Bil Antoniou

Criterion Maestro
Bil Antoniou is a Toronto-based actor and playwright who co-hosts the podcast BGM: Bad Gay Movies/Bitchy Gay Men and his own personal memory project podcast My Criterions. The rest of the time, he's usually watching movies and blogging about them at MyOldAddiction.com.


Articles by Bil Antoniou:


  • July 4, 2024

    The Classics Shelf: The 1999 Cannes Film Festival

    The Cannes Film Festival held in May 1999 was the last before the new, for some dreaded, millennium, and featured its own watershed moments, including an Almodóvar film that aged far better than the Palme winner.

  • June 9, 2024

    The Classics Shelf: Anjelica Huston

    That Shelf salutes the career of Anjelica Huston by surveying her films like The Dead, The Grifters, Prizzi’s Honor, The Addams Family, and Enemies, A Love Story.

  • May 7, 2024

    The Classics Shelf: The Films Of Jan Hrebejk

    He has an Oscar nomination for Divided We Fall and his films screen at prominent festivals worldwide, so why isn’t Czech filmmaker Jan Hrebejk a household name in the arthouse circuit?

  • March 16, 2024

    The Classics Shelf: Cannes ’82

    Revisiting the 1982 Cannes Film Festival where Missing and Yol shared the Palme d’Or, but only one of them has stood the test of time.

  • December 2, 2023

    The Criterion Shelf: Pre-Code Divas

    Surveying the films in Criterion Channel’s Pre-Code Divas collection, including The Divorcee, She Done Him Wrong, Dishonored, and The Cheat.

  • August 18, 2023

    The Criterion Shelf: AI

    Surveying the films in Criterion Channel’s collection devoted to artificial intelligence in films like A.I., 2046, and Ghost in the Shell.

  • July 4, 2023

    The Criterion Shelf: LGBTQ+ Favourites

    Surveying the films in Criterion Channels collections Pride Favourites and Masc, devoted to a diverse selection of landmark LGBTQ+ cinema.

  • March 26, 2023

    The Criterion Shelf: Starring Isabelle Huppert

    A film lover herself, Isabelle Huppert has often been drawn to roles because of directors, seeking out masters with impressive filmographies while also initiating collaborations with newcomers in whom she recognizes a spark.