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.

Movies

Egoyan feels the wrath of Cannes with ’The Captive’

The first of three Canadian films gets a chilly reception in Cannes

Movies

The agony and the ecstasy of Turner and Timbuktu

From Mali to Mike Leigh, the Cannes competition opens with two films that find terror in rhapsodic landscapes

Movies

A game Nicole Kidman can’t save graceless ’Grace of Monaco’

Kidman says she identified with Grace Kelly through the ’gilded cage’ of her marriage to Tom Cruise

Culture

Canada’s year in Cannes

With an unprecedented three features in competition, this is Canada’s Olympic moment in Cannes

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Panama is ready for its close-up

Inspired by TIFF, Latin America’s fastest-growing film festival finds its own voice

Movies

Noah: The Ark of Darkness

Russell Crowe portrays the prophet as a biblical superhero, an antediluvian dark knight

Culture

Off the menu: ’Nymphomaniac’ and ’The Lunchbox’

In Lars von Trier’s hard-core tale of a sex addict, his intellectual promiscuity trumps titillation

Movies

Welcome to the dollhouse: ’The Grand Budapest Hotel’

With an all-star cast, Wes Anderson makes his most entertaining film—and unleashes the comedian in Ralph Fiennes

Movies

Villeneuve, Cronenberg and the two Jakes

With ’Enemy,’ a Quebec auteur doubles down on Jake Gyllenhaal in a diabolical portrait of Toronto

Culture

Canadian Screen Awards spread the wealth—among Quebec talent

’Enemy’ and ’Gabrielle’ dominate the film prizes; ’Orphan Black,’ ’Call Me Fitz’ and ’Jack’ win TV trophies

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