Farrell, Walken, Rockwell, & McDonagh Talk SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS
During this year's Toronto International Film Festival, Twitch had a chance to sit down with the stars and director of the upcoming Seven Psychopaths. Here are some of the highlights: Twitch: Seven Psychopaths was a big hit with the... More »
  

Joseph Gordon Levitt Talks Redemption, Art And LOOPER
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is like a poster child for what there is to admire about American cinema today. Between really entertaining ambitious films he's made any number of powerfully good small indies. I myself am a big fan of Mysterious Skin... More »
  

Emily Blunt Talks LOOPER, Acting & Her Desire For 'An Obnoxious Number Of Guns'
Rian Johnson's Looper makes an appearance at Fantastic Fest today prior to its US theatrical release. Twitch had the opportunity to sit down with leading lady Emily Blunt in Toronto, as part of a roundtable interview following the film's world... More »
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Stephen Fung Talks Finding The Next Generation For TAI CHI ZERO
Stephen Fung was on top of the world in 2005. The popular actor had made a successful transition to directing with both his debut feature, Enter The Phoenix, and sophomore effort, House Of Fury, embraced by fans and critics alike.... More »
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THE RAID - Iko Uwais. Joe Taslim. Gareth Huw Evans. Fight!
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TIFF 2011: ACQUA (2011): Interview With Raha Shirazi

Raha Shirazi was born in Tehran, Iran and immigrated to Canada with her family at the age of eleven. Her short film Four Walls premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival 2007, and has gone on to screen at international... More »
  

A HORRIBLE WAY TO DIE (2010): Interview With Adam Wingard, Simon Barrett, Joe Swanberg, AJ Bowen & Amy Seimetz

Adam Wingard's A Horrible Way to Die (2010) had its world premiere in the Vanguard sidebar at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) where--in his official description--Colin Geddes noted: "While the title might imply a degree of exploitation and... More »
  

SPANISH CINEMA: TAMBIEN LA LLUVIA (EVEN THE RAIN, 2010): Interview With Icíar Bollaín
Icíar Bollaín's Tambien La Lluvia (Even the Rain, 2010)--Spain's official entry to the Foreign Language category of the Academy Awards®--made it all the way to the Oscar® shortlist. That's a remarkable and rapid achievement for a film that had its... More »
  

PERUVIAN CINEMA: OCTUBRE / OCTOBER (2010): Interview With Diego Vega
This has been a great year to engage with Peruvian cinema. Not only did I have the chance to speak with Claudia Llosa whose film La Teta Asustada (The Milk of Sorrow, 2009) was nominated for a Best Foreign Language... More »
  

UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (ลุงบุญมีระลึกชาติ, 2010): A Question for Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Winner of the Palme d'Or at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, I had the great pleasure of viewing Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival, which was screened in conjunction with a... More »
  

TIFF 2010 / AFI FEST 2010: CARANCHO: Interview With Pablo Trapero
Pablo Trapero was born in San Justo, Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1971. He wrote, directed and edited the short films Mocoso Malcriado (1993) and Negocios (1995) before directing his feature debut, the award-winning Crane World (1999), a black and white... More »
  

TIFF 2010: GUEST (2010): Interview With José Luis Guerín
"In the year from September 2007 until September 2008, I challenged myself by accepting without any exclusions all of the film festivals and events inviting me as a guest [for my film En la ciudad de Sylvia (In the... More »
  

TIFF 2010: NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ (NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT, 2010): The MUBI Interview With Patricio Guzmán
In terms of Chilean filmmaking, this has been a great year for me as an interviewing journalist. First, I had the opportune pleasure of conversing with Miguel Littin (Dawson Island, 10, 2009) earlier this year at the Palm Springs... More »
  

TIFF 2010: LA VIDA ÚTIL (A USEFUL LIFE, 2010): The MUBI Interview With Federico Veiroj
Federico Veiroj's A Useful Life was the first film at the 2010 Toronto International Film Festival I heard applauded at its press screening, confirming--as Diana Sanchez had written in her program capsule--that "for anyone who loves cinema in its... More »
  

TIFF 2010: Interview With Programmer Kate Lawrie Van de Ven
From TIFF's website: "Kate Lawrie Van de Ven is Co-Programmer of the Toronto International Film Festival's City to City programme, a spotlight that looks at a different world city each year through the lens of its cinema. "She is... More »
  

TIFF 2010: Interview With Programmer Diana Sanchez
This was the first year--more than any other year I've attended the Toronto International--that its signature as a programmers festival seemed especially pronounced, which drew my attention to how the festival lineup has been selected, shaped and promoted largely... More »
  

TIFF 2010: THE HOUSEMAID (HANYO, 2010): Interview With Im Sang-Soo & Lee Jung-jae
Singular pleasures. When I was invited by the publicists of The Housemaid (Hanyo, 2010)--the highly anticipated remake of Kim Ki-Young's 1960 Korean classic--to interview director Im Sang-soo, I agreed to do so if they would pull me a ticket... More »
  

TIFF 2010: THE POLL DIARIES (2010): Interview With Chris Kraus
Chris Kraus was born in Goettingen, Germany and studied at the German Film and Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin, where he now teaches. Already a noted scriptwriter before making his debut as a director, Kraus scored a notable success... More »
  

TIFF 2010: Writer-Director Kire Paputts' Talks ANIMAL CONTROL
One of the more striking films in the Short Cuts Canada program is Kire Paputts' Animal Control, the story of an amateur taxidermist and his relationship with a dog he finds struck by a car at the side of... More »
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John Carpenter Talks THE WARD, THE THING And Canadian Recreation ...
In just a few day's time legendary director John Carpenter will be returning to the big screen for the first time in nearly a decade when his new film, The Ward, screens as part of the Midnight Madness program at... More »
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