It’s that time of year again when we come together to celebrate all that is French language cinema. The arrival of this all Franco film festival always signals the real coming of Spring to me. Yes, that’s right, Cinéfranco returns to Toronto this week to entertain, enlighten and perhaps even educate us. Quite recently...
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John Singleton, the first black director nominated for an Academy Award, was in town to talk about his body of work at the TIFF Bell Lightbox Presented by TD and BAND (Black Artists’ Network in Dialogue) in association with Canadian filmmaker Clement Virgo. Garvia Bailey, the host of CBC radio’s “Big City, Small...
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“There are the infected. There are the survivors. Then there is you. Consider yourself among the lucky few who are on the path to salvation – you have secured your spot to Wednesday’s event.”– This is the email I and over a hundred other movie-goers received the day before the 360 Screenings event. The...
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360 Screenings, an immersive film series combining cocktail party, live interactive theatre and traditional film viewing premieres their first ever Halloween edition on October 24th at 7pm. Tickets to this one night only production are 90% sold out. 360 Screenings is Canada’s only cinematic experience that fuses film and theatre into one. The...
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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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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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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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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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