Canadian filmmaker Guy Maddin, the man behind “The Saddest Music In The World” and “My Winnipeg,” among many others, is one of the most eccentric filmmakers out there.

Sony Pictures Entertainment chairman-CEO Tony Vinciguerra is sounding the alarm on a potential lack of movies for next year. It was to be expected.

Yesterday, I asked around for any additional “The Color Purple” reactions, I found one and it’s pretty positive:

“The Burial,” a courtroom drama directed by Maggie Betts and written by Doug Wright, is the type of baity drama that used to get made in the ‘90s and I do mean that as both a good and bad thing.

There’s no end in sight with the strike, it could very well go on until next year, which means awards campaigning will be severely affected by this situation,

There are still five days left at the Toronto International Film Festival, but practically every big title has premiered now. I can safely say that this has been one of the best TIFF editions in recent years.

Ranking your favorites films, listing them, has been part of cinephile culture for years. Critics’ year-end ten best lists have been around since, at least, the late ‘60s. However, Martin Scorsese wants no part in that tradition.

The general reactions I had gathered about “The Color Purple,” when it was test screened in the fall of 2022, was that it wasn’t a very good movie.

Celine Song’s first film, “Past Lives,” is one of the most acclaimed movies of the year. A delicately hushed debut feature that has had critics raving about it ever since its world premiere at Sundance this past January.

France hasn’t won a Foreign/International film Oscar in over 30 years. Maybe this will finally be the year.

Here’s another movie that rips off Scorsese’s ‘Wolf of Wall Street’ — there have been many of them lately. David Yates’ “Pain Hustlers” premiered at TIFF, and the reviews have been terrible.

Here’s a new trailer for Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Martin Scorsese has described modern cinema as being “fragmented” in comparison to his earlier years. This comes from his Time interview from yesterday.

Here’s a film that needs to be tackled. Azazel Jacobs’ “His Three Daughters” which still has no distributor, has turned into one of the more acclaimed films of this year’s festival.

The big question here at TIFF is who will pick up Richard Linklater’s “Hit Man”? The film has screened to great reviews and Glenn Powell could get a serious push for Best Actor this awards season. He’s that good in it.

If you’ve been reading this site then you must already know that I had previously reported on a new Michel Franco film, titled “Dreams,” was being shot in secret this past July.

In a nutshell, what “The Holdovers” signifies is a back-to-the-basics approach for director Payne, albeit done in a very mainstream, comfort-food type of fashion. It’s far from Payne’s best film, but an immensely likeable one.

Here’s the third, and possibly final, instalment of what’s missing at the fall festivals. Most of the big fests (save for AFI) have announced their entire lineups, so expect all of these to be bumped to 2024.

There’s a Time profile on Martin Scorsese where the filmmaker mentions “lots of movie projects” in the works, including an adaptation of Marilynne Robinson’s Home — here’s the book’s synopsis:

On 02.01.23 I asked readers what their best Joel and Ethan Coen movie was.