A sequel to one of the most popular comedies ever made in Canada, again starring Michel Côté (who again plays every one of the four major characters in the film). Quite funny.
May 5, 2008
Cruising Bar 2 (2008) **
A sequel to one of the most popular comedies ever made in Canada, again starring Michel Côté (who again plays every one of the four major characters in the film). Quite funny.
Dans une galaxie près de chez vous 2 (2008) **
A science-fiction comedy from Quebec. Basically a parody of "Star Trek", with implicit references to the War on Terror and explicit references to the global warming.
Ce qu'il faut pour vivre (2008) **
Touching drama about an Inuit hunter suffering from tuberculosis.
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Prom Wars (2008) **
The graduating class from an exclusive all-girls school issue a challenge to the boys of two rival private colleges. They have to compete against each other to be awarded exclusive rights to the girls as prom dates. A very original comedy from Quebec.
The Descendant (2008) *
Ambitious horror movie about racial intolerance. It has some nice ideas, but it sinks under an excessively preachy ending.
Trisomie 21 - Défi Pérou (2008) *
Documentary film about people with Down Syndrome walking to Macchu Picchu.
Nollywood Babylon (2008) **
Informative, but very conventional documentary about the Nigerian film industry.
Il était 3 fois 1 doigt (2008) ***
A compilation of three hilarious short films about a single finger. The first, "L'Annulaire (gauche)" tells the story of a young woman who lost a finger when she was a child. The second, "Neuf", tells a story of a man whose finger has just been chopped off. And the third film, "Un Homme de main" explains how the first two stories are related (hint: it involves a mafia hit man who specializes in procuring body parts).
Les Affluents (2008) ***
"Le Pont" ***
"Les Eaux mortes" **
"La Battue" ***
Also included are Guy Édoin's student films: "Comme une image" and "Placebo".
"Comme une image" ***
"Placebo" ***
Amour, destin et rock 'n' roll (2008) *
Badly acted film about a rock musician falling in love with an aspiring actress. Clichés galore. A poor, poor cousin of "Once".
La Belle empoisonneuse (2008) **
Il y a un étourdissant mélange des genres dans cette comédie noire (et romantique) qui raconte des avantures rocambolesques d'un certain Homère Angelopoulos Lacroix, qui tombe amoureux de la belle Roxane (Isabelle Blais).
Imitation (2008) *
Weird and pointless little film about a naive young man helping a mysterious woman to find her husband.
Emotional Arithmetic (2008) *
Great cast (Susan Sarandon, Max von Sydow, Christopher Plummer, Gabriel Byrne) wasted in a tepid melodrama about Holocaust survivors.
Le Grand départ (2008) *
A middle-aged man leaves his wife and children to start a new life with a younger woman.
Truffe (2008) **
Well-directed, often amusing horror comedy about people digging for truffles in Montreal.
Adam's Wall (2008) *
A "Romeo And Juliet" story between an Orthodox Jew and an Arab girl in Montreal.
April 4, 2008
Sharhe Hale Shakhsi (2008) ***
A weird pastiche of Abbas Kiarostami's "Close-Up" (1990), set in Winnipeg.
Synthétiseur (2008) ***
Spielzeugland (2008) ***
Excellent short film set during the Holocaust. Brilliant narrative structure.
Comment 15 personnes peuvent assister à la noyade (2008) *
Full title: "Comment 15 personnes peuvent assister à la noyade de quelqu'un sans lui porter secours". Uneven short about an actress.
Une Catastrophe (2008) *
Godard's trailer for the Vienna Film Festival, using footage from "Potemkin" (1925) and his own "Notre musique" (2004).
This Way Up (2008) ****
La Maison en petits cubes (2008) ***
A old man lives on the top floor of a building that is almost entirely submerged in water. Winner of an Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film.
Lavatory – Lovestory (2008) *
A lavatory attendant that finds a flower bouquet in her tip jar. Nominated for an Academy Award.
March 3, 2008
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February 2, 2008
Iron Man (2008) **
Much better than all those stupid "Spiderman" and "Superman" flicks (though unfortunately not nearly as good as the best "Batman" films). Robert Downey Jr. is excellent as a billionaire inventor and weapons manufacturer who finds himself kidnapped by Al Qaeda-like terrorists in Afghanistan. The film manages a neat trick of being simultaneously pro-Bush's War on Terror and anti-Military-Industrial Complex. But while the politics are a bit muddy, the script is sharp, the action scenes top notch and the performances impeccable.
Gran Torino (2008) **
Clint Eastwood is in a great form as an actor, playing a grumpy (and racist) Korean War vet who befriends an Asian family next door. Unfortunately, as a director, he is a bit lazy in this minor, and uneven, effort.
Milk (2008) **
A sanitized version of the life of Harvey Milk, America's first openly gay politician, assassinated in 1978. No mention of the Jonestown tragedy (which occurred only a week before Milk's killing), only a bizarre reference to Kool-Aid. Harvey Milk emerges as a saint, a gay hero for straight audiences, who can embrace him without cringing and without questioning their prejudices. Sean Penn's performance is excellent (no surprise here), but the film's best scenes deal with the Anita Bryant/John Briggs crusades against gay rights in the 1970's and Milk's successful efforts to oppose them. Not surprisingly, "Milk'' got an R rating, but I bet that an identical film with the same sexual content - but STRAIGHT sexual content - would only get a PG rating. Harvey Milk deserved better. He deserved a more controversial film, a film that would explore his complex personality with all his flaws and wrinkles, to make his virtues shine even more brightly. Instead, he got a whitewash, a canonization, and a Sunday School version of himself. Watch the Oscar-winning documentary "The Times Of Harvey Milk" instead.
Grand Canyon Adventure: River At Risk (2008) **
An IMAX 3D documentary about a rafting trip down the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon. Water conservation issues is the main topic. Awesome visuals, cute babes, preachy tone. Length: 40 minutes. Directed by Greg MacGillivray and narrated by Robert Redford.
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