The strike called by the Writer’s Guild of America is now well into its second month as picket lines went up on November 5, 2007. Over 12,000 members of the …
Christopher Heard
Christopher Heard
Christopher Heard built his career out of a lifetime love of movie history and culture. His first screenplay was optioned at 21, he wrote a twice weekly movie column in a local newspaper that lead to a long, Gemini Award winning stint on the CBC show On The Arts and the creation and co-hosting role on Reel to Real for nine years. Since then Christopher has written books on a number of filmmakers, including Johnny Depp.
Once, during a long taped-for-TV conversation I was having with Harrison Ford I asked him if he has seen the then newly released Director’s Cut of Blade Runner (a director’s …
At the halfway point of TIFF 07 (doesn’t it just fly by though!) I started getting the feeling that there was something of a 70s flashback happening here this year, …
When you cover something like the Toronto International Film Festival for thirteen years or so you come to expect the unexpected in terms of the kinds of experiences – but …
Quentin Tarantino tells a story about his love for Howard Hawks’ 1959 Western Rio Bravo, which was rumored to have been made by John Wayne and Howard Hawks specifically as …
Good Night, and Good Luck is a fantastic movie. It is well written (by George Clooney and Grant Heslov) it is well directed (also by George Clooney) and it is …
There is something truly fickle about fame and celebrity, especially in this era of wildly out of control celebrity worship. And don’t get me wrong, I am as much a …
Traditionally, the first weekend of the film festival are the days that are the most top heavy in terms of stars and filmmakers coming into town to make the scene …
The 30th edition of the Toronto International Film Festival is now locked and loaded and ready to be blasted out over this city come September 8th.
Two down and one to go — the Toronto International Film Festival held it’s second press conference at the spot that has become traditional for second press conferences, the Metropolitan …