Movies
Palo Alto
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JUNE 27 Palo Alto is light and airy and filled with surprises. The first film by 27-year-old writer/director Gia Coppola is a fresh path down the well-trampled trail of high school movies. What happens to its cast of young characters is not novel weve seen
Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon
OTTAWA PREMIERE | STARTS JULY 18 ‘The quintessential manager … ” “He has the Midas touch . . . ” “As if Brian Epstein, Marshall McLuhan, and Mr. Magoo had a baby.” The testimonials come fast and affectionately in Supermensch: The Legend of Shep Gordon, but how can you not love
Treepot Cliffhanger Presents Chapter 5
Treepot Media presents Treepot Cliffhanger, a collaborative feature film project a year in the making. Five filmmakers developed chapters of the story over 2 month periods starting in March 2013, each chapter following the story set in motion by the director of the previous chapter in the style of a
Million Dollar Arm
This month’s Vanity Fair cover guy Jon Hamm is busy. The seventh season of “Mad Men” is underway and he can also be found in the family-inviting “Million Dollar Arm.” While Don Draper’s portrayer is the star here, he’s hardly the sole reason the winning baseball flick connects. And so
Unknown Known, The
After a February screening in Boston, a questioner led (director) Errol Morris to this insight about the circumlocutions of the subject of his latest film, Donald Rumsfeld: he speaks fluent Jabberwocky. Rumsfeld prides himself on his history of battering underlings by memo, dictating his every scrap of inkling of thought,
Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer
If you think you know about this feminist punk group from the media coverage of their trial, and Madonnas flashes of solidarity, thats not the half of it. Filmmakers Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin, who won a special jury award in Sundance for this documentary, have forged a riveting account
Rio 2
It’s a jungle out there for Blu, Jewel and their three kids in RIO 2, after they’re hurtled from that magical city to the wilds of the Amazon. As Blu tries to fit in, he goes beak-to-beak with the vengeful Nigel, and meets the most fearsome adversary of all –
German Doctor, The
At the beginning of the Argentinian thriller, The German Doctor, a 12-year-old girl named Lilith is approached by a handsome stranger a creepy sort, with a dashing moustache, watchful eyes and a disconcerting undercurrent of violence reminiscent of Robert Shaw in Jaws who wants to see her doll.
Belle
The charming historical drama Belle is something we dont see very often at the multiplexes, or even the arthouses: a film inspired by a centuries-old painting. In a palace in Scotland hangs an 18th-century portrait of two lovely young women; it is unsigned and its artist unknown. Both of the
Indigenous Resistance & Solidarity: Against Pipelines, For The Land
A night of four short films that include: * RESIST: The Unistotens Call to the Land (2014, 30min) * Kahsatstenhsera: Indigenous Resistance to Tar Sands Pipelines (2013, 10min) * Showdown at Highway 134 (2013, 5min) * Harsha Walia on Anti-Oppression, Decolonization and Responsible Allyship (2012, 10min)