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Sunday, September 08, 2024

Hi, Art!

Sunday, September 08, 2024

Hi, art lovers!

 
Photo of downtown Toronto street. Two women, seen in profile, walk on the sidewalk. Behind them are enourmous posters advertising the Toronto International Film Festival.

(Evan Mitsui/CBC)

 
Remember last week’s end-of-summer bucket list? I forgot to add something, but there’s still time to get it done — see a movie at TIFF! 

The Toronto International Film Festival opened Thursday with plenty of stars (plus a Tragically Hip singalong in the street). And from now through Sept. 15, the city is where every movie lover in the universe wants to be. 

If you’re still getting your head around this year’s offerings, there are plenty of guides to choose from. As far as must-see movies go, here are some intriguing options for music fans — and bookworms too. CBC News has a rundown on what’s happening during the festival, plus an explainer on TIFF’s role in the film scene. 

A whole bunch of industry notables will be writing for CBC Arts over the next few days. Just like Hollywood, we love a reboot. And Cutaways — our first-person essay series — is back for yet another round. Canadian filmmakers Sook-Yin Lee (Paying for It), Johnny Ma (The Mother and the Bear) and Arianna Martinez (Do I Know You From Somewhere?) have already filed stories about the movies they’re bringing to TIFF. Watch for more of those articles this week.

And starting Monday, Commotion will launch a new daily podcast called TIFF in 12. Every day through the 13th, Elamin Abdelmahmoud will host a 12-minute chat with film critics Teri Hart and Rad Simonpillai. “Listen, this is the TIFF podcast I’ve always wanted,” says Elamin. “You’ll hear about the movies we are liking, the movies that are a little overhyped, and all the insider goss you need to know.” Find it here.
 

Because we promised you eye candy ...

 
Bold graphic painting on brown fabric. Depicts a simple face in profile, painted in shades of green. It is a frownng face with yellow and blue eyes. It holds a hand (peach with colourful fingernails) in front of its nose in a mocking gesture.

Phil Woollam

How I feel when I can’t score a ticket to a movie I’m dying to see. (Art by Phil Woollam.)
 
Photo of an art installation in a dark room. It is comprrised of dozens of glowing images of sunsets.

Kevin Todora/Nasher Sculpture Center

Slow Dance by Sarah Sze. Photographed at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas, it’s a sculptural installation for anyone doing back-to-back TIFF screenings all week. (According to the museum, the piece stresses “how experience is continually reshaped by the constant stream of visual information around us.”)
 
Surreal photo. A human form all in green knitwear lies in a field of blooming dandelions, their face completely obscured by yarn.

Nicole Crozier

Art for anyone who’s not on an after-party guest list … and is very much at peace with that. (How to Be No One by Nicole Crozier.) 
 
Realistic painting of the store front of a shuttered downtown video store, Queen Video.

Emily MacLennan

A tribute to another fixture of the Toronto film scene. Queen Video — RIP — by Emily MacLennan. 
 
 

You've got to see this

 
 
 
Film still. Top-down shot of a woman (left) and man (right) lying in bed.
Wildling Pictures, Hawkeye Pictures

Based on a ‘humdinger’ of a true story

 
Sook-Yin Lee on adapting Paying for It, Chester Brown’s graphic novel memoir.
 
Close-up photo of Hooda Hersi, a young woman of colour wearing dark glasses, dark red lipstick and a turquoise head scarf.
Carlyle Routh

‘If I wanted to save the world, I would have stayed in teaching’

 
Comedian Hooda Hersi just wants to tell her truth in the funniest way possible.
 
Still from Plan B. Vinessa Antoine appears in a tight profile shot. She is a Black woman wearing a police uniform and is seated in profile in a sun-filled police department office. Blinds are visible behind her.

CBC

 

How to play a ‘tough cop’

 
Vinessa Antoine stars in the second season of the time-travel drama Plan B.
 

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Illustration of the CBC Arts logo, sculpted from plasticine. A textured green background like grass. The shape of the logo at centre, is suggested by a collection of forms: a red and white toadstool surrounded by fall leaves. A green cartoon worm pops out of a hole in the mushroom. Text in bubble lettering reads: CBC Arts.

Madeleine LeBrun

Yep, that’s Plasticine! But there’s more to Madeleine’s process than you might imagine. She made us a video to show us how she works. Check it out.
 

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