Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009
Adam Scott in Passenger Side
Toronto Festival’s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009
Top Ten Canadian Feature Films of 2009
(in alphabetical order)
Cairo Time – Ruba Nadda
Carcasses – Denis Côté
Crackie – Sherry White
Defendor – Peter Stebbings
La Donation / The Legacy – Bernard Émond
J’ai tué ma mère / I Killed My Mother – Xavier Dolan
Passenger Side – Matthew Bissonnette
Polytechnique – Denis Villeneuve
The Trotsky – Jacob Tierney
The Wild Hunt – Alexandre Franchi
Top Ten Canadian Short Films of 2008
(in alphabetical order)
The Armoire – Jamie Travis
The Cave – Helen Haig-Brown
Danse Macabre – Pedro Pires
Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica – Cam Christiansen
Naissances – Anne Émond
Out in that Deep Blue Sea – Kazik Radwanski
Runaway – Cordell Barker
The Spine – Chris Landreth
La Vie commence – Émile Proulx-Cloutier
Vive la [...]
by Andre Soares | December 8, 2009
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Tags: Danse Macabre, Film Awards, I Killed My Mother, Matthew Bissonnette, Passenger Side, The Trotsky, The Wild Hunt, Top Ten Canadian Films, Xavier Dolan
Toronto Festival’s Top Ten Canadian Films of 2009
Patricia Clarkson in Cairo Time (top); Joel Bissonnette, Adam Scott in Passenger Side (middle, upper); Danse Macabre by Pedro Pires (middle, lower); Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica by Cam Christiansen (bottom)
The Toronto Film Festival has announced the lists of the top 10 Canadian features and shorts of 2009. Among the selected features are Denis Côté’s Carcasses, Xavier Dolan’s I Killed My Mother, and Bernard Émond’s The Legacy. Shorts include Pedro Pires‘ Danse Macabre, Jamie Travis‘ The Armoire, and Kazik Radwanski’s Out in that Deep Blue Sea.
Topics include hockey’s behind-the-scenes homoerotic moments to the sound of the Rheostatics (Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica); an adulterous romance in Egypt (Cairo Time); the erratic movements of a [...]
by Steve Montgomery | December 8, 2009
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Tags: Danse Macabre, Five Hole: Tales of Hockey Erotica, I Killed My Mother, Matthew Bissonnette, Passenger Side, The Trotsky, The Wild Hunt, Top Ten Canadian Films, Toronto Film Festival, Xavier Dolan
Tokyo Film Festival Awards 2009
2009 Tokyo Film Festival Awards
2009 Tokyo Film Festival: October 17-25, 2009
In Kamen Kalev’s Bulgarian drama Eastern Plays, two estranged brothers are unexpectedly brought together after they play opposing roles in a racist beating — Georgi is a new member of a neo-Nazi group; Itso, a drug-addicted artist, rescues the victimized Turkish family. Compounding matters, Georgi (Ovanes Torosian) starts to question his place in the neo-nazi movement while Itso (Tokyo best actor winner Christo Christov) falls for the Turkish girl he saved. Eastern Plays is the second film featuring neo-nazi characters to win a top international film festival prize this week. Nicolo Donato’s Danish drama Brotherhood, about two neo-nazis who fall in love with one another, was [...]
by Irene Young | October 25, 2009
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Tags: A Brand New Life, Christo Christov, Eastern Plays, Film Awards, Julie Gayet, Kamen Kalev, Rabia, The Trotsky, Tokyo Film Festival, Tokyo Film Festival Awards, Wolf