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Vancover critics love Rebelle, Toronto crowns Polley

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 […]

Capsule Review: Rebelle (War Witch)

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 […]

When Day Breaks

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

Costa Gavras New Film Capital Screening @ TIFF 2012

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 […]

Mika Kaurismaki’s Road North Has International Premiere @ TIFF

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. […]

Peter Bogdanovich speaks about casting Cybill Shepherd in THE LAST PICTURE SHOW w/ Ben Mankiewicz

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.