Richard Linklater
Led by Best Picture, Director, and Supporting Actress winner Boyhood, the Toronto Film Critics Association has announced their award winners for the best of film in 2014.
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater Review
Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater is a documentary by a film nerd, about film nerds, for film nerds.
CONTEST: See BOYHOOD Across Canada!
Enter for a chance to win run-of-engagement passes to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood - opening in most major Canadian cities this Friday - courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media!
Interview: Ellar Coltrane
We talk to Boyhood star Ellar Coltrane about playing the same role for 12 years and growing up on screen under the direction of Richard Linklater.
Play It Again, TIFF
Anchored by a week long run of a restoration of The Godfather Part II, the TIFF Bell Lightbox takes a look at some of history's greatest sequels with their latest film series.
CONTEST: See BOYHOOD in TORONTO or VANCOUVER!
Enter for a chance to win a pair of run-of-engagement passes to see Richard Linklater's Boyhood in Toronto or Vancouver and a copy of the film's soundtrack, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media!
Boyhood Review
Few films ever earn the right to be called a masterpiece. Richard Linklater's Boyhood is a masterpiece.
Interview: Richard Linklater
We talk with acclaimed American filmmaker Richard Linklater about his twelve year experience making Boyhood, his process, framing his epic story, the casting of Ellar Coltrane, the evolution of technology, parenting, and people’s reactions to the film.
CONTEST: See an Advance Screening of BOYHOOD in Select Cities
Enter for a chance to win a pair of passes to an advance screening of Richard Linklater's Boyhood in Toronto on July 17th, Vancouver on July 23rd, Edmonton on August 11th, or Winnipeg on August 13th, courtesy of Dork Shelf and Mongrel Media.
This Week at The Bloor: 5/16/14
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.
Blu-Ray Round Up: 11/4/13
This week brings looks at some leftover spooks, 'splosions, and some romance as we transition from Halloween in to the deeper recesses of fall. We look at Roland Emmerich's latest blockbuster White House Down, John Carpenter's underrated In the Mouth of Madness, James's Wan's surprise megahit The Conjuring, Richard Linklater's trilogy capping Before Midnight, and Neil Jordan's unjustly slept-on Byzantium.
Before Midnight Review
While openly less eventful than the two preceding films in Richard Linklater's iconic romantic trilogy, Before Midnight might ultimately be the most thoughtful and emotionally rewarding of them all.
This Week in DVD: 8/21/12
This week on DVD we look at the stellar Oscar winning foreign drama A Separation, Richard Linklater's unfortunately slept on Bernie, the direct to DVD efforts Breathless, A Girl Walks into a Bar, and the Dolph Lundgren starring One in the Chamber. Oh, and some indie film called The Hunger Games
Bernie Review
Based on a bizarre true life crime from 1996, director Richard Linklater's coal black comedy and mockumentary Bernie stands as one of the best films of his already stacked career.
CONTEST: See BERNIE in TORONTO!
Win a pair of passes to an advance screening of Richard Linklater's Bernie in Toronto on Tuesday, May 15th from Dork Shelf and Alliance Films.