One of the top choices this week is Terence Davies’ documentary portrait of his hometown, Liverpool. Of Time and the City is a short (70-minute) personal work that is more grounded than Maddin’s My Winnipeg. It has equally humourous moments, but comes from a more human and less fantastical part of its directors consciousness. Read more »
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May 12, 2009 | Comments Off
Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema celebrates it’s 37th year as one of the city’s premiere film festivals. It’s success has been due to great organization, original and modern advertising as well as its policy of allowing all of the latest films, regardless of whether or not they have played at previous festivals around the world. So while the Montreal World Film Festival is more concerned with being the first to premiere films, the FNC places this importance secondary to showing the latest great films. Thus, not only are you more likely to hit a higher quality film, but much of what is shown is known beforehand. This year’s festival is no exception, showing some of the critically acclaimed Cannes hits and others. The festival opens with short film, Next Floor and feature-length film A Sentimental Capitalism (Un capitalisme sentimentale) - both Quebecois premieres. It closes with the Cannes festival winner, The Class (Entre les murs). Read more »
Film Festivals | October 8, 2008 | Comments Off
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