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Zen and the Art of Rufus Sewell
OK, I can deal with it … … with the news that the BBC has cancelled its expensively-produced television detective series “Zen,” which is very sad as it has been ages since I’ve seen anything on TV so sexy, stylish … Continue reading
Girls with Guns; or Run Hanna Run
“Hanna” is an artfully-directed, compulsively-watchable action “chick flick” that pits Irish sensation Saoirse Ronan (“Atonement”; “The Lovely Bones”) against the Oscar-winning Australian Cate Blanchett (“Notes on a Scandal”; “Elizabeth”) in a “battle royale” between two international assassins. The movie pretty-much … Continue reading
The Bright Lights Film Club: Autumn Session – Part 1
What do the following have in common? A grieving middle-class mother from middle-America. A tragic, dying Barcelonalowlife. The crazed secret lover of Benito Mussolini. A widowed English professor with two young daughters teaching in Genoa. And two Korean sisters who … Continue reading
And what’s your favourite movie ?
Librarians tend to like things neat and tidy. So do film buffs. For both species, one way of manifesting such an inclination is in the compiling of lists—lists like the ten best movies of the year. While there can be … Continue reading
Unable to make it downtown for the Montreal Jazz Fest, or otherwise turned off by the rainy weather? Suffering from agoraphobic thoughts of large crowds, harassed families and unruly, drunken strangers? Bored by underwhelming free outdoor concerts performed by well-meaning … Continue reading
The Bright Lights Film Club
Due to overwhelming demand the library’s popular Bright Lights Film Club program held on Tuesday afternoons at 2:00 pm will be moving – on a trial basis – from the library’s multi-purpose room to the much larger Harold Greenspon Auditorium … Continue reading
From the Land of the Ice and Snow
The English-language Hollywood version of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo has wrapped shooting and is scheduled for release later this year. Brashly advertising itself as “The Feel Bad Movie of Christmas 2011” and very precisely edited to the beat … Continue reading
Five Minutes of Heaven
The conflict in Northern Ireland, aka ‘The Troubles’ (1969-1998) has inspired a number of highly-compelling movies in the past ten years (Hunger, Omagh, Bloody Sunday, etc.) but few more heartbreakingly intense than Five Minutes of Heaven. The story is framed … Continue reading
Mesrine and the (a)morality of the Gangster movie
If you’ve seen the recent, Oscar-nominated Black Swan, you’ll likely recall actor Vincent Cassel, who also stars magnificently in Mesrine, the new-to-DVD, French crime-film saga. It tells the story of real-life gangster Jacques Mesrine, who—in the ‘60s and ‘70s—was responsible … Continue reading
The Man with the Golden Music
John Barry, one of my movie-world heroes, passed away on January 30, 2011. Born John Barry Prendergast in Yorkshire, England, the 77-year-old composer was best known for his musical scores to eleven James Bond films. He was by any standard one of … Continue reading
