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Editor’s note: Deadline presents the 32nd episode of its video series Take Two (formerly known as Two Shot), in which Pete Hammond and Todd McCarthy tackle the artistry of films. Each has reviewed and written about the craft for decades and built a remarkable breadth of knowledge of films past and present. What we hope…

Ben Kingsley shows a different side to his screen persona with his performance in Dalíland, in which he plays the mercurial Surrealist artist in the last decade or so of his life. When he came to Deadline's TIFF studio, the actor praised his young co-star Christopher Briney, who plays James, a young Manhattan gallery…

Director Mary Harron brought first-time actor Christopher Briney into Deadline's TIFF Studio to discuss Dalíland, a film that explores the final stretch of the Surrealist art superstar Salvador Dalí's life, leading up to his death in 1984. As Harron explained, "It shows the last years of Dalí and his wife Gala's crazy…

UPDATED, 9:45 AM with Steven Spielberg statement: Here is Steven Spielberg’s full statement upon winning the Toronto Film Festival’s People’s Choice award for The Fabelmans. "As I said on stage the other night, 'Above all, I'm glad I brought this film to Toronto!.'  This is the most personal film I've ever made…

As the Toronto Film Festival comes to its official closing night we say goodbye to the re-energized fest for another year, but not before we say “Hello Dali,” or actually the final world premiere of the festival, Daliland, which picks up the celebrated artist’s life in its later years focusing on the odd relationship…

Director Tearepa Kahi came to Deadline's TIFF studio with actors Cliff Curtis and Jay Ryan to discuss their new film Muru, a provocative thriller set in the Ruatoki Valley in the Tūhoe region of New Zealand. Inspired by a true story, Kahi's film is presented as a "response" to, rather than a reconstruction of, that…

Georges Bizet's opera Carmen has been through many cinematic iterations — Carlos Saura turned it into a flamenco spectacular, while the late Jean-Luc Godard somehow managed to come up with an existential thriller — but Benjamin Millepied's reimagining might be the most original take on it yet. "It's about a woman…

When Aftersun arrived in Toronto, its reputation preceded it, having caused a splash at its debut in Cannes in May and gone down a storm at the Scottish premiere held in director Charlotte Wells' hometown of Edinburgh last month. "It's about a young father and his 11-year-old daughter on holiday at a resort in Turkey…

Zachary Wigon's Sanctuary stars Christopher Abbott as the heir to wealthy family ("A rich asshole," as he put it), and what happens to him as he tries to extricate himself from the clutches of a dominatrix (Margaret Qualley) is the core of this ingenious two-hander. "I'd say that it's a film about role-playing," said…

Shekhar Kapur, director of historical epics Elizabeth and The Four Feathers, seems an odd fit for a romcom — and he would be the first to agree. When he came to Deadline's TIFF Studio with the cast and writer of What's Love Got to Do With It? he admitted that he wasn't entirely truthful when he was offered Jemima…

Oliver Hermanus's film Living appeared at Toronto with a clutch of prestigious festival slots already under its belt, having premiered at Sundance earlier in the year and followed that with  appearance in Venice and Telluride. A period film set in '50s London, it stars Bill Nighy as an office worker forced to come to…

Toronto regular Sebastián Lelio returned to the festival with his latest female-fronted drama The Wonder, a period piece starring woman-of-the moment Florence Pugh. Stopping by Deadline's TIFF Studio with screenwriter Emma Donoghue — author of the Oscar-nominated Room (2015) — Lelio explained what drew him to his…