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Richie Mehta’s Amal, about a Delhi rickshaw driver who becomes the oblivious pivot for high-stakes intrigue involving the cash-mad family of a deceased millionaire, began life as a short story written by Mehta’s brother Shaun. It was adapted into a short film and then into a feature, was selected as one of Canada’s Top Ten ...
BY Adam Nayman
Nanette Burstein’s American Teen, which follows four high schoolers in red-state Indiana through an emotionally fraught senior year, is likely to be one of the year’s most successful documentaries...
Julian Jarrold’s adaptation — or reimagination — of Evelyn Waugh’s Brideshead Revisited is not likely to be embraced by purists, but it does feature excellent lead performances by some of the ...
BY Jason Anderson
One of world cinema’s most significant talents to emerge this decade, Carlos Reygadas has crafted three arresting and ambitious features that place him firmly in a lineage of such ...
A fanciful yet deeply felt homage to his hometown, My Winnipeg (see On Screen page 13) may be both Guy Maddin’s most personal project and his film with the broadest appeal. While non-Winnipeggers might have trouble fully connecting with the anguish Maddin ...
Nargis Ahmad isn’t an actress, and she’ll tell you so herself: “I have bigger fishes to fry,” she says over the phone from Ottawa, where she’s employed as a case coordinator for Ontario Works.
With their acclaimed 2005 documentary Metal: A Headbanger’s Journey, Toronto filmmakers Sam Dunn and Scot McFadyen hammered a cultural study out of heavy metal, using Dunn’s lifelong devotion to headbanging —?and his background in anthropology —?as their ...
Having copped awards on both coasts for her work in Pamela Gien’s one-woman show The Syringa Tree, Caroline Cave merits consideration as one of Canada’s leading stage performers. After her remarkable turns in David Christensen’s 2005 drama Six Figures and...
Having dropped all that weight he gained in Super Size Me, the New York documentary filmmaker was in fighting shape to take on his biggest challenge yet: finding the architect of the 9/11 attacks. To make Where in the World Is Osama Bin Laden? Spurlock ...
The director of Frownland — a special-prize winner at this year's South by Southwest film festival — discusses the fine art of discomfort