Tiff Uncut

This week on TIFF UN/CUT, hear a master class from the subject of a current retrospective. Something in the Air: The Cinema of Olivier Assayas traces the French auteur’s eclectic catalogue, from his early music videos for electro-pop stars Jacno and Winston Tong, to his documentary portrait of Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, to his brilliant work in narrative film and his recent career-high collaborations with Kristen Stewart on CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA and PERSONAL SHOPPER, which have brought him even greater acclaim and a whole new audience. This week, you can catch Assayas’ first feature DISORDER, a portrait of France’s mid-’80s post-punk scene (and undoubtedly, a Joy Division reference), as well as his 2002 cyberthriller DEMONLOVER (which sports a score by Sonic Youth!). At the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival, where Assayas presented his film SOMETHING IN THE AIR — a youthful and semi-autobiographical portrait of young political activists living in a Parisian suburb in the early ‘70s — the direct