This Week at the Bloor

This Week at The Bloor: 1/31/14

This week at The Bloor Cinema, films and stories about children featuring Nina Davenport's First Comes Love and film scholar Mark Cousins' more literally titled A Story of Children and Film

This Week at The Bloor: 1/24/14

Another solid week at The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema brings a look at an offbeat Icelandic museum in The Final Member, the rise of one of basketball's most recent superstars in Linsanity, a screening of one of the best rock concert films of all time (Stop Making Sense), and a very special tribute and fundraiser for recently passed documentary icon Peter Wintonick.

This Week at the Bloor 12/23/13

The Bloor Hot Docs Cinema closes out their programming year with the stunning and thoughtful Expedition to the End of the World and the problematic Maidentrip. We also look at a bunch of special screenings happening over the holiday season, including the quadruple-feature of holiday classics going down today!

This Week at The Bloor: 12/6/13

A trio of new films hit The Bloor this week: Jingle Bell Rock is a well made bit of holiday nostalgia. The Italian Character can never quite find an even handed way of showcasing one of the world's best orchestras. And InRealLife is a well made, but oddly fear mongering look at how teenagers approach the internet.

This Week at The Bloor: 11/29/13

This week at The Bloor, one of the most harrowing and unflinching documentaries of the year, Narco Cultura, takes a look at the lesser seen sides of the Mexican drug trade, while the much lighter, but still great Tokyo Waka: A City Poem examines how one city deals with a large number of pesky crows with equal parts admiration and annoyance.

This Week at The Bloor: 11/1/13

This week, the Bloor showcases the off the mark, but well meaning look at the widening gap between the rich and poor in the US, Inequality for All and the delightful and poignant look at artists in love, Spring & Arnaud

This Week at The Bloor: 10/18/13

There's only one new release this week at The Bloor - One Track Heart: The Story of Krishna Das, which really isn't very good - but there are plenty of returning favourites, special events, and special screenings packing the theatre for the rest of the month.

This Week at The Bloor: 9/20/13

The week at The Bloor, an inside look at The Beatles rise and fall from told from the perspective of the secretary that was with them from the start in Good Ol' Freda and the haunting POW mystery of Unclaimed.

This Week at The Bloor: 8/16/13

This week at The Bloor: the powerful and distressing Call Me Kuchu looks at LGBT human rights abuses in Uganda (now more timely than ever given the current landscape in Russia that's eerily similar), and Iceberg Slim: Portrait of a Pimp takes a look at how a "street poisoned" criminal found catharsis in confessional writing to become one of the most vital African American literary voices in history.

This Week at The Bloor: 7/26/13

This week at The Bloor: a look at many uses of one of the most popular shellfish in Mussels in Love and a fascinating expose about how rampant tourism has damaged one of the world's most beautiful cities in The Venice Syndrome.

This Week at The Bloor: 6/7/12

A trio of past festival entries open at the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto this weekend. Here's a look back at the musically minded Peaches Does Herself and Ain't in It for My Health: A Film About Leon Helm and the health conscious Free the Mind