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Engage on your very own culinary adventure with the Revue Cinema‘s screening of The Trip starring the very talented Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. To add extra flavor to the event local restaurants will be offering free samples of British fare, Balluchon Raymond will serve their personal take on the classic pub dish chips and eggs. Other examples include: Barque Smokehouse with their presentation of scones and bacon jelly and with the addition of regular The Chocolateria serving a sponge toffee dipped in chocolate. The Trip (2010) directed by Michael Winterbottom, follows Coogan as he travels the English Countryside to...
Happy weekend! Winter has finally arrived, so bundle up until you get inside a theater. Here is what’s happening today on the Scene for Saturday, January 19, 2013. A diverse group of flicks screen today at the TIFF Bell Lightbox. Both hot from TIFF 2012, On the Road opens this weekend, and The Master continues its run in 70 mm. I saw it last weekend, and if any of you can figure out what it’s about, please let me know. Oscar hopeful, Amour, also continues its run with showtimes throughout the day. Last of the run of engagement movies are...
The week the Bloor Hot Docs Cinema is screening two films that were Official Selections of the 2012 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. The Waiting Room and Beware Of Mr. Baker each run from Friday, January 18 to Wednesday, January 23, 2013. The Waiting Room is a day in the life of an Oakland, California, public hospital’s overtaxed emergency room, weaving together extraordinary access to patients and caregivers. The film paints a vivid picture of the ailing state of America’s health care system through a ballsy nurse, an anxious father, a drugged out serial patient and a small...
The Toronto Youth Shorts Film Festival has announced it will run its 24 hour hour filmmaking contest, the T24 Project, from Friday February 15 to Saturday, February 16, 2013. For those unfamiliar with the project, young filmmakers are given an essay style question to answer with a short film in 24 hours. All they are given is the question and free reign of the city (unlike many other contests, requiring contestants incorporate specific themes or bizarrely specific scripts – T24 understands the concept of forced dialogue). Registration fees run $30 for teams of four and can be completed here. Earlybird...
Opening this Friday, January 18, 2013 is documentary The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song. If you missed it at last year’s Hot Docs film festival, now is your chance to see an important film about family and class struggle. At the heart of the movie is the relationship between mother and son, Mary and Muscle, as Muscle tries to care for his elderly mother as best as he knows how. With director Christy Garland in attendance for a Q&A after each screening, this is an event not to be missed. The Bastard Sings the Sweetest Song opens Friday, January 18,...
Profanity develops from what a culture fears. Languages with strong Latin origins have their curse words based heavily in religion. English has a strong Germanic basis, and takes two of our most common themes from German words for sex and defecation. Anyway, Chloë Sevigny was featured in the two most recent episodes of IFC’s Portlandia, a show of which my viewership comes as no surprise. Because of this, I decided to look into her films of which I had yet to see. I have yet to watch The Brown Bunny, but I assuming a few readers of this had figured...
Canadian director/producer Craig Goodwill (Artist: Unknown, The Spirit Game) and producer David Sparkes (The Samaritan) are kicking off 2013 with pre-production of their dark comedy-adventure indie feature Patch Town, inspired by their award-winning short film of the same name. The film, a story about an abandoned toy who works on the assembly line in an oppressive toy factory, stars Zoie Palmer (Cold Blooded, Devil) and Julian Richings (Hard Core Logo, Cube), alongside Rob Ramsay (Blue Mountain State) and newcomer Stephanie Pitsiladis (Hairspray). The screenplay was written by Christopher Bond and Trevor Martin, the duo behind A Little Bit Zombie. Production...
Barry Doupé’s latest animated feature-length, The Colours That Combine to Make White Are Important will open Pleasure Dome’s 2013 winter season. The Vancouver-based filmmaker uses a failing Japanese glass factory as an allegory on art and language. Doupé will be attending the 7:30pm screening on Friday January 19, 2013 at CineCycle. Tickets run a mere $8 for general admission and $5 for students/members. Vtape will be hosting a free artist talk session earlier at 1:30pm in their home base, 452-401 Richmond st West. ...
Here’s what’s out for DVD and Blu-ray releases this week Strange time of year January, especially in the world of movies. The theatre is full of films that didn’t quite make it into the busy Christmas season, and the home video market is loaded up with stuff to spend our gift cards on. This week I got to check out some interesting stuff, that much is for sure. After hearing news that one of my fave found footage movies, The Last Exorcism, was getting a sequel in a couple months, I sat down with the most current possession movie I...
Toronto filmmaker Nicholas Arnold ’s latest endeavour William’s Lullaby has entered the sound-design stage of production and to get your anticipation up, they’ve just released a teaser trailer. Shot in Kingston, Ontario this past August, the film features a cast and crew of Kingston and Toronto-area artists and is aiming for completion in time for the 2013/2014 festival circuit. William’s Lullaby examines they way children cope with grief by looking into the fragility of depression and the father/son relationship. It’s the story of a single father, Kingston’s own Richard Sutton, who you may recognize from a few Toronto TV...
Mere hours until the Golden Globes! But this afternoon is a perfect chance to catch up on some of the nominees. Here is what’s happening today on the Scene for Sunday, January 13, 2013. Canadian film and Oscar nominees take over the TIFF Bell Lightbox today. My Awkward Sexual Adventure screens at 3:30 pm. The Master and Amour have multiple showtimes throughout the day. As for the usual run of engagement flicks, there’s Samsara, Barbara, Holy Motors, and The End of Time. As part of the A Man and a Woman: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva series, A Man and...
Take a break from complaining about the Oscar nominations and go see a movie today. Here is what’s happening today on the Scene for Saturday, January 12, 2013. Canadian film and Oscar nominees take over the TIFF Bell Lightbox today. Cosmopolis starts at 12:30 pm and My Awkward Sexual Adventure screens at 9:45 pm. The heartbreaking Amour plays throughout the day, and The Master is back in 70mm. As for the usual run of engagement flicks, there’s Samsara, Barbara, Holy Motors, and The End of Time. As part of the A Man and a Woman: Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva...
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