FESTIVALS

Cold Places And Warm Hearts

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by Elizabeth Johnston

Bjarnfredarson, Beloved Berlin Wall, Focus on World Cinema

by Elizabeth Johnston
02.09.2010

Iceland may be a cold place, but it’s got a warm heart, if Ragnar Bragason’s latest film, Bjarnfredarson, is anything to go by. The film, at the Montreal World Film Festival, is based on a popular Icelandic television series about three misfits whose only commonality is a criminal past. More →

FESTIVALS

Free Love, Steel Cobwebs And Stakes

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Documentaries of the World, Montreal Film Festival

by Elizabeth Johnston
01.09.2010

What do these things have in common: one of the last remaining matriarchal societies; an architect who has shaped a brave new world; and an exploration of the misunderstood despot, Vlad the Impaler? Answer? How our world is built and destroyed. Showing at the Montreal World Film Festival are these three wildly different documentaries – [...]

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FESTIVALS

Of Faded Memories And Sharp Detail

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Hamseyeh, First Films World Competition

by Elizabeth Johnston
31.08.2010

Women often bear the burden of childrearing and community-building while men absent themselves physically or emotionally. In Hamseyeh (The Neighbor), this universal phenomenon, and much more, is explored from the perspective of Iranian immigrants in Vancouver.

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BOOKS

Coherence Across a Sprawl of Forms

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don’t get lonely don’t get lost, by Elisabeth Belliveau, Conundrum Press

by Matthew Surridge
30.08.2010

“No one suspects my music to have such precise references,” writes Elisabeth Belliveau, but it is precise references that give form to the work in her new collection, don’t get lonely don’t get lost. Poems, drawings, and animation (on an enclosed DVD) are assembled into one package, and Belliveau’s imagery unites it into a whole. [...]

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BOOKS

A Passionate Thinker About Place

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A Place in Mind, by Avi Friedman, Véhicule Press

by Joni Dufour
29.08.2010

Writer Avi Friedman is an award-winning housing innovator and professor at McGill University’s School of Architecture who, through his many books and lectures, has proved his passionate dedication to the business of roofs-over-heads, both private and public.

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FESTIVALS

Philosophy With An Airy Touch

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Le Stelle Inquiete, World Film Festival

by Elizabeth Johnston
27.08.2010

Emanuela Piovano’s Le Stelle Inquiete is an unconventional romance, rich with ideas and imagery. Based on the life of French philosopher Simone Weil, it focuses on an experience of hers two years before she died at the age of 34. Entirely devoted to her passionate pursuit of knowledge, affairs of the heart hold no interest [...]

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FESTIVALS

Mario’s Not-So-Excellent Adventure

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Amore Liquido, First Films World Competition

by Elizabeth Johnston
26.08.2010

Amore Liquido (Liquid Love), Italian director Marco Luca Cattaneo’s first feature-length film, is a difficult movie to watch. It’s the story of 40-year-old Mario, a pudgy man who divides his time between looking after his mother, a stroke-victim, and cleaning the streets of Bologna during the night. To fill the lonely gaps in his life, [...]

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EVENTS

Mind Your Ps and Qs Around Kirk

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Fan Expo, Toronto

by James Gartler
24.08.2010

Montreal fanboys and girls will be beaming themselves over to Toronto en masse this weekend for Fan Expo, Canada’s largest annual comic book/sci-fi/horror/gaming convention. How could they not, with guests like Montreal native-turned-legend William Shatner, Spider-Man/X-men creator Stan Lee and 60s icons Adam West, Burt Ward and Julie Newmar on the bill? Before you pack [...]

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THEATRE

Obscenely Funny

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Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse, Café Cleopatre

by Sarah Fletcher
24.08.2010

At the fundraiser for Several Scenes Involving a Decomposing Corpse at Café Cleopatre, I found myself seated next to a decrepit, decaying mannequin in pearls, as disturbingly pornographic renditions of the Golden Girls played on a projector. The actual play, showing at the self-same venue through this week, delivered on my expectations as a bizarre [...]

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