Toronto Movie Guy

  Toward the end of his Dracula , Radu Jude cites Wittgenstein (who was himself quoting from another source): the thing about progress is th...

  At its core, there’s something rather touchingly idealistic about Abel Ferrara’s Turn in the Wound (and how often does one think to descri...

  A viewer might feel obliged to take Alain Resnais’ Mon oncle d’Amerique highly seriously, to assume that the juxtaposition of the film’s ...

  Officially, Alexander Hall’s Here Comes Mr. Jordan is only seven minutes shorter than Warren Beatty and Buck Henry’s 1978 remake Heaven C...

  As the title indicates, Wang Bing’s documentary Youth (Hard Times) paints a gloomier picture than the preceding Youth (Spring), notwiths...

  The critical response to David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds was heavily informed by the styling of star Vincent Cassel to evoke Cronenberg hi...

  Much of Robert Bresson’s Une femme douce is devoted to spectatorship, emphasizing the “gentle woman’s” passivity and lack of agency: the ...

  Abel Ferrara’s singular (well, of course) New Rose Hotel is a fascinatingly displaced piece of work, a globe-spanning tale of conspiracy ...

  Arnaud Desplechin’s Spectateurs ! would provide a most engaging introduction to the director’s oeuvre, despite (detractors might say becau...

  David Cronenberg’s Maps to the Stars ranks in the lower half of his work, Hollywood’s empty materialism and drained humanity seeming basi...

  In a way, nothing in Jean Rollin’s The Grapes of Death penetrates as much as the opening images of weary agricultural labourers trudging ...

  Many reviewers responded to After the Hunt as if Luca Guadagnino had temporarily forgotten how to direct, and the film certainly lacks th...

  Even by modern-day standards, the closing credits of Leos Carax’s Annette feel unusually prolonged, especially as the film sticks in the ...

  Werner Herzog’s 1981 portrait of tele-evangelist Gene Scott, God’s Angry Man , is ultimately perhaps too brief to do justice to its bizarr...

  In Alain Tanner’s Messidor, two young women randomly meet while hitchhiking, sharing a ride and then getting out together when they decide...