![]() The critical response is rather positive, however, though Eye’s Jason Anderson warns “The many moments of grace, power and lucidity are again undermined by the overarching and often unsubtle intention of making a Grand Statement about warfare and humankind.” Perhaps in a different time, we… Could have been friends.” ![]() That famous Japanese person, Paul Haggis, wrote the story the script is based on, so allow us to put on our cynicism hat and say that it’s probably got at least one scene where an American places his hand on the shoulder of a Japanese soldier (or vice versa) and says “You know… We’re not too different, you and I. Tonight and tomorrow is also, apparently, the Capture the Ride Film Festival, “the first competitive snowboard film festival in Canada and maybe even the world.” As any snowboarders you might know will doubtlessly have been confined in the house pining for snow (there haven’t even been any good snowboarding videogames out for ages, either) why not cheer them up by taking them out to, um, watch films of people snowboarding? Yeah! It’s at the Bloor Cinema, 506 Bloor W.Ĭlint Eastwood follows Flags of our Fathers with Letters from Iwo Jima, attempting to show the reality for the Japanese soldiers on the ground during WWII. And there are some review round-ups of the films at Eye Weekly and NOW, which, lovably, disagree almost completely about the quality of the films on offer. Not to forget the free screenings on Wednesday, featuring video artist Steve Reinke in person and a selection of his works (6:30pm).Īll screenings are, as always, at Jackman Hall, the AGO, 317 Dundas W. ![]() Lars Von Trier’s new comedy The Boss of It All hits tonight at 8:30pm (and the website claims there are still limited tickets available, if you’re interested) with the rest of the week just as packed with the interesting and the unusual, including a Saturday matinee of The Grapes of Wrath (at 2pm) followed by 13/Tzameti in the evening at 8:15pm, and The Go Master on Tuesday at 6:30pm. Well, after what could be considered a bit of a drought, there’s enough movies to choke a horse on release in Toronto this week and that’s a horse which had previously won speed movie-eating competitions.įirst, the long awaited arrival of the new Cinematheque Ontario season. News Film Friday: Cinematheque Ontario is the Boss of it All ![]()
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