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Roadside Romeo: Bollywood with dogs! Animated dogs!
Yeah, Bollywood with dogs. That’s how someone at the AmérAsia Film Festival described Roadside Romeo, an animated film from India. It sounded like an inspired idea, but in the end, it didn’t live up to...
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Green Days: An animated look at adolescence, from Korea
In the opening scenes of Green Days, Yi-rang is running a relay race. As another girl pulls ahead, she effectively takes herself out of the race by stumbling (on purpose). Her pride won’t allow her to...
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Jiro Dreams of Sushi: a delicious documentary
Tokyo sushi chef Jiro Ono, is 85 years old, still working and still enjoying his work, (which he began when he was only 7.) He says he still has lots more to learn. And it’s obvious that he’s really...
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Festival du nouveau cinéma wins award for being wonderful, avant garde,...
The Festival du nouveau cinéma has won the Grand Prix of the Conseil des arts de Montréal, for the “diligence, avant-gardism, originality, and diversity of the festival’s programming” of the...
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Laurence Anyways: Transsexuality-Themed Movie Wins Canadian Film Award
Cool . . . A love story about a trans person and partner has won Best Canadian Film at the Toronto International Film Festival, Gazette critic T’Cha Dunlevy is reporting on our film blog. The film,...
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FNC 2012: Festival du Nouveau Cinema expands its turf
The selection for the 41st edition of the Festival du Nouveau Cinema was revealed on Tuesday, Sept. 25, and it certainly looks good to me. The FNC 2012 schedule and film synopses are on the Internet...
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Five days of animation, wonder, excitement and weirdness from the...
From Wednesday, Nov. 29, through Sunday Dec. 2, 2012, the 11th Sommets du cinema d’animation de Montreal takes over the Cinémathèque Québecoise. The event includes film, talks and master classes. There...
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Cinémathèque Québecoise: Le Chat du Rabbin is a fast-talking, yet...
You’ve heard about the cat that ate the canary? Well, Rabbi Sfar’s cat ate the parrot, which is a whole other kettle of fish, so to speak. After that impromptu meal, somehow the cat can talk, which...
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Montreal film publicist Puelo Deir remembers colleague Roger Ebert
Film publicist and playwright Puelo Deir at work in his home office The film world is mourning the death of Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic Roger Ebert who lost his battle with cancer on Thursday...
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Le Démantèlement has won the SACD prize in La Semaine de la Critique at the...
Gabriel Arcand, Sophie Desmarais in Le Démantèlement. Courtesy of Seville Pictures. Well we’ll found out Sunday if Montreal filmmaker Chloé Robichaud’s Sarah préfère la course ends up winning the...
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Kathleen Turner to receive honourary award at the World Film Festival
Actress Kathleen Turner talks to an audience before signing copies of her new book “Send Yourself Roses” at Santa Monica Library February 21, 2008. (Photo by Mark Mainz/Getty Images) American actress...
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Villeneuve, Dolan, Archambault among Quebec directors going to TIFF
Quebec filmmakers will again make their presence felt at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Denis Villeneuve leads the way with not one but two films starring major American stars. Enemy,...
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Do you have a film to promote? Seen something wonderful lately? Please do...
Oh, oh! I just realized that the Montreal World Film Festival, Festival des films du monde has out-of-date contact information for me on its media list. (It’s my own fault, not theirs. Mea culpa!) If...
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BIFF 2013: Lunch with director Kim Ki-duk. . . sort of
Okay, strictly speaking, I guess I should write “lunch within a few feet of Kim Ki-duk.” I am in Busan, South Korea for the 18th Busan International Film Festival, or BIFF, for short. (For years it was...
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The Cine Files in South Korea: Mmm. . . seaweed!
Seaweed! Yum! Let me assure you, I’m not being sarcastic. I really like the stuff. Of course, I can buy it in Montreal, but I can buy lots more of it here! Lucky me! BTW: In The King of Jokgu, a comedy...
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Cinemania to honour Anouk Aimée, star of films by Fellini, Demy, Lellouch,...
Cinemania will honour French movie star Anouk Aimée, who will attend the film festival from November 7 to 11. Aimée rose to fame with roles in Federico Fellini’s La Dolce Vita (1960) and 8 ½ (1963),...
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Lights! Camera! Action! Best of Montreal’s 26th annual Image+Nation LGBT Film...
Image+Nation directors Charle Boudreau (C) and Katharine Setzer interview CTV Montreal’s Christine Long (L) at I+N’s opening-night screening at the Imperial Theatre There are more and more queer...
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Montreal filmmaker Yan Giroux’s Mi nina mi vida going to Sundance Festival
Montreal filmmaker Yan Giroux’s short Mi nina mi vida is going to the Sundance Film Festival. This is a big deal. Just remember that the prestigious Utah festival run by Robert Redford received over...
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Frequent filmmaker: Denis Côté is becoming a regular at the Berlin Film Festival
Actors Marc-Andre Grondin, left, Pierrette Robitaille, director Denis Cote and actress Romane Bohringer attend the Vic and Flo saw a bear photocall during the 63rd Berlinale International Film...
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NFB doc about Montreal transgender musician Rae Spoon premieres at Sundance...
Transgender indie singer/songwriter Rae Spoon was self-conscious but not too fidgety when we recently sat down for a quiet interview inside the music library at Montreal’s CKUT radio station. “I never...
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