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Panic in Detroit
Director Heidi Ewing grew up four miles from Detroit. After each visit home, she would find herself telling friends in New York just how bad things were in the Motor City. Then she and fellow director...
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Courage and Confinement
You’d think twenty-five years into Montreal’s Image+Nation film festival, there’d be nothing but good news to report on the human rights front regarding the LGBT communities of the world. While there...
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Take this Waltz
In an early scene in Joe Wright’s Anna Karenina, Anna, played by Keira Knightly, reads a letter from her adulterous brother Stiva, asking her to come to Moscow and beg his wife Dolly’s forgiveness on...
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The Woman We Knew Too Little
Alfred Hitchcock had what is surely the world’s most iconic silhouette. Look closer, though, as does Sacha Gervasi’s new film about the great man, and you’ll see concealed within that bulky shadow the...
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Boys Do Cry
Australian director Andrew Dominik’s Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford earned Casey Affleck and cinematographer Roger Deakins well deserved Oscar nods and appeared on a few...
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Zooming In
Winner of the People’s Choice Awards at the RIDM, 5 Broken Cameras is an intimate look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as seen through the lens of Emad Burnat, a Palestinian farmer and amateur...
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Look on the Bright Side
David O. Russell’s new film Silver Linings Playbook follows Pat (Bradley Cooper) as he attempts to reintegrate himself back into society after a violent, bi-polar episode which placed him in a mental...
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Spaghetti for the Holidays
Blood-soaked and drenched in enough 70s swagger to give Sergio Leone’s The Man with No Name trilogy a run for its money, Quentin Tarantino’s Django Unchained twists the classic Western revenge plot...
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Desperately Seeking Bin Laden
It’s a long way into Kathryn Bigelow’s massively controversial take on the hunt for Osama Bin Laden before watches are synchronized for Zero Dark Thirty (that’s any time in the small hours, to us...
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Porn Again
A strange rush of emotions are guaranteed to run through you as you watch Inside Lara Roxx, the documentary feature by Montreal filmmaker Mia Donovan. It is equal parts revealing, sad, confounding,...
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Unstoppable Force Meets Immovable Object
Bursting out of the gate—in what must be the most blatant talent farming expedition in recent memory—Kim Jee-Woon’s The Last Stand begins 2013’s triple threat of South Korean directors debuting in...
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Soviet Cinema’s Neglected Poet
Hundreds of sheep flock around a dead monk. Blood – or is it bright right red pomegranate juice? – oozes onto a cloth. Three aging men dressed in officer uniforms slowly remove their boots and shuffle...
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Seems Like Old Crimes
An action film for people who find The Expendables franchise too arthouse and the Rambo re-boot too pinko, Bullet To the Head isn’t so much back-to-basics Stallone as bottom-of-the-bargain-basket, a...
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Amour, Actually
Michael Haneke’s films are stark and merciless. In La Pianiste, a woman lives in an emotional prison, sharing a life, an apartment and even a bed with her elderly mother. Love, when it comes, is...
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Deconstructing Hollywood
Slavoj Zizek says one thing was perfectly clear as he was appearing in his latest film, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology. “I’m no actor,” he concedes, laughing. “Director Sophie [Fiennes] would ask me...
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The Klein Files
Jesse Klein seems such a nice fellow in person. Upbeat, endowed with a sharp wit and always ready with a tangential anecdote, he doesn’t seem too glum in casual conversation. But like many in the...
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Documenting an Epidemic
There was a time not so long ago when you could watch movies and never know a disease called AIDS ever existed. And I’m not exaggerating. For years I was a film section editor and watched over 400...
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Southern Hospitality
Mexico’s celebrated Guadalajara International Film Festival, whose 28th edition wrapped up on Saturday, has announced a special showcase in next year’s festival dedicated exclusively to Québécois...
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Hey Boo
Your first novel is a runaway bestseller. How do you top that? What if it was just luck? Do you even want to attempt another novel? These kinds of questions no doubt plague anyone who finds themselves...
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Art Imitates Life
I’m going to be perfectly honest. The only reason I went to see Sam Raimi’s Oz the Great and Powerful was to watch James Franco’s performance. This turned out to be even more rewarding than I had...
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