The Toronto International Film Festival’s vaulting ambition to create a world-class centre for film
In Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Michael Cera is the ultimate Canadian superhero
Vincenzo Natali’s new film re-engineers the Cronenberg tradition
A profile of screenwriter Budd Schulberg (1914-2009), from the June 2004 issue of The Walrus
Montreal filmmaker Denis Villeneuve brings the Polytechnique massacre to the screen
The NFB celebrates its 70th birthday to accolades abroad, but obscurity at home
Atom Egoyan’s Adoration renews a provocative intellectual vision
The western rides its comeback into Canada
Guy Maddin’s hometown homage
More than thirty years after publication, St. Urbain’s Horseman finally hits the screen
In the year of the actress, directors have discovered that women can shape a movie another way: from the inside
Two decades after his untimely death, Canada’s greatest filmmaker, Claude Jutra, remains underappreciated
Where every woman stars in her own movie
Terrence Malick’s brave new worlds
The Art of Zacharias Kunuk
Moral ambiguity reigns in Capote, Munich and Good Morning, Night
Godard, Bresson, Kurosawa—it doesn’t get any better than that.
Why documentary film is finally burning up the big screen
A profile of screenwriter Budd Schulberg (1914-2009), from the June 2004 issue of The Walrus
Why are so many people suddenly watching live chess?
Dismissed in his day as a vaudeville entertainer, McLuhan may be a better prophet for this century than the last.
