Brian D. Johnson

In case you’re wondering if I’ve dropped off the face of the festival, or gone to a party and never come back, I’ve been...

I never recognize anyone. In my recent blog about the Saturday night party of Blindness ( Blindness, Deafness and Babbling Zombies...

Talk abut unlikely Oscar candidates. First Anne Hathaway—once dismissed as just another pretty woman in Brokeback Mountain , The...

One of the maddening things about TIFF, at least for a journalist trying to cover it single-handedly, is that most the action is...

The press conference this morning for the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading was almost as strange as a Coen brothers movie. It was...

Saturday morning kick-starts with a brisk interview with Rachel Weisz, who tears up the screen in The Brothers Bloom. It seems...

Hitting the keyboard for a quick update on an insane day. In the course of few hours, my schedule of on-on-one interview schedule...

Saw a couple of delicious movies today, or yesterday I suppose, now that it’s past midnight. Both are American movies with some...

It’s only Day One, and already the strange encounters of the TIFF kind have begun. Outside the press office at the Sutton Place...

Start your engines, and let the madness begin. For the next ten days, TIFF turns Toronto into the Cannes of North America, but...