Director Terrence Malick’s Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience will make its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival. The American auteur’s documentary debut, Voyage of Time will screen in two formats at the festival.
Narrated by Brad Pitt, Voyage of Time: The IMAX Experience is an ambitious 45-minute celebration of life, the history of the universe and its awe-inspiring vastness. An extraordinary giant-screen journey that spans galaxies and eons, the film will join the three other titles that will be shown in IMAX at the Festival.
“We are thrilled that TIFF [Toronto International Film Festival] audiences will be the first to experience the first documentary of this film visionary in glorious IMAX,” said TIFF director and CEO, Piers Handling. “It’s an honor to have the world and North American Premieres of the two versions of Malick’s magnum opus, one of the most remarkable cinematic experiences of the year.”
The standard film version of the documentary, Voyage of Time: Life’s Journey, the 90-minute cut narrated by Cate Blanchett, was previously announced to have its North American Premiere at TIFF. The presentations of the IMAX and standard films give Toronto audiences a unique opportunity to watch two artistic interpretations from one of the world’s most visionary filmmakers.
Working with a team of scientific advisors and visual effects artists led by Dan Glass (The Tree of Life, Batman Begins, The Matrix Reloaded), the film in its two formats shows an array of natural phenomena–celestial and terrestrial, macroscopic and microscopic–in a variety of new ways.
The 41st Toronto International Film Festival runs September 8-18.
Jennifer Kent On Why Her Feature Directing Debut, “The Babadook,” Continues To Haunt Us
"The Babadook," when it was released 10 years ago, didn't seem to portend a cultural sensation.
It was the first film by a little-known Australian filmmaker, Jennifer Kent. It had that strange name. On opening weekend, it played in two theaters.
But with time, the long shadows of "The Babadook" continued to envelop moviegoers. Its rerelease this weekend in theaters, a decade later, is less of a reminder of a sleeper 2014 indie hit than it is a chance to revisit a horror milestone that continues to cast a dark spell.
Not many small-budget, first-feature films can be fairly said to have shifted cinema but Kent's directorial debut may be one of them. It was at the nexus of that much-debated term "elevated horror." But regardless of that label, it helped kicked off a wave of challenging, filmmaker-driven genre movies like "It Follows," "Get Out" and "Hereditary."
Kent, 55, has watched all of this — and those many "Babadook" memes — unfold over the years with a mix of elation and confusion. Her film was inspired in part by the death of her father, and its horror elements likewise arise out of the suppression of emotions. A single mother (Essie Davis) is struggling with raising her young son (Noah Wiseman) years after the tragic death of her husband. A figure from a pop-up children's book begins to appear. As things grow more intense, his name is drawn out in three chilling syllables — "Bah-Bah-Doooook" — an incantation of unprocessed grief.
Kent recently spoke from her native Australia to reflect on the origins and continuing life of "The Babadook."
Q: Given that you didn't set out to in any way "change" horror, how have you regarded the unique afterlife of "The... Read More