Movies
Midnight In Paris
Allen gives The City of Lights the Manhattan treatment in this story of an engaged writer (Owen Wilson) who encounters temptation on a trip to France. Wilson is pitch-perfect at locating the right blend of humour and gravity [and the film] is infused with seductive secrets bracing humour and ravishing
Empire of the Sun
Steven Spielberg’s first dramatic film about World War II (well, the first one not involving Indiana Jones punching Nazis) is an epic told in miniature, from the point of view of a young British boy (a then-13-year-old Christian Bale) caught up in the Japanese occupation of Shanghai. Empire of the
With Glowing Hearts
This inspiring, crowd-sourced documentary follows a group of citizen journalists who tried to reshape their world through social media during the 2010 Vancouver Olympics by drawing attention to the challenges facing the residents of the city’s notorious and impoverished Downtown Eastside. See it and be changed. Director Andrew Lavigne will
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
One of only three films Spielberg wrote and directed, Close Encounters finds the directors alter-ego Richard Dreyfuss discovering both visitors from space and a new appreciation of his wifes mash potatoes.
Every Which Way But Loose
How could Clint Eastwood possibly top a run of films in the 1970’s that included Dirty Harry, High Plains Drifter and The Outlaw Josey Wales? Why, by starring as a laid back truck driving prize fighter who takes on ne’er-do-wells with the help of a sidekick orangutan , of course!
Writers Festival presents Allah, Liberty & Love with Irshad Manji
Irshad Manji, the New York Times bestselling author to whom Oprah gave her first ever Chutzpah Award, returns to the Festival stage with Allah, Liberty & Love, a book about how to become a gutsy global citizen working for both personal and world peace. Manji has faith not just in Allah,
Beginners
Ewan McGregor stars in this semi-autobiographical tale of a man whose world is turned upside-down by two surprising announcements from his elderly father (Christopher Plummer). One: he has terminal cancer. Two: he is gay. The films power to overwhelm comes from the impact of the perfectly understated performances. (Eye Weekly)
Eco Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson
OTTAWA PREMIERE | OFFICIAL SELECTION HOT DOCS 2011 Paul Wilson, co-founder of Greenpeace and founder of the radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, calls protesting submissive and doing nothing cowardice which is why he hunts down whaling fleets, putting himself in harms way to prevent their bloody work. This