Movies
Powerful: Energy For Everyone
COMMUNITY EMPOWERMENT EVENING WITH DAVID CHERNUSHENKO Green economy educator David Chernushenko will screen a special, 52-minute version of his sustainable energy doc, followed by a panel discussion on how you can help make renewable energy a reality, after which you can buy DVDs of Powerful: Energy for Everyone, get answer
No Man’s Land
R.I.P. Charlie Sheens career (1974-2010) When rookie cop Benjy Taylor (D.B. Sweeney) goes undercover in to infiltrate a gang of car thieves run by the charismatic Ted Varrick (Charlie Sheen), who will end up WINNING?
Lemmy
OTTAWA PREMIERE What do you want from a rock doc? Sex? Drugs? Rock n roll? In the case of Motörhead front man Lemmy Kilmister, there’s enough of a surplus of all three to power multiple documentaries. (NPR) (Plus, enöugh umlauts tö chöke a Germanic hörse!)
Keoma
Director Castellari (The Inglorious Bastards, 1990: Bronx Warriors) delivers his eulogy for the Spaghetti Western with this tale of a man (Franco Nero) who returns home after the Civil War to find his town controlled by a gang of thugs and, though weary of war, holsters up for one
Jellyfish
WRITERS FESTIVAL SCREENING | CAMERA DOR WINNER | FILMMAKER IN ATTENDANCE Salman Rushdie called Etgar Keret “the voice of the next generation,” and it seems the jury at Cannes agreed. They awarded Jellyfish Kerets directorial debut about the intertwining lives of the three very different Israeli women in Tel
Jane Eyre
A truly great adaptation of Charlotte Brontë’s novel is finally here. Director Cary Fukunaga (Sundance Prize-winner for Sin Nombre) recognizes that Jane Eyre is a passionate, impossible love story, one of the most romantic ever told. But it’s also a cold, wild story about destruction, madness and loss, and this movie
Gnomeo and Juliet
Its like Romeo and Juliet, but with garden gnomes. (And the voices of James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine, Jason Statham, Patrick Stuart, Ozzy Osbourne and Hulk Hogan?!)
Enter The Void
Already justifiably famous/notorious for its seizure-inducing opening credits sequence, arthouse provocateur Noés postmortem odyssey through Tokyos underworld is one of the most mind-blowing and ambitious feature films ever made. (Salon). It is also not even remotely for the faint of heart. Seriously. If you like this sort of thing, Noés
Barney’s Version
GENIE WINNER BEST ACTOR The big-screen adaptation of Mordecai Richlers final novel was a long time coming, but its worth the wait. Paul Giamatti brings passion and ferocious fun to pain-in-the-ass Barney Panofsky and Dustin Hoffman makes magic as Barney’s randy dad. It’s acting heaven. (Rolling Stone)
American: The Bill Hicks Story
OTTAWA PREMIERE Its been 16 years since stand-up comedian Bill Hicks death, which is not long enough to take the sting out of his unflinching social commentary, as this doc assembled from previously unseen footage, 1,300 photographs, and the voices of those who knew him best shows. An