Classic Movies Live Season 6, Episode 19 – TIFF Preview
August 27, 2025
Founded in 1975, the Toronto International Film Festival celebrates 50 years this September! The 50th festival includes big titles like The Smashing Machine, Blue Heron, Mile End Kicks, and If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. And that’s not all! TIFF50 boasts over 250 films showing on King Street over 11 days!
Are you going to TIFF this year? Well, Jeff is! And joining the show today are two other credentialed members of the TIFF50 Press Corps, Pedro Lima and Kyle from Awards Addicts!
On today’s episode of Classic Movies Live, we talk about movies we’re excited to see at TIFF, including many that probably have gone under your radar. We talk about the festival experience, the names to watch, and all sorts of things to look forward to over the next few weeks!
In particular, this episode contains segments on the films Dry Leaf (dir. Alexandre Koberidze), Mare’s Nest (dir. Ben Rivers), Hen (dir. György Palfi), No Other Choice (dir. Park Chan-wook), Frankenstein (dir. Guillermo del Toro), and Nuestra Tierra (dir. Lucrecia Martel).
You can read Pedro’s review of Dry Leaf for MoviesWeTextedAbout here.
You can find more of Pedro over on Twitter, as well as ShortStick, MoviesWeTextedAbout, Contra Zoom Pod, and Keith Loves Movies.
You can get more Kyle over on his YouTube channel The Awards Addicts and From the Fourth Row!
