Adam Rifkin has directed and written films of every genre possible, but this is the first time he has ever made a film about someone so close to him that he actually considers them family. For the documentary Giuseppe Makes a Movie (debuting at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival this week), the usually […]
The 21st annual Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival is upon us – running Thursday, April 24th to Sunday, May 4th – and here’s your one stop shop for all of our reviews, interviews, features, and festivities from the largest festival of its kind in North America.
The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz Special Presentation/Opening Night Gala/Scotiabank Big Ideas A major disappointment not only for the opening night film, but also for filmmaker Brian Knappenberger, whose previous We Are Legion was one of the festival’s biggest surprises a couple of years ago. Knappenberger returns to chronicling internet culture with […]
Three times a day, every day, we will be giving away pairs of tickets to some of the great films playing at this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival. Check this space often as we’ll be giving away a pair of tickets to something different every few hours!
Nick Pagee discusses the innovative search for art in technology at TIFF Kids digiPlaySpace, an interactive playground currently on display at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto.
Oculus is a smart, well acted, and deeply scary film that never treats the audience for a horror film like brain dead zombies who just want a gory, lazy geek show with a bunch of loud noises, whip pans, and smash cuts.
We talk to Rio 2 director Carlos Saldanha about how the sequel came together, presenting ecological messages to children, the sounds and colour of Rio, and the creation of one of the most memorable character of the year that he thinks deserves a lot more credit (and rightfully so).
We talk to The Raid 2 director Gareth Evans about the greater ambitions of his ass kicking sequel, the pros and cons of having more time and locations to shoot in, what to expect from the conclusion to The Raid trilogy, and why you won’t find him hanging around any mud pits any time soon.
Back in 1987 the Warren Beatty and Dustin Hoffman comedy Ishtar became one of the most infamous box office disasters and critically reviled films of all time. But what if the movie itself was ahead of its time and not actually that bad? Filmmaker John Mitchell aims to answer that question with his documentary Waiting for Ishtar, which has recently started an IndieGoGo campaign to help with post-production. We chat with the filmmaker about the history of one of the most misunderstood moves of all time.
Now that the teens and adults have had their run of the TIFF Bell Lightbox, we take a look at some of this year’s best bets and special events happening at the 2014 TIFF Kids International Film Festival, which kicks off today.
We kick off this Home Entertainment round-up with two Martin Scorsese comedies – The King of Comedy and The Wolf of Wall Street – before looking at new releases for Sam Raimi’s Darkman, Howard Hawks’ El Dorado, Will Ferrell and Adam McKay’s Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, and Paul Schrader’s remake of Cat People. There’s also some B-movie goodness with looks at Alec Baldwin in The Shadow, the 1980s horror flick Night of the Demons, and the made for TV 1973 thriller The Horror at 37,000 Feet
We talk to Clif Prowse and Derek Lee, the writers, directors, and stars of the horror thriller Afflicted, about taking the time to get to know their “characters,” why their movie isn’t specifically a “found footage” film, their individual strengths as filmmakers, and how having a small crew freed up money to create more ambitious action sequences.
We asked an assortment of 50 people – film writers, filmmakers, professors, film programmers, and patrons – to give us their top picks for this year’s Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Film Festival and here are the 53 front runners for this year’s must see films.
Giuseppe Makes a Movie Filmmaker Adam Rifkin (The Chase, The Dark Backward, Detroit Rock City) follows around actor Giuseppe Andrews (Never Been Kissed, Cabin Fever, Independence Day) as he gets his Harmony Korine on while making his latest low-fi opus Garbanzo Gas. An accomplished filmmaker in his own right, Andrews has been making oddball oddities […]
The Measure of All Things The rarest ticket of the festival is this one night/one show only of Academy Award nominated filmmaker Sam Green’s live directed, conducted, narrated, and mixed documentary inspired by The Guinness Book of Records. With a soundtrack from The Quavers, the film blends traditional storytelling with performance for what’s sure to […]
