Bloor Hot Docs Cinema

Rich Hill

This Week at The Bloor: 8/22/14

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This week at The Bloor a lyrical and gorgeous look at teenage poverty in Rich Hill and an engaging look at a musical icon in Finding Fela .

This Week at The Bloor: 8/8/14

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Three vastly different, but good films open at The Bloor this week. The entertaining expose An Honest Liar , a look at the stigma of addiction in The Anonymous People , and the emotional, personal, and impressionistic Elena .

This Week at The Bloor: 8/1/14

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This week at The Bloor, looks at the landmark Anita Hill sexual harassment suit and the ins and outs of breastfeeding both miss their intended marks.

This Week at The Bloor: 7/25/14

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This week at The Bloor, looks at music therapy for Alzheimer's patients in the uneven, but moving Alive Inside and a rallying cry against the rich American right wing in Citizen Koch .

This Week at The Bloor: 7/11/14

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There's only one new film at The Bloor this week - the okay, but very niche look at tailoring Men of the Cloth - but there's still a ton of great events going on at the cinema over the next seven days.

This Week at The Bloor: 7/4/14

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This week at The Bloor brings the premiere of the latest from Paradise Lost director Joe Berlinger, the solid Whitey: The United States v. James J. Bulger and the rousing sports drama Next Goal Wins .

Interview: Scott P. Harris

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We talk to Scott P. Harris, director of the personally tinged documentary Being Ginger about how the film came about, redhead stereotypes, his interactions with his cinematographer and editor as characters in the film, why he decided to come forward with his own tales of being teased, and the unrealistic ideals set by romantic comedies.

This Week at The Bloor: 5/30/14

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This week at The Bloor, a frightening and fascinating look inside the world's first "internet addiction treatment camp" in Web Junkie and the rightfully Oscar nominated foreign film The Missing Picture .

This Week at The Bloor: 5/16/14

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This week's batch of docs at The Bloor includes looks at one of the world's most powerful artists in Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case , one of the world's most influential jazz critics and divisive libertarian pundits in The Pleasures of Being Out of Step , and one of rock's most infamous and inspiring cultural catastrophes in Rock and Roll's Greatest Failure: Otway the Movie .

Interview: Andreas Johnsen

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We talk with Andreas Johnsen, the Danish director of the documentary Ai Weiwei: The Fake Case about chronicling the post prison life of one of the world's most revered and influential artists, being allowed into Ai Weiwei’s inner circle, the various ways the artist tested his resolve as a filmmaker, and what he learned about Weiwei and his current situation.

This Week at The Bloor: 5/9/14

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This week at the Bloor, a look at an inspirational pianist that picked up an Academy Award this year and a not so inspiration, but comprehensive and artistically enlightened look at the history of teenagers.

Films in Brief: 4/18/14

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It’s been a busy week with all of us gearing up for our massive Hot Docs coverage, but here’s a look at what else is playing on local screens this week that we haven’t gotten around to reviewing yet, including the Disneynature documentary Bears , the romantic drama The Face of Love , the Canadian teen road flick Hold Fast , the psychological thriller Stress Position , the literary minded Meetings with a Young Poet , and the ballet documentary Afternoon of a Faun: Tanaquil Le Clercq .

This Week at The Bloor: 4/10/14

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This week at The Bloor brings the hilarious, heartbreaking, and touching anti-rock doc crowd pleaser Mistaken for Strangers and the somewhat disappointing and frustrating historical mystery The Galapagos Affair: Satan Came to Eden .