Anne Brodie A retrospective called Love Exists: The Films of Maurice Pialat opens tomorrow at Toronto’s TIFF Cinematheque and runs until December 5. A second retrospetive on Pialat is also screening at New York’s Museum of the Moving Image. Here Anne Brodie looks at the work of the late French filmmaker who divided audiences and critics alike. Maurice Pialat
Dean Norris shot to fame as Walter’s brother-in-law Hank in Breaking Bad. Now he’s taking the big screen by storm in the hard-hitting new psychological Nazi revenge drama Remember. The movie tells the story of two former Auschwitz survivors in a nursing home, played by legendary actors Christopher Plummer and Martin Landau, who hatch a plot of
Oprah Winfrey’s new seven-part series Belief explores religion in a way never seen before on screen. The show, which starts this Sunday and broadcasts each night for a week on OWN, explores the meaning of faith and human beings’ differing paths to spiritual fulfilment. From Christianity to Islam, it delves deep into the big questions that dominate all our lives —
Director Ramin Bahrani’s film Man Push Cart about a Pakistani rock star reduced to selling coffee on the streets of New York moved Roger Ebert to call him “the next great American director”. Bahrani followed it with At Any Price, a “farm noir” story of a family of farmers set against the backdrop of genetically
What do you do when you buy a big country home and renovate it and it’s all being filmed for Canadian TV and you’re construction hero Bryan Baeumler? You keep on building. For two and a half years, Baeumler and his wife Sarah have carefully built their Niagara region dream home, step by step, steel
Zachary Levi’s latest TV incarnation as preternaturally gifted Luke Collins takes the actor in an exciting new direction. The dark hero of Chuck now stretches his wings in Heroes Reborn, a 13 episode miniseries that calls on surprising, previously unseen aspects of Levi’s actor’s toolbox. The limited series picks up where Heroes left off, one
Emily Blunt is about as far south of a romcom as it gets, transplanted to the U.S. Mexican border – the drugs and crime hotspot of Juarez and El Paso as a drug agent in this tight, visceral and disturbing film. Similar to The Bridge on FX, in that a woman has a prominent law
Like many great husband and wife detectives, Tommy and Tuppence Beresford can’t abide a mystery, just as nature abhors a vacuum. Anything slightly amiss arises and it’s off to the races. Tuppence (Wolf Hall’s Jessica Raine) cannot sit still if something is even slightly off; her nose for news takes her to strange places like
Canadian filmmaker Barry Avrich is known for his many film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays and fascinating documentaries on Harvey Weinstein, Bob Guccione, Jackie Mason and Lew Wasserman among others. He will introduce his latest documentary, a short called The Man Who Shot Hollywood September 16th at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). The seed was
It takes a special kind of moviegoer to watch a film about two guys talking. While there is some brief relief from a marathon five day conversation including a trip to the Mall of America, this is for word lovers. I’m one and was captivated by conversation in End of the Tour. The story concerns