Illustrations by Maddie Fischer.
Throughout the fall festival season, we'll be publishing a wide array of interviews, dispatches, and ballots from Venice, Toronto, and New York. Watch this space!
From Venice
“Rage Against the Dying of the Light” by Leonardo Goi
From Cloud to Baby Invasion, some of the festival’s early standouts felt true to our moment of anxious doomscrolling and paranoia.
“Empathy Machines” by Leonardo Goi
Some of the festival’s best—Familiar Touch, The Room Next Door, April, The Brutalist—share a belief in cinema’s power to mesmerize.
From Toronto
“Hunt or Be Hunted” by Chloe Lizotte
Saturday Night and The Apprentice fade into the forgettable “landmarks” on Festival Street, but Friendship dares to be weird.
“For an Ad Hoc Cinema: TIFF Wavelengths 2024” by Michael Sicinski
The program remains a lodestar of auteurist cinema even as it is asked to make do with less.
“The Cinema Is a House” by Daniel Kasman
A film builds a space in which the audience can live.
