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Chekhov for Beginners



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World Film Festival

FESTIVAL CITY

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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FESTIVAL CITY

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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FESTIVAL CITY

A Candid Look at WFF

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Montreal World Film Festival

by James Gartler
07.09.2009

The 33rd Edition of the World Film Festival having drawn to a close, local director Geoff Uloth provides an honest look at the fest from the perspective of someone with an awful lot invested in it – a rising filmmaker.

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