Toronto Film Review

  I’m happy to announce that I’ll me moderating a panel discussion with Rebeccah Love and part of the cast of   Fortescue   at its Thursday,...

Well August is almost over but summer doesn't officially end until September 22nd. So even though it's back to school and business...

In Natty Zavitz’ Edging (now available on iTunes) a young man is in a period of transition in his life. Having just bought a house, he’...

Just a heads up that the AGO currently has an exhibition ' Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 ' that looks interesting. Wo...

To kick off their Summer program at the Lightbox, The Free Screen will be screening Bruce Baillie’s Quixote, "the Baillie film most ...

“Here’s to you! Keep up the good work!” so says Jonas Mekas, from the Anthology Film Archives in New York, to the Images Festival in their n...

So far 2011 has been a good year for experimental film in Toronto. To list some of the highlights: In collaboration between The Free Screen ...

The Portuguese filmmaker João Pedro Rodrigues is getting a New Auteurs* treatment June 23rd to the 28th at the TIFF Cinematheque and his new...

In the last month, the film that had the strongest impact on me, which engaged me the most, made me reflect, showed me something about the w...

-- James Marsh, whose Man on Wire was superb, has a new doc Project Nim ; the subject is Nim Chimpski, “a chimpanzee whose epic life story ...

There are always a few last minute films appearing in Toronto which I usually miss in my early monthly editorials. So to better cover these ...

In the latest issue of Cinema Scope (N. 45) Adam Nayman has his first cover article and it is on Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Attenberg (for hi...

Here are three Toronto-based end-of-the-year film surveys. -D.D. 1. 2010 Toronto Film Critics Award winners - The Social Network for Best ...

This is a preliminary note on an eventual defense of Tim Burton. -D.D. “In the space of eight years, between 1984 to 1992, four directors th...

Since my move to Toronto I had to reconsider the mandate and title of Ottawa Film Review . Now that I am a Toronto resident, I decided to ch...