festival attendance, box office success and probably received other prestigious awards.
Whistling in on a plaintive melody is La La Land, a musical so out of left field that it needs a gentle introduction for you to acclimate to. And so LA wipes in, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling make their entrances, and it’s not until the trailer is over that you realize how far you’ve gone. Sure, it’s just a teaser, but it’s transportive in a way that cuts through the cliché of that word.
Why do we strive for greatness? What pushes someone to practice something over and over, until his hands bleed, until he perfects it? Can this intensity be brought out in all of us?
