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Still from Baikonur

Film Review

11-10-12
The 41st Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema – Serai Reviews Maya Khankhoje

The 41st Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinema (10-21 October) follows in the heels of the 8th International Montreal Black Film  Read more…
Still from The Creators, South Africa, 2011

Film Review

21-09-12
Dispatches from the Montreal International Black Film Festival (MIBFF) Maya Khankhoje

The Creators, South Africa, 2011. UPDATE: Awarded Honourable Mention for BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE Maya Khankhoje [This is the last film  Read more…
Still from "The End of Immigration"

Film Review

25-07-12
“The end of immigration?” –The film Rana Bose

A film by Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy-52 min, productions Multi-Monde 2012. The wind beats against a high telecom tower  Read more…

Film Review

01-07-12
Incendies directed by Denis Villeneuve Rawi Hage

[This piece originally appeared in Five Dials Number 15 and is reproduced with their kind permission.] In Sophocles’ tragedy, the  Read more…

Film Review

18-06-12
Is Canadian Cinema evolving? Julian Samuel

Welcome to Canada (1989) and Monsieur Lazhar (2011) This film review will comment on two Canadian films that deploy immigrants  Read more…
Signoret2

Film Review

15-03-12
FIFA (International Festival of Films on Art) – Daily Reviews Maya Khankhoje

******** March 24, 2012   Elle s’appelait Simone Signoret. France. 2010. French with English subtitles. The American public will remember  Read more…

Film Review

28-12-11
Varnam Prasun Lala

  A deluge of water filled up the Sunday morning I went to see Varnam at the 35th edition of  Read more…
Another Earth

Film Review

27-09-11
Another Earth Jesse Klein

  The low-budget aesthetic lends itself best to local, intimate settings. Bedrooms, backseats of cars, unfinished basements are the places  Read more…
Captain America

Film Review

27-09-11
Captain America Jesse Klein

  There are twenty-seven sequels being released this year. The fourth of  Spy Kids, the fifth X-Men, the eighth Harry  Read more…
What a Beautiful Day

Film Review

20-08-11
Montreal World Film Festival – Daily Reviews Maya Khankhoje

  ******** August 27, 2011   What a Beautiful Day. Italy. Director: Gennaro Nunziante. What we have here is what  Read more…
Taking Root Film Poster

Film Review

31-03-10
Taking Root Maya Khankhoje

        Taking Root. The vision of Wangari Maathai. Documentary. DVD 2008, Mongrel Media.             Taking Root is  Read more…
the-soloist

Film Review

26-09-09
The Soloist Maya Khankhoje

  The Soloist. Written by Steve Lopez and Susannah Grant. Directed by Joe Wright. Starring Jamie Foxx and Robert Downey  Read more…

Film Review

30-03-09
Fennario’s War – The Poetry of Fennario Patrick Barnard

Fennario’s War (41 minutes) is a simple film. The Montreal playwright, David Fennario, reads a text in his Verdun apartment  Read more…
21_4_7_persepolis

Film Review

02-01-09
Persepolis Maya Khankhoje

Persepolis, 2007. Animated drama. Persepolis is an Oscar-nominated film that premiered last year and which I regret not having seen  Read more…
21_4_9_klein

Film Review

02-01-09
Meta-Cake Eaters – The Films of 2008 Jesse Klein

Once, Bob Dylan and John Lennon were looked at with the same adoring, hopeful gaze now bestowed upon Warren Buffett  Read more…

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