The Vancouver Film Critics Circle has named Kim Nguyen’s Rebelle the best Canadian film of the year while Toronto critics chose Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell. Inexplicably, Toronto did not even nominate Rebelle. About a young African girl’s harrowing journey as a child soldier, Rebelle also picked up awards for Rachel Mwanza as best actress […]
by Allan Tong for FILMbutton Rebels attack a poor village somewhere in Africa and force 12-year-old Komona to shoot her parents in cold blood. The rebels force her into their child army where they regularly beat her and teach her to fire an AK-47. After drinking “magic milk” Komona sees her dead parents, who warn […]
2012 TIFF Screening Schedule: Sunday September 9 Scotiabank 3 7:00 PM Monday September 10 Jackman Hall (AGO) 4:00 PM Sunday September 16 Jackman Hall (AGO) 7:00 PM For more info on film click here
from GAT Capital starring Gad Elmaleh and Gabriel Byrne, master filmmaker Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing) tackles the world of international high finance in this jet-setting, globetrotting drama about the closed-doors intrigue and high-stakes power-plays at a French financial giant. This is the story of the unstoppable ascent of Marc Tourneuil, an expendable servant of the Capital […]
from ampr DARK COMEDY FEATURES TWO OF FINLAND’S TOP ACTING AND MUSIC ICONS Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Mika Kaurismäki (The House of Branching Love, Three Wise Men, Brothers) wrote, directed and produced Road North, a darkly comic and touching road movie about a prodigal father who returns to see his son 35 years after abandoning him. […]
from planet 3 communications ltd From the maverick director of Love Sex aur Dhokha comes a searing political drama – Shanghai. As an Indian adaptation of Vasillis Vassilikosís explosive and famed polemical novel Z, the film transforms and adapts the events of a political murder in Greece 50 years ago to a window into contemporary […]
Peter Bogdanovich speaks with moderator Ben Mankiewicz before the screening of his brilliant classic film The Last Picture Show during the TCM Film Festival screening at the TIFF Bell Lightbox in Toronto on March 31, 2012. In this clip, he discusses meeting & casting Cybill Shepherd in the film.
2011 TIFF Public Screening Times: Friday September 9 Visa Screening Room (Elgin) 6:00pm Saturday September 10 TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 10:00am For more info on the film click here
2011 TIFF Public Screening Times: Monday September 12 – Gala Visa Screening Room (Elgin) 6:00pm Saturday September 17 Scotiabank Theatre 3 9:30am For info the film click here