The Toronto International Film Festival Groups screenings of their top ten Canadian features and shorts this friday in Toronto with Kari Skogland’s – ‘Fifty Dead Men Walking’ at 7 pm and Lea Pool’s ‘Manan est chez le colffeur’ at 9:30 at Cinematheque Ontario, located at the Art Gallery of Ontario’s Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas Street…
Bruce Mcdonald Brings Zombies to TIFF 08: Pontypool
Bruce McDonald, director of such films as Hard Core Logo, Highway 61 and the Tracey Fragments has now made one of the scariest movies ever. At least he hopes it’s scary, I haven’t seen it – but the premiere is coming to the 2008 Toronto International Film Festival. The film is called Pontypool and is…
Murray (Dusty) Cohl 1979 – 2008
Dusty Cohl, co-founder of the Toronto International Film Festival, and a man without whom Canada would be a much smaller dot on the cinematic map, lost his battle with liver cancer on Friday afternoon. The family has said that there will be a private funeral with a “public celebration of his life at a later…
The Tracey Fragments: Cinematic Storytelling at its Best
Now that the Toronto International Film Festival is about to begin I can finally tell you why you have to see the Tracey Fragments. It is a daunting task. It is, by far, the best film I’ve seen this year. It is one of the best film’s I’ve seen in the last decade and it…
The Late Fragment – an Interactive Film
Another film coming up at the TIFF that sounds interesting is “the Late Fragment”. I say it sounds interesting because I haven’t seen it, nor can I find a trailer for it. However: “Late Fragment — an interactive film” produced by the Canadian Film Centre Media Lab (CFC MEDIA LAB) in co-production with the National…
TIFF Site Up
I likely won’t talk about the Toronto International Film Festival on this site much. I’m not big on celebrities, I don’t care who was seen where, I’m not interested in autographs, so unless there is a particular film that really strikes me (and given the purpose of this site it would have to be a…