TIFF Talk 2018

In 1988 senator Gary Hart launched a presidential campaign that quickly brought him to the front of the fray – only to implode spectacularly when some not very wholesome elements of Hart’s life came to the surface. Golden Globe winning director Jason Reitman tells the tale in The Front Runner, with another Golden Globe winner, Hugh Jackman, as Hart.

Writer/director David Lowery had no other actor but Robert Redford in mind for his version of the true story of Forrest Tucker, the coolest and oldest bank robber that has ever emptied safes in the United States, in The Old Man & The Gun. HFPA journalist Anke Hoffman caught up with Lowery in Toronto, and they discussed the “blurred edges” of fact and legend.

In Paul Dano’s directorial debut, Wildlife (an adaptation of Richard Ford’s novel), Carey Mulligan plays a wife and mother in the 1960s Oregon who sees her life drastically changed when her husband (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his job. In Toronto, HFPA journalist Helen Hoehne talked with Mulligan about working with friends and exploring a woman’s life in the sixties.

In Toronto, HFPA journalist Ting Ting Xu talks with Jake Gyllenhaal, star of The Sisters Brothers, about the experience of shooting a western in Romania with a French director – Jacques Audiard, winner of the Best Director prize at the Venice Film Festival – and an international cast.

The season has embraced all ranges of turquoise, pink and brinjal, while staple solids remain. Yellow through mustard all the way to brown puce are also flaring.

Director George Tillman Jr. and The Hate U Give cast members Amandla Stenberg and Russell Hornsby talk about truth, activism and the current vitality in African American film.