The film follows famed Mexican photographer Enrique Metinides, who has spent his life documenting death, tragedy, and violence. At the age of 9, he acquired his first camera. At that time, he became curiously fixated on capturing crime scenes and accidents. This curiosity led him to a role as an unpaid assistant at a Mexican tabloid when he was 13. Being a fan of American and Mexican cinema, the visuals on-screen shaped his way of seeing the world around him. READ MORE
The story begins like this: “Journalist David Farrier stumbles upon a mysterious tickling competition online. As he delves deeper he comes up against fierce resistance, but that doesn’t stop him getting to the bottom of a story stranger than fiction”. READ MORE
Opening The Blood In The Snow Canadian Film Festival (BITS), April Mullen’s Farhope Tower does not disappoint. but get more than they bargained for when they come up against the most powerful spirits they have every faced. READ MORE
Fredrik Gertten‘s latest documentary Bikes vs Cars arrives to Toronto this weekend for an exclusive engagement at the Bloor Cinema. The film aims to look into and investigate this daily ‘global drama’ in traffic around the world. READ MORE
The documentary Some Kind of Love takes us into the lives of several family members; their fractured relationships, and for some their disintegration due to illness. READ MORE
In Andrew Nackman‘s feature directorial debut, Fourth Man Out, we meet Adam (Evan Todd), a mechanic who decides to come out to his three best friends on 24th birthday. His “bros” (Parker Young, Jon Gabrus and Glee’s Chord Overstreet), however, have some difficulties in embracing Adam’s sexuality at first. READ MORE
From the first few minutes of Le Samouraï, Melville places us in an austere, dark, shadowy world filled with foreboding, suspense, and drama.
This crime film classic introduces us to killer-for-hire Jef Costello, played by Alain Delon, in a quiet yet evocative manner. Costello has been hired to kill a Paris club owner. He executes this methodically starting with his setting up two solid alibis, to his cold and detached manner in telling the man he’s there to kill him. What Costello did not expect, however, was the club’s Piano player, a very attractive Caty Rosier, to catch him minutes after the act.
Loosely based on a true story the French film The Intouchables directed by duo, Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano follows the unlikely friendship and bond that materializes between a disabled wealthy Philippe (Francios Cluzet) and Driss (Omar Sy) a young French-Senegalese man from the ghetto.
Though the film has been criticized for playing on, and manipulating racial stereotypes, disability stereotypes were not to be left out; however, the heart of the production shone through as Driss brought inspiration, perspective and friendship unlike any other to Philippe’s life. This is definitely not they typical racial binary between black and white.
The Intouchables, with and excellent soundtrack, is truly one of the best feel good films of the year and outside of that, simply one of the best movies I’ve seen this year all things considered. The Intouchables has broken many French box-office records and is the second highest grossing film in French history. The film also garnered Sy with a Cesar Award for Best Actor (the French equivalent of an Oscar). Omar Sy made French history when he became the first black actor to win the award in that category.
The Film which is distributed by Alliance Films in North America opens JUNE 1st in Theaters in the US and Canada.
Rating – (4.5 of 5stars)
About Author:M. Khamal Murrayis a major in Bioethics & Equity at the University of Toronto. He is the Editor/Writer of TheJuxtapositionApe Blog; as well as, a published freelance journalist & writer with the Jamaican Canadian Xpress,
This year, I was able to meet with some directors whose films were being shown at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). My first meeting was director Gaspar Noé, who was showing his film Enter the Void here. READ MORE
The Toronto After Dark Film Festival (TADFF) is over and I must say, it was an interesting experience. I didn’t see all the films I wanted to but I did take in some interesting screenings. In my previous postings, I discussed the opening night film Let the Right One In and MirageMan; as well as, the ever entertaining Toronto Zombie Walk. In the following few days at TADFF, I got to see some funny, cheesy and outrageously bloody films. READ MORE
