Photos by: Myles Herod – Richard Linklater attended the Hit Man premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on (Sept. 11th). The latest from Richard Linklater reunites the prolific indie auteur with Everybody Wants Some!!’s Glen Powell for a sorta-true crime comedy thriller about role-play, romance, and the precarious pursuit of self-knowledge.
Photos by: Myles Herod – Harmony Korine attended the Aggro Dr1ft premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival last night (Sept. 11th). Spellbinding infrared photography conjures a hallucinatory portrait of a haunted assassin (Jordi Mollà) in this sensuous experimental elegy from Harmony Korine (Spring Breakers, Trash Humpers).
Photos by: Brandon Newfield – R&B/Pop singer-songwriter Tori Kelly, who released an EP titled Tori on July 28th, 2023 via Epic, performed at History in Toronto on Sept. 10th.
Photos by: Myles Herod – Ava DuVernay attended the Origin premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 11th. Ava DuVernay directs an inspired adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s life, as she digs into the nuance of discrimination while writing what would become her New York Times bestselling book, Caste: The Origins of Our … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Taika Waititi attended the Next Goal Wins premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 10th. Michael Fassbender, Elisabeth Moss, and Oscar Kightley star in Taika Waititi’s comedy about the American Samoa soccer team’s attempt to make a World Cup — 12 years after their infamous 31-0 loss … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Neve Campbell, Chelsea McMullan, Karen Kain, & Jurgita Dronina attended the Swan Song premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9th. Director Chelsea McMullan takes us inside the National Ballet of Canada’s 2022 production of Swan Lake, directed and staged by the legendary Karen Kain.
Photos by: Myles Herod – Lil Nas X attended the Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9th. Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero offers a joyous immersion in the world of a game-changing artist and the fans who’ve joined him in that change. To watch … Continue reading
By: Curtis Sindrey – A Midsummer Night’s Masquerade, a wonderfully engaging evening of art, transformed Coin 8 in Toronto into a playground of the senses on Friday night (Sept. 8th). First established in New York by the Poetry Society of New York, A Midsummer Night’s Masquerade marks the first Toronto appearance of the Poetry Brothel, an immersive … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Elliot Page, D.W. Waterson, Thomas Antony Olajide, and Devery Jacobs attended the Backspot premiere at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 9th. A driven cheerleader (Devery Jacobs) struggles to handle the pressure when she and her girlfriend are both selected for an elite cheer squad, in D.W. Waterson’s … Continue reading
Photos by: Myles Herod – Viggo Mortensen, and Vicky Krieps attended the premiere for their new film The Dead Don’t Hurt on September 8th at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival. Set in the 1860s, Viggo Mortensen’s second outing as writer-director (after Falling, TIFF ’20) is an elegantly realized feminist western starring Mortensen himself and … Continue reading