Review: Last Heaven 031011
Even a full day after I saw Michelle Gun Elephant Thee Movie: Last Heaven 031011 as part of the CMW Film Festival, I’m not sure why I did, but I’m glad that I sat through the two hour and twenty minute...
View ArticleReview: Banff Mountain Film Festival, Day Two
It seems that with the rise of “extreme” sports in the ’90s that one of the greatest aspects supporting these death-defying stunts is the video evidence to back it. However, tracking over-the-top...
View ArticleReview: Kick-Ass
With a title like Kick-Ass there is a certain sense of entitlement for the audience to have high expectations and typically be let down. But here’s the surprising thing, Kick-Ass and the team behind it...
View ArticleReview: Beyond Ipanema – Hot Docs
The 2010 edition of the popular Hot Docs Film Festival features a program this year entitled “Made In South America,” turning the spotlight on filmmakers and story tellers from our hemispheric...
View ArticleReview: Strange Powers – Hot Docs
There is a pivotal line in Strange Powers: Stephin Merritt and the Magnetic Fields where longtime bandmate Claudia Gonson notes that some time towards the end of the ’90s her band became less important...
View ArticleReview: The Player – Hot Docs
The world of gambling, odds, calculations and a desire to beat the house and win is a path of deception. This is the story presented by filmmaker John Appel in the Dutch film The Player , showcased as...
View ArticleReview: Farewell – Hot Docs
The beauty and romance of the emergence of modern technology in the 1920s is captured in the true story of Lady Grace Drummond-Hay, a reporter on board the Graf Zeppelin’s round the world voyage. Along...
View ArticleReview: The Story of Furious Pete – Hot Docs
Ever been so hungry you could eat a horse? Or an elephant? How about 20 sausages or two giant breakfast platters? Well Pete Czerwinski can, and he is the topic of The Story of Furious Pete , as...
View ArticleReview: TIFF Student Film Showcase 2010
Last night at the AMC at Yonge and Dundas 11 of Canada’s top student filmmakers went on display for the public in the TIFF “Student Film Showcase 2010.” Leading up to it, TFS has covered the event...
View ArticleKurosawa Film School: The Summer of Akira
This summer, TIFF Cinematheque will bid farewell to their old home within the AGO and move to their swanky new digs of King St. West. Before that, however, they will look back to one of their first...
View ArticleHoly Rollers: In Conversation With Kevin Asch
Holy Rollers , the film based on the true story of young Hasidic Jews being duped into being drug mules for the burgeoning ecstasy scene in New York City in the late ’90s serves as the backdrop for...
View ArticleHoly Rollers: In Conversation With Justin Bartha
In the upcoming film Holy Rollers , actor Justin Bartha ( National Treasure 1 &2 , and The Hangover ) plays the role of Yosef Zimmerman, a reformed Hasidic Jew whom the community views as a member...
View ArticleIn Conversation With Nelofer Pazira
Nelofer Pazira is a tour de force – journalist, actress, author, as well as a UNESCO goodwill ambassador and former president of PEN Canada. Now Pazira, an Afghan-Canadian, has turned her focus to the...
View ArticleMemories Of Pier Paolo Pasolini
The first time I heard of the name Pasolini was in the south of France in a delightful cafe on a cliff looking out to the valley below sipping a beer as the sun was gently setting behind the facing...
View ArticleReview: Armadillo
The war on terror in Afghanistan has been a long, arduous process. As such, many writers and filmmakers have turned this war into the subject of their work, usually focusing on the soldiers themselves....
View ArticleReview: Norberto’s Deadline
What happens when an unsuccessful real estate agent finds his voice? In the case of Daniel Hendler’s Norberto’s Deadline he moves from one pillar of mediocrity to another while being sure to lecture...
View ArticleReview: I am Slave
Gabriel Range managed to turn heads with his 2006 film Death of a President , the film that put forward a fictional account on the assassination of President George W. Bush. Now Range turns his camera...
View ArticleReview: The Human Resources Manager
If film and literature have taught audiences one lesson for ages it is that the journey is always more memorable than the location. But how much does the journey matter then when the journeyer is...
View ArticleReview: Mother of Rock
A lot of credit is due to Australia and their recognition of some of greatest rock and roll acts before they ever became big. Well, credit is due to one particular Australian whose name is typically...
View ArticleReview: 40
Part of the appeal of international cinema is the opportunity (at least for North Americans) to view what the rest of the world makes of something that has become so commercialized, the meaning watered...
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