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In the City: Closing weekend for Cinéfranco Film Festival

March 30, 2012
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Well Sceners, it’s the final weekend for the Cinéfranco film festival so whether or not you’ve made it out, make sure to catch what is sure to be another fabulous few days of stellar francophone cinema. Last Friday saw another great opening to this annual festival, now celebrating their 15th season of delivering us...
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In the City: Cinéfranco Film Festival

March 21, 2012
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You always know that Spring is on its way when the annual Cinéfranco film festival comes back to town. Perhaps this year the weather has already alerted us to a change in season, but there is still reason to celebrate with the arrival of stellar Francophone films in town. The Cinéfranco general program runs...
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Scene & Heard: Air Canada’s enRoute Film Festival is back

November 4, 2011
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Paso Doblep by Jamie Metzger

enRoute Film Festival, a festival for emerging filmmakers is back. This country has no end of young talent and the festival highlights this year’s best-of-the-best. The categories include Best Short Film, Achievement in Animation, Achievement in Direction, and Achievement in Cinematography. The 2011 Air Canada enRoute Film Festival finalists are:  Miles Jay and Orlee-Rose...
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Film Review: The Future

August 5, 2011
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Miranda July as Sophie in The Future

Miranda July has such a unique voice that you never quite know what to expect when seeing one of her films and that is reason enough to watch what she so masterfully brings to life on the screen. In her newest flick The Future, she once again does triple duty as she did in her...
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The Future is Now: Comment and Win!

June 17, 2011
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This summer, eOne Films is releasing The Future is Now! directed by Jim Brown and Gary Burns. The film explores the works of great thinkers like Marlene Dumas, Jean-Paul Sartre, Richard Dawkins and Christian Bok, just to name a few. The Future is Now! was a 2011 Official Selection at the Hot Docs film...
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Cinéfranco 2011 Wrap-Up

April 7, 2011
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3 of 5 superbly cast actors in Five Brothers (Comme les cinq doigts de la main)

Cinéfranco the International Francophone Film Festival of Toronto closed this weekend with some fabulous franco films. We were lucky enough to catch several of the films over the course of the festival and we weren’t disappointed by any of them. From the full theatre, it looks like Sceners weren’t disappointed either. From the Opening Night...
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Vive le Cinéfranco

April 1, 2011
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Cinefranco Toronto 2011

March 25th marked the commencement of yet another exciting year of Cinéfranco, Toronto’s international French language film festival. Entering its fourteenth year, the festival has established itself as a must-see, offering an international line-up of over thirty movies from all genres and for all tastes. Founded on principles of support and accessibility of French...
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Film Review: Funkytown

March 7, 2011
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"FunkyTown" Day 01 (C) photo: Jan Thijs

Funkytown starts out with such promise but ultimately falls short.  Directed by Daniel Roby and written by Steve Galluccio of Mambo Italiano fame, they created a story with an interesting enough premise but it doesn’t completely satisfy—it’s kind of like a sandwich with too much filling and no bread to contain it. Set during...
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ESPN’s 30 for 30 Series

February 18, 2011
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ESPN’s 30 for 30 Series

The sports network monolith ESPN recently celebrated their 30th anniversary. To mark the occasion, ESPN writer Bill Simmons thought it would be a good idea if documentaries were made for 30 of the top stories of the era and so became the “30 for 30″. 30 different filmmakers were recruited for the project, each...
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Movie Review: Biutiful

February 11, 2011
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Javier Bardem in Biutiful

Since taking the world’s cinematic stage by storm with Amores Perros (2001), 21 Grams (2003) and Babel (2006), Director Alejandro González Iñárritu has developed his own unique, signature style of storytelling. He meticulously and seamlessly knits together divergent narratives with raw emotion around a common end all while exploring the social nuances of the...
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