Dumb Money Director Craig Gillespie Decries a Rigged Economic System
Dumb Money is the true story of a financial revolution that rocked Wall Street during the pandemic. Keith Gill, a Mass Mutual financial analyst living near Boston, posted a series of YouTube videos under the moniker Roaring Kitty. He believed…
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A Haunting in Venice Cinematographer on Capturing Agatha Christie’s Horror Vision
A Haunting in Venice has Agatha Christie's Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) lured out of his Italian retirement. A visit from mystery writer Ariadne Oliver (Tina Fey) offers a puzzling opportunity. Renowned psychic and spiritual medium Joyce Reynolds (Michelle…
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‘Queen of My Dreams’ Director Criticizes Idea That Women Are Risky Directors
The Big Picture Fawzia Mirza makes her feature directorial debut with TIFF 2023 selection The Queen of My Dreams. The movie stars Amrit Kaur as a young woman who can't see eye-to-eye with her conservative mother played by Nimra Bucha.…
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Director Noora Niasari on Taking Shayda Around the World (and Maybe the Oscars 2024)
Australian filmmaker Noora Niasari has spent the entire year taking Shayda around the world. Earlier this year, the movie made its world premiere at Sundance Film Festival. From there, it screened at the Melbourne International Film Festival in Australia and…
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How Lulu Wang Got Creative Control on ‘Expats’
The Big Picture Lulu Wang brings her The Farewell follow-up project to TIFF 2023, the upcoming Prime Video limited series, Expats. Based on Janice Y. K. Lee’s 2016 novel, the series follows three American women living in Hong Kong whose…
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Atom Egoyan Confronts His Past with Amanda Seyfried and Seven Veils
Here's the story — in the year 32, John the Baptist was imprisoned for maligning the king's wife; her daughter Salome falls obsessively in love with John, but he refuses to even look at her. One drunken night, the king…
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Wilderness Director So Yong Kim Wants Audiences to Feel an Edgy Thrill in Her New Series
There’s a lot to appreciate about Prime Video’s new heated drama Wilderness, but the fact that it’s driven by a savvy female creative makes it stand out even more. Created by Marnie Dickens and based on B.E. Jones’ novel, the…
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Willem Dafoe & Camila Morrone Held Each Other Like Babies for ‘Gonzo Girl’
The Big Picture Patricia Arquette's feature directorial debut is Gonzo Girl, an adaption of Cheryl Della Pietra’s semi-autobiographical novel about her time working as Hunter S. Thompson’s personal assistant Camila Morrone leads as Alley, an aspiring writer who accepts a…
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The Inventor Director Encourages Everyone to Find Their Own Genius Without AI
Artificial intelligence has, controversially, become one of the most insisted upon and yet equally resisted tools in business, education, and creative careers. While some may insist that the simulation of human brainpower is a welcomed development, others will counter and…
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“It’s Disturbing to Me How Relevant They Are”: Gregg Araki on New Restorations and His Teen Apocalypse Trilogy
Nowhere In the late 1980s, Gregg Araki began making movies. He made films on a shoestring budget with a do-it-yourself mindset–not due to any kind of loyalty to the auteur theory, but the constraints of what he had at his…
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Ryu Seungryong Talks Moving, the Hit K-Drama, and His Superpowered Character
Disney+ and Hulu have found a bona fide smash hit with the Asian series Moving. The K-drama debuted in August and has generated plenty of buzz for its ambitious premise and great acting, becoming the most watched original Korean series…
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“Is There an Orchestra Playing in the Depths of the Glacier?”: Margreth Olin on Her TIFF-Debuting Documentary, Songs of Earth
Songs of Earth My DOX:AWARD top pick for the Ekko jury grid I participated in at this year’s CPH:DOX, Margreth Olin’s Songs of Earth, was also number one in my critic’s notebook for the doc most needing to be experienced on the big…
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