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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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Tim Burton’s unique, humorous, and dark vision has given us such thrilling movies as A Nightmare Before Christmas, Edward Scissorhands, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street and Alice in Wonderland. Burton draws inspiration from various sources including German Expressionism, Vincent Price, science fiction films, Mexican Day of the Dead, performance art and...
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In 2003, the well publicized Utah rock climbing incident of Aron Ralston was brought to the world’s attention. Ralston was faced with two options: death or cutting off his arm after being trapped by an 800 pound boulder. The story of Ralston’s harrowing journey made the news and the rounds of the talk show...
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