March films: Page, Partridge & Chris Tucker

Why shiver in this winter's polar vortex when you can watch movies?  Fortunately Bettie Page and Steve Coogan (aka Alan Partridge) are gracing movie screens while Chris Tucker (Rush Hour) recently spoke to Toronto audiences in the flesh.  Here are my reports on these three colourful characters as they appear in Filmmaker magazine, Exclaim! and ChinoKino (click to view the entire review or article):

 

In Conversation with David Cronenberg’s D.P., Peter Suschitzky

My story about David Cronenberg’s director of photography, Peter Suschitzky, since 1988's Dead Ringers, at Filmmaker magazine. Suschitzky also shot The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Empire Strikes Back.  Click to read the entire story:

Anita Hill, Taxi Driver and The War Room

Three of my latest stories for Filmmaker magazine about renown director/screenwriter Paul Schrader about Taxi Driver, Anita Hill at Hot Docs to discuss the film, Anita, and documentarians D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus about the 20th anniversary screening of The War Room also at Hot Docs.  Click to read the full stories:

Bylines

Here's a round-up of some magazine stories I've written lately.  Some of them are still on the newsstands, so I can't reproduce them entirely here, so I have offered links to the publications.

CANADIAN GROCER, November 2012: As Seen on TV report: how reality TV series (Recipes to Riches, Dragon's Den) are making stars out of new grocery products.

FILMMAKER magazine: TIFF reports on Deepa Mehta's Midnight's Children (above), plus Jared Leto's Artifact , Amy Berg's West of Memphis and Ruba Nadda's Inescapable.

POV magazine, winter 2012: report card on film schools in Quebec and the Maritimes,  part of the education cover story

Exclaim magazine, September 2012: review of this BBC documentary about the career of music producer, George Martin, best know for The Beatles

Filmmaker magazine, October 30: report on 360 Degrees live-theatrical screenings in Toronto (think 28 Days Later)