John Foote
Staff Writer
Toronto, Canada
B.A. Film
Humber College
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A film critic-historian for thirty years, John brings a wealth of knowledge to the site as well as a genuine obsession for
cinema. Since seeing the Red Sea part in The Ten Commandments in 1972, John has been addicted to film. He studied
film at Humber College, and has worked in television and print as a critic, as well as an educator, as Director of the
Trebas Institute, and more recently Director of the Toronto Film School. He specializes in American cinema of the
seventies, holding a keen knowledge and passion for that ten year period. He has writes in Canada for the Metroland
syndicate of newspapers, and appears weekly on Durham Today, a lifestyle program where he gives film reviews on a
weekly basis. In addition, he is the co-host of a new program being pitched to Canadian networks entitled DVD Now, a
weekly DVD review show. His first love remains writing, and for the last two years he has been a writer for
www.incontention.com out of Los Angeles. He is currently under contract to ABC-CLIO Publishers, who published his
first book, Clint Eastwood: Evolution of a Filmmaker, and his second, Steven Spielberg: The Director and His Films, due
in 2010, both available at Amazon. Currently he is writing a history of American Cinema, a five volume set, working
backwards beginning with The New Millenium American Cinema; 2000-2009, due in 2012. Another project for
Scarecrow Press is John Wayne and the Great Performances. At the Toronto Film School he lectured on Film History,
Film Genre, Method Acting and Great Film Directors as well as programming the annual student film festival each year.
Over the course of his career he has had the pleasure of interviewing major actors and directors such as Meryl Streep,
Robert Duvall, Francis and Sofia Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt, Edward Norton, Willem Dafoe, Holly
Hunter, Julianne Moore, Al Pacino, Robert de Niro, Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank, Denzel Washington, Morgan Freeman
and countless others. He is married with two girls, ages, 17 and 9, livily quietly in an Ontario village called Seagrave.
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