Family feuds and beasts of burden
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...
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Brian D. Johnson
Brian D. Johnson writes about film and the arts for Maclean’s. He’s also a filmmaker, and director of the annual Toronto Film Critics Association Awards Gala.
Star Wars: that was Moby who blitzed the VIP area
I never recognize anyone. In my recent blog about the Saturday night party of Blindness ( Blindness, Deafness and Babbling Zombies...
Mickey Rourke, Oscar bait?
Talk abut unlikely Oscar candidates. First Anne Hathaway—once dismissed as just another pretty woman in Brokeback Mountain , The...
Blindness, deafness and babbling zombies
One of the maddening things about TIFF, at least for a journalist trying to cover it single-handedly, is that most the action is...
Brad Pitt is neglected by the media while the Coens cop to their ’inner knucklehead’
The press conference this morning for the Coen brothers’ Burn After Reading was almost as strange as a Coen brothers movie. It was...
Rachel Weisz, Ralph Fiennes and the lesbian poll
Saturday morning kick-starts with a brisk interview with Rachel Weisz, who tears up the screen in The Brothers Bloom. It seems...
Beyond the buzz around Brad
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...
Time out from the hell of the human condition
Saw a couple of delicious movies today, or yesterday I suppose, now that it’s past midnight. Both are American movies with some...
Hey, and Madonna could play the Sunken Goddess. . .
It’s only Day One, and already the strange encounters of the TIFF kind have begun. Outside the press office at the Sutton Place...
The passion and politics of opening night
Start your engines, and let the madness begin. For the next ten days, TIFF turns Toronto into the Cannes of North America, but...