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CANNOPY’s Top 170 Films - Part 1
ISSUE 17 — Guido Anselmi, the most indecisive film director ever, takes over our film coverage for a 170-film countdown to Issue 17
Every issue needs a spirit guide, and for Issue 17—which is built around the question “Are You in Love?,” with over 30 pages dedicated to cinema—ours is Guido Anselmi.
Cafe Chat with Actor Tom McCamus
THEATRE — On Waiting, Dreaming, and “Death of a Salesman” at the Stratford Festival
From a 30,000-ft view, Death of a Salesman is essentially a play about two men in their 30s living at home and desperately trying to break out on their own and live the life their dad achieved at a much earlier age. Now, what could be more relevant to 2026 than that?
ARCHIVE: Ada Lea and a new release
CANADIAN ALTERNATIVE MUSIC — Revisiting our Issue 16 conversation with Ada Lea, as she lets old fragments and new songs sit unresolved on her latest EP, “the end is a wave”.
Ada Lea has always worked in prolific fragments: two hundred songs whittled into an album, a decade of half-finished tapes waiting for their moment in the record store sun. On the end is a wave, out today via Next Door Records, the Montreal musician born Alexandra permits these fragments to nest beside each other unresolved.
Alicia Graf Mack: Are You In Love?
CONTEMPORARY DANCE — On Alvin Ailey's legacy, corralling a rainbow troupe, and leading one of America's great dance institutions into its next chapter
Now in Theatres: Rosebush Pruning
INTERNATIONAL CINEMA — On his latest feature film, the Brazilian film director Karim Aïnouz casts a critical lens on what happens when privilege turns claustrophobic
UPSTREAM: Mayor Olivia Chow
POLICY — Our new video interview series traces the political decisions that shape what art gets made, seen, and funded — starting with Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow
Sibylle Baier: Are You in Love?
FOLK MUSIC — Fifty years after recording the songs of "Colour Green" in her Stuttgart living room, Sibylle Baier turns 80 and gives only her second interview
Surgeons at the Symphony: Chicago
CLASSICAL MUSIC — After a performance of Bartók and Tchaikovsky by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, seven surgeons went backstage to meet pianist Conrad Tao—and the conversations that followed went well beyond the music
“The Importance of Being Earnest” at Stratford Festival
THEATRE — Lead actors Allison Lynch and Joe Perry reveal everything you need to know about the funniest production at Stratford this year
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