3-D was not a whim for Pina's Wim Wenders

According to Wim Wenders, 3-D is not just for superheroes any more.

Michel Hazanavicius conjured The Artist as a silent crowd pleaser

By the time The Artist arrived at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival, everybody was already buzzing about it.

Like Crazy director Drake Doremus gets into real long-distance love

One of the scariest critics director Drake Doremus faced when he finished making his true-life romantic dramedy Like Crazy was the woman who inspired him to write it.

Antonio Banderas takes a leap of faith in The Skin I Live In

Antonio Bandaras says that Oscar-winning Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar specializes in getting actors out of their comfort zone, and he compares working on his films to playing in the X Games.

Aki Kaurismaki and André Wilms meet again in Le Havre

The French actor doesn't like a lot of directors, but he's made four films with Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki.

Anxiety fuels writer-director Jeff Nichols' Take Shelter

Before making Take Shelter, Jeff Nichols had a vision of a man in his backyard, standing over an open storm shelter

Practice makes a perfect part for The Ides of March's Max Minghella

Determined to land a role in The Ides of March, Max Minghella set out to convince director George Clooney to hire him.

Gus Van Sant paints an arty teen tale in Restless

Gus Van Sant’s new movie, Restless, about two awkward teenagers dealing with death, began life as a school project.

Pearl Jam: 20 documentary hits town

Cameron Crowe’s new feature—a two-hour documentary celebration of two decades of Pearl Jam jamming—plays locally one night only.

Vancouver’s Reece Thompson gets his Daydream Nation

Vancouver’s Reece Thompson says his career kicked off because his mom and dad thought he and his siblings should learn the value of a dollar.

Daydream Nation director Michael Goldbach emerges from Don McKellar's shadow

When the Georgia Straight asks Daydream Nation writer-director Michael Goldbach about his big break in Canadian film, he laughs and asks, “Do you know who Marshall Brickman is?”

Insidious makers aim for a really good scare

The last time director James Wan and writer Leigh Whannell teamed up to create a horror movie, they redefined the genre’s cutting edge with Saw.

Political fears feed Gareth Edwards's Monsters

When a science-fiction thriller features a wall that keeps monsters from Mexico out of the U.S., you might think that aspect must have been the film’s starting point.

Edward Norton seeks authentic life in Stone

Edward Norton tries to keep a balance between the worlds of art and activism. Films like Stone, he says, are what keep him interested in acting.

Score: A Hockey Musical shoots for populist resonance

Writer-director and “huge” hockey fan Michael McGowan seems determined to make movies that are as Canadian as sitting at the bar with poutine and a Molson.

Filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul gets supernatural with Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Thai filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul has found the ideal way to avoid having censors in his home country touch his films.

Josh Brolin plays it dark for Woody Allen in You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

Josh Brolin is one of the few American stars in filmmaker Woody Allen’s latest dark chamber comedy, You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

Philip Seymour Hoffman captains comic film Jack Goes Boating

An unshaven Philip Seymour Hoffman looks about as enthusiastic as most people do when they settle into a dentist’s chair.

Solitary Man's Michael Douglas digs his villain cred

For Michael Douglas, nice-guy parts finish last.

Adam Scott drives Passenger Side

Passenger Side seems like a typical Telefilmed road movie—but the road for this Canadian feature bypasses Saskatchewan for the exotic province of L.A.

Comics inspire Peter Stebbings's dark Defendor

Like any good comic-book movie, Peter Stebbings’s Defendor was inspired by Feodor Dostoyevsky.

Michael Cera heads up nerdy Youth in Revolt

In Youth in Revolt, Michael Cera isn’t just the unlikely leading man, he’s two leading men.

Terry Gilliam's The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus celebrates Heath Ledger

Terry Gilliam is waxing Brazilian again.

Christopher Plummer gives Canadian cred to The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

The Vancouver Public Library’s central branch isn’t the only Canadian icon featured in Terry Gilliam’s new opus, The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus.

Emily Blunt takes a royal turn in The Young Victoria

In The Young Victoria, Emily Blunt plays the title character in a story that begins just before Victoria became a teen queen at age 18.

Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee hit The Road

For most 13-year-old boys, having Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings play your dad in the epic science-fiction movie The Road would be a dream come true, but Kodi Smit-McPhee may be one of the few kids on the planet who didn't know anything about Viggo Mortensen until recently.

Werner Herzog defends Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans

Werner Herzog wants to make something clear, and if you don’t pay attention, the German director is going to get cranky.

An Education a lesson in detail

Director Lone Scherfig suspects that her new movie, An Education, may be so impeccably British because she’s Danish.

Michael Moore tears into America with Capitalism: A Love Story

Michael Moore seems to have two places on the planet that fuel his imagination—Flint, Michigan, and Canada.

Matt Damon dug into weighty Informant role

For his turn as real-life whistle blower Mark Whitacre, Matt Damon schlubbed down and put on 30 pounds, a fake nose, and a variety of wigs.

Screenwriter Diablo Cody gets the Jennifer's Body buzz

Jennifer’s Body isn’t billed as “a Diablo Cody film”—but it could be.

Ewan McGregor’s dream comes true in Woody Allen's Cassandra's Dream

According to Ewan McGregor, working on Woody Allen’s Cassandra’s Dream was a dream come true.

Mark Leiren-Young reflects on opening night jitters for The Green Chain

I was sure the scariest thing about making The Green Chain would be climbing 50 feet up a tree, or maybe interrupting our shoot to scare off a giant black bear before it snacked on us—but nobody warned me about the dangers of opening weekend.

In Restless, it's a father thing

Writer-director Amos Kollek spent most of his life in his father's shadow, an experience upon which he drew when crafting the dysfunctional family drama Restless.

Zack and Miri's Kevin Smith enjoys farting on Vancouver

Kevin Smith fluffs his schlub Seth Rogen

Kevin Smith (aka Silent Bob) jokes that his favourite part of making movies is the question-and-answer sessions after they screen. Or maybe he's not joking.

Jeremy Piven plays some RocknRolla

Entourage's Jeremy Piven claims he isn’t worried about being typecast as superagent Ari Gold. And his new part in Guy Ritchie’s latest gangster opus isn’t exactly an acting stretch.

RocknRolla director Guy Ritchie likes his gangster obsession

Director Guy Ritchie discusses his latest film, RocknRolla, a story of culture clashes and a series of double, triple, and quadruple crosses between British mobsters, more British mobsters, and the Russian mob.

Bill Maher tackles taboo of faith in Religulous

The Real Time host's first documentary aims to inject a shot of cynicism into American faith, and perhaps a prayer of controversy.

PowerUP launched at star-studded TIFF event

Brad Pitt and crew happy to play Coens’ nitwits

When the directing brothers wanted to cast an actor as a gum-chomping, geeky-looking, flamboyant moron, there was one actor at the top of their wish list––not who you'd expect.

Coens crack knuckleheads with Burn After Reading

The Coen brothers’ quirky espionage-caper comedy, Burn After Reading, wasn’t intended as the follow-up to their Academy Award–winning No Country for Old Men.

From Bollywood to Amal, it’s all about acting to Seema Biswas

One of Bollywood's biggest stars is fast becoming a fixture in Canadian films too, and her role in a modern-day fairy tale about a rickshaw driver and a billionaire should help cement that.

Mark Leiren-Young honoured at Barcelona film festival

Gabriel Byrne is happy Canada figures into Emotional Arithmetic

Marjane Satrapi tells her life story in Persepolis

The screenwriter, director, and graphic novelist Marjane Satrapi adapts her autobiographical graphic novel to animated feature.

Sidney Lumet hits a career high with Before the Devil Knows You're Dead

The sheer melodrama of the story - more than fancy effects or working with stars like Philip Seymour Hoffman, Marisa Tomei, and Ethan Hawke - attracted the vet director.

Jude Law and Michael Caine on Sleuth

On-screen, it's a battle of egos. Off-screen, as they meet with a half-dozen reporters at a hotel to promote their movie's world premiere at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival, the actors can't stop raving about each other.

Mira Sorvino happy to avoid Reservation Road's top role

The Oscar-winning actress was glad to leave the bereaved-mother role to Jennifer Connelly in her latest film so she could focus on motherhood.

Caine keen to make Sleuth Pinteresque

Michael Caine wants to be clear about this. His new movie is not a remake of the Sleuth he made in 1972. The characters and plot are fundamentally the same, but the 2007 version–costarring Jude Law and directed by Kenneth Branagh–features an all-new script by Britain's most acclaimed living dramatist, Harold Pinter.