Culture

John Waters can’t get a film financed, but he’s been making a good living as a “John Waters impersonator.” His latest book, Carsick, gives just a hint of who else he might be.

Whether writing fiction, non-fiction, or something in between, Dyer manages to make the implausible possible. A few recent releases—two reissued novels and a new work of journalism—show the author at three distinct yet complementary apexes.

As a full retrospective of Jarman’s films opens this week in Toronto, we look at the director’s approach to queer filmmaking, which often meant more than simply telling queer stories—it meant responding, sometimes in hostile fashion, to a suffocating status quo.

As her masterwork Kontakthof plays to sold out audiences in Toronto this week, we reconsider the legacy of the great, late German choreographer Pina Bausch.