Winner, Golden Bear, 2016 Berlin Int’l Film Festival & Italian submission for 2016 Oscar – Best Foreign-Language Film Opens Friday October 21 in Toronto at TIFF Bell Lightbox & November 9 at the Vancity Theatre in Vancouver Gianfranco Rosi’s new award-winning documentary Fire at Sea (Fuocoammare) will open on Friday, October 21, 2016 at […]
After winning the Truth to Power Best Documentary Award at Reel Asian and screening at 50+ international film festivals on four continents from London to Florida, Australia, and Mumbai, and a recent screening at the UN in Brussels, Toronto filmmaker Elisa Paloschi brings the award-winning documentary Driving With Selvi home to Toronto audiences for a […]
“Offbeat” and “Enjoyable”— The Hollywood Reporter “Heart-rending.”— The Huffington Post “An absolute must see. . . as high a recommendation as I can give.”— Unseen Films Arguably the best-trained driver New York City’s Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) ever had, Darius McCollum has spent nearly half his life in jail for the crime of driving buses […]
“I’ve always been controversial. People hate me or love me.” — Brian De Palma “Truth be told, my favorite director of the Movie Brats was Brian de Palma.” — Quentin Tarantino “De Palma constructs movies that have the surface of crowd-pleasing entertainment but the guts of high art, filled with bravura sequences that don’t so […]
“An instant-classic Western. Treitz persuasively and passionately re-creates a grand panorama on an intimate scale.” – Richard Brody, The New Yorker “Absorbingly atmospheric. A cast of authentic reenactors turns the movie into an immersive memorial to differing paths marked by blood.” – Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York “Richly naturalistic. This is no ordinary historical […]
http://filmbutton.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/LC-promo.mp4 A movie icon recalls a whirlwind life in and out of Hollywood in Larry Weinstein’s latest film, Leslie Caron: The Reluctant Star. The film will make its world premiere June 28 at Toronto’s TIFF Bell Lightbox, screening as part of a showcase on the acclaimed director’s long career in documentary. Leslie Caron’s life was […]
Burlesque stars shine again en route to Las Vegas’ Burlesque Hall of Fame In award-winning Rama Rau’s touching, funny and evocative Back when the G-string was the point-of-no-return, live sexual entertainment was a formalized affair, with choreography, costumes and women with larger-than-life personalities and attributes. They were burlesque queens, with stage-names that could be out […]
Get ready for a Satellite of Love-fest as Michael J. Nelson, Kevin Murphy and Bill Corbett – the guys who make movies funny – celebrate 10 years of RiffTrax with an amazing night of riffing and comedy with most of the original Mystery Science Theater 3000 stars. Joining Mike, Kevin and Bill, LIVE from the […]
Nominated for two 2016 Canadian Screen Awards Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role (Jasmin Geljo) Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role (Cynthia Ashperger) “supremely poetic” – Eric Kohn, Indiewire “an intricate hall of mirrors” – Richard Porton, Cineaste “skillfully told in present and in flashbacks” – Jim Slotek, Toronto Sun Following […]
“Brilliant” – The New Yorker “Suspenseful and surprising” – Los Angeles Times “Deeply moving” – The Hollywood Reporter TORONTO, ON – Millions think they know the story of Kitty Genovese – a woman who was raped and murdered on March 27, 1964 in the New York borough of Queens, with a purported “38 eyewitnesses” doing […]