Blake Williams

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Blake Williams is an avant-garde filmmaker born in Houston, currently living and working in Toronto. He recently entered the PhD program at University of Toronto's Cinema Studies Institute, and has screened his video work at TIFF (2011 & '12), Tribeca (2013), Images Festival (2012), Jihlava (2012), and the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley. Blake has contributed to IONCINEMA.com's coverage for film festivals such as Cannes, TIFF, and Hot Docs. Top Films From Contemporary Film Auteurs: Almodóvar (Talk to Her), Coen Bros. (Fargo), Dardennes (Rosetta), Haneke (Code Unknown), Hsiao-Hsien (Flight of the Red Balloon), Kar-wai (Happy Together), Kiarostami (Where is the Friend's Home?), Lynch (INLAND EMPIRE), Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs), Van Sant (Last Days), Von Trier (The Idiots)

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National Gallery | Review

Museum Hours: Wiseman's Three-Hour Documentary Is a Riveting Essay About Narrative Construction The latest entry in Frederick Wiseman's tireless career project, which attempts to capture...

2014 TIFF: From Locarno with Love…Wavelengths Offers Rich Programme with Diaz, Costa, Piñeiro & Ming-liang

Yesterday, TIFF’s Wavelengths program unveiled a Locarno-heavy line-up of feature-length films that all aim to push the cinematic medium to its breaking point. Highlights...

The Strange Little Cat | Review

In a Word: Pulchritude Buried in Cannes' most unassuming and roundly ignored sidebar, ACID (an acronym for what translates to "The Association for the Distribution...

Blake Williams’ Top 10 Best of 2014 So Far…

#10. The Grand Budapest Hotel Had I not revisited this upon its blu-ray release earlier this summer, it’d have been at #5 on this list....

Winter Sleep | 2014 Cannes Review

Ceylan's Talky Theatrical Epic unlikely to have Many Nodding Off Since it was first announced to go into production more than a year ago, Nuri...

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