https://www.scmp.com/rss/510781/feed Reporting on the most famous and fashionable, and the films, at the annual Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com SCMP Style Reporter SCMP Style Reporter On February 10, the UK’s National Film and Television School (NFTS) played host to a figure who has shaped the global film conversation for more than three decades. Cameron Bailey, CEO of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), delivered a Masterclass presented by Rolex – an exchange that quietly affirmed the Swiss maison’s long-standing dedication to the art and evolution of cinema. Since 2025, Rolex has been the first-ever partner of the NFTS Masterclass programme, a globally... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3344548/style-edit-rolexs-national-film-and-television-school-masterclass-cameron-bailey?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3344548/style-edit-rolexs-national-film-and-television-school-masterclass-cameron-bailey?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 26 Feb 2026 02:00:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press During the emotionally wrecking final scene of Hamnet, Jessie Buckley and Paul Mescal had an issue. “There were moments where the camera was obstructing us,” Buckley recalls. “We were like: ‘No, we have to see each other.’ “And then the minute we did see each other, it was like ‘Oh, no,’” Mescal says, laughing. “What a glorious thing.” In Hamnet, Chloe Zhao’s adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s prize-winning 2020 novel, Mescal plays William Shakespeare and Buckley his wife, Agnes. It is a... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3335726/chloe-zhaos-hamnet-jessie-buckley-and-paul-mescal-went-emotional-epic-journey?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3335726/chloe-zhaos-hamnet-jessie-buckley-and-paul-mescal-went-emotional-epic-journey?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Dec 2025 11:15:08 +0000 James Mottram James Mottram Park Chan-wook, the celebrated South Korean auteur behind such esteemed works as Oldboy and The Handmaiden, is not a filmmaker one typically associates with comedy. It came as a surprise, then, even to his lead actor, Lee Byung-hun, when the script for his latest film, No Other Choice, turned out to be funny. “There were so many comical elements to it, so I was a little bit puzzled,” Lee admits at a recent interview with the Post. “The very first question I asked Director Park was, ‘Did I read... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-movies/article/3328905/no-other-choice-why-korean-auteur-park-chan-wook-reunited-lee-byung-hun-comedy?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-drama/k-movies/article/3328905/no-other-choice-why-korean-auteur-park-chan-wook-reunited-lee-byung-hun-comedy?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 14 Oct 2025 11:15:08 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Hamnet, a devastating period drama about the life of William Shakespeare and his family, won the top prize on Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival. The heart-wrenching film stars Paul Mescal as Shakespeare, who tries to forge a career as a playwright while his wife Agnes – played by Jessie Buckley – contends with the perils of plague and childbirth in Elizabethan England. It comes from Beijing-born director Chloé Zhao, who directed 2020’s Oscar-winning Nomadland. Securing the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325517/chloe-zhaos-shakespeare-family-tragedy-hamnet-wins-top-toronto-film-prize?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3325517/chloe-zhaos-shakespeare-family-tragedy-hamnet-wins-top-toronto-film-prize?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:08:48 +0000 Ashlyn Chak Ashlyn Chak For most of her life, veteran filmmaker Mary Stephen has carried a quiet mystery with her, one embedded in her very name. Born and raised in Hong Kong to what she describes as “a typical Chinese family”, she has a birth certificate that names her parents as Henry Stephen and Yick Chuk-kwan. This anomaly is the driving force behind her new documentary film, Palimpsest: the Story of a Name, which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival in Canada on September 11. “We were, by... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3324000/hong-kong-born-filmmaker-mary-stephen-digs-her-familys-past-new-documentary?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3324000/hong-kong-born-filmmaker-mary-stephen-digs-her-familys-past-new-documentary?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 02 Sep 2025 09:15:08 +0000 Director Alfonso Cuarón is taking on prestige television with Disclaimer, a seven-part psychological thriller starring fellow Oscar winners Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline, but he said the result is still a film – just a very long one. It is not the first time that the Mexican filmmaker has worked on the small screen – he co-created the short-lived series Believe, which aired in the United States on broadcasting channel NBC a decade ago. But Disclaimer – which was screened at the 2024 Toronto... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3278032/alfonso-cuaron-new-apple-tv-series-disclaimer-cate-blanchett-and-how-he-makes-shows?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3278032/alfonso-cuaron-new-apple-tv-series-disclaimer-cate-blanchett-and-how-he-makes-shows?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Sep 2024 11:15:07 +0000 When the British filmmaker Mike Leigh was six, his father, a doctor who would oppose his son becoming an artist, told him to quit drawing pictures of people. In a way, Leigh never stopped. In his six decades making movies, the 81-year-old has made some of the most humanistic movies in cinema, many of them character studies of ordinary, working-class people – although the films, from Secret & Lies to Mr. Turner, run the whole gamut. “I walk down the street and I see characters,” Leigh says.... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3277943/mike-leigh-toronto-film-festival-new-movie-hard-truths-his-difficulty-getting-funds?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3277943/mike-leigh-toronto-film-festival-new-movie-hard-truths-his-difficulty-getting-funds?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Sep 2024 11:15:08 +0000 When Pablo Berger began work on Robot Dreams, his first animated film as a director, he looked to a major source of inspiration: Studio Ghibli’s Hayao Miyazaki. “We’d always say, ‘What would Miyazaki do with this problem?’” It is a fair question, given the Japanese legend has been such an influence on animators everywhere over the years. Aptly, Robot Dreams was in the running for the best animated feature Oscar in this year’s awards, eventually losing out to Miyazaki’s The Boy and the Heron. The... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3265442/robot-dreams-director-pablo-berger-making-oscar-nominated-animated-film-without-words?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3265442/robot-dreams-director-pablo-berger-making-oscar-nominated-animated-film-without-words?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 05 Jun 2024 20:15:09 +0000 Lee, a biopic based on the life of Vogue model-turned-war photographer Lee Miller, just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Kate Winslet (@kate.winslet.official) Directed by award-winning cinematographer Ellen Kuras (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind), the film follows the incredible story of Miller, who braved the front lines of war to capture some of the most iconic photos... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/article/3234947/who-was-lee-miller-model-turned-war-photographer-played-kate-winslet-new-biopic-she-was-surrealist?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/people/article/3234947/who-was-lee-miller-model-turned-war-photographer-played-kate-winslet-new-biopic-she-was-surrealist?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 18 Sep 2023 20:00:13 +0000 3.5/5 stars A divorced mother and her teenage daughter overcome their fraught relationship and rediscover their trust in each other in The Falls, filmed in 2020 during the Covid-19 outbreak in Taiwan. Chung Mong-hong’s follow-up to his multiple Golden Horse Award winner A Sun tells an unusually restrained domestic story, headed by two women – an anomaly for a filmmaker whose work displays an obsession with crime and criminals. The Falls pits its protagonists against both mental illness and the... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3149000/toronto-2021-falls-movie-review-pandemic-drama-sun-director?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/entertainment/article/3149000/toronto-2021-falls-movie-review-pandemic-drama-sun-director?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 16 Sep 2021 10:45:10 +0000 Korean film director Yeon Sang-ho (Train to Busan) is back with his first television drama series, Hellbound, which debuted three of its six episodes at the Toronto International Film Festival over the weekend. Yeon’s project – adapted from the webcomic The Hell penned by Yeon and illustrated by Choi Gyu-seok, who created the show together – is a dark and unforgiving affair that starts off slow until a palpable sense of dread emerges and builds, driving the story into tense and unpredictable... https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-pop/k-drama/article/3148506/toronto-2021-netflix-k-drama-hellbound-train-busan-director?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-pop/k-drama/article/3148506/toronto-2021-netflix-k-drama-hellbound-train-busan-director?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Sep 2021 03:15:22 +0000