Features archive
Welcome to Long Takes
July 17, 2014
Long Takes is a series that highlights topics in film writing that’s everything outside film criticism. From Long Takes, expect articles on film retrospectives, trend pieces, notes on Toronto, events, film culture and local film history, festival reports, interviews and profiles (on actors, other critics, film programmers, and so on).
The top five films of 2014, so far
June 4, 2014
With June marking the halfway point of the year, our members weigh in on the films that have resonated in the past six months.
TFCA 2013 Awards Montage
January 8, 2014
2013 montage of all films nominated for an award by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Edited by Brian D. Johnson, TFCA President.
TFCA Names ‘Watermark’ Best Canadian Film
January 7, 2014
TORONTO –Watermark, a mesmerizing portrait of the planet’s lifeblood, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2013 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award. The award was presented to directors Jennifer Baichwal and Edward Burtynsky by celebrated TV personality and author Rick Mercer at a gala dinner held January 7, 2014 at the historic Carlu in downtown […]
TFCA Announces 2013 Awards
December 17, 2013
“Inside Llewyn Davis”, Joel and Ethan Coen’s tale of a folk singer making his way through Greenwich Village, 1961, won two top prizes at the 2013 awards of the Toronto Film Critics Association. “Inside Llewyn Davis” was named Best Picture, with Oscar Isaac winning the Best Actor prize. In 2007, the Coens received the TFCA’s […]
Norman Jewison wins Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award
November 27, 2013
The 2013 TFCA Awards are getting an early start with today’s announcement of the winners of the Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award and the Scotiabank Jay Scott Prize for an emerging artist. The TFCA would like to thank new sponsors BMO Financial Group for generously endowing the BMO Allan King Documentary Award winner with a cash […]
Remembering Roger Ebert
April 8, 2013
The TFCA was very sad to hear of the passing of famed film critic Roger Ebert last Thursday. Many of our members (some who knew Roger personally for many years) wrote pieces on him that we’d like share. Everyone called him Roger (Brian D. Johnson) Remembering Roger Ebert (Norm Wilner) Appreciation of Roger Ebert: the […]
TFCA 2012 Awards highlights
January 26, 2013
Highlights of the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 16th annual Awards, a gala dinner held Jan. 8, 2013 at the Carlu in Toronto.
TFCA 2012 Awards Montage
January 10, 2013
2012 montage of all films nominated for an award by the Toronto Film Critics Association. Edited by Brian D. Johnson, TFCA President.
Sarah Polley’s ‘Stories We Tell’ takes home $100,000 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award
January 8, 2013
TORONTO – Stories We Tell, Sarah Polley’s documentary inquiry into her tangled family history, has won the Toronto Film Critics Association’s 2012 Rogers Best Canadian Film Award.The award was presented to Polley by noted writer/actor/director Don McKellar, a previous TFCA winner, at a gala dinner held January 8 at the historic Carlu in downtown Toronto. […]