Toronto 2025 Curtain Raiser: The Festival Of Festivals Turns 50

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ScreenAnarchy, in a way, was birthed at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) over 20 years ago.  At a time when movies were still shown on 35mm film, tickets were printed on paper, and Todd Brown asked a few movie nerds in his inner circle to start writing online about experimental filmmakers and global genre spaces that were emerging on the festival circuit: Kim Ki-Duk, Shinya Tsukamoto, Bong Joon-ho, Lynne Ramsay, Gaspar Noe, Johnnie To, Claire Denis, Olivier Assayas, Takashi Miike, Edgar Wright, Thomas Anders-Jensen, and Christopher Boe, among others. Both TIFF and ScreenAnarchy have evolved and grown (and undergone a re-branding) over those many years, we still keep coming back for the strange, new, and wilder side of things that the Festival of Festivals...

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