Last week's "Luis Buñuel in Mexico" three-night master class with Guillermo del Toro at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto was a fantastic event. Before I get to some screening takeaways, I want to say up front that I really like how TIFF is delivering on curation...
The TIFF Pasolini retrospective is over, now; the final screening was last Saturday (Salò, April 12) and though I'm pained to have missed the last 11 screenings, I can count myself lucky for having been in Toronto for the first five. My favourite of the lot was the...
Call me crazy but I think I'm starting to get what Pasolini is on about with this film. I'm not sure how many in the audience at last night's nearly-full screening, the third in TIFF's complete Pasolini retrospective, would agree with me...
Tonight I took in the second screening in TIFF's Pasolini retrospective at the Lightbox, and let me just say at the start that the new 35mm print looked great—far better, in fact, than even the fine Masters of Cinema Blu-ray release led me to expect....
The TIFF Pasolini retrospective (Pier Paolo Pasolini: The Poet of Contamination) kicked off at the Lightbox last night with a packed screening of Pasolini's second feature, Mamma Roma. This was my first big-screen viewing of this film and, in fact, only my second theatrical viewing...