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Thursday, September 6

Events

beautiFul girl initiative Teenage girls meet in a safe and friendly environment to discuss issues and challenges. 4 pm. Free. Polycultural Immigrant and Community Svs, 3363 Bloor W. beautifulgirltoronto.wordpress.com. bindaas: indian and israeli Fusion Networking event for Indian and Jewish young professionals, with music by Shy Ben Tzur and the Rajasthani Gypsies. 7:30 pm. $15-$20. Tryst Nightclub, 82 Peter. sizedoesntmatter. com/bindaas. Challenges overCome: Perserving Cuban heritage Isabel Rigol talks about success and

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rCabbagetown Festival Harvest activ-

ities, a mini-marathon, walking tours, a pub crawl, film and video festival, home tours, all-ages theatre and more. Various prices, many events free. Parliament S of Wellesley, Riverdale Park and area. cabbagetownfestival.org. Sep 6 to 9 rFiera/tarantella Festival Italian street festival with music and dance performances, a tarantella dance competition, food and more. Free. College btwn Bathurst and Shaw. littleitalyintoronto.ca. Sep 8 and 9 t.o. indie Film Festival Independent, microbudget and no-budget films from North America, including 20 features and more than 60 short films. $8, pass $50. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. filmfest.ca. Sep 6 to 15 rtoronto Chinatown Festival Live entertainment, lion dance performances, food and more. From noon. Spadina btwn Dundas and College. chinatowntcf.com. Sep 8 and 9

toronto international Film Festival

The 37th edition of TIFF features red carpet premieres, short films, TIFF Docs, kids’ programming, parties, director discussions, art exhibits and more. Single tickets from $19.62; passes available. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and

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Astronomy lecture followed by telescope observing. 9:10 pm. Free. McLennan Physical Labs, rm MP 102, 60 St George. uoft.me/ astrotours. insite talks: Charles C thomas Stephen Fowler leads a talk about the publisher. 6:30 pm. Free. Onsite [at] OCADU, 230 Richmond W. ocadu.ca/onsite. lgbt ultimate Frisbee Join Get Out Canada for a game of ultimate frisbee. 7 pm. $10. Ashbridges Bay East Courts, foot of Woodbine. getoutcanada.com. monarCh Park tree tour LEAF-led tour of the urban forest canopy. 6 pm (rain or shine). $5 donation. Felstead and Gillard. Pre-register yourleaf.org. oCean wise Lecture on sustainable seafood. 7 pm. Free. Big Carrot, 348 Danforth. 416-4662129. overdrive Toronto International Film Festival kickoff party, with performances, cinema badboys/girls, free tattoos and more. 9 pm. $10. Drake Hotel, 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. the sistine seCrets Lecture by author Roy Doliner about the hidden symbols in the chapel’s ceiling. 7:30 pm. Free. Joseph D Carrier Art Gallery, 901 Lawrence W. Pre-register 416638-1881 ext 4249, kofflerarts.org. soCial media debate Author Don Tapscott and CNN columnist Andrew Keen present opposing views on the effects of the online social revolution. 5 pm. $29.99. Rotman School of Management, 105 George. Pre-register rotman.utoronto.ca/events/default.asp.

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Fashion showcase featuring clinics with style expert Lynn Spence and makeup artist Diana Carreiro. 8-9 pm. Free. Yorkdale, Hwy 401 and Dufferin. fashionsnightout.com.

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losses in her quest to preserve heritage sites in Cuba. 6 pm. Free. Urbanspace Gallery, 401 Richmond W. Pre-register preservingcubanheritage.eventbrite.ca. Cuba’s international health brigades A talk on Cuba’s approach to medical training and recent work in cholera-stricken Haiti. 7 pm. Free. Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham. beitzatoun.org. demoCrats abroad voter registration U.S. and dual citizens register to vote in the coming federal elections. 8:30 am-4:30 pm. Free. City Hall Lobby, 100 Queen W. 416-535-0396. Watch Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention. 7 pm. $5 sugg. Fox and Fiddle, 280 Bloor W. democratsabroad.ca. Fashion’s night out Fashion show featuring signature looks from Stuart Weitzman, Juicy Couture and GAP. 6-11 pm. Free. Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge. fashionsnightout.com.

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Nepom and poems set to music by Charles Heller and Brahm Goldhamer. Noon. $18 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Cafe, 320 College. Pre-register yiddishvinkl@yahoo.ca.

Friday, September 7 Fundraising shoe sale (Toronto Wildlife

Centre) A shoe sale benefits local wildlife. Today 11 am-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Sep 9, 10 am-6 pm. Free (shoes from $20). K7 Marketplace, Hwy 7 and Kipling. torontowildlifecentre.com. the Penny art workshoP & sale (The Yellow Door) Immortalize the vanishing penny by making or buying creative penny art. 2:155 pm. Free. 6 St Joseph. 416-923-8836. words 2.0 (Literature for Life) Drum duo Team Rhythm Work, DJ Eon “The Soul Proprietor” Sinclair and others perform at this gala benefit. 8:30 pm. $25-$30. Glass Factory, 99 Sudbury. literatureforlife.org.

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ColleCtor’s nights Museum tour and tips on collecting Inuit art. 7 pm. $10. Museum of Inuit Art, 207 Queen’s Quay W. Pre-register miagallerycollectorsnight.eventbrite.com.

grange Prize dialogues: Questions oF Context Join the artists and jurors as they ad-

dress key questions about the exhibition and explore the status of photography today. 3 pm. $12, stu $8. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. thegrangeprize.com. rhaute dog Dog owners and animal lovers of all ages can strut their pet on a red carpet with photographers. Today noon-8 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Sep 9, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Queen’s Quay Terminal, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-203-3269, qqterminal.com.

Saturday, September 8

Benefits

Poetry slam (Toronto Poetry Slam Team)

Poetry competiton featuring David Bateman. 8 pm. $10. Nathalie Roze & Co, 1015 Queen E. davidsilverberg@rogers.com. women’s arm wrestling (Big Brothers Big Sisters) Arm wrestling with prizes for best wrestling name, best costume and first place. 11 pm. $5-$10. Bovine Sex Club, 542 Queen W. good.kids.events@gmail.com.

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Getgreatfoodtipsatthe VegetarianFoodFestatHarbourfront. other venues. tiff.net/TheFestival. Sep 6 to 16 vegetarian Food Festival Cooking demos, presentations, workshops, vegetarian food and more from Toronto Vegetarian Assoc. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, veg.ca. Sep 7 to 9

continuing brazilian day Canada Festival A concert Storytelling from diverse cultural traditions. Weekends to Oct 28. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. art & PerFormanCe tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of contemporary buildings related to art. 10 am. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. Canada rugby league Canada plays the USA. 7 pm. $12. Lamport Stadium, 1151 King W. canadarugbyleague.com. Contra danCe Beginner class and dancing to live music by Anne Lederman & Friends. 7 pm. $10. St Barnabas Anglican Church, 175 Hampton. tcdance.org. exPoCyCle PubliC day BMX demos, a kids’ zone, a fashion show, vendors, valet bike parking and more. 10 am-6 pm. Free passes available online. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’ Blvd. expocycle.ca/VIPpass. Jesus in the City Parade Live musical street experience of floats, costumes, dancers, choirs and worshippers celebrating their faith. Noon. Free. Queen’s Park, University N of College. jesusinthecity.com. lgbt indoor Climbing Join Get Out Canada for rock climbing. 1 pm. $45. Rock Oasis, 388 Carlaw. getoutcanada.com. my bloCk is hiP hoP A youth showcase plus workshops on beat-making, the music biz and more. Noon-4 pm. Free. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-750-9600 ext 201.

mystiCal heart sound healing ConCert

Sacred music and sound healing using intuitive chanting and healing instruments. 8 pm. $15. The Yoga Sanctuary, 2 College, suite 306. innertraditionshealing.com. nygC Flower show North York Garden Club annual flower and vegetable show. 2-5 pm. Free. West Edithvale Community Centre, 131 Finch W. northyorkgardenclub.ca.

rontario model soldiers’ soCiety show

Casting and painting demos, displays of figures, dioramas and tableaux. 10 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Historic Fort York, 100 Garrison. 416-392-6907. PhotograPhy days Learn about capturing the perfect photo and photography as it was in the 1800s. Today and tomorrow 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Jane and Steeles. 416-736-1733. Queen west walking art tour Walk led by Betty Ann Jordan. Noon. $25. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. sF/anime Flea market Sci-fi, anime and genre

and street fair, family day, flag raising, art exhibit and parties. Most events free. Yonge-Dundas Square, Nathan Phillips Square and other venues. braziliandaycanada.ca. To Sep 7 Caribbean tales Film Festival Celebration of local and international Caribbean cinema with screenings, workshops and Q&As. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, harbourfrontcentre.com. To Sep 15 merchandise. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. thefriendsofmerril.org. toronto salsa PraCtiCe No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5:30 or 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com. towers tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of tall buildings. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. y green Festival Workshops on living green and bike safety, a yoga demo, films on the green roof, vendors, a talk by author Shawn Micallef and more. 11 am-4 pm. Free. Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. ymcagta.org.

Sunday, September 9

Benefits

Fashion Cares (AIDS Comm of Toronto) Performances by Elton John, Janelle Monáe, Scissor Sisters, Sky Ferreira and many others. $195-$1,500. Sony Centre for the Performing Arts, 1 Front E. ticketmaster.ca, acttoronto. org. ms bike tour (Multiple Sclerosis Soc) 30K and 55K bike rides for research. 9:30 am. Pledges. Centennial Park, Renforth and Rathburn. mssociety.ca/msbiketours.

Events

advanCed Fruit tree Care Workshop with

orchard manager Norm Herbert. 2 pm. $45, adv $35, stu $25. Ben Nobleman Park (across from Eglinton West subway). Pre-register communityorchard.ca. atoP davenPort hill in the 1920s Walking tour. 1:30 pm. Free. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. 416-392-6910. awestruCk 2012: Food truCk eats Southern Ontario street food’s hottest talents gather to celebrate the street food scene, with food trucks and music by Going Steady and others. 2-8 pm. $15-$60. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. foodtruckeats.ca/awestruck2012. Culture & CamPus tour Toronto Soc of Architects walking tour of musuems and cultural centres. 1:30 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. torontoarchitecturetours.com. don mount Food gardens Lost rivers walk. 1 pm. Free. Broadview and Queen. 416-5932656.

earth reForm’s 2012 awareness CamPaign Speakers deliver keynotes on global issues and talk about solutions. 1-4 pm. $33. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front W, rm 107. Preregister earthreform.org.

live music and a vegetarian meal. 6 pm. Free w/donation for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. heart oF toronto Guided ROM walk. 2 pm. Free. New City Hall, Queen and Bay. 416-5868000, rom.on.ca. the JunCtion Flea Outdoor market with antiques, vintage clothing, crafts, records, food and more. 9 am-4 pm. Free. 2803 Dundas W. junctionflea.com. lgbt running grouP Join Get Out Canada for a group run. 9 am. Free. Church Street Jr Public School, 83 Alexander. getoutcanada.com. maCedonian Cultural Festival Celebrate Macedonia’s independence day with cultural performances, food and more. 9 am. Free. Yonge-Dundas Square. ydsquare.ca. rmarket sundays in kensington Celebrate the streets of the market. Free. Kensington Market, College & Augusta. pskensington.ca. Plingo! Mashup of bingo and Plinko with prizes. $5. Drake Hotel Lounge, 1150 Queen W. thedrakehotel.ca. run For the earth eCo Parade Walk, bike, stroll and parade to raise awareness of how overconsumption leads to environmental problems. 9:30 am-1 pm. $5 or pwyc. Starts at Trinity Bellwoods Park (Queen at Strachan) and goes to Harbourfront Centre. runfortheearth.org. staying aCtive as one ages Presentation by retired professor/traveller Stanley Jeffers. 2 pm. Free. Steelworkers Hall, 25 Cecil. ulyssean. on.ca/entrenous.html. tranzaC reCord Fair Everything from jazz to dancehall. 12:30-5:30 pm. Free. Tranzac Tiki Room, 292 Brunswick. wherevent.com/detail/ earl-grey-tranzac-record-fair. two billion trees and Counting Author John Bacher talks about how Edmund Zavitz saved Ontario from desertification, floods and forest fires. 2:30 pm. Free. Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park. torontofieldnaturalists.org.

Monday, September 10 Caregiver disCussion grouP Support group for those caring for an aging partner, relative or friend. 6 pm. Free. Family Service Toronto, 355 Church. Pre-register 416-595-9618. kay-gardner beltline study PubliC meeting

Public consultation to identify areas of the Beltline trail in need of repairs, unsafe road crossings and more. 6:30-8:30 pm. Free. Northern District Library, 40 Orchard View Blvd. toronto.ca/cycling. rkoFFler Centre oPen house Drop-in art classes, music performances, family activities and more. To Sep 12. Free. Prosserman JCC (4588 Bathurst) and Schwartz/Reisman Centre (9600 Bathurst, Vaughan). kofflerarts.org. lgbt golF Join Get Out Canada for a round. 7 pm. $35. Beach Fairway Golf Range, 411 Victoria Park. Pre-register getoutcanada.com. meditation Introductory class. 7:15 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. 416-5390234, meditationtoronto.com. PeChakuCha night Creative people get together to share their work, ideas, collections and more. 7:30 pm. $5. Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. rabit inFormation night Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto presentation on local politics and the future of our city. 7 pm. Free. School of Public Policy and Governance, 14 Queen’s Park Cres. Pre-register facebook. com/events/451165581573330.

stePPing into the sCene and navigating

kinky Communities Workshop with Andrea Zanin. 7:30-9:30 pm. $30 sliding scale. Come as You Are, 493 Queen W. Pre-register 416504-7934. thought exChange: dante alighieri and the divine Comedy Talk by Jenna Sunken-

berg. 6:30 pm. Free. Deer Park Library 40 St Clair E. 416-393-7657. tramPoline hall Mini-lectures curated by Kelly Jenkins, hosted by Misha Glouberman. 8 pm. $5-$6. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. trampolinehall.net.

Tuesday, September 11 beaChes-east york green Party Pub night

Gather for drinks with other Greens. 8:30 pm.

big3

Open house to discuss upgrades for the corridor of Wellesley and Hoskin Avenue. 4:307:30 pm. Free. Trinity College Seeley Hall, 6 Hoskin. toronto.ca/cycling.

NOW editors pick a trio of this week’s can’t-miss events

maKe your vote Count

It just keeps happening: candidates get elected to city council even though most locals in the ward rejected them. Blame the first-pastthe-post voting system for that. Enter the Ranked Ballot Initiative of Toronto, a group hoping to change the way we vote in municipal elections so they’re fairer, more diverse and friendlier. Get the dope at an information meeting Monday (September 10), 7 pm. Free. School of Public Policy and Governance, 14 Queen’s Park. Pre-register at publicpolicy.utoronto.ca.

paign afternoon teach-in on Sunday (September 9), 1 to 4 pm, features the Council of Canadians’ Maude Barlow, currently leading a campaign on citizen control of the earth’s water supply; filmmaker Mark Terry, director of The Antarctica Challenge: A Global Warning; and anti-GM food activist Julie Daniluk, author of Meals That Heal Inflammation. $33-$55. Metro Convention Centre, 255 Front West, rm 107. pre-register at earthreform.org.

Here’s your chance to hear three compelling experts talk about the current state of environmentalism. Earth Reform’s Awareness CamFree admission. McCarthy’s Pub, 1801 Gerrard E. jeffjohns@greenparty.ca.

Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org.

rCentral eglinton Community Centre open House Tour the facility and learn about

greening your Business: gooD for tHe environment, gooD for your profit Seminar

for small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs. 7 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. Pre-register 416-395-5440. lgBt BootCamp 101 Outdoor adventure Do you Know tHe symptoms of tHyroiD club for lesbians, gays, bi and trans folk, Disease? Thyroid Fdn talk. 6:30 pm. Free. Oakholds a boot camp. 6:30 pm. Free. Riverdale wood Library, 341 Oakwood. thyroid.ca/ Park East, Broadview S of Danforth. getoutevents/php#toronto. canada.com. four season NOW garDening Scarborough 1 Garbernardin ad fall_Layout 12-08-30 1:40 PM Page 1 omer fast The Berlin artist talks about his den & Horticultural Soc talk. 7:30 pm. Free. programs. 2-6 pm. Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 160 Eglinton E. 416-3920511 ext 225, centraleglinton.com.

Benefits

saluti a Jerusalem (Villa Charities/Jerusa-

lem Fdn of Canada) Celebrity chef David Rocco cooks up Roman Jewish cuisine, plus a photo exhibit, music and more. 7:30 pm. $250. Joseph D Carrier Art Gallery, 901 Lawrence W. Pre-register 416-635-5491.

Events

Boeing B-29 superfortress: struggle to BuilD a paCifiC war BomBer Lecture by avi-

Julie Daniluk builds Earth Reform’s Awareness Campaign on September 9.

arms anD tHe women

Nothing like the look on a woman’s face when she’s arm wrestling. See what we mean when women gather to compete for best costume, best wrestling name and, of course, best wrestler at a fundraiser for Big Brothers Big Sisters at the Bovine Sex Club (542 Queen West) on Saturday (September

talKing up tHe planet

Wednesday, September 12

8), 11 pm. Big Brothers Big Sisters – one of Canada’s most venerable charities – connects young people with adult mentors. $5-$10. Register at good.kids.events@gmail.com. art practice and his exhibition Continuous Coverage. 7 pm. $12. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. running free! Running group for families who have a loved one with a mental health or addiction issue. 6 pm. Free. CAMH Bell Gateway Bldg, 1001 Queen W. Pre-register Andrea.Reynolds@camh.ca. teDx tuesDays Creative discussion to share ideas featuring a mystery moderator. 6:30 pm. Free. ING Cafe, 221 Yonge. Pre-register tedxtotuesdays.eventbrite.com.

wellesley-HosKin BiKeway upgraDes

ation historian Keith Hyde. 6:45 pm. Free. Richview Library, 1806 Islington. 416-3945125. BritisH CeramiCs sinCe 1945 Talk on recent developments in modern and contemporary British ceramics. 6:30 pm. $15. Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art, 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080. CanaDian wireless traDe sHow Seminars, networking, the latest gadgets and more. Today and tomorrow. Free. Direct Energy Centre, 100 Princes’ Blvd, Exhibition Place. canadianwirelesstradeshow.com. Capture tHe flag Urban game, similar to tag or hide-and-seek. 8 pm. Free. Yonge and Gould. manhunttoronto.wordpress.com. estaBlisHing a green Business Talk by Nature Clean president Gina Conte. 8 pm. $12, stu free. Centre for Social Innovation, 215 Spadina. getoronto@bell.net. fiBromyalgia support group Screening of Try It On Everything, a film exploring the Emotional Freedom Technique. 7 pm. Free. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416760-2227. intro to square DanCing LGBTQ square dance club Triangle Squares holds an introductory class. 7 pm. Free. Jesse Ketchum School, 61 Davenport. trianglesquares.com. queen’s parK CirCle Guided ROM walk. 6 pm. Free. Front steps of Ontario Legislative Bldg, Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000, rom. on.ca. toronto musiC garDen tours Tours of the garden’s unique design and history, led by a

botanical guide. Wednesdays 11 am, Thursdays 5:30 pm. Free. West end of garden, 475 Queens Quay W. torontobotanicalgarden.ca.

upcoming Thursday, September 13

Benefits

an afternoon of sfoglia, tagliatelle anD tortellini (support for the people hit by the

earthquake in Emilia-Romagna) Learn how to make handmade pasta with Miss Tagliateli, Maria Corzani. 5:15 pm. Pwyc. Italian Cultural Institute, 496 Huron. Pre-register 416-9213802 ext 221.

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THURSDAY, SEPT 6 TABU WL D: Miguel Gomes w/ Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral. Portugal/Germany/Brazil/ France. 110 min. Sep 6, 6:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 8, 1 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NNN

Portuguese writer/director and occasional surrealist Gomes (Our Beloved Month Of August) shows considerable ambition in this bifurcated black-and-white drama, which spends its first half in present-day Lisbon, where a woman (Madruga) worries about her elderly neighbour (Soveral), then jumps back half a century to tell the story of that neighbour’s life in Africa as a silent

LOOPER GALA D: Rian Johnson w/ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis. U.S. 118 min. Sep 6, 6:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 6, 8 pm Roy Thomson Hall Rating: NNNN

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THE END OF TIME MAST D: Peter Mettler. Canada/ Switzerland. 114 min. Sep 6, 9:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 8, 12:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 2 Rating: NNN

A decade after exploring transcendence in Gambling, Gods & LSD, Mettler returns with another conceptual documentary, this one investigating the perception of time. It’s an intriguing notion, and for continued on page 32

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film narrated by her former lover (Carloto Cotta). The problem is that the second half doesn’t really illuminate the first. Instead of finding a way to knit the two together, Gomes settles for a playful recreation of jungle-movie tropes and a couple of nods to F.W. Murnau’s 1931 Tabu: A Story Of The South Seas and calls it a day. Great soundtrack, NW though.

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Gorgeous, period: Keira Knightley reunites with her Pride And Prejudice and Atonement director, Joe Wright, for Anna Karenina.

After the literary community shunned him because of erotic works like the ahead-of-its time Fornicon, he moved to Nova Scotia and then to Cork, Ireland. Talking heads include fellow authors Maurice Sendak and Jules Feiffer, but the real treat is Ungerer himself, whose outsider status provides a fascinating perspective on social and political changes. Bernstein’s imaginative visual flourishes enhance rather than detract from the film, a must-see for anyone GS involved in art and design.

DREDD 3D MM D: Pete Travis w/ Karl Urban, Olivia Thirlby. South Africa. 95 min. Sep 6, 11:59 pm Ryerson; Sep 8, 12:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 7 Rating: NNN

ANNA KARENINA SP D: Joe Wright w/ Keira Knightley, Aaron Taylor-Johnson. UK. 130 min. Sep 7, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 8, 12:15 pm Isabel Bader Rating: NNN

Wright tries to outdo Baz Luhrmann in this high-concept adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel that sets much of its sprawling action in an elegant theatre. This allows for swift scene changes (and must have kept costs down), and up to a point it makes sense thematically – stressing the artifice of 19th-century Russian society and the culture of watching and gossiping that ultimately

Rcontinued from page 30 about 90 minutes it’s spellbinding. Mettler visits CERN to explore the concept of celestial time, a Hawaiian lava flow to consider geological time, Detroit to see the city’s recent financial collapse represented physically in abandoned buildings, and a Hindu funeral to show how humans mark time. And then he overstays his welcome with a very long (and narratively questionable) experimental sequence that feels like a CG version of 2001’s Star Gate sequence. Maybe he was trying to make me realize how slowly time passes when you’re bored. NW

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RUST AND BONE (DE ROUILLE ET D’OS) SP D: Jacques Audirad w/ Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts. France/Belgium. 120 min. Sep 6, 9:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 7, noon Ryerson Rating: NNNNN

Audiard follows up A Prophet, his masterful prison drama, with another muscular film, this time a romance. A de-glammed Cotillard stars as Stéphanie, an orca trainer at a French Riviera amusement park who, after losing her legs in a workplace accident, begins a beautifully awkward relationship with Ali (Bullhead’s Schoenaerts), a blunt instrument of a man. Despite the Côte d’Azur setting and Katy Perry on the soundtrack, Audiard’s elegant film has a rougharound-the-edges aesthetic and refuses to sensationalize its subject. Some will dismiss it because of its hoary contrivances, particularly during the gut-wrenching climax, but

dooms the affair between married mom Anna (Knightley) and her lover, Vronsky (Taylor-Johnson). But the strategy isn’t used consistently, mixing theatre interiors with actual exterior locations (it was filmed partly in Russia). And despite Tom Stoppard’s clear screenplay, the effect distances us from the characters. Still, it’s a bold approach, and the leads (along with Domhnall Gleeson’s sympathetic Levin) are fine, although Jude Law steals the picture with his pinched yet dignified and human portrayal of Anna’s cuckolded husband. GS

they’re not giving the brilliant director his due. His genre clichés are part of his greater argument about deceptive appearances, moral redempton and RS false hopes.

SHIP OF THESEUS CTC D: Anand Gandhi w/ Neeraj Kabi, Sohum Shah. India. 139 min. Sep 6, 9:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 7, 2:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 7; Sep 16, noon Scotiabank 4 Rating: NNN

The production is amateur, the performances uneven and the high-minded dialogue nowhere near as intelligent as it thinks it is. Nevertheless, Ship Of Theseus is kept afloat by its ambitious ideas. The three disparate stories in this mosaic centre on a devout monk fighting for animal rights, a blind photographer who regains her vision and a stockbroker who stumbles upon an illegal organ trade. Along the way the film measures

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Mumbai’s changing identity, where the modern equivalent of reincarnation could be a kidney transplant. Attempting to steer Indian cinema into artistic terrain, director Gandhi commands a leaky ship, but at least RS he’s sailing in the right direction.

FAR OUT ISN’T FAR ENOUGH: THE TOMI UNGERER STORY DOC D: Brad Bernstein. U.S. 98 min. Sep 6, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 8, 9:30 am Yonge & Dundas 9; Sep 15, 4:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 10 Rating: NNNN

Bernstein’s doc captures the mischievous wit and fierce intelligence of a subject who’s hard to pin down. Alsatian-born artist Ungerer lived through Nazi rule (childhood drawings chronicled early atrocities), emigrated to Manhattan in the 50s and soon became a lauded children’s book author/illustrator, and then, in the 60s, a maker of in-your-face political protest posters.

It’s been two decades since Sylvester Stallone blasphemed the gritty legacy of cult comic book lawman Judge Dredd, and now a proper English person (director Travis, of Omagh and Vantage Point) brings the character back to his ultra-violent roots with an unapologetically brutal thriller that ignores the earlier film and sticks to the concept of Dredd as a sardonic, single-minded dispenser of justice in a wretched post-apocalyptic world. The plot, which finds Dredd (Urban) and a psychic rookie (Thirlby) trapped inside a massive residential building ruled by a ruthless drug lord (Lena Headey), can’t help but recall last year’s Midnight Madness sensation The Raid – and it boxes itself in, script-wise, in a similar manner. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t fun, particularly when Urban uses his stoic deadpan for subtly comic purposes. And the lusty depictions of Dredd’s brutality should go over especially NW well with the gorehound crowd.

FRIDAY, SEPT 7 THE GATEKEEPERS DOC D: Dror Moreh. Israel/France/ Germany/Belgium. 95 min. Sep 7, 3 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 9, 1 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNN

The gatekeepers here are the former heads of Israeli intelligence agency Shin Bet. There’s an old joke that “military intelligence” is an oxymoron, and The Gatekeepers proves it through candid interviews with operatives who oversaw major incidents in the Israeli-Palestine conflict. Moreh cops his interrogation techniques and dressed-up re-enactments from Errol Morris’s 2008 Abu Ghraib doc Standard Operating Procedure, which similarly deconstructs counterterrorism tactics and their tendency to accommodate morally compromised violence. But apart from a by-the-numbers indictment of Shin Bet’s procedural (and political) missteps, it’s hard to find The Gatekeepers’ narrative. Ultimately, the film plays like an occasion for top Israeli intelligence brass to atone, shedding crocodile tears for the errors of their ways. JS It’s a case of too little too late.

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SP D: Sarah Polley. Canada. 108 min. Sep 7, 6 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 8, 11:45 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNNN

STORIES WE TELL SP D: Sarah Polley. Canada. 108 min. Sep 7, 6 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 8, 11:45 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNNN

Polley’s exploration of her tangled family history is a complex and fascinating inquiry into the nature of truth and memory – and, inevitably, into Polley herself. Beginning as a remembrance of her mother, larger-than-life actor and casting agent Diane Polley (who died when Sarah was 11) but quickly revealing greater scope and a far more ambitious structure, Stories We Tell uses interviews with friends and family to build a sort of master narrative for her family, using the marriage of Michael and Diane Polley as the dramatic focus. But it gradually becomes clear that Sarah herself is the real subject, and it’s thrilling to watch her use the documentary to process the revelations that led her to make it in the first place. Given the themes that drive Away From Her and Take This Waltz, Stories We Tell seems like the movie Polley’s been trying to make all along – a personally risky, stylistically assured engagement with persistent issues of family, loyalty, identity and cinema. And it works on every level.

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JANEANE FROM DES MOINES DISC D: Grace Lee w/ Jane Edith Wilson. U.S. 78 min. Sep 7, 6:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 2; Sep 9, 6:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 2; Sep 14, 6:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Rating: N

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Let’s be Blunt. One of the most versatile actors around, Emily Blunt discusses her TIFF films Looper and Arthur Newman, mimicking Chris Cooper’s speech patterns and muscling up for a big blockbuster. By NORMAN WILNER Photo by KATHRYN GAITENS

mily Blunt is laughing.

She laughs a lot, actually – at premieres, in interviews, at res taurants – and it’s a great laugh. The first time we met I thought it was a nervous tic, just something an actor does to cover the pauses in conversation. But after sub sequent interviews I’ve come to understand that she just finds lots of things funny. This may surprise some people, as Blunt’s bestknown roles haven’t let her laugh very much. Her breakout role, as Meryl Streep’s officious right hand in The Devil Wears Prada, didn’t even let her crack a smile; her deadpan se verity was the joke. And in the movies she’s brought to the Toronto Film Festival – 2004’s My Summer Of Love, 2009’s The Young Victoria and last year’s double bill of Salmon Fishing In The Yemen and Your Sister’s Sister – she’s demonstrated a knack for getting under the skin of complex, enigmatic characters. She’s also been entirely de lightful opposite Matt Da LOOPER mon in The Adjustment Bur written and directed eau and Jason Segel in The by Rian Johnson, with FiveYear Engagement; those Joseph GordonLevitt, Bruce Willis, are the performances that Emily Blunt and Jeff come closest to the Blunt I’ve Daniels. Tonight met – quickwitted, open and (Thursday, Septemwickedly selfdeprecating. ber 6), 6:30 pm at the Not coincidentally, everyone Elgin, and 8 pm at I’ve interviewed who’s worked Roy Thomson Hall. with her has praised her to See review, page 37 the skies, which makes her ARTHUR NEWMAN incredibly uncomfortable. directed by Dante “They’ve all been paid!” Ariola, written by she laughs over an uncertain Becky Johnston, with cellphone connection from Colin Firth, Emily L.A. “They’ve been paid hand Blunt, Anne Heche somely!” and David Andrews. This year, she’s returning Monday (September to Toronto with another pair 10), 2:30 pm, at the of premieres. In the festival’s Elgin; Tuesday (Sepopening night gala, Rian tember 11), 10 pm, at Johnson’s timetravel thriller Scotiabank 1; and September 14, 6 pm, at Looper, Blunt plays a flinty, Scotiabank 2. capable single parent whose fate is somehow intertwined with a nihilistic assassin (Jo seph GordonLevitt) and his renegade future self (Bruce Willis). “The whole time I read the script, what I remember is patting myself on the back for keeping up with it,” she says – and there’s that laugh again. “It just races; it’s al ways three steps ahead of you.” The experience of watching the finished film was similarly involving, she says. “You’re sort of having to adjust your brain to watching a different sort of movie, because I guess we’re so programmed to these rather formulaic stories, and there’s something about Looper that carves out a completely new space for itself.” Looper isn’t the first time Blunt has played an Amer ican – she played Amy Adams’s sister in Sunshine Clean ing a few years ago – but this character’s harder edges gave her the chance to try something a little different when it came to developing her accent. “What I did was I listened to guys from Kansas, not girls,” she confesses. “I listened to Chris Cooper a lot. I listened to him giving interviews; I wanted to hear him in a naturalistic sense. It was really helpful. I have more Chris Cooper interviews on my iPod than any stalker he has.” Blunt had a cameo in last year’s Muppet movie, in which Cooper played the heel, so I ask if she approached the actor on set. “I’ve never met Chris Cooper in my life,” she laughs. “He would have no idea that I’ve done this, listened to his voice like a freak.” Her other picture at TIFF 2012 is Dante Ariola’s Arthur Newman, which hadn’t been screened at press time, so I’m flying blind. “What do you want to know?” she asks brightly. “Ar thur Newman is a very strange, very beautiful little continued on page 37

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of the increasingly panicked anti-hero, but Zlatko Buric (who was in all three of the original Danish movies) reprises the role of the fatherly heavy. It’s all hand-held cameras, crisp editing and pounding music, and Coyle is fine – though he’s styled to play up his resemblance to Andy Serkis, making one wonder how much more effective Serkis would have been in the role. But as slick as director Prieto makes the production, he never quite pulls it out from under Winding Refn’s NW shadow.

PICTURE DAY DISC D: Kate Melville w/ Tatiana Maslany, Spencer Van Wyck. Canada. 93 min. Sep 7, 9:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 8, 3:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 6; Sep 16, 6:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 Rating: NNN

Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva play an aging couple in the manipulative but powerful Amour.

AMOUR MAST D: Michael Haneke w/ Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Austria/France/Germany. 127 min. Sep 8, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 16, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNNN

Austrian auteur Haneke (Caché, The White Ribbon) won his second Palme d’Or for this unforgiving tale of an aging husband and wife (French screen legends Trintignant and Riva) whose lives disintegrate into torment after she’s paralyzed by a stroke and he devotes himself to her care. Turns out there’s no one better to chronicle the tiny, cumulative miseries of old age than an emotional sadist, and Haneke can turn a simple sequence of a man moving his paralyzed wife from her bed to a chair into a nerve-shredding, heart-in-mouth aria of suspense. The director’s approach is unapologetically manipulative, but Trintingnant and Riva invest every moment with life and history. I never want to see this movie again, but that’s NW testament to its power.

Rcontinued from page 33 and Mitt Romney to ask blubbery questions about health care, which are answered – if they’re answered at all – with empty stump-speech platitudes. Lee and Wilson may see themselves as agit-prop satirists who’ve created a new Borat, but the insufferable self-righteousness behind their presumptions about conservative voters poisons the project from the NW beginning.

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GONE FISHING (DÍAS DE PESCA) CWC D: Carlos Sorin w/ Alejandro Awada, Victoria Almeida. Argentina. 78 min. Sep 7, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 9, 3 pm Yonge & Dundas 2; Sep 14, 5:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 3 Rating: NNN

In this slight but well-made character study, Marco (Awada), a middle-aged recovering alcoholic, travels to a seaside town to visit his estranged daughter and pick up a hobby. Sorin gives us few details about Marco, leaving us to fill in the gaps through his charming interactions with strangers and a daughter (Almeida) who remains polite but wary. Awada’s vivid performance

keeps us hooked, while Sorin’s delicate direction throws in a few sight gags and telling compositions to admire. But the film’s pleasures are modest, RS like fishing in a small pond.

PUSHER VAN D: Luis Prieto w/ Richard Coyle, Bronson Webb. UK. 87 min. Sep 7, 9 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 9, noon Yonge & Dundas 10 Rating: NNN

This is actually the second British remake of Nicolas Winding Refn’s 1996 breakout thriller about a mid-level coke dealer who finds himself on the hook to a vicious mobster; an earlier Hindi version was produced in 2010. Coyle (Coupling) takes on the role

As Claire, a troubled high schooler repeating Grade 12 and caught between the adult and teenage worlds, Maslany (Grown Up Movie Star) makes the rising-star label look like it’s for real. Neglected at home and tagged as the school slut by classmates, she enounters Henry (Van Wyck), someone she used to babysit, who’s grown up now. They establish a tentative friendship even as she’s dating a much older rock musician (Steven McCarthy, also excellent). This is writer/director Melville’s debut feature, and it often shows. She’s crammed way too much into the narrative, and plot points get dropped. (What happened to that homemade acid?) But you care about the characters in this engaging film, and it’s anchored by an actor to watch. SGC

SATURDAY, SEPT 8 WEST OF MEMPHIS MAV D: Amy Berg. 146 min. Sep 8, 2:30 pm Ryerson Rating: NNNN

Just a year after Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky brought Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory to TIFF, another feature documentary about Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin and Jesse Misskelley Jr., wrongfully convicted of the 1993 murders of three eight-year-old children in West Memphis, Arkansas, might seem unnecessary – but the story of the West Memphis Three can never be examined closely enough.

Berg’s narrative doc is much more emotionally accessible than the meditative Paradise Lost films, with appearances by celebrity supporters like Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh (who produced this film), Eddie Vedder, Johnny Depp and Natalie Maines. The film organizes two decades of investigation and activism into a comprehensive two-and-half-hour narrative, re-interviewing key figures from new angles and bolstering Berlinger and Sinofsky’s thesis that the case epitomizes the horribly flawed nature of the Arkansas justice system, which would much rather abandon an innocent man on death row than NW reopen a closed case.

SATELLITE BOY DISC D: Catriona McKenzie w/ David Gulpilil, Cameron Wallaby. Australia. 90 min. Sep 8, 3 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 10, 2:45 pm Yonge & Dundas 3; Sep 15, 12:15 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NN

The first feature from Australian filmmaker McKenzie, Satellite Boy is a sweet but ultimately slight film. After his mother departs for the city, Pete (Wallaby) is left with his grandfather, Old Jagamarra (Gulpilil) at their defunct drive-in theatre in the outback. When a mining company threatens to buy their land, Pete and his rambunctious friend Kalmain (Joseph Pedley) embark on a walkabout to challenge the corporation and find Pete’s mother. McKenzie has a keen eye for moments of cinematic beauty – silhouettes of the boys biking across the dusty landscape stand out – yet a saccharine score often undermines the serene simplicity of the images. Satellite Boy, whose cast with the exception of Gulpilil is all amateurs, is a touching debut, but its emotional KR resonance quickly fades.

JACKIE CWC D: Antoinette Beumer w/ Holly Hunter, Carice Van Houten. The Netherlands. 100 min. Sep 8, 3:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 7; Sep 10, 9 pm Yonge & Dundas 6; Sep 15, noon Yonge & Dundas 7 Rating: NN

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film; it plays like a 70s movie. It feels European.” Arthur, played by Colin Firth, is a lost soul who abandons his former life to adopt a new identity; Blunt plays a woman with a similar story who joins him on his journey. “It’s a very intimate story about these two social outcasts,” she says. “Really, it’s a statement about people trying to find their place in the world. I don’t think it’s like anything people have seen, but I love how uncompromising it is. It never once turned into a jaunty kind of road movie; it’s a very quiet, intimate portrayal of these two characters. It’s really cool.” Once she’s fulfilled her TIFF dutEmily Blunt shoots to thrill in genre-busting ies, Blunt will get back to preparing TIFF opener Looper. for her next project, Doug Liman’s sci-fi actioner All You Need Is Kill, LOOPER where she and Tom Cruise play solGALA D: Rian Johnson w/ Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis. U.S. 118 min. Sep 6, diers battling an alien invasion. 6:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 6, 8 pm Roy Thomson Hall Rating: NNNN It’s the kind of large-scale producWriter/director Johnson does for time travel movies what he did for film noir in tion Blunt doesn’t often take on – Brick, taking the bones of a genre we know backwards and forwards – in this case possibly because her previous experience with a would-be blockbuster literally – and putting a fresh new skin around them. It’s 2044, and dead-eyed Joe (Gordon-Levitt) makes his living as a Looper, was Joe Johnston’s toothless update of The Wolfman. Blunt got to co-star killing people sent back from 2074 so the future’s criminals won’t have bodies to hide. But when his future self (Willis) arrives and escapes assassination, Young with Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Joe finds himself on the run from his employers, who are out to grab them both. Hopkins, but the result was, shall we It gets much more complicated than that when Young Joe meets a single say, unworthy of their talents. mother (Emily Blunt) and her son (Pierce Gagnon), but Johnson keeps the pace “I think with those big movies, the script has to come first,” she says. fleet and the twists ingenious. This is first-rate head-fizzing entertainment, with exceptional performances by Gordon-Levitt, Blunt and Willis – and Jeff Daniels “And that’s what I feel might have NW and Garret Dillahunt, too, come to think of it. gone wrong with The Wolfman. That’s what I really admire about this movie we’re about to start; the script Aggressive training isn’t new for am I taking on these incredibly active is very much first and foremost in Blunt – she did a month of dance boot roles?” she laughs. “I would love to do people’s minds. You feel supported camp for her role as Matt Damon’s one where there’s a pie-eating comand protected.” Not that there isn’t a downside, true love in The Adjustment Bureau petition. I wanna play that chick. three years ago – but I remember Please write it, write it immediately.” mind you. how incredulous she was back then “I actually just pulled up to the 3 normw@nowtoronto.com about the idea that she could be cast twitter.com/nowfilm UCLA track,” she says. “I should be in a physical role. Turns out she’s still leaping painfully up sets of stairs having trouble with it. right now – so I’d much prefer to talk8/14/12 more online TO_TRC_NOW_ad_08-2012_001 11:08 AM Page 1 Interview clips at nowtoronto.com “I don’t know what I’m doing! Why to you.”

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FREE ANGELA & ALL POLITICAL PRISONERS GALA D: Shola Lynch w/ Angela Davis. U.S./France. 101 min. Sep 9, 1:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 10, 3 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 15, noon Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Rating: NNNN

Mining a trove of stock footage and interviews, this meticulously made documentary recounts black activist Angela Davis’s life from her rise in the ranks of academia through her flight and subsequent arrest and trial for conspiracy, kidnapping and murder. Two guns used in a hostage-taking and killings outside a Marin Country courtroom by Soledad prisoners were registered in her name. Her defiance inspired a worldwide campaign to free political prisoners. Lynch expertly evokes the era when black power was emerging in the U.S. and describes the remarkable trial where eyewitnesses indentified another afroed black woman as Davis in court and prosecutors coldheartedly tried to use her love letters to Soledad prisoner George Jackson as evidence against her. There’s not much tension – Davis is obviously a free woman, and has been since 1972 – but this is an SGC amazing story nevertheless.

Holland to America when a woman (Hunter) in a New Mexico hospital is identified as their birth mother. A textbook example of laissez-faire European commercial cinema, Jackie is an achingly saccharine family drama that employs every cliché in the book, shamelessly stealing from Rain Man and Thelma & Louise without understanding either. About a third of the way in, I realized that Hunter’s surly, snappish performance would be just as convincing from Tommy Lee Jones in a shag wig. That is not a NW compliment.

AMOUR MAST D: Michael Haneke w/ Emmanuelle Riva, Jean-Louis Trintignant. Austria/France/Germany. 127 min. Sep 8, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 16, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNNN

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ICEBERG SLIM: PORTRAIT OF A PIMP DOC D: Jorge Hinojosa. U.S. 90 min. Sep 8, 6 pm Yonge & Dundas 7; Sep 9, 9 am Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 16, 4 pm Scotiabank 1 Rating: NNN

Hinojosa’s biography of Robert Beck – whose book Pimp codified underworld culture, introduced millions of readers to the idea of hustlers, hos and tricks and influenced the first generation of rappers and hip-hop artists – is a fine talking-heads documentary that

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ROAD NORTH (TIE POHJOISEEN) CWC D: Mika Kaurismäki w/ Vesa-Matti Loiri, Samuli Edelmann. Finland. 110 min. Sep 8, 6 pm Yonge & Dundas 9; Sep 9, 12:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 9; Sep 16, 9 am Yonge & Dundas 10 Rating: NNNN

An estranged, wastrel of a dad (Loiri) shows up drunk on the doorstep of his son (Edelmann), an uptight, 40-something concert pianist. The two embark on an on-the-fly road trip with life-changing stops along the way. You’ve been down this sort of road many times before, but Kaurismäki surprises with a sly journey full of warmth, humour and whimsy. Loiri’s jovial performance as the cunning father anchors the film. He’s difficult to trust, but like his son, you want to ride RS with him anyway.

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➼ THE PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER SP D: Stephen Chbosky w/ Logan Lerman, Emma Watson. U.S. 103 min. Sep 8, 6:15 pm Ryerson; Sep 9, 3:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 7 Rating: NNNN

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John Hawkes and Helen Hunt get intimate in awards-worthy The Sessions.

THE SESSIONS SP D: Ben Lewin w/ John Hawkes, Helen Hunt. U.S. 95 min. Sep 9, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 11, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 15, noon Ryerson Rating: NNNN

Chbosky makes his directorial debut with this adaptation of his 1999 young-adult novel about a teenager (Lerman) just starting to come out of his shell after a traumatic experience, thanks mostly to the prodding of new school friends (Watson, Ezra Miller). It’s set in Pittsburgh about 20 years ago, and Chbosky gets the period absolutely right. Not only are the clothes and fads rendered accurately, but the movie nails the sense of isolation and confusion that existed before the internet allowed us to answer any question in a heartbeat. Lerman’s withdrawn, inarticulate performance contrasts nicely with Watson and Miller’s ebullience, and his scenes with Paul Rudd (as a sympathetic English teacher) are wonderful. This could have been pap. It’s NW anything but.

In a challenging role that’s sure to get awards attention, Hawkes (Winter’s Bone, Martha Marcy May Marlene) plays Mark O’Brien, a real-life poet and journalist who, because of childhood polio, spends most of his life in an iron lung or on a gurney. The film recounts his attempts in his late 30s to lose his virginity with a sex surrogate named Cheryl (Hunt). The fact that he’s Catholic, and relates his experiences to his priest (William H. Macy), adds another fascinating element. Director Lewin sometimes struggles to find the right tone, but the story unfolds elegantly, and he’s helped by a magnificent cast. Acting entirely with his head, Hawkes, his voice breathy and pitched high, finds a huge range of subtle emotion, and Hunt invests her character with depth and compassion even as she’s struggling with GS her own conflicted emotions.

THE GIRL FROM THE SOUTH (LA CHICA DEL SUR) DOC D: José Luis García. Argentina. 93 min. Sep 8, 7 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 10, 10:30 am Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 15, 4 pm Scotiabank 4 Rating: N

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Bill Murray morphs into FDR in Hyde Park On Hudson.

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THE SESSIONS SP D: Ben Lewin w/ John Hawkes, Helen Hunt. U.S. 95 min. Sep 9, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 11, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 15, noon Ryerson Rating: NNNN

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I DECLARE WAR VAN D: Jason Lapeyre, Robert Wilson w/ Siam Yu, Gage Munroe. Canada. 94 min. Sep 9, 4:15 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 11, 2 pm Yonge & Dundas 10; Sep 14, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 4 Rating: NNN

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON GALA D: Roger Michell w/ Bill Murray, Laura Linney. United Kingdom. 95 min. Sep 10, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 11, 12:30 pm Winter Garden Rating: NN

In 1939, George VI and Elizabeth spent a weekend at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s estate in hopes of getting the president to pledge U.S. support in the coming war. Also present was FDR’s cousin (and occasional lover) Daisy, whose diaries provide the factual basis for this shameless King’s Speech wannabe. Hyde Park On Hudson is more concerned with historical pageantry than with actual drama, forever imagining the conversations of its famous characters behind closed doors. Linney’s Daisy serves as narrator and

Rcontinued from page 39 documentaries about that very failure. This self-indulgent doc is the latest example. On a visit to North Korea in 1989, García became infatuated with Lim Su-kyung, a student activist from the South who advocated Korea’s reunification and was later arrested for defiantly walking across the militarized border. Finding Lim two decades later, García follows her around during her daily routines while she adamantly refuses to offer any insights into her life. You could say the doc examines the gulf between filmmaker and subject, or between expectations and reality, but then you’d just be making excuses for a film that’s searching for its RS purpose.

LONDON – THE MODERN BABYLON DOC D: Julien Temple. UK. 128 min. Sep 8, 9 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 10, 7 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 16, 12:45 pm Scotiabank 1 Rating: NNN

An impressionistic collage of archival footage that tracks London’s history through the past century, this ambitious doc is as fascinating and bloated as the city itself.

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audience surrogate, but the movie has no time for her, being much more interested in the scenes between Murray’s paternal FDR and Samuel West’s insecure George, which are clearly meant to echo the interplay between Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth. Olivia Colman gets to have a little fun as George’s wife, Elizabeth; Murray’s Rushmore co-star Olivia Williams, as Eleanor Roosevelt, does not. Every moment seems calculated to appeal to the mainstream American audience that embraced The King’s Speech. Why else would the English characters use the term “stutter” instead of “stammer” in reference to NW George’s speech impediment?

Using a score drawing on a century of groovy British tunes, Temple gathers footage from the horse-andcarriage days right up to the 2005 Underground bombings, capturing the essence of an imperial centre nearly half of whose population was born elsewhere. Cutting between past and present with little respect for time, he depicts the city as constantly changing but also constant. There may now be more colourful faces in Piccadilly Circus, but the issues of yesteryear are not all that RS different from those today.

Basterds), who’s got major movie star appeal, and Diehl, who seems to be channelling John Cazale’s weaselly characters. Alas, the two can’t rise above the crude plot, weak characterizations and jaunty score that seems to have been written for another movie. This is no GS The Lives Of Others.

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If there was something revolutionary about disco, it’s certainly been kept secret from this filmmaker. Kastner offers a history of the maligned musical genre while taking Hot Stuff author Alice Echols’s position that the disco movement was politically liberating for the marginalized. Stuffed with incoherent arguments, a whole lot of speculation and sweeping statements that anger even the Village People, the film is only redeemed when Kastner finally shares the audience’s frustration. Like disco, the doc has little to offer, but Kastner RS dances around the subject well.

CWC D: Toke Constantin Hebbeln w/ Alexander Fehling, August Diehl. Germany. 116 min. Sep 8, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 9, 9:30 am Yonge & Dundas 3; Sep 16, 12:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 9 Rating: NN

There’s no lack of plot in Hebbeln’s historical soap opera about two East German dock workers (Fehling and Diehl) whose dreams of escaping out to sea are put on hold when the Stasi come knocking. This would be unwatchable without the square-jawed Fehling (Inglourious

THE SECRET DISCO REVOLUTION DOC D: Jamie Kastner w/ Gloria Gaynor, the Village People. Canada. 84 min. Sep 8, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 13, 3 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Rating: NN

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SUNDAY, SEPT 9 THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE DOC D: Ken Burns, David McMahon, Sarah Burns. U.S. 119 min. Sep 9, 11:45 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 13, 9:30 pm Yonge & Dundas 7; Sep 15, 9:15 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Rating: NNNNN

This arresting and infuriating doc finds the justice system, the media and the public guilty of rushing to convict five young men of colour in the notorious 1989 Central Park Jogger case, where a woman was so viciously raped and beaten that she couldn’t even recall the incident. Through lucid interviews with the subjects, archival news footage and Rakim pumping up the volume on the soundtrack, the filmmakers paint a portrait not just of the incident in question but of New York City culture at the time, where racial issues inspired what became a modern-day public lynching. The directors don’t get caught up in their topic’s sensationalism, but conduct a thorough and riveting investigation that does a far better job of assessing the truth than the justice RS system did two decades ago.

Call it the Canuck answer to Battle Royale. Toy-gun-toting kids engage in a game of capture the flag, and the film gives their imaginative child’s play the Hollywood treatment. What should be a PG affair shoots straight for R territory with slick, bloody effects, eardrum-ringing sound and the kind of cussing you’d hear on Xbox Live. This is deadpan humour that stretches out one good joke, where not so innocent kids pass the time between strategic kills discussing schoolyard politics – or maybe grabbing a juice. But in the era of Call RS Of Duty, it’s not all that shocking.

ZAYTOUN SP D: Eran Riklis w/ Stephen Dorff, Abedallah El Akal. UK/Israel. 107 min. Sep 9, 6 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 11, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 16, 3:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NN

From The Syrian Bride to The Human Resources Manager, Riklis has made an impressive run of films that tactfully tackle sensitive subjects. Unfortunately, he stumbles with Zaytoun. Dorff stars as an Israeli fighter pilot stranded in Beirut with only a hostile Palestinian boy (El Akal) to help him escape to the border. Though some may appreciate this well-intentioned road movie, it trots down too many familiar paths, lacks depth and shoots for easy sentimentality. Taking a tense, complex topic, Riklis defuses it with so much simplicity that it borders on RS irrelevancy.

EAT SLEEP DIE (ATA SOVA DÖ) DISC D: Gabriela Pichler w/ Nermina Lukac, Milan Dragi ic. Sweden. 104 min. Sep 9, 6:45 pm Yonge & Dundas 3; Sep 10, 8:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 4; Sep 15, 3:30 pm Scotiabank 11 Rating: NNN

Pichler shapes a compelling picture of the harsh immigrant experience in contemporary Sweden around a spirited lead performance. Lukac plays Rasa, an inherently optimistic, industrious young Muslim woman who came from Montenegro with her father (Dragisic) as a toddler and is now completely assimilated. Laid off from the factory where she’s been expertly packing arugula, she finds support both from her ethnic continued on page 42

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WHEN I SAW YOU (LAMMA SHOFTAK) CWC D: Annemarie Jacir w/ Mahmoud Asfa, Ruba Blal. Palestine/Jordan/Greece. 93 min. Sep 9, 7 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 11, 1 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 15, 10 am Yonge & Dundas 4 Rating: NN

It’s 1967, just after the six-day war. Eleven-year-old Tarek (beautifully played by Asfa) struggles to adjust in school while his mother Ghadyaa (Blal) sews piecework in a makeshift Jordanian camp. When Tarek disappears, attempting to return to his homeland, he runs into a cell of fedayeen revolutionaries – precursers to the PLO – who take him in. To Jacir’s credit, she makes the Jordanians accountable for their poor treatment of Palestinian refugees, which in turn made it easier for the revolutionaries to recruit. But the fedayeen are each and every one beautiful to look at and somehow all superb musicians. Segments of them singing around the campfire are way too long.

LEVIATHAN WL D: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel. France/United Kingdom/U.S. 87 min. Sep 12, 7 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 14, 3:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 Rating: NNNNN

Ever wonder what a documentary about the commercial fishing industry would look like from the product’s point of view? Leviathan is that documentary, or the closest we’ll ever come to it – an immersive, almost assaultive piece of subjective cinema designed to literally plunge us into the deep, experiencing the catch of the day from inside the nets. In collaboration with Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab, directors Castaing-Taylor (Sweetgrass) and Paravel (Foreign Parts) strapped HD cameras to workers, decks, boat hulls and netting cranes, and they’ve assembled the footage into a narrative of sorts following a single night’s fishing off the New Bedford coast, where Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick took place. NW It’s a powerful, unflinching and thrilling work of 21st century cinema. Don’t miss it.

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THE SAPPHIRES SP D: Wayne Blair w/ Chris O’Dowd, Deborah Mailman. Australia. 99 min. Sep 9, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 11, 3:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Rating: NNN

Based on the true story of Aboriginal cousins who entertained U.S. troops in Vietnam as a soul quartet, The Sapphires is Australia’s bid to remake The Commitments – and Harvey Weinstein’s bid for this year’s People’s Choice Award. Which isn’t to say that this calculated button-pusher isn’t entertaining, or that O’Dowd doesn’t give a fine performance as the floundering expat who becomes the girls’ manager and strikes romantic sparks with their most driven member (Mailman). But it’s all very predictable, and the attempts to draw parallels between Australian racial issues and America’s civil rights upheaval are particularly NW tin-eared.

LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED (DEN SKALDEDE FRISØR) SP D: Susanne Bier w/ Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm. Denmark. 110 min. Sep 9, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 10, 4:45 pm Isabel Bader Rating: NNN

Bier (Brothers, In A Better World) isn’t the first director you’d think of to helm a romantic comedy. She’s usually got her eye on heftier issues like war, racism and family conflict, but she tries to lighten up in this story about a young couple set to marry in Italy. The groom’s father (Brosnan), a businessman with anger issues, connects with the bride’s mother (Dyrholm), who’s battling breast cancer, as the engaged couple’s relationship flounders. Bier does find the fun occasionally – especially in the character of the father’s insufferable sister-in-law (a savvy performance by Paprika Steen) – and, as always with a Bier pic, it’s gorgeously shot. But unfortunately, she doesn’t bring much to a genre that SGC could really use a shake-up.

KRIVINA DISC D: Igor Drljaca w/ Goran Slavkovic, Jasmin Geljo. Canada, Bosnia and Herzegovina. 70 min. Sep 9, 9:15 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 11, 3 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 Rating: NN

After several successful shorts, Drljaca makes his feature debut with a mystery that lacks a payoff. A refugee (Slavkovic) living in Toronto learns that a former war-profiteering friend is missing in Bosnia, prompting a return trip to the homeland. Each person he meets offers more questions than answers, and even reality comes into question. The filmmaker is clearly striving for a subtle surrealism, but the results are frustratingly inconsistent. Drljaca does display considerable talent as a visual stylist, crafting a series of beautifully sparse compositions. What happens within those frames remains vague and unclear, however; hopefully, he’ll demonstrate more focus next time. PB

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➼ BLACKBIRD DISC D: Jason Buxton w/ Connor Jessup, Michael Buie. Canada. 103 min. Sep 9, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 10, 1 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NN

Dealing with hot topics like bullying and mass hysteria, Blackbird unfortunately adds little to the argument. Jessup (a fine actor who looks like Justin Bieber’s emo twin) plays Sean, a social outcast who posts a Columbinelike threat online and ends up the target of further torment in society and the penal system. There’s much to admire here (particularly among the cast), but Buxton’s overreaching debut meanders like a lost bird that has nowhere to go RS and only clichés to guide it.

A FEW HOURS OF SPRING (QueLQues Heures de PrInTemPs) SP D: Stéphane Brizé w/ Vincent Lindon, Hélène Vincent. France. 109 min. Sep 9, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 11, 5 pm Yonge & dundas 6 Rating: NNN

This finely modulated examination of a working-class mother-son relationship takes a satisfying turn once the son (Lindon) discovers that his independentminded mother (Vincent) has opted for assisted suicide to deal with her terminal cancer. Tenderness blossoms amidst the gravitas as the ex-con truck driver’s concentrated gaze at his dying mother melts away years of non-communication between two stubborn solitudes. The mother’s dedication to fulfilling her desire to die with dignity makes a

persuasive case for a humane way out, even if it means going to Switzerland to do it legally. Brize’s sensitive direction and compassion for his characters enable us to empathize with the plight of these two inarticuPE late people.

WHAT RICHARD DID CWC D: Lenny Abrahamson w/ Jack Reynor, Róisín Murphy. Ireland. 87 min. Sep 9, 9:45 pm scotiabank 2; Sep 11, 5:45 pm Yonge & dundas 8; Sep 15, 9:30 am scotiabank 3 Rating: NNN

This film may be as burdened with predictability as its protagonist is with guilt, but director Abrahamson and star Reynor carry that weight admirably. Reynor’s Richard, a popular kid from a well-to-do family, enjoys the respect of his peers until a senseless summer vacation tragedy changes things. Early scenes of teens cutting loose feature remarkably casual dialogue and naturalistic performances. When the plot takes its inevitably grim turn, Abrahamson keeps things fresh by focusing less on Richard’s actions than on how the people around him react to his decisions, leaving us to ponder how social status affects moral dilemmas. RS

AT ANY PRICE SP D: Ramin Bahrani w/ Dennis Quaid, Zac Efron. U.S. 105 min. Sep 9, 10 pm Princess of Wales; Sep 10, noon ryerson Rating: NNN

Director Bahrani garners a terrific performance from Quaid, who plays an opportunistic patriarch using questionable practices to expand his family’s modern agriculture enterprise, with little regard for those he plows down along the way. His son Dean (Efron, steely in an undemanding role) wants little to do with the business, opting to pursue his NASCAR deams alongside his tag-along girlfriend (Maika Monroe, a nice discovery). Bahrani’s indie background shows in this old-school generational drama. He occasionally gives in to obtuse melodrama but brings a subtle intelligence to his lament for the loss of both traditional farming RS and families. Zac Efron looks pretty in At Any Price.

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Monday, Sept 10 LORE SP D: Cate Shortland w/ Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina. Australia/UK/ Germany. 108 min. Sep 10, 4:30 pm Winter Garden; Sep 12, 3 pm ryerson; Sep 16, 9:15 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Rating: NNNN

In this stirring drama set just after the collapse of the Nazi regime, eldest sister Lore (Rosendahl) has to guide her siblings through Germany to survive. The problem is that they’re the children of an arrested SS officer who innocently subscribe to the Fuhrer’s ideology. Shortland’s daring sophomore feature (after 2004’s Somersault) is also a sensual coming-of-age tale; Lore’s sexual awakening comes to the fore in spite of her grim circumstances – or maybe because of them. Shortland dives confidently into a moral minefield and has no instinct to defuse the situation. She finds a game companion in star Rosendahl, whose RS performance is haunting.

FOXFIRE: CONFESSIONS OF A GIRL GANG (FOxFIre, COnFessIOns d’un GAnG de FILLes) SP D: Laurent Cantet w/ Raven Adamson, Katie Coseni. France/Canada. 143 min. Sep 10, 5:45 pm ryerson; Sep 11, 3:30 pm Yonge & dundas 7 Rating: NNN

The second big-screen adaptation of Joyce Carol Oates’s book about a group of young women in 1950s Middle America who rise up against

bullying males of all ages stays truer to the spirit of the novel. Cantet (The Class) creates a dutiful period piece that retains many of the author’s meditations on sisterhood and growing up, but never quite overcomes its melodramatic leanings. Although the inexperience of some of the ensemble cast shows through occasionally, Cantet does a fine job building tension and characterization. And he never shies away from the uncomfortable but period-appropriate themes of sexism and racism, especially when the group turns to more criminal enterprises to survive. AP

BERBERIAN SOUND STUDIO VAN D: Peter Strickland w/ Toby Jones, Cosimo Fusco. UK. 92 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Bloor Hot docs Cinema; Sep 11, 2:45 pm Yonge & dundas 3 Rating: NNN

Berberian Sound Studio takes place almost entirely within the confines of the eponymous Italian recording facility, where a repressed British engineer (Jones) has arrived to mix a bloody giallo called The Equestrian Vortex. Writer/director Strickland sets the story in the mid-70s, right around the time Dario Argento was finishing up Suspiria, and that film’s suffocating, oppressive sensibility is replicated here with lots of heavy breathing and shrieking (as looped by actors in sound booths) and flesh-squelching continued on page 44

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Melvil Poupaud and Suzanne Clément are spectacular in epic-length Laurence Anyways.

SP D: Xavier Dolan w/ Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément. Canada. 161 min. Sep 13, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 15, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNN

A love relationship goes through wild ups and downs when Laurence (Poupaud) transitions from male to female and his girlfriend (Clément) tries to support her. Saturating his colour palette and adding magical touches so that nature mirrors the story’s powerful emotions, Dolan (J’ai Tué Ma Mere) creates a gorgeous, epic romance that never loses its energy despite the film’s length. The performances are spectacular, especially Clément’s as a woman who desperately wants to believe she can SGC be part of the gender revolution, and Nathalie Baye’s as Laurence’s deeply conflicted mother.

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A LATE QUARTET SP D: Yaron Zilberman w/ Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman. U.S. 105 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 12, 5 pm Scotiabank 4 Rating: NNN

When Peter (Walken), leader of a famous string quartet, sees signs in himself of a degenerative disease and contemplates retirement, jealousy, ambition and life crises start rocking his collaborators (Hoffman, Mark Ivanir and Catherine Keener). There’s some great writing in director Zilberman and Seth Grossman’s script on the topic of music – a speech about Peter’s encounter with Pablo Casals is amazing – and good performances by a great cast. But until the last scene, the film is emotionally slack, and no one except Walken is credible as a string player, a major problem with the editing and SGC coaching.

NO SP D: Pablo Larraín w/ Gael García Bernal. Chile/U.S. 117 min. Sep 10, 6 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 11, 3 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Rating: NNNN

Chilean director Larraín concludes his Pinochet trilogy – begun with 2008’s Tony Manero and continued in 2010’s Post Mortem – with his most auda-

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THE HUNT (JAGTEN) SP D: Thomas Vinterberg w/ Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen. Denmark. 111 min. Sep 10, 9:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 12, 3 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNN

Watching Mikkelsen’s wrenching turn as a kindergarten teacher falsely accused of pedophilia is like watching a wounded doe squirm. You want to put a bullet in him just to end his suffering (and your own). Vinterburg takes a simplistic, straightforward approach to a gruelling subject, allowing the characters and audience to decide rather swiftly who not to believe. Yet there’s nothing simplistic about the performances. Mikkelsen and a terrific ensemble navigate complex emotions and moral quandaries in a terrain where a satisfying resolution is as hard to come by as a child who never tells a RS lie.

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(as recreated by foley artists stabbing watermelons and smashing fruit). As our twitchy hero begins to come apart under the stress of the job, the movie echoes his crumbling state of mind by coming unstuck in chronology and language – sort of. It evaporates like a bad dream as soon as the lights come up, but the NW experience is still worth having.

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cious film to date, a comedy of manners centred on an advertising whiz (García Bernal) hired to package and market the campaign to defeat the dictator’s 1988 attempt to legitimize his 15-year reign through a public referendum. Shooting in butt-ugly analog video, the better to integrate actual footage from the era, Larraín finds sly humour in the push-pull between dogmatic revolutionaries and Bernal’s more mercenary character, who’s trying to sell a product (Freedom! Democracy!) rather than scold voters about the issues they’ve long been required to ignore. But the movie also captures the tension of a terrorized society just starting to allow itself to imagine an end to a decade and a half of oppression and paranoia – and the fear that even the tiniest ground gained could all be taken away in an NW instant.

HYDE PARK ON HUDSON GALA D: Roger Michell w/ Bill Murray, Laura Linney. United Kingdom. 95 min. Sep 10, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 11, 12:30 pm Winter Garden Rating: NN

See review, page 40.

ANTIVIRAL SP D: Brandon Cronenberg w/ Caleb Landry Jones, Sarah Gadon. Canada. 108 min. Sep 10, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 12, 2:45 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema Rating: NN

In a world so fame-crazed that people pay to be infected with celebrities’ diseases, a black marketeer (Jones) injects himself with the blood of an ailing superstar (Gadon) and becomes a pawn in a very deadly game. Writer/director Cronenberg has said

he’s never seen any of his father, David’s, movies, so apparently they’re in his DNA. Antiviral is basically Videodrome with viruses instead of tumours, right down to the biomechanical hallucinations and the corporate war subtext. But this version’s told so clinically that it might as well be hermetically sealed, and Jones’s character is never anything more than a scowling, bug-eyed cipher. Gadon’s great as a sheltered (and possibly genuinely innocent) superstar, but she’s only in the film long enough to make us wish NW she’d stuck around longer.

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CAMP 14 – TOTAL CONTROL ZONE DOC D: Marc Wiese. Germany. 104 min. Sep 11, 5 pm Yonge & Dundas 10; Sep 13, 9 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 16, 9:30 am Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNNN

Because so little is known about contemporary North Korea, films like Camp 14 offer shocking revelations. Shin Dong-Hyuk was born in an abusive prison/labour camp and knew nothing outside of this world until he escaped in his late teens. His childhood memories include witnessing his mother’s execution, feasting on rats, and seven excruciating months of torture. His first moment of warm human contact came at 14 when another prisoner treated his wounds. Shin’s first-person account is supported by interviews with former guards (whose memories are only slightly less vicious) and animated recreations of the young man’s life. The film is emotionally draining but provides rewarding insights into base survival instincts and strength of will. PB

CWC D: Andrzej Jakimowski w/ Edward Hogg, Alexandra Maria Lara. Poland/ France/Portugal. 105 min. Sep 10, 9 pm Yonge & Dundas 3; Sep 12, 6 pm Yonge & Dundas 4; Sep 15, 4 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NNN

Imagine is a film about disability that manages to avoid excessive hearttugging. In a Lisbon clinic for the visually impaired, the mysterious Ian (Hogg) arrives unexpectedly to teach orientation to the patients. Ian is blind but doesn’t need a cane and achieves a complete grasp of his surroundings through sound, smell and echo (kind of like a non-superpowered Daredevil). He inspires his students, but the other instructors, who (like the audience) are never sure if he’s a guru or a charlatan, remain skeptical. Jakimowski wisely maintains that ambiguity, and Hogg’s enigmatic performance keeps you involved in a touching story that vividly yet subtly represents the challenges of a PB sightless world.

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of ripped-from-today’s-headlines relevance aren’t nearly enough to JS salvage it.

BURN IT UP DJASSA (LE DJASSA A PRIS FEU) DISC D: Lonesome Solo w/ Abdoul Karim Konaté, Mohamed Bamba. Ivory Coast/France. 70 min. Sep 11, 7 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 13, 10 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 14, 12:45 pm Scotiabank 4 Rating: NNNN

Solo’s remarkable debut is a gritty crime drama that holds a whole lot of promise for raw Ivory Coast filmmaking. Konaté turns in a fiery performance as Tony, a street dweller with undeniable charisma and an itch for something more than his legitimate job selling cigarettes can offer. Solo directs with a realist’s pulse while frequently cutting to a young, lively narrator (Bamba) who tells a slightly skewed version of Tony’s story. That narrator is a ghetto mythmaker, turning street life into art and taking Africa’s oral storytelling RS traditions in a fresh direction.

JUMP CWC D: Kieron J. Walsh w/ Martin McCann, Nichola Burley. Ireland/UK. 84 min. Sep 11, 8:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 6; Sep 13, 3:15 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 16, 11:30 am Yonge & Dundas 6 Rating: NN

Gritty movies with intersecting plot lines are a ho-hum cliché, and Walsh adds nothing fresh to the mix. On a busy New Year’s Eve in Derry, Ireland, a dozen people are linked by murder, robbery, suicide and love – as well as one tragicomic hit-and-run. Walsh struggles to find the right tone between violence and dark humour, and much of the dialogue feels contrived. Worse, the rich themes of guilt, redemption and starting over fail to resonate because we know nothing about the characters. But Walsh does get some fine performances from his actors, including Burley, who plays the depressed daughter of a local gangster, and Charlene McKenna as her concerned friend, stuck for most of the film in a Mary Poppins costume. GS

GALA D: Ruba Nadda w/ Alexander Siddig, Marisa Tomei. Canada. 90 min. Sep 11, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 13, 5 pm Scotiabank 1 Rating: N

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The story of a Toronto businessman and former spy (Siddig) tearing through Damascus to find his abducted daughter, Inescapable is a Canadian Taken – humourless, inert, dull in its plotting and action movie trappings. When his photojournalist daughter goes missing in his native Syria, he’s forced to confront some personal demons while tracking her down. Aided by his ex-fiancée (Tomei, barely passing for an Arab), Siddig stumbles across a conspiracy involving Israeli moles, buried secrets and incriminating photos that may or may not exist. Writer/director Nadda (Cairo Time) has a knack for telling emotional, continent-spanning stories, but she doesn’t have the muscle an action thriller like this requires. Pretensions

Frequent TIFF attendee Sweeney (Last Wedding, American Venus) tries his hand at a psychological thriller with this study of a Vancouver realtor (Lea) who starts acting oddly when the police approach him about the disappearance of a woman (Rose). Lea is appropriately opaque as a man uncomfortable with being suspected of anything, but Sweeney just doesn’t have the directorial chops to pull off the noirish tone the plot demands. There’s also the problem of Calgary director David Christensen having already brought this movie to TIFF in 2005, when it NW was called Six Figures.

CWC D: Bruce Sweeney w/ Nicholas Lea, Gabrielle Rose. Canada. 80 min. Sep 11, 9:45 pm Yonge & Dundas 7; Sep 13, 9 pm Yonge & Dundas 10 Rating: NN

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viewers’ obsession with the film’s many mysteries, Room 237 is a lethal love letter to the cinema. Maybe the cineastes he interviews are trapped by the film like the ghosts haunting the hotel in Kubrick’s movie. Equally Kubrickian is director Ascher’s painstaking composition. Assembled largely from The Shining footage, the film is framed around various left-field interpretations. One speaker thinks Kubrick’s copping to faking the moon landing; another talks at length about minotaurs. Some of the theories come off like crackpot close readings. But Ascher isn’t interested in credibility. Rather, he’s concerned with the spells that films, and especially enigmatic films like The Shining, can JS cast.

LAURENCE ANYWAYS SP D: Xavier Dolan w/ Melvil Poupaud, Suzanne Clément. Canada. 161 min. Sep 13, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 15, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNN

The Central Park Five revisits an incendiary legal case (see review, page 40).

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An admirable feature debut by former Ryerson student Radwanski, Tower is a tightly focused but somewhat hollow character study that makes the most of a micro-budget. Holding the film’s claustrophobic close-ups throughout is Derek (Bogart), a 34-year-old Toronto loner who shrugs off relationships just as he does goals and responsibilities. He’s a repellant personality not because we see him do anything bad, but because his expression and speech make you long for better company. Still, the actor is a true discovery, and his exceptionally nuanced performance keeps Tower standing despite its iffy RS foundation.

WEDNESDAY, SEPT 12 SMASHED CWC D: James Ponsoldt w/ Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Aaron Paul. U.S. 85 min. Sep 12, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 13, 5 pm Yonge & Dundas 7 Rating: NNN

The marriage of two young drunks (Winstead, Paul) is tested when she decides to get sober and he doesn’t. Still working the functioning-alcoholic angle he played in Off The Black, director Ponsoldt has made a movie that feels as unstable as its protagonists; it wobbles between uncomfortable comedy and shattering drama, sometimes in the same scene. Winstead’s virtually unrecognizable from her more composed turns in Scott Pilgrim and that Thing prequel, and Paul does a more solicitous version of Breaking Bad’s ruined Jesse Pinkman. But the pieces don’t quite

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snap together the way they should. Ponsoldt can’t help underlining every Big Emotional Turning Point, and while Nick Offerman, Megan Mullally and Octavia Spencer do their best to lend humanity to their supporting roles, the movie never sees them as anything NW more than plot devices.

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about an hour, leaving Reality wheezing toothlessly in a feedback loop of obnoxious behaviour and increasingly obtuse plotting. Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín – who’s at TIFF this year with his political drama No – told exactly the same story in 2008’s Tony Manero with far more wit and bite. Seek that out instead. NW

LEVIATHAN WL D: Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Véréna Paravel. France/United Kingdom/U.S. 87 min. Sep 12, 7 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 14, 3:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 Rating: NNNNN

GALA D: Nikolaj Arcel w/ Mads Mikkelsen, Alicia Vikander. Denmark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany. 132 min. Sep 12, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 13, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin) Rating: NNN

This period drama about a trusted physician who has the king’s ear and the queen’s heart may not be an affair to remember, but it is a pleasurable distraction. Mikkelsen’s Dr. Johann Struensee attends to and then puppeteers Denmark’s King Christian VII (a very fine Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), introducing radical legislation that makes Voltaire proud. In his spare time, the good doctor beds the neglected queen (Vikander, also in TIFF’s Anna Karenina). The ensuing romance feels unconvincing, and Mikkelsen and Vikander make a mismatched pair. There’s more passion to be found in the king’s council, where the cutthroat RS political intrigue captivates.

See review, page 36.

REALITY SP D: Matteo Garrone w/ Aniello Arena, Loredana Simioli. Italy/France. 115 min. Sep 12, 6:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 13, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NN

Having explored the insidious reach of organized crime in Gomorrah, director Garrone examines the effects of another corrosive social disease on Italian society: the allure of reality television. An extroverted Neapolitan fishmonger (Arena) auditions for a spot on the Italian version of Big Brother and slowly becomes obsessed with appearing on the show. It’s a promising idea, but Garrone exhausts his comic and satirical potential after

WHEN NIGHT FALLS (WO HAI YOU HUA YAO SHUO) WL D: Ying Liang w/ Nai An, Kate Wen. South Korea/China. 70 min. Sep 13, 4:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 14, 5:15 pm Yonge & Dundas 9 Rating: NNNN

CWC D: Ava DuVernay w/ Emayatzy Corinealdi, David Oyelowo. U.S. 99 min. Sep 12, 8:45 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 13, 6 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 15, 9:15 am Yonge & Dundas 7 Rating: NN

DuVernay’s muted drama – which took the best director prize this year at Sundance – follows a young woman named Ruby (newcomer Corinealdi) who’s put her life on hold while her husband (Omari Hardwick) serves a prison sentence for an initially unspecified crime. But after four years – with her husband looking at the possibility of early release – Ruby finds herself responding to the attentions of a charming bus driver (Oyelowo). DuVernay gets solid performances out of all three of her leads – particularly Oyelowo, who puts his own spin on a role that seems tailored for Taye Diggs – but she smothers any drama by pacing the film at a crawl and filling the empty space with an intrusive NW soundtrack.

THE SUICIDE SHOP (LE MAGASIN DES SUICIDES) SP D: Patrice Leconte w/ Bernard Alane, Isabelle Spade. France/Belgium/Canada. 79 min. Sep 12, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 16, 12:30 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNN

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When suicide seems like the only way to go, the Tuvache family business makes sure you go out with options: poisons packaged like perfumes, a handmade sword for hara-kiri or a

plastic bag and tape for the hobos who cant pay for more. That’s the morbidly amusing premise in The Suicide Shop, an animated comedy that squeezes as much life out of its central gag as it can. The flat musical numbers seem a dull ploy to pad out the running time, but Leconte compensates with old-school animation that boasts RS visual wit and dry humour.

Nai An won the best actress prize at Locarno last month for her performance as Wang Jingmei, mother of Yang Jia, a young man accused of murdering six police officers (and wounding four more) during a rampage at a Shanghai police station in 2008. Liang – who also won Locarno’s best director award – focuses entirely on Jingmei, recreating the awful days before and after Yang’s hearing in long, largely silent takes. The criticism of China’s judicial system is made peripherally, through the conversations of activists who doubt the state’s case against Yang and through Jingmei’s own account of being held against her will in a mental institution during the months of investigation, presumably to keep her from offering any evidence in her son’s defence. But the political aspect of When Night Falls is always secondary to the quietly devastating human story of a mother realizing the true scale of the NW horror before her.

See review, page 44.

FRIDAY, SEPT 14 BESTIAIRE WL D: Denis Côté. Canada/France. 72 min. Sep 14, 6:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 16, 10 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4 Rating: NNNN

We look at animals. They may or may not look back. Côté’s extraordinary meditation on the relationship between man and beast (and even the camera) is simply a series of static shots that leave you thinking. Bestiaire is not for everyone, since it demands a patient audience willing to fill in the gaps between Côté’s striking compositions and telling montage. Those who are game will be richly rewarded, while the rest will have a RS better time at Marineland.

REBELLE (WAR WITCH) SP D: Kim Nguyen w/ Rachel Mwanza, Serge Kanyinda. Canada. 90 min. Sep 14, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 15, 3 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNN

For a film about child soldiers in an unnamed African country, Rebelle shows surprising restraint. Director Nguyen’s decision to look away from carnage and avoid melodrama may limit our engagement, but it’s the admirable choice, making room for sensitive and imaginative filmmaking. Non-actor Mwanza (a revelation) stars as 12-year-old Komona, a village girl abducted by rebels, forced to kill her own parents and baptized the War Witch for her ability to sense impending danger. Komona’s attempt to escape along with an infatuated albino boy (Kanyinda) provides a sweet, even whimsical interlude from the horrors of war that seems too RS3 good to be true.

ROOM 237 VAN D: Rodney Ascher. U.S. 104 min. Sep 13, 6 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 15, 5:45 pm Yonge & Dundas 2; Sep 16, noon TIFF Bell Lightbox 3 Rating: NNNNN

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In fashion feast of a fest film Anna Karenina, Jude Law’s look is the least overthe-top, but that doesn’t mean he can’t stand out on the photo line in a sharp suit. Simon Carter sharkskin suit ($595), Liberty print shirt ($205), navy silk tie ($105) and arrow tie bar ($95, 754 Queen West, 647-428-7545, simoncarter.ca), Ben Sherman brogues ($168) and belt ($45, 734 Queen West, 416603-7437, bensherman.com).

The action star For the guy who prefers to arrive at his premiere on a Harley like Looper’s Bruce Willis, we’re skipping the penguin suit and suggesting a slick moto-jacket-and-jeans look. Roots Keith leather jacket ($498), Brewster western shirt ($62) and Matthew’s boots ($198, 100 Bloor West, 416323-3289, and others, roots.com), Seven for all Mankind jeans ($230, Body Blue, 724 Queen West, 416-7037601, and other, bodyblue.ca).

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As designer muses and campaign icons, stars like Gwyneth Paltrow and Eva Mendes have their pick of any and every frock, so we say keep it (relatively) simple in a sequin sheath and statement heels. Markus Lupfer sequin dress ($615), Fallon earrings ($80) and Camilla Skovgaard heels ($395 on sale, all Rac Boutique, 124 Cumberland, 647-3524433, racboutique.com).

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We’re guessing up-andcomers Elle Fanning and Sarah Gadon would gravitate to this head-to-toe vintage look. Vintage Prada blouse ($225), pleated skirt ($28), earrings ($15), belt ($28), box handbag ($24) and Chloé heels ($299, all I Miss You, 63 Ossington, 416916-7021).

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dle benefiting the Elton John AIDS Foundation on Saturday (September 8) at 11:30 am. The only thing that might upstage all that is the collection of special products created to celebrate HR’s 175th milestone by brands like Smythe, Deborah Lippman and Pendleton. Holt Renfrew picks: The lineup of magenta-hued 175th-anniversary goodies also includes Pantone notebooks ($15 to $20), Jimmy Choo glitter sandals ($895), a Kate Spade tote bag ($258) and an Alice + Olivia peplum dress ($275). Look for: A Holt Renfrew shop popping up in Trinity Bellwoods Park at Queen and Strachan on Friday (September 7). The mobile store is travelling cross-country selling a limited-edition sweatshirt collection created in collaboration with graphic artists. Hours: Monday to Wednesday and Saturday 10 am to 7 pm, Thursday and Friday 10 am to 8 pm, Sunday noon to 6 pm. 3

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WeSLOdge SALOOn OpenS On The King WeST STRip juST in TiMe FOR TiFF By STEVEN DAVEY WESLODGE SALOON (480 King West, at Brant, 416-274-8766, weslodge.com) Complete dinners for $55 per person (lunches/ brunches $35), including tax, tip and a glass of wine. Average main $24/$18. Open for dinner nightly 5:30 to 11 pm. Lunch Monday to Friday 11:30 am to 2:30 pm, brunch Sunday 11 am to 2:30 pm. Bar nightly Thursday (September 6) to September 16 till 4 am. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN If any of the recent crop of rustic backto-the-land cantinas deserves to have staff dressed in head-to-toe lumberjack plaid, it’s Hanif Harji and Charles Khabouth’s five-week-old Weslodge Saloon. They’ve got taxidermy galore – startled deer, a pheasant in flight, a buffalo head mounted over the bar – as well as steampunk light fixtures worthy of a Jules Verne flick and a chalkboard menu that looks like it was clipped from the pages of a Currier and Ives catalogue circa 1872. Yet servers, distressingly, are dressed in jeans and Ts. Us? We’ve shown up appropriately wrapped in a Hudson’s Bay blanket and

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are currently commandeering a marbletopped table surrounded by enough blacklacquered wood to panel a goth’s rec room. Since it’s Sunday brunch, we begin with what the card calls “biscuits and preserves,” which turns out to be a chocolate croissant ($4) and a blueberry tart ($7) from fancy-pants patisserie Nadège. Executive chef Stuart Cameron comes out swinging with a terrific Jerusalem artichoke salad ($9), both the roasted and raw root, with slivered green beans, bitter endive and a final flourish of pistachio pesto. His bison pastrami sandwich ($16) could be a reconfigured Reuben, its traditional sauerkraut replaced with a kicky apple slaw. A top-five contender, the house burger ($18) finds 7 hand-ground ounces of naturally raised Cumbrae brisket, chuck ’n’ rib-eye on a house-baked bun fabulously layered with pink pickled onion, spicy tomatillo relish and salty Taleggio cheese. Both burger and bison sandwich arrive sided with crisp chunky fries the size of Lincoln Logs and a ramekin of the kitchen’s own ketchup.

Seeing the word “truffled” next to “scrambled eggs on puff pastry ($11 brunch only),” we’re expecting a few drops of truffle oil, not the generous shaving of the real deal we receive, especially when the plate already includes exquisitely grilled asparagus and a crumble of quality ricotta. Throw a couple of poached eggs on a side of house-cured duck bacon, paired with fat-fried fingerling potatoes in black truffle vinaigrette ($6) and get one spectacular brunch dish. Back the following day to tackle the 132-seat room’s lunch and dinner cartes, we’re soon laying waste to a bison tartare ($15) tastily strewn with pickled mustard seeds and powdered foie gras. Despite our server’s insistence that it was baked this morning, the bun that accompanies the Saloon’s lobster burger ($22 lunch only) is definitely day-old, a fact proven when we request a replacement. A gigantic wing of skate ($24) in a lovely lemon sauce studded

At Weslodge Saloon, Becca Melnick serves up the panna cotta dessert ; chef Kanida Chey preps agnolotti; duck bacon with an egg makes a great brunch (right); burger (below) could be one of the best in town.

with caper buds needs more than a wispy watercress salad to make it a main (good thing the lobster burger comes with lots of those fries), while a tapas-sized vegetarian entrée of agnolotti ($17) finished with pan-fried cauliflower and tahini is just plain nutty. Rethink or remove. And so to dessert. When we ask if they’re made in-house, our otherwise charming server assures us that everything from bread to pickles is made on the premises. Even the brunch pastries? “Well, except for them,” he concedes. But there’s no dispute that chef’s microwaved Instant Cake ($8) is simply tremendous, an impressive cylinder of chocolate mousse air-brushed with dark chocolate on a puddle of crème Anglais infused with olive oil and festooned with dehydrated raspberries. Necking the last of our fizzy filtered Q water ($2.50 per person), we grab the blanket and make our exit as stuffed as the critters overhead. 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com

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Snack at O&B Canteen in the same building as the Lightbox, TIFF’s main venue.

Corned Beef House 270 Adelaide W, at John, 416-977-2333, cornedbeefhouse.com. Montreal-style smoked meat sandwiches in the old Avalon just down the block from the original digs. Best Reuben in town? dHaBa 309 King W, at John, 416-7406622, dhaba.ca. Terrific north Indian allyou-can-eat lunch buffet and salad bar from $11.95. ginger on Queen W 212 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-977-8778, gingercuisine.ca. Quick budget-minded pan-Asian stir fries and satays with lots of veggie options. Best bang for the buck? Vietnamese-style banh mi sandwiches

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stuffed with spicy grilled beef, pork, chicken or tofu ($3.50). Also: 355½ Yonge, at Elm, 416-694-3278; 521 Bloor W, at Borden, 416-536-3131. o&B Canteen 330 King W, at John, 647-288-4710, oliverbonacini.com. Stylish cafeteria on the ground floor of the TIFF tower. Peter Pan 373 Queen W, at Peter, 416-593-0917, peterpanbistro.wordpress.com. This long-running entry-level bistro is an even bigger bargain at lunch, when a plate of simple Scarpetta-style pasta and a hunk of freshly baked focaccia goes for $8.95. ravisouPs 322 Adelaide W, at

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Local roots rockers Cuff the Duke played to a bopping, appreciative, kid-friendly crowd at YongeDundas Square for this summer’s final instalment of the free Indie Fridays concert series. The band, fronted by singer/songwriter Wayne Petti, has been together for over a decade, through various lineup changes, and sounds more than ever like a cross between the Byrds and Tom Petty – jangly and twangy, with lots of catchy choruses, backup vocals and big jams. Their set focused on material from last year’s concept album, Morning Comes and its soon-tobe-out follow-up, Union (which sounds upbeat and romantic, so far), but they also played a number of songs off of 2009’s Way Down Here and older fan favourites. With former guitarist/pedal steel player Dale Murray out east focusing on his solo career and studio, François Turenne played lead guitar, and a new member, Thom Hamerton, was on keys. Despite these changes, the band was tight and played off each other well. Though it was a consistently good show and Standing On The Edge, Count On Me and soulful Letting Go were especially strong, something was

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missing in the long arc of the set, which lacked a big finish. That said, the encore – Tom Petty cover The Waiting – was fun. Petti should do Petty more SARAH GREENE often.

JELLO BIAFRA AND THE GUANTANAMO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE at Lee’s Palace, Wednesday, August 29.

Rating: NNN It’s often a letdown to see aging punk rockers take the stage decades after their prime. Punk thrives on the urgency of youth, and rarely holds up to endless touring. One of the most polemical, outspoken figures of 80s hardcore, former Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra seemed like he’d fallen into the trap of bogus nostalgia as he took the stage at Lee’s Palace with backing band the Guantanamo School of Medicine. It’s fair to assume that many attendees were there to hear Dead Kennedys classics, but aside from playing a few, Biafra refused to “spoon-feed retro,” as he told a heckling fan early in the set. Instead, he attacked a whole new set of targets – the Tea Party, false austerity, the new feudalism, privatized education, “Barackstar

O’Bummer” and Mitt Romney alike – while maintaining his mugging, sarcastic presence, delivered with all the subtlety of a kick to the gut. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

CROSSS at the Silver Dollar, Friday,

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Rating: NNNN Andy March keeps busy not only as the unassuming singer/left-handed guitarist for psychedelic grunge metal trio Crosss but also as label head of Youth Club Records and cassette-centric Craft Singles, releasing albums predominantly by Halifax- and Montreal-based bands like Play Guitar, Al Tuck, Cousins and Grand Trine. At the Silver Dollar, his own music took the spotlight. March’s high, eerie voice sailed over sludgy distorted riffs, pleasing melodies and locked-in bass that got heads banging. Time signature changes and stop-start rhythms punctuated the music, adding a progressive dimension to its main reference points: metal’s slower, psychier spectrum and lo-fi, slacker indie rock. The short set mostly drew from Crosss’s forthcoming five-song album, which includes the excellently creepy Old Sound and Sacred Cow. March, originally from Halifax but who has done time in Montreal and, most recently, Toronto, just

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DENNIS FERRER at Sunnyside Pavilion, Sunday, September 2. Rating: NNN

Dancing under the stars in a picturesque walled garden to soulful house music is a pretty nice way to say goodbye to summer. However, despite the gorgeous location and a smooth set by NYC DJ/ producer Dennis Ferrer, something felt slightly off. The crowd was huge, but there wasn’t nearly as much dancing as there should have been. Because the organizers set up a smaller sound system for the local DJs at one end of the space, we were often subjected to the annoying clash of competing beats when standing in line for outhouses, drinks or the bank machine (and, yes, we spent a lot of time in lines). While it may not have been the most smoothly run event at this unique location, Ferrer’s strong set clearly pleased the fans in the front. You could argue that he relied a little too much on modern remixes of classic house anthems, but that is an effective way to get an aging deep house crowd BENJAMIN BOLES excited. NOW SEPTEMBER 6-12 2012

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Toronto Music Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Bach At Dusk Kate Haynes (baroque cello) 7 pm. Tranzac Main Hall Gordon Grdina’s Haram, Fond of Tigers, George Sawa doors 7:30 pm.

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ROCKIE FRESH & THE AIRPLANE BOYS The Hoxton 9 pm, $15. PDR, RT, SS,

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CONTACT CONTEMPORARY MUSIC, SANDRO PERRI X All dates, acts and ticket prices subject to change without notice. Ticket prices subject to applicable fees.

Theatre $23.50. RT. October 19.

Avant VII: Expanding Circuits: Undercurrents Live Music Gallery 7 pm, $25-$30. RT, SS, TW. October 19.

TW. October 22.

SHINY TOY GUNS, MNDR The Hoxton 7 pm, $18. PDR, RT, SS, TW. October 27. EXHUMED, NAPALM DEATH, MUNICIPAL WASTE, VEKTOR Opera House. November 1.

KAKI KING Rivoli doors 8 pm, $15. RT, SS,

TM. November 4.

JOE PUG Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 7. ESCORT Horseshoe doors 9 pm, $16.50. HS, RT, SS, TM. November 10. YELLOW OSTRICH The Garrison doors 8:30 pm, $12. RT, SS. November 12.

PINBACK Lee’s Palace doors 8 pm, $16.50.

HS, RT, SS, TM. November 21.

RACHAEL YAMAGATA Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 6:30 pm, $15. TW. December 1. THE WOODEN SKY Phoenix Concert

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TYLER WARD Sound Academy doors 7 pm, $16.50. TW. December 20.

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PSYCH FOLK

WAX MANNEQUIN Hamilton musician subdues the ferocity on new album By SARAH GREENE

WAX MANNEQUIN with JENNY OMNICHORD and DOG IS BLUE at the Piston (937 Bloor West), tonight (Thursday, September 6), 9 pm. $8. 416-532-3989.

Chris Adeney – who has been recording and performing as Wax Mannequin for about a dozen years and has a rep for eccentricity – is wandering the streets of his hometown of Hamilton, even popping in to Dr. Disc, when I call him to discuss his sixth full-length, No Safe Home (Cargo). Recorded at the White House in Hamilton with studio owner Nick Johannes, long-time collaborator Mark Raymond and other musical friends, the album reflects Adeney’s folkier, mellower side, with gentle melodies, poppy grooves, whistled solos and mesmerizing, near-whispered vocals. Recording close to home, says Adeney, affected the final result. “It let us be more free and kind of loose about experimenting with the songs,” he says. “We were able to hash things out more on the spot, which was really refreshing for me.” Written in part during dark and spooky sessions on a Greyhound bus tour out west, it’s not without sharp edges: an undercurrent of paranoia, lyrics about politics and war, and sudden loud, aggressive passages. But overall it’s quieter and folkier than the gruff, fierce, oddball anthems – like The Price and Message

From The Queen – that Wax Mannequin built his name on. Adeney attributes that to the fact that he’s been listening to more Canadiana and traditional music and playing the folk festival circuit. But he points out that 2009’s Saxon had folk material on it as well. “It’s always been part of my songwriting, for better or worse, that some of my music is loud and energetic and some of it is quite the opposite,” he says, joking that he used to feel like two different performers, one acoustic and one “beefed up.” “At a certain point, it became really important to me to play a full set that seamlessly covered all the ground that I’m fascinated with in my songwriting. “But what’s really important to me is that certain melodic and lyrical themes come up again and again. I get a real kick out of tying a very quiet, more traditional-sounding song to something aggressive and abrasive that I’ve recorded in the past.” If you’re curious about Wax Mannequin’s quirky old songs, he’s selling wax sculptures that encase USB sticks with his back catalogue on them. Somehow he makes this sound like a perfectly practical thing to do. “On one hand, I wanted to keep my old music available,” he explains, “but like any self-respecting musician, I feel a great deal of shame about all my old material, so I also wanted to have it be slightly inaccessible.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/nowtorontomusic

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You get the sense that Phil Elverum (aka Mount Eerie) spends a lot of time alone in the woods without much human company. His answers are often

monosyllabic, and to describe him as reserved would be an extreme understatement. But stop to consider that his music is often literally about mountains and you begin to understand that heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s operating on a different timeline and at a different tempo than those of us who spend our lives in busy cities. Listening to his intimate home-recorded albums, you can picture him wandering alone through the wilderness around his Anacortes, Washington, home, enjoying the feeling of smallness that comes from looking at the stars or standing in the shadow of the actual Mount Erie. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a favourite activity of mine: zooming out and looking at the big picture,â&#x20AC;? Elverum says as he prepares to head out on tour. â&#x20AC;&#x153;White people living here hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been going on for as long as most places in the world. Only a hundred years ago it was a very different world. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s super-interesting to be familiar with this place and then think about what it was like to walk around a

hundred years ago. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of mindblowing.â&#x20AC;? Elverumâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spent much of the past 15 years on the road, initially as Microphones, but he took a break from touring last year and managed to crank out two albums. Clear Moon came out in the spring and focuses on his ambient folk tendencies, while his newest release, Ocean Roar (P.W. Elverum & Sun, Ltd.), features plenty of heavy guitars and droning organs. Despite the sonic differences, both albums were pulled from the same batch of songs, and both are very much about the place where he lives. So deeply is his work based on the physical character of Anacortes that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s almost impossible to imagine what might happen if he moved to a major city. â&#x20AC;&#x153;I could do that temporarily, maybe, but I imagine I would get pretty overwhelmed. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m usually super-busy in Anacortes, and nothing really happens here, so I canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t imagine layering more social stuff on top of that.â&#x20AC;? Amazingly, someone managed to convince him to sign up to Twitter, and while heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s still pretty skeptical of the medium, heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a fairly prolific tweeter when the mood strikes him. His online voice falls somewhere between comedy and poetry, with some reluctant self-promotion thrown in. (Sample tweet: â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rare bootleg cassette of Top Gun era Tom Cruise trying out a synthesizer at the Guitar Center.â&#x20AC;?) â&#x20AC;&#x153;Twitter still seems totally pointless to me, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fun. I like its surrealness and abstractness.â&#x20AC;? benjaminb@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/benjaminboles

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Riot fest Punk

Chicago music fest comes to Toronto for the first time By RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

RIOT FEST featuring DESCENDENTS, NOFX, FUCKED UP, HOT WATER MUSIC, LESS THAN JAKE, ANDREW WK, THE LAWRENCE ARMS, MOCKINGBIRD, WISH ME LUCK, THE ORGAN THIEVES and JUNIOR BATTLES at Fort York Garrison Commons (250 Fort York), Sunday (September 9), gates at noon. $39.50. RT, SS, TM. riotfest.org.

For a city with a vibrant local music scene and a strong club circuit for touring acts, Toronto has always been missing one thing: a proper out-

door multi-day summer music festival. Despite Virgin’s best efforts (the company brought the Virgin Festival to Toronto from 2006 to 09), logistical and bureaucratic challenges have kept us from establishing anything on the scale of Osheaga in Montreal. This year, however, has seen a number of single-day music festivals take root, including Sunday’s Riot Fest. After eight years of establishing itself as Chicago’s premier punk rock festival, the hard-edged-music meet-up makes its Toronto debut, bringing along a solid lineup of genre

stars like California pop punk pioneers Descendents and NOFX, posi-minded party-starter Andrew W.K. and local hardcore heroes Fucked Up. “I could see Toronto becoming another flagship for us,” says Riot Fest founder Michael Petryshyn, who grew up just south of the border in Buffalo. “I started Riot Fest to suit my own tastes – mostly punk, hardcore, ska and a little bit of metal – but it’s grown and broadened a lot in the last few years. That’s the kind of vision I have for Toronto.” Petryshyn says these days Riot Fest draws three crowds: punk rock lifers, Warped Tour youngsters and Pitchfork hipsters. That broad-

ened appeal caused acclaimed Chicago music scribe Jim DeRogatis to accuse the fest of abandoning its underground, DIY roots, but Petryshyn is thrilled with Riot Fest’s newfound diversity. Bespectacled Descendents lead singer and festival veteran Bill Stevenson is, too. His band’s brand of melodic frustration anthems is well represented on the bill, though a full spectrum

of punk styles is included. “Some of my fondest memories of shows have been in clubs of no more than 500 capacity,” he says. “But at a festival like this, a person can go see multiple bands of all sorts and only have to spend one day doing so.” Toronto’s event is more homogeneously punk than its larger Chicago counterpart, which happens September 14-16 and includes Built to Spill and Elvis Costello. But that seems par for the course at Fort York’s Garrison Commons, whose re-emergence as a 2012 summer concert venue has brought out a number of niche day parties, from the EDM-focused Full Flex Express to the Canrock commemoration of the War of 1812 and the ska-punk blowout Sublime Summer. “We’re treating this year as a pilot year, presenting a range of concerts and events in order to determine what fits and what doesn’t,” says Alok Sharma, Fort York’s supervisor of special events. “Fort York is like a blank canvas with a lot of green space. As long as [the event] is a good fit with Fort York and the integrity of the national historic site is protected, you’ll continue to see diverse and unique programming at the Fort.” music@nowtoronto.com

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Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

aMsterDaM BiCyCle CluB Open Mic The Bos-

ton Molasses Explosion of 1919 (experimental) 10 pm. eMMet ray Bar Dan Fortin Quintet (jazz) 9 pm. gate 403 Richard Whiteman Jazz Band 9 pm, Denis Schingh 5 to 8 pm. HugH’s rooM Cabaret Series: West Coast Cool Cheryl Bentyne, Mark Winkler 8:30 pm. people’s CHiCken Vincent Wolfe (jazz crooner) 7:30 pm. reMarks Bar & grill Jazz Jam-gria Pat Murray, Mark Kieswetter, Artie Roth, Nick Fraser 8 to 11 pm. rex Dave Young Octet 9:30 pm, U of T Student Jazz Ensembles 6:30 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

alleyCatz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. gooDHanDy’s T-Girl Lust DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 insoMnia DJs Topher & Oranj (rock). kool Haus ISAM 2.0 Amon Tobin, Holy

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tHe piston JunkShop DJs Jorge & Jeeks (pre to

Motel Open Mic 10 pm. passion lounge Open Stage & Jam Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 9 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

gallery 345 New Orford String Quartet 8 pm. gate 403 G Street Jazz Trio 5 to 8 pm. lou DaWg’s Fat Tuesdays Irene Torres & the Sugar Devils (New Orleans jazz) 9 pm.

reservoir lounge The Joel Hartt Quintet

(jazz) 7 to 9 pm. rex Classic Rez Jazz Jam Terra Hazelton 9:30 pm, Donna Grantis, Steve Zsirai, Roger Trevasos (electric trio) 6:30 pm. superMarket The Ambient PiNG Presents The PiNG’s 13th Anniversary dreamSTATE, Pholde, Phil Ogison, Dogma I, Amoeba Starfish doors 8 pm. ten restaurant & Wine Bar Don Breithaupt & Chris Smith 9 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Mark Segger Sextet (jazz) 7:30 pm. tranzaC soutHern Cross Michael Davidson (jazz) 10 pm. village of yorkville park Music In The Park Marty Oakes Trio 4 to 7 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

glaDstone Hotel MeloDy Bar Mile High Club launch party Davidson Conceptualist, Adryin Annette 6 pm. gooDHanDy’s T-Girl Lust DJ Todd Klinck doors 8 pm.5 reposaDo Alien Radio DJ Gord C.

post punk/new wave/garage/indie) 10 pm.

Wednesday, September 12

Tuesday, September 11

pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

tHe DanfortH MusiC Hall Bloc Party, Ceremony doors 7 pm, all ages. ñ Holy oak Cafe Audrey Junior, the Dreadful

Starlings, Johnny Awesome (pop) 9 pm. HorsesHoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nite Young Guns, Donovan Woods, the Freemason 9 pm. lee’s palaCe Rusted Root, Lucy Stone doors 8 pm. parts & laBour Holograms, Ell V Gore, Mausoleum, S.H.I.T (punk/wave/synth) 9 pm. silver Dollar League of Rock doors 7 pm.

air CanaDa Centre Madonna, Nero. ñ CHerry Cola’s roCk n’ rolla Arcane Saints

doors 9 pm.

Devil’s Cellar Salvation, Ride at Dawn, Misfortune, Foxmoulder.

tHe Harp puB Johnny Max Band 8 pm. HollyWooD on tHe queensWay Jam Night

Dakota tavern The Weber Brothers, Paul

Dylan Hennessy 8:30 pm. HorsesHoe Mono, Chris Brokaw doors 8:30 pm. Molson aMpHitHeatre City and Colour, the Avett Brothers, Hey Rosetta!, Grey Kingdom doors 5:30 pm. pHoenix ConCert tHeatre Kreator, Accept, Swallow the Sun. rivoli Album release for Relic’s Miles To Go Relic, Unbuttoned, Ghettosocks, Wio-K, Fresh Kils (rap) doors 9:30 pm. superMarket Wednesdays Go Pop! Songwriters Circle.

Drake Hotel unDergrounD Shawn Hook,

alleyCatz Citysoul (swinging blues/vintage

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

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Folk/Blues/Country/World

Castro’s lounge BlueVenus (singer/songwriter) 10 pm.

C’est WHat The Lovelocks (alt-country female

duo) 9 pm. Reddick.

Dustin Bentall (folk) doors 8 pm. free tiMes Cafe Best Of The Open Stage Lily Mason, Megan Myke, Alaiza Gail, Taylor & Nickie 8:30 pm. gate 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth 9 pm. grossMan’s Tall Grass, Murder of Crows 10 pm. HugH’s rooM Bill Bourne. tHe loCal Michael Keith 10 pm. MonarCHs puB Band Aid Negril: Benefit For St Anthony’s Soup Kitchen & the Get Kids To School Bus Program Robin Banks (blues/R&B) 7 pm.

tHe Duke live.CoM 1225 Queen e. 416-463-5302. eDWarD JoHnson BuilDing 80 Queen’s park. 416-978-3744. el MoCaMBo 464 spadina. 416-777-1777. eMMet ray Bar 924 College. 416-792-4497. epipHany restaurant & lounge 4000 steeles W. 416-802-4077. fly 8 gloucester. 416-410-5426. tHe flying Beaver puBaret 488 parliament. 647-347-6567. footWork 425 adelaide W. 416-913-3488. fort york garrison CoMMons 250 Fort york. tHe 460 460 spadina ave. free tiMes Cafe 320 College. 416-967-1078. gallery 345 345 sorauren. 416-822-9781. tHe garrison 1197 dundas W. 416-519-9439. gate 403 403 roncesvalles. 416-588-2930. glaDstone Hotel 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. gooDHanDy’s 120 Church. 416-760-6514. tHe grayDon puB 235 Queen st s (mississauga). 905-997-8333. tHe great Hall 1087 Queen W. 416-826-3330. grossMan’s 379 spadina. 416-977-7000. HaBits gastropuB 928 College. 416-533-7272. HarBourfront Centre 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. tHe Harp puB 55 lakeshore e (mississauga). 905-274-3277. HeliConian Hall 35 Hazelton. 416-922-3618. tHe HiDeout 484 Queen W. 647-438-7664. HollyWooD on tHe queensWay 1184 Queensway. 416-251-0288. Holy oak Cafe 1241 Bloor W. 647-345-2803. HorsesHoe 370 Queen W. 416-598-4753. tHe Hoxton 69 Bathurst. 416-456-7321. HugH’s rooM 2261 dundas W. 416-531-6604. iMperial puB 54 dundas e. 416-977-4667. insoMnia 563 Bloor W. 416-588-3907. June reCorDs 662 College. 416-516-5863. kool Haus 132 Queens Quay e. 416-869-0045. lake affeCt patio Bar 1 port e. 905-274-8223.

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Folk/Blues/Country/World R&B) 8:30 pm.

BlaCk sWan Open Stage Nicola Vaughan (pop/rock/blues) 9:30 pm.

Clinton’s The Old Ambition Presents Dr Ew &

Band, Ultron Atreides, Weaves, Orchards doors 9 pm. Dakota tavern Tommy Youngsteen. eMMet ray Bar Peter Boyd & the Mutant Duo (blues) 9 pm. free tiMes Cafe Free Times Cafe’s Rising Star 8:30 pm.

lee’s palaCe 529 Bloor W. 416-532-1598. tHe loCal 396 roncesvalles. 416-535-6225. lonDon tap House 250 adelaide W. 416-205-1234. lou DaWg’s 589 king W. 647-347-3294. lou DaWg’s ryerson 76 gerrard e. 647-349-3294. lula lounge 1585 dundas W. 416-588-0307. luxy nigHtCluB 60 interchange Way (Vaughan). Maison MerCer 15 mercer. 416-341-8777. MCgraDies tap anD grill 2167 Victoria park. 416-449-1212. Mezzetta 681 st Clair W. 416-658-5687. Mississauga CeleBration square 300 City Centre. 905-615-4311. Molson aMpHitHeatre 909 lake shore W. MonarCHs puB 33 gerrard W. 416-585-4352. Motel 1235 Queen W. MusiC gallery 197 John. 416-204-1080. MusiDeuM 401 richmond W. 416-599-7323. naWlins Jazz Bar 299 king W. 416-595-1958. 918 BatHurst Centre for Culture & tHe arts 918 Bathurst. 416-538-0868. not My Dog 1510 Queen W. olD Mill inn 21 old mill rd. 416-236-2641. ontario sCienCe Centre 770 don mills. 416-696-1000. opera House 735 Queen e. 416-466-0313. overlook Hotel College and Bathurst, se corner. 866-943-8849. palais royale 1601 lake shore W. 416-533-3553. parts & laBour 1566 Queen W. 416-588-7750. passion lounge 1220 danforth. 416-999-0654. people’s CHiCken 744 mt pleasant. 416-489-7931. pHoenix ConCert tHeatre 410 sherbourne. 416-323-1251. tHe piston 937 Bloor W. 416-532-3989. port CreDit MeMorial park 20 lakeshore e (mississauga). ranCHo relaxo 300 College. 416-920-0366. relisH Bar & grill 2152 danforth. 416-425-4664. reMarks Bar & grill 1026 Coxwell. 416-429-9889. reposaDo 136 ossington. 416-532-6474.

reservoir lounge 52 Wellington e. 416-955-0887. la revoluCion 2848 dundas W. 416-766-0746. rex 194 Queen W. 416-598-2475. riCHMonD Hill Centre for tHe perforMing arts 10268 yonge (richmond Hill). 905-787-8811. rivoli 332 Queen W. 416-596-1908. roC n DoC’s 105 lakeshore e (mississauga). 905891-1754. roCkpile 5555 dundas W. 416-504-6699. rose tHeatre 1 theatre lane (Brampton). 905874-2800. salvaDor Darling 1237 Queen W. 416-534-0488. saviari tea + CoCktail lounge 926 king W. 647-382-7072. sHops at Don Mills 1090 don mills. 416-447-6087. silver Dollar 486 spadina. 416-975-0909. sneaky Dee’s 431 College. 416-603-3090. sounD aCaDeMy 11 polson. 416-461-3625. soutHsiDe JoHnny’s 3653 lake shore W. 416-521-6302. spirits 642 Church. 416-967-0001. superMarket 268 augusta. 416-840-0501. sutra/souz Dal 612 College. 416-537-8755. ten restaurant & Wine Bar 139 lakeshore e (mississauga). 905-271-0016. tHoMpson Hotel 550 Wellington W. 416-640-7778. toika 471 richmond W. 416-868-6452. toronto MusiC garDen 475 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000. tranzaC 292 Brunswick. 416-923-8137. trinity st. paul’s CHurCH 427 Bloor W. 416-922-8435. village of yorkville park Cumberland and Bellair. virgin MoBile MoD CluB 722 College. 416-588-4663. WaylaBar 996 Queen e. 416-901-5570. WinCHester kitCHen & Bar 51a Winchester. 416-323-0051. WrongBar 1279 Queen W. 416-516-8677. tHe yoga sanCtuary 2 College, suite 306. yonge-DunDas square yonge & dundas. 416-979-9960.

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dominion on Queen Corktown Uke Jam 8 pm. edward Johnson BuiLdinG waLTer haLL

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album reviews have to apologize too much for this album. The rest of us will be bewildered by the enduring adoration. Top track: Duquesne Whistle BENJAMIN BOLES

album of the week CAT POWER Sun (Matador) Rating:

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A six-year hiatus from releasing original music and a battle with alcoholism have hardly spelled the end for Chan Marshall, aka Cat Power. Instead, her ninth album finds her somewhat reinvented, in possession of a newly positive outlook and playful with the more electronic elements of music that have become so prevalent in her absence. Marshall’s soft, bluesy voice is as beguiling as ever (and sometimes subtly enhanced by Auto-Tune), and in places she delivers her hugely rhythmic lyrics in a casually spitfire way, like on

Pop/Rock

BOB DYLAN Tempest (Sony) Rating: NNN

While you wouldn’t know it from reading most of the breathlessly gushing reviews of Bob Dylan’s 35th studio album, Tempest, not all music critics think he’s a god. Maybe it’s a generational thing, but some of us think he’s vastly overrated and can’t get our heads around the idea of a supposed counterculture hero cheerfully doing a Pepsi ad with Black Eyed Peas’ will.i.am (not to mention selling his tunes for bank commercials). With that disclaimer in mind, this is one of his best albums in many years, although that’s not exactly a

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drum-machine-driven lead single Ruin. She hasn’t lost an ounce of cool since her early 90s beginnings. The album’s middle is slow, contemplative and ambient, allowing Marshall’s deep-seated melancholy to reveal itself. Real Life comes to terms with the depressing ordinariness of normal life, while on Human Being she urges us to discover how to live our own lives. You come away sensing that, despite losses and regrets, she’s found a satisfying way to live hers. Top track: Ruin Cat Power plays Kool Haus on October 20. CARLA GILLIS ringing endorsement. Dylan is sounding particularly oldtimey on Tempest, and Los Lobos’ David Hidalgo helps get that grimy pre-rock ’n’ roll vibe right. They’re going for a lo-fi 1950s single-microphone recording sound, with the band distant and boxy and Dylan’s voice front and centre. You could argue that no one really wants to hear his voice that clearly any more, but at least you get to hear his gory deathfocused lyrics clearly, and that’s supposed to be the point with him, right? And to be fair, he’s sounding way less off-key than we’ve come to expect. His fans will be relieved that they don’t

eight minutes, and most are closer to 12? So they’re not doing anything very new or innovative within the genre, but they are doing it bigger and better than few of their contemporaries would dare attempt, and the results are impressive. Unlike their past few albums, For My Parents wasn’t produced by Steve Albini, and the absence of his notoriously minimalist influence might be why this works so well. For a band so heavily influenced by modern classical music, Mono are not at all restrained, and that’s what’s great about them. Moments come dangerously close to cheesy, and the band tends to favour melody over atmosphere, but we prefer some bombast and ambition to boring experimental rock jams that run away from anything resembling a hook. Top track: Unseen Harbor Mono play the Horseshoe Wednesday (September 12). BB

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Coexist (Beggars/XL) Rating: With English trio The xx, you get the distinct sense that each member is essential to the whole. Remove singer/guitarist Romy Madley Croft, singer/bassist Oliver Sim or producer Jamie Smith and it’s hard to imagine their restrained and atmospheric pop sounding complete. Coexist isn’t a reinvention, but marks a clear step forward sonically from the group’s much-loved 2009 debut. As on that album, the lyrics remain fixated on the highs and lows of relationships, a topic that feels a touch overwrought by the end. While the basic formula remains, Coexist lingers longer in the realm of subbass than its predecessor. Its low frequencies, irregular rhythms and slow-burning dance beats creep into the songs and draw us in deeper. Madley Croft and Sim have become more confident singers, with Sim handling lead vocals on Fiction, a lonely ballad as alluring as it is bleak. It’s a fine example of The xx’s spartan approach to pop songwriting, choosing subtlety and beautifully honed details over big, dramatic gestures. Top track: Tides KEVIN RITCHIE

the Soft Boys and 70s Paul McCartney. Okay, there’s a fair dollop of Pavement in there, too, bringing an off-kilter edge to the songwriting despite the jangly tones and polished production. The melodies are catchy and the harmonies sunny, but offbeat lyrics, distant vocals and occasionally meandering arrangements keep the songs on the right side of the twee line. It’ll be interesting to see what Sheer Agony can do with a full-length format. Top track: She’s An Artist Sheer Agony play June Records tonight (Thursday, September 6). RICHARD TRAPUNSKI

BILLY TALENT Dead Silence (Warner)

Rating: NNN The fourth album by Billy Talent (fifth if you count their 1999 debut as Pezz) sounds exactly like what you’d expect from the maturing Mississauga pop-punk band: more middle-of-the-road radiofriendly guitar rock, with less punk energy and more classic rock than in their younger years. If you’re a long-time fan and haven’t grown tired of their formula, you’re probably old enough to appreciate the slower tempos and mellower mood. Billy Talent still have a great ear for shout-along choruses, and Ian D’Sa is a very skilled guitarist. Their sound is definitely dated, but there’s a surprisingly large fan base for this kind of stuff. On the other hand, writing about them in 2012 feels a bit like reviewing a Mötley Crüe album at the height of grunge. Nevertheless, it hits all the buttons it’s supposed to, and will chart well in Canada, though probably not in the rest of the world. Top track: Viking Death March BB

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Residence) Rating: NNNN On their sixth album, Japanese post-rock band Mono have accepted the clichés of instrumental music. You want epic? How about swooping, melodramatic string section parts all over the place. Cinematic? You can practically see the soaring helicopter shots of breathtaking landscapes. Did we mention that the shortest song is

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Elysium (Astralwerks/EMI) Rating: NNNN Pop’s elder statesmen Pet Shop Boys pare things back on their 11th studio album, a collection of lustrous and reflective midtempo jams peppered with Neil Tennant’s and Chris Lowe’s signature wit. The Boys worked with producer Andrew Dawson after listening to Kanye West’s previous two solo albums, and the result is one of their most serene and sonically consistent efforts to date. Unlike many of their younger pop contemporaries, PSB are ambitious in their songwriting inspiration, revelling in fleeting emotions and avoiding the makeup/ breakup subject matter that’s so oppressively ubiquitous. They tackle that topic in Ego Music, a scathing spoken word track that could be a mashup of every Lady Gaga interview ever. Your Early Stuff, meanwhile, brilliantly satirizes the plight of the aging pop star. However, many of the album’s delights are more subtly cunning. The centrepiece is the dramatic Hold On, a song sweeping in its choral grandeur yet deceptive in its simplicity. It exemplifies why Elysium is one of the year’s most beautiful pop albums. Top track: Hold On KR

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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 Life tests you all

the time. Sometimes its prods and queries are hard and weird; they come at you with non-stop intensity. On other occasions the riddles and lessons are pretty fun and friendly and give you lots of slack to figure them out. In all cases, life’s tests offer you the chance to grow smarter, both in your head and heart. They challenge you to stretch your capacities and invite you to reduce your suffering. Right now, oddly enough, you have some choice in what kinds of tests you’d prefer. Just keep in mind that the more interesting they are, the bigger the rewards are likely to be.

TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 According to

the religion of ancient Egypt, Tefnut is the goddess of moisture. In the natural world, she rules rain, dew, mist, humidity and condensation. For humans, she is the source of tears, spit, sweat, phlegm and the wetness produced by sex. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate her to be your tutelary spirit in the coming week. I suspect you will thrive by cultivating a fluidic sensibility. You will learn exactly what you need to learn by paying special attention to everything that exudes and spills and flows.

GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 I’m guessing

that you don’t know the name of the person who sent the first email. It was Ray Tomlinson, and he did it in 1971. You’re probably also unaware that he originated the use of the @ symbol as a

key part of email addresses. Now I’d like to address your own inner Ray Tomlinson, Gemini: the part of you that has done valuable work hardly anyone knows about; the part of you that has created good stuff without getting much credit or appreciation. I celebrate that unsung hero, and I hope you will make a special effort to do the same in the coming week.

CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Busy editor Katie Hintz-Zambrano was asked in an interview what she does when she’s not working at her demanding job. She said she likes to gets together with her “article club,” which is like a book club except it’s for people who don’t have time to read anything longer than articles. I would approve of your seeking out shortcut pleasures like that in the next few weeks, Cancerian. It’s one of those phases in your astrological cycle when you have a poetic licence to skip a few steps, avoid some of the boring details and take leaps of faith that allow you to bypass complicated hassles.

Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 Imagine you’re living

in 1880. You’re done with work for the day and are at home enjoying some alone-time leisure activities. What might those be? By the light of your oil lamp, you could read a book, sing songs, compose a letter with pen and paper or write in your diary. Now transfer your imaginative attention to your actual living space in 2012. It might have a smartphone, tablet, laptop, TV, DVD

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player and game console. You’ve got access to thousands of videos, movies, songs, social media, websites and networked games. Aren’t you glad you live today instead of 1880? On the other hand, having so many choices can result in your wasting a lot of time with stimuli that don’t fully engage you. Make this the week you see what it’s like to use your leisure time for only the highest-quality, most interesting and worthwhile stuff.

VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 I’ll bet that a-ha!

experiences will arrive at a faster rate than you’ve seen in a long time. Breakthroughs and brainstorms will be your specialty. Surprises and serendipitous adventures should be your delight. The only factor that might possibly obstruct the flow would be if you clung too tightly to your expectations or believed too fiercely in your old theories about how the world works. I’ve got an idea about how to ensure the best possible outcome. Several times every day, say something like the following: “I love to get my curiosity spiked, my hair mussed, my awe struck, my goose bumps roused, my dogmas exploded and my mind blown.”

LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 “Disappointments should be cremated, not embalmed,” said the aphorist Henry S. Haskins. That’s good advice for you right now, Libra. It’s an auspicious moment for you to set fire to your defeats, letdowns, and discouragements – and let them burn into tiny piles of ashes. I mean all of them, stretching back for years, not simply the recent ones. There’s no need to treat them like precious treasures you have an obligation to lug with you into the future. The time is right for you to deepen your mastery of the art of liberation.

sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Columnist Sydney J. Harris told the following story. “I walked with a friend to the newsstand the other night, and he bought a paper, thanking the owner politely. The owner, however, did not even acknowledge it. ‘A sullen fellow, isn’t he?’ I commented as we walked away. ‘Oh, he’s that way every night,’ shrugged my friend. ‘Then why do you continue being so polite to him?’ I asked. And my friend replied, ‘Why should I let him determine how I’m going to act?’” I hope you’ll adopt that approach in the coming week, Scorpio. Be your best self even if no one appreciates it or responds. Astrologically speaking, this is prime time to anchor yourself in your highest integrity.

sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 In the

1960 Olympics at Rome, Ethiopian runner Abebe Bikila was barefoot as he won a gold medal in the marathon race. Four years later, at the summer games in Tokyo, he won a gold medal again, this time while wearing shoes. I’m guessing this theme might apply to you and your life in the coming weeks. You have the potential to score another victory in a situation where you have triumphed in the past. And I think it’s even more likely to happen if you vary some fundamental detail, as Bikila did.

CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 Wikipedia

has extensive lists of the biggest unsolved problems in medicine, computer science, philosophy and nine other fields. Each article treats those riddles with utmost respect and interest, regarding them not as subjects to be avoided, but rather embraced. I love this perspective, and urge you to apply it to your own life. This would be an excellent time, astrologically speaking, to draw up a master list of your biggest unsolved problems. Have fun. Activate

your wild mind. Make it into a game. I bet that doing so will attract a flood of useful information that’ll help you get closer to solving those problems. (Here’s Wikipedia’s big list: tinyurl.com/ListofProblems.)

AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 There’s a

certain lesson in love that you have been studying and studying and studying – and yet have never quite mastered. Several different teachers have tried with only partial success to provide you with insights that would allow you to graduate to the next level of romantic understanding. That’s the bad news, Aquarius. The good news is that all this could change in the coming months. I foresee a breakthrough in your relationship with intimacy. I predict benevolent jolts and healing shocks that will allow you to learn at least some of the open-hearted truths that have eluded you all this time.

pisCes Feb 19 | Mar 20 A mother wrote to the Car Talk columnists to ask whether it’s possible to cook food on a car engine. She wanted to be able to bring her teenage son piping hot burritos when she picked him up from school. The experts replied that, yes, this is a fine idea. They said there’s even a book about how to do it, Manifold Destiny: The One! The Only! Guide To Cooking On Your Car Engine! I suggest you engage in this kind of creative thinking during the coming week, Pisces. Consider innovations that might seem a bit eccentric. Imagine how you might use familiar things in unexpected ways. Expand your sense of how to coordinate two seemingly unrelated activities. Homework: What are you more than ready for? What change have you prepared yourself to embrace? What lesson are you ripe to master? Write: FreeWillAstrology.com

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What the experts say “Our research has not shown any connection between the phases of the moon and the occurrence of suicide or crimes of violence. Lunar phases do not seem to influence human behaviour in a direct way in our database. Health workers, police officers and patients insist their sleep is worse during the full moon and that there are more accidents, emergency admissions and crimes. Only a few studies support this notion. Cardiovascular diseases, births, accidents, murder and suicide, selfdestructive behaviour and every condition one can think of have been examined for the influence of the moon, but no deeper insight has been drawn.” TERESA BIERMANN, medical director, psychiatric and psychotherapy clinic, University Hospital, Erlangen, Germany “People report feeling more awake, restless or in emotional turmoil during the three days around the full moon. During the new or dark moon, people are often quiet and indrawn. Scientists claim the evidence is anecdotal, but every time we think there’s no basis in fact for something people have been reporting for years, there often ends up being some truth. My friends and I tend to be more creative, not sleep so well and have more active dreams during the full moon. It’s a time of increased activity and creativity. It makes sense in a spiritual way. The moon rules the mind, the subconscious and emotions. A lot of women have their monthly cycles tuned to a specific phase of the moon.” NICOLE COOPER, manager, Occult Shop, high priestess, Wiccan Church of Canada, Toronto “Although the moon’s gravitational effects contribute to the tides seen in the great oceans, many large bodies of water, such as the Mediterranean Sea,

show no such periodic changes. Furthermore, the watery components of the human body experience vigorous fluctuations many orders of magnitude greater than those that might theoretically derive from a remote body such as the moon. Its effects would be lost in the noise created by the heart and respiration rates, which independently cause large pressure pulses in the watery chambers within and around the brain. Even at its brightest, the moon provides less light than that which is needed to affect melatonin release from the pineal gland, even if you sleep in a roofless home with eyes open. If the lunar cycle had a synchronizing effect on the female menstrual cycle, the social consequences would be obvious and many anthropologists would have reported this phenomenon.” CLIVE COEN, professor of neuroscience, head of reproduction & biological rhythms, King’s College London, UK “Belief in lunar effects on abnormal or deviant human behaviour (“moon madness”) is common, perpetuated by the media and notably widespread among health professionals. Our study investigated lunar effects on completed suicide. The literature on this appears unsettled. The timing of all 65,206 suicides officially registered in Austria between 1970 and 2006 was analyzed. Both male and female suicide occurrence did not deviate from expected proportions during the new, crescent, full and decrescent moon quarters, or from those expected for three-day windows around the new and full moon. Scattered previous evidence in support of such effects was in all likelihood spurious.” MARTIN VORACEK, professor, school of psychology, University of Vienna, Austria

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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with AMALUNA’S DIANE PAULUS • Review of COME BACK, LITTLE SHEBA • Interview with comic LAUREN ASH ABOUT THE SUN NEWS DEBACLE • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings

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Diane Paulus (right) directs the femalecentric Amaluna, which blends acrobats like the Aerial Straps performers and a literary/mythical story.

How to find a listing

Theatre listings are comprehensive and appear alphabetically by title. Opening plays begin this week, Previewing shows preview this week, One-Nighters are one-offs, and Continuing shows have already opened. Reviews are by Glenn Sumi (GS) and Jon Kaplan (JK). The rating system is as follows: NNNNN Standing ovation NNNN Sustained applause NNN Recommended, memorable scenes NN Seriously flawed N Get out the hook

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All listings are free. Send to: stage@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1166 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices (include stu/srs discounts and PWYC days), venue name and address and box office/info phone number. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

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Women on top

Opening ñAMALUNA

Broadway star helms Cirque du Soleil homage to female power By GLENN SUMI

AMALUNA directed by Diane Paulus, choreographed by Karole Armitage. Presented by Cirque du Soleil at the Grand Chapiteau (Commissioners east of Cherry). Opens tonight (Thursday, September 6) and runs to October 21, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 1 and 5 pm, Saturday 4 pm, some exceptions. $58.50-$158.50, stu/srs/child from $43.50. cirquedusoleil.com/amaluna.

When theatre director Diane Paulus sat down to talk with Cirque du Soleil about directing one of their shows, it didn’t take long to entice her. “One of the first things they said to me was they wanted the show to be an homage to women,” says Paulus. “So I was kind of sold right there.” It was a smart move by Cirque to pursue one of the most in-demand directors in the world. Paulus broke onto the international scene just over a decade ago with The Donkey Show, an edgy, disco-inspired adaptation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, which left off-Broadway to tour the world for several years. Since then she’s helmed acclaimed remounts of the musicals Hair and, still running on Broadway, Porgy And Bess. Last season she directed a vis-

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ually stunning production of The Magic Flute for the Canadian Opera Company. But the chance to create a femalecentric show for the world’s premier circus company was unlike anything she’d encountered before. “Just in terms of endurance, it was the hardest project I’ve ever done,” she says in her scratchy voice, first thing in the morning in a cab from the airport into Manhattan. “It’s such a long process. And it’s so demanding.” Demanding, yes, but also rewarding, especially since Paulus had artistic freedom and the pick of the world’s top female acrobats, athletes and musicians (band members are female and take part in the show as performers, too). And she was also allowed to bring on her frequent collaborators writer Randy Weiner and choreographer Karole Armitage. “I come from the world of theatre and opera, so I wanted to see if I could bring a powerful emotional through line to the show,” she says. “It’s hard to talk about story, because it’s circus and acrobatics – we’re not dealing with words. But I knew there was a way we could craft an arc to have the audience care as much about what

happens to the characters as the wow of the acrobatics.” To construct the narrative, Paulus went to sources like The Tempest, The Magic Flute and Greek mythology. “I love looking at these archetypes and seeing how we can mine them,” she says. “I pretty quickly realized The Tempest’s Prospero could be Prospera. And we could have a queen of an island of women. Central to The Tempest is the relationship between a parent and a child, so I thought of mothers and daughters, the life cycle, what we pass on from one generation to the next, which seemed a theme connected to women as well: women as childbearers, representing the earth and the life cycle.” Casting from all corners of the globe contributed to the creation process. “I was looking at hours of video and audition submissions from all these incredible women from Russia, China, Japan and Latin America,” she explains. “There would be these ‘Aha!’ moments. If we had this Russian contortionist who could maybe learn the water bowl, that’s kind of like the goddess Diana from Greek mythology who bathes in private and is spied upon by a male lover. Which is kind of

like Romeo and Juliet, and that could be our Miranda! “So we built it going from image to image and finding ways to link acrobatics to these narrative hooks.” Rehearsing in a space the size of an airport hangar had its challenges, as did communicating in a number of languages. “We had four simultaneous translations going,” she laughs. “It was like a live United Nations session. I’d say, ‘Okay, people, let’s take it from here,’ and you’d hear it on a speaker in Russian, Japanese, Chinese and Spanish.” But working with talented artists from around the world was also inspiring. “To see this team from China, many of them under 18, interacting with Americans and Australians and French-Canadian boys and Russian girls…,” she recalls. “We really got beyond cultural barriers and became one company. That was one of the most deeply exciting and rewarding experiences, a real tribute to the power of theatre.” 3 glenns@nowtoronto.com twitter.com/glennsumi

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(Cirque du Soleil). Music, dance, acrobatics and design are used to look at femininity, renewal, rebirth and balance on a mystical island governed by women (see story, this page). Opens Sep 6 and runs to Oct 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 4 pm, Sun 1 and 5 pm (see website for exceptions). $58.50-$158.50, stu/srs/child from $43.50. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil. com/amaluna. AS YOU LIKE IT by William Shakespeare (UC Follies Theatre Company). Love flourishes among exiles in this romantic comedy performed outdoors. Bring your own blanket. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 15, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm. $10, stu/srs $8, Wed pwyc. Hart House Circle, 7 Hart House Circle. uofttix.ca. THE BIG BANG by Jed Feuer and Boyd Graham (Civic Light Opera Company). Two theatre producers try to stage the history of civilization in this musical comedy. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 22, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun (and Sep 19) 2 pm. $28. York Woods Library Theatre, 1785 Finch W. 416755-1717, civiclightoperacompany.com. CINDERELLA... IF THE SHOE FITS! (Cabbagetown Theatre Company). This all-ages, panto-style comedy is inspired by the fairy tale and presented as part of the Cabbagetown Festival. Sep 7-9, Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun noon, 1, 2, 3 & 4 pm. $5. Necropolis Chapel, 200 Winchester. 416-653-5870, cabbagetowntheatre.com. DANNY AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA by John Patrick Shanley (Sterling Studio Theatre). Two of society’s rejects meet in a bar in this look at love and loneliness. Previews Sep 11. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 22, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $15, preview $10. 163 Sterling, unit 5. secureaseat.com/danny. FERAL CHILD by Jordan Tannahill (Suburban Beast/Canadian Stage). An Oshawa housekeeper’s encounter with a teenage boy unearths memories of her son’s disappearance during the Bosnian war. Previews Sep 6 at 8 pm. Opens Sep 7 and runs to Sep 22, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat mats 2 pm. $22, stu $17. Berkeley Street Theatre, 26 Berkeley. 416-368-3110, suburbanbeast.ca. HENRY AND ALICE: INTO THE WILD by Michele Riml (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A longtime-married couple try camping to re-ignite the spark. Opens Sep 7 and runs to Oct 6, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sat-Sun and Wed 2:30 pm. $27$32, stu $16. Springer Theatre, 690 Charles S, Gananoque. 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

a NICE FamIly gaTHERINg by Phil Olson (Up-

per Canada Playhouse). The ghost of a family’s patriarch joins a tense family reunion. Previews Sep 6-7. Opens Sep 8 and runs to Sep 30, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 2 pm. $32, stu/srs $28, previews $21. 12320 County Road 2, Morrisburg. 1-877-550-3650, uppercanadaplayhouse.com. THE TOy BOx by Beth Kates and Ben Chaisson (Playground Studio/Theatre Passe Muraille). An interactive all-ages event where participants can play with green screens, projections and more to create art that reflects the fun side of the city. Opens Sep 12 and runs to Sep 15, Wed-Sat 12:30 to 8 pm. Free. 16 Ryerson. 416-504-7529, passemuraille.on.ca.

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BluE SuEDE SHOES: mEmORIES OF THE kINg by

Colin Stewart and Chris McHarge (Drayton Entertainment). This musical tribute features the songs of Elvis Presley. Previews Sep 12, opens Sep 13 and runs to Oct 6, see website for times. $40, previews $32, stu $20. Drayton Festival Theatre, 33 Wellington S, Drayton. 1-888-372-9866, draytonentertainment.com. NO gREaT mISCHIEF by David S Young (Tarragon Theatre). Haunted by stories and songs of their Scottish ancestry, two brothers seek to reconcile the past. Previews Sep 11-18. Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 21, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $48-$53, srs $38-$43, stu $27, previews $21-$24, rush $13. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com.

One-Nighters

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Performance Art). New solo performance art works by the Swiss artists. Sep 8 at 8 pm. Pwyc. WARC, 401 Richmond W, unit 122. performanceart.ca. JamaICa FaREwEll by Debra Ehrhardt (Meadowbrook Entertainment). This solo autobiographical show follows a woman’s adventurous emigration from Jamaica to the U.S in the 70s. Sep 8 at 5 and 8 pm. $35. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 1-800-8383006, brownpapertickets.com. maSaDa by Arthur Milner (Beit Zatoun). Staged reading of Milner’s lecture-play about the history of modern Zionism, from Roman times to the present. Sep 8 at 7 pm. $10. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500, beitzatoun.org. SkIN TIgHT by Gary Henderson (Actors Repertory Co). Staged reading of Henderson’s play about two disturbed lovers confronting memories in the post-Depression era. Sep 9 at 7:30 pm. Pwyc. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. arcstage.wordpress.com. SPEakEaSy (Les Coquettes). The cabaret theatre company presents burlesque, music and more inspired by vintage NYC nightclubs in a dinner theatre show. Sep 9 at 7 pm. $20-$85. Revival, 783 College. lescoquettes.com.

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aPPRENTICE TO muRDER (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). This dinner-theatre whodunit features corporate back-stabbing and boardroom intrigue. Runs to Sep 15, Fri-Sat and some Thu; dinner from 6:30 pm, show 8 pm. $66-$71. 2026 Yonge. 416-486-7469, mysteriouslyyours.com. avENuE Q by Robert Lopez and Jeff Marx (Lower Ossington Theatre). This intimate revival of the Broadway smash delivers all the fun of puppets behaving badly. Songs about racism, porn and being in the closet are hilarious, honest and performed well by a strong cast of singers and puppeteers challenged by a few technical restraints. Runs to Oct 7, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $45-$60. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. NNN (Jordan Bimm) THE CRuCIBlE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper). Still relevant 60 years after its premiere, The Crucible is ostensibly about the Salem witchcraft trials but resonates wherever emotional and political demonization take place. Soulpepper’s mostly well-

acted production captures the personal and societal ramifications of the accusations. Runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNNN (Susan G Cole) mEmORy IN THE muD (Words In Motion). This movable drama and tour tells the stories of brick makers, POWs and Depression-era transients who spent time at the Brick Works. Runs to Sep 30, most Sat and Wed 2 pm (see website for exact schedule). $20, child $10. Evergreen Brick Works, 550 Bayview. ebw. evergreen.ca/whats-on/memory-in-the-mud. mIND REaDER (Bobby Motta). Mentalist Motta performs a weekly interactive show. Indefinite run, Wed 8 pm. $15. The Annex Live, 296 Brunswick. bobbymotta.com. PINkalICIOuS, THE muSICal by Elizabeth Kann, Victoria Kann and John Gregor (Vital Theatre). A girl turns pink after eating too many cupcakes in this family musical. To Sep 30, Sun 1 pm. $29.50-$39.50. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. vitaltheatre.ca. THE ROyal COmEDIaNS by Mikhail Bulgakov (Soulpepper). Director László Marton draws overt parallels between the French playwright’s 18th-century troubles with Louis XIV and Bulgakov’s in the 1930s with Josef Stalin in this striking production; interpolated scenes from Moliere’s own plays reflect on the offstage action. Diego Matamoros gives a fine performance in the title role, with Soulpepper stalwarts and young members of the company’s Academy ably supporting him. Runs to Sep 21, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper. ca. NNNN (JK) SPEED-THE-PlOw by David Mamet (Soulpepper). It’s middling Mamet – all flash and with almost no emotional truth – but this tale of two Hollywood sharks who plan to produce an exploitative prison pic and the temp secretary who tries to bring salvation to one of them has some searing satire, razor-sharp dialogue and three fine performances by Ari Cohen, Jordan Pettle and Sarah Wilson. Runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) THE SuNSHINE BOyS by Neil Simon (Soulpepper). Simon’s 1972 comedy about a famous vaudeville duo who grudgingly reunite for a TV special is jokey and middlebrow, but has lots of affection for show business and a moving metaphor about friendship and working relationships. Director Ted Dykstra gets rich, deeply felt performances from veterans Kenneth Welsh and Eric Peterson, who nail most of the jokes and help suggest a lot that’s not in the script. Runs to Sep 22, see website for schedule. $51-$68, stu $32; rush $22, stu $5. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-8668666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) waR HORSE based on a novel by Michael Morpurgo, adapted by Nick Staf-

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A shrug turns into a philosophy of life in The Corpse Bride, Niki Landau’s often striking take on a Jewish folk tale in which a young man on his way to an arranged wedding in a shtetl accidentally weds a dead woman and is pursued by the corpse. It’s no Tim Burton tale, for the narrative is firmly grounded in Yiddish culture and the view that God takes care of his people in times of hardship. Gumpcha (Jennifer Balen), the only Jewish girl in the village of Nur, is to be wed; with the help of a pair of matchmakers, her mother (Sarah

Orenstein) chooses the scholar Pinkel (Andy Trithardt) from the village of Sut on the other side of the dark forest. He’s just the kind of man, argues the mother to the doting father (Wil liam Vickers), whom her daughter can control. But the reluctant groom-to-be practises the wedding ceremony in the woods while travelling to Nur, unintentionally slipping the wedding ring onto the finger of a dead woman, who pursues him for the rest of the play. Under director Paul Lampert, the story unfolds in stylized movement rather than dialogue, with the addition of a fine klezmer-inspired score by John Gzowski and the occasional grunt, laugh and sigh from the committed actors. The show resembles a silent film, with the characters outfitted by set

and costume designer Teresa Przy bylski in black and white (with one important touch of red), lit by Kevin Lamotte and titles projected on the back wall. Cameron Davis’s videos give further atmosphere to the action. Much of the production is cleverly staged, with engaging work by the central figures, including the expressive Evelyn Hart as a grieving mother, Richard Greenblatt as a ragpicker with a practical piece of philosophy and Colin Doyle as the village fool with a crush on Gumpcha. Other elements haven’t yet come together. The Nur town “chorus” isn’t as well defined as it might be, and the several songs interpolated into the action (and well sung by Nathan Car roll) don’t capture the intended ironic, distanced comment on the story. 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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ford (National Theatre of Great Britain/Mirvish). The storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s familiar â&#x20AC;&#x201C; boy gets horse, boy loses horse, etc â&#x20AC;&#x201C; but the stagecraft on display in War Horse is like nothing else. Handspring Puppet Companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s equines come to life with Rae Smithâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spectacular design, which uses projections to convey the First World War battlefields where Albert (an excellent Alex Ferber) seeks the horse he loves. We appreciate the anti-war message, as well, but itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the magic theatre can create thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll make you weep. Runs to Sep 30, TueSat 7:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $35-$130, rush $29. Princess of Wales Theatre, 300 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. NNNNN (Susan G Cole)

Out of Town The BesT BroThers by Daniel MacIvor (Stratford Festival). Two very different Ăą brothers learn about each other and their

mother after her death. Runs in rep to Sep 16. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The CloCkmaker by Stephen Massicotte (Thousand Islands Playhouse). A man is drawn to a married woman who brings a broken clock to his shop. Runs to Sep 8, Tue-Sun 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $30-$32, stu $16. Firehall Theatre, 185 South St, Gananoque. 1-866382-7020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com.

Come BaCk, liTTle sheBa by William Inge (Shaw Festival). A couple who marĂą ried young confront their past and future 20

years later when a woman rents a room in their home. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. CymBeliNe by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A bogus claim of infidelity leads a kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s daughter to risk everything for love. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. elekTra by Sophocles (Stratford Festival). Elektra and her brother seek vengeance against their mother and stepfather for the murder of their father in this Greek tragedy. (See review, this page.) Runs in rep to Sep 29. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) 42Nd sTreeT by Michael Stewart, Mark Bramble, Harry Warren and Al Dubin (Stratford Festival). A director falls for a chorus girl while trying to keep his musical show afloat. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. FreNCh WiThouT Tears by Terence Rattigan (Shaw Festival). Young men come to France to improve their language skills but get distracted by women in this comedy. Runs in

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rep to Sep 15. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. hedda GaBler by Henrik Ibsen (Shaw Festival). A headstrong new bride wreaks havoc on all around her to keep her checkered past secret. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. heNry V by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Englandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s new king invades France in this epic drama. Runs in rep to Sep 29. $49$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. hirsCh by Alon Nashman and Paul Thompson (Stratford Festival). Actor Alon Nashman and director Paul Thompsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s portrait of John Hirsch, the talented, complicated director who for a time ran the Stratford Festival, pulls no punches; the show reveals Hirschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s caustic, irascible side as well as his passion for and insight into theatre. Nashman is mesmerizing as he takes the audience from the Hungarian-born Hirschâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s loss of family in the Holocaust to his successes and tribulations on Canadian and international stages. Runs in rep to Sep 14. $30-$70. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) his Girl Friday adapted by John Guare (Shaw Festival). This comedy is based on Howard Hawksâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s 1940 film and Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthurâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s play The Front Page. Runs in rep to Oct 5. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festival Theatre, 10 Queenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Parade, Niagara-onthe-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll Be BaCk BeFore midNiGhT by Peter Colley (Lighthouse Festival Theatre). A city couple rents a haunted farmhouse in this comedy. Runs to Sep 15, see website for schedule. $27-$33. 247 Main, Port Dover. 1-888-779-7703, lighthousetheatre.com. a maN aNd some WomeN by Githa Sowerby (Shaw Festival). Sowerbyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unknown little gem of a play is an early feminist work, but on the surface itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s about the liberation of a man from servitude to his demanding, manipulative wife and sisters. The Shaw ensemble is expert at suggesting the emotional subtext of the play and, under Alisa Palmerâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s direction, the strength of the writing shines through. Runs in rep to Sep 22. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) The maTChmaker by Thornton Wilder (Stratford Festival). A materialistic merchant hires a matchmaker to find him a wife in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The millioNairess by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). The richest woman in England and an Egyptian doctor fall in love, but have conflicting family obligations. Runs in rep to Oct 6. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. misalliaNCe by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A bored heiress finds adventure when a plane crashes into her home during a dull party. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $35-$90, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. muCh ado aBouT NoThiNG by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Stellar performances by Ben Carlson and Deborah Hay as the warring Benedick and Beatrice anchor director Chrisopher Newtonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s warm-hearted show. Other production elements are also strong, though the subplotâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedy involving the watch isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t very funny. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$95, srs $35-$55, stu $15-$25. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK) The PiraTes oF PeNzaNCe by WS Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan (Stratford Festival). A young pirate apprentice must choose between love and duty in this comic operetta. Runs in rep to Oct 27. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. PreseNT lauGhTer by NoĂŤl Coward (Shaw Festival). An actor deals with people vying for his attention in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $35-$110, stu/srs mats $24-$45. Festi-

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Sophokles, is age-old. Before the action of the play, King Agamemnon has been murdered by his wife, Clytemestra (thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the spelling here), and her lover, Aigisthos. The young Elektra sends baby brother Orestes far away so their mother wonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t commit another murder. The ever-mourning, revenge-crying Elektra is a pariah at court, hated by her elders. As the play starts, a trio of strangers arrives to tell Clytemestra that Orestes is dead. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not, we discover, exactly what the three men have come to do. The Greek team that created this production â&#x20AC;&#x201C; director Thomas Moschopoulos, designer Ellie Papageorgakopoulou, composer Kornilios Selamsis and choreographer Amalia Bennett â&#x20AC;&#x201C; working with Canadian lighting designer Itai Erdal, give a universal look to the show with a graffiti-covered wall and plastic garbage bags at the rear and pieces of a Greek statue on tables stretching across the stage.

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(Shaw Festival). This one-act opera looks at the 1950s American dream through the eyes of a seemingly perfect couple. Runs in rep to Oct 7. $32. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. WaNderlusT by Morris Panych and Marek Norman (Stratford Festival). This musical comedy is based on the life and poems of Robert Service. Runs in rep to Sep 28. $49$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re a Good maN, Charlie BroWN by Clark Gesner (Schulich Childrenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Plays/ Stratford Festival). Who says this show doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t belong on a Stratford stage? Sure, the original charming, low-fi staging has been thrown out for big production numbers, but the cast is almost always winning and, importantly, the kids in the audience loved it. Maybe in later years theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll ask their parents to bring them to see some Shakespeare. Runs in rep to Oct 28. $49-$106, srs $41-$66, stu $19-$29. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (Susan G Cole) 3

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Thursday, September 6 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Joey

Elias with Faisal Butt and host Scott White. To Sep 9, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, Sun 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! Second City presents its fall 2012 revue featuring new sketches, songs and improv about stress and juggling priorities (see review, this page).

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Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm (plus Sat 10 pm). $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNN (GS) YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Steve Patterson. To Sep 9, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Steve Dylan w/ Alex Pavone and Tony Krolo. To Sep 8, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $14-$20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Graham Chittenden w/ Danny Mendlow and Jo-Anna Downey. To Sep 8, Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $12-$20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. yukyuks.com.

World presents the improv variety show w/ Chris Gibbs, Naomi Snieckus, Matt Baram and guest Maestro Fresh-Wes. 10:30 pm. $12, stu $6. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, thenationaltheatreoftheworld.com. LEWIS BLACK Just For Laughs presents the stand-up comic/actor in a live show. 8 pm. $35.50-$55.50. Massey Hall, 178 Victoria. 416-872-4255, masseyhall.com. PAULLY WANNA CRACK UP? Michael Black presents stand-up w/ Gavin Stephens and Rob Mailloux. 8 pm. Pwyc. Paully’s Pub, 1240 Yonge. 416-921-7782. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 6.

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ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 6. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World

News Café presents improv with Common Glitterati. 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. FAN FICTION: THE HARRY POTTER EDITION Black Swan Comedy presents fan-generated material performed live by comedy groups. 8 pm. $5. Black

ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 6. COMEDY LOUNGE: I THINK I’M ALREADY A STAR

Lambadina presents Anthony Englebrecht and others. 8:30 pm. $10-$15. 875 Bloor W. comedylounge.ca. FOO YORK! FOO YORK! presents a variety show funder to send Helen Donnelly’s show to the New York Clown Theater Festival, w/ Sandra Shamas, Precious Chong, Bruce Hunter, Chris Gibbs, Femmes du Feu, host

Keith Cole and others. 8:30 pm. $20. Centre of Gravity, 1300 Gerrard E. 416-536-4323, fooyorkfooyork-efbevent.eventbrite.ca. MONKEY TOAST Comedy Bar presents the improvised talk show w/ ING Direct CEO Peter Aceto, author/TV host Bruce Sellery, host Ron Tite and the Monkey Toast Players. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S WEST See Thu 6.

Sunday, September 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 6. HAPPY HOUR @ EIN-STEIN presents David Rob-

inson, Dave Shuken, Marc Hallworth, Tony Cianchino, Rukhsana Khan, host Julia Bruce and others. 8 pm. Free. Ein-Stein, 229 College. ein-stein.ca. LEESON’S LAUGH LOUNGE Jeff Leeson presents live tapings of a new comedy/variety show w/ actor Edsson Morales and singer Chad Price. 8 pm. Free. LOT Comedy Club, 100 Ossington. leesonslaughlounge.com. SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present weekly sketch comedy w/ guest hosts and musical acts. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. thesketchersons.com. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 6. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 6.

Monday, September 10 ALTDOT COMEDY LOUNGE Rivoli presents Nikki Payne, Debra DiGiovanni, Graham Chittenden, Peter Anthony, Julia Bruce, Keven Soldo, Kyle Dooley, Amanda Brooke Perrin, Jeff Toth, Jordan Chyzowski, MC Ron Sparks and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. altdotcomedylounge.com. BEANS & WIENERS COMEDY Gladstone Hotel presents emerging comedians. 8 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com. BLACK SWAN COMEDY presents Improv DropIn at 6:30 pm ($5), the Monday Improv Jam at 8 pm and the Monday Variety Show at 9:30 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. blackswancomedy.com. CORNER COMEDY Not My Dog presents weekly stand-up w/ host Hannah Hogan. 8 pm. Free. 1510 Queen W. notmydog.ca.

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THE SHISHA SHOW Naughty Nadz presents

stand-up w/ headliner Dave Tsonos, host Blair Streeter and an open mic. 9 pm. Free. 1590 Dundas E, Mississauga. 905-232-5577.

Tuesday, September 11 CHAOS: THE IMPROV SHOW Black Swan Comedy presents random teams of random sizes. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, second floor. blackswancomedy.com. JEFF LEESON COMEDY NIGHT Gladstone Hotel presents Leeson and guests. 8 pm. Free. 1214 Queen W. gladstonehotel.com. THE SECOND CITY’S IMPROV ALL-STARS Second City presents a fast-paced, completely improvised weekly show. To Sep 25, 8 pm. $14. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents The Headliner Series w/ British Teeth, Arthur Simeon, Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Debra DiGiovanni and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 6.

Wednesday, September 12 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Pro-Am Night w/

Scott White, Adrian Sawyer, Al Val, Amber Harper-Young, Carlo Dizzyo, Thomas Patrice and host Jordan Chyzowski. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca.

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presents an unscripted adventure comedy based on the popular role-playing game. To Sep 19, Wednesdays 8 pm. $12, stu $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com. THE SHORT NOTICE SHOW Matt Folliott presents Kayla Lorette, Alex Tindal and Folliott w/ guests Tony Ho, Catherine McCormick, the Templeton Philharmonic and more. 8 pm. Pwyc. Magpie Taproom, 831 Dundas W. mattfolliott.com. SIREN’S COMEDY Celt’s Pub presents open-mic stand-up w/ Mike Kellett and host Marc Hallworth. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416767-3339. TROUPE NIGHT Black Swan Comedy presents a night of improv. 8 pm. Pwyc. Black Swan, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. blackswancomedy.com. WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! See Thu 6. 3

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Uneven Second city show delivers a fun, if bumpy, ride By glenn sumi WE’VE TOTALLY (PROBABLY) GOT THIS! written and performed by Ashley Comeau, Jason DeRosse, Nigel Downer, Alastair Forbes, Carly Heffernan and Stacey McGunnigle (Second City, 55 Mercer). Limited run, Wednesday-Thursday 8 pm, Friday-Sunday 7:30 pm, late shows FridaySaturday 10 pm. $24-$29, stu $15 (no Saturday eves). 416-343-0011, secondcity. com. Rating: NNN

The title of Second City’s new revue, We’ve Totally (Probably) Got This!, is apropos. The performances are confident and cocky, but, alas, the material could be sharper and funnier. The show’s underlying theme is chaos and uncertainty. It’s there in the stylish opening montage about an impending “shit storm,” continues in a clever sketch about a park bench dweller (Nigel Downer) who goes all postal on pigeons, and also shows up in a bit about an eccentric, Karen Klein-ish school bus driver (Ashley Comeau) who finally gets back at the

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kids who’ve been bullying her. I’m intentionally singling out Downer and Comeau, who seize hold of the show’s best moments and never let go. As a junior kindergarten teacher at a spoken word open mic, Downer spews comic bile with his improvised reinterpretations of nursery rhymes, while Comeau, as a woman standing in line in a store behind an annoying family (including Carly Heffernan as an obnoxious, screeching kid), unleashes an aria of fury that the audience can totally relate to. Other strong scenes include a sinister one about two singles (Alastair Forbes and promising newcomer Stacey McGunnigle) who meet online and reveal they’re still stalking their exes. And the closing sketch, about a soldier’s (Downer) dying wishes to his friends (Forbes and Jason DeRosse), pushes lots of buttons about sympathy and doing the right thing. It’s hilariously awkward. But the bulk of sketches lack the

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line-by-line polish of the best work from the company’s recent shows. One, set at a tourist resort and involving audience participation, elicits uneasy laughs about Third World poverty, and a bit about the taping of a TV commercial for a paralegal team feels pointless. Worst is an overly long skit about security guards in Sherway Gardens Mall, essentially one long head-incrotch joke. Some scenes don’t work but cover some bold terrain, like the one in which Heffernan plays a right-wing Sun reader in an aerobics class. The payoff – which I won’t give away – isn’t worth the buildup. And director Melody A. Johnson makes sure scenes are lively and energetic, helped a lot by Matthew Reid’s score, his most eclectic to date. This feels like a transition show; I hope the next one is totally – no qualifications – on target. 3

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These three shows at first seem unrelated, but all in different ways make dramatic points about domesticity and identity. At The Far Edge Of Words is a retrospective of work since the 80s by Lebanese-Canadian artist Jamelie Hassan, on tour from Museum London in her Ontario hometown. In small mixed-media installations that make use of painting, photography, video, ceramics, neon tubes and text, Hassan filters Middle East politics and immigration issues

through her own family history. The wall cards offer extensive background on Hassan’s career and explain Arabic-language references like the teardrop-shaped neon sign shaming the U.S. for its detention of an Al Jazeera cameraman and Slippers Of Disobedience, a comment on the subversive effect of educating Muslim women. The intimacy and directness of Hassan’s work bring emotional depth to her politics. On the other hand, Israel’s Guy Ben-Ner totally sidesteps Mideast and identity politics. In his video Stealing Beauty, his domestic life becomes an episodic sitcom in which a nuclear family of English-speaking Israelis inhabits a German Ikea showroom, going about their daily routines while shoppers file by. The retail netherworld makes a comedic setting to send up solemn family dis-

cussions about property relations. Addressing the web of interspecies domestication, Jeroen Eisinga’s blackand-white film Springtime (part of TIFF’s Future Projections) documents the Dutch artist’s performance of bee-bearding, a weird activity sometimes practised competitively by beekeepers, who attach a caged MOCCA TIFF Future Projections: Jeroen Eisinga, to Sep 16; Jamelie Hassan and Guy Ben-Ner, to Oct 14, reception 8-10 pm Sep 7. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. MUSEUM OF INUIT ART Jessie Kenalogak, ongoing (Collectors Nights Fri 7-9 pm, $10). $6, stu/srs $5, weekends free. 207 Queens Quay W. 416-640-7591. POWER PLANT Omer Fast, artist’s talk 7 pm Sep 11 (Studio Theatre, $12). 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Jorinde Voigt, to Oct 12. TIFF Future Projections: Kelly Richardson, Sep 6-16. Ultimate Dinosaurs: Giants From Gondwana, to Jan 6, 2013. SSmall Skills, Special Effects: Unusual Chinese Works Of Art, to Feb 3, 2013. Todd Ainslie; Carnival: From Emancipation To Celebration, to Feb 24, 2013. $15, stu/srs $13.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $9, stu/srs $8. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA Dreamland: Textiles And The Canadian Landscape, to Sep 30. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Video: Robert Wilson, Sep 11-Oct 6. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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Jamaican Art, to Sep 8. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Max Dean, to Sep 9. Lisa Myers and Autumn Chacon, to Oct 28 (free, Young Gallery). Michael Snow, to Dec 9. The Grange Prize, to Jan 6, 2013, panel 3-6 pm Sep 7 ($8-$12). Laughing At The Art World, to Mar 31, 2013. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY Imaginary Homelands, Sep 12-Dec 4, reception 6-9 pm, Performance Bus w/ Miles Collyer from OCADU, 6 pm Sep 12. 4700 Keele, Accolade E bldg. 416-736-5169. BATA SHOE MUSEUM Beauty, Identity, Pride: Native North American Footwear;Roger Vivier, ongoing. $14, srs $12, stu $8. 327 Bloor W. 416-979-7799. BLACKWOOD GALLERY The House Of The Unexpected: Direct Speech Acts, Sep 12-Oct 14. 3359 Mississauga N, U of T Mississauga (Mississauga). 905-828-3789. BURLINGTON ART CENTRE Burlington Hooking Craft Guild, to Sep 16. Colleen O’Reilly, to Sep 23. Peter Young, to Sep 25. Reid Flock and

David Thai, to Oct 21. 1333 Lakeshore (Burlington). 905-632-7796. CAMPBELL HOUSE MUSEUM Michelle Louise Wilson, to Oct 5, reception 5-8 pm Sep 6. 160 Queen W. 416-597-0227. CITY OF TORONTO ARCHIVES Picturing Immigrants In The Ward; Susan Dobson, to May 30, 2013. 255 Spadina Rd. 416-397-0778. DESIGN EXCHANGE Considering The Quake: Seismic Design On The Edge, Sep 12-Nov 9 (pwyc). $10, stu/srs $8. 234 Bay. 416-3636121. DORIS McCARTHY GALLERY Rita McKeough, to Oct 27. 1265 Military Trail. 416-287-7007. GARDINER MUSEUM OF CERAMIC ART Rule Britannia! 400 Years Of British Ceramics, to Sep 16. RBC Emerging Artist People’s Choice Awards, to Oct 7. Joanne Tod, Sep 7-Nov 11, gala 6-10 pm Sep 6 ($500) . Connections: British And Canadian Studio Pottery, to Dec 30. $12, stu $6, srs $8; Fri 4-9 pm half-price, 30 and under free. 111 Queen’s Park. 416586-8080. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Ron Benner, to Sep 30 (SE lawn near Queen’s Park). Jack Bush and Ohotaq Mikkigak, to Oct 28. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

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film is silent; the sound of buzzing might have made it unbearable. MOCCA’s a maturing public institution that encompasses a wide spectrum of art. Let’s hope it finds an appropriate space before its current location falls to condofication two years from now. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

MUST-SEE SHOWS ART METROPOLE Window installation: VS VS VS collective, to Sep 22. 1490 ñ Dundas W. 416-703-4400. ARTSCAPE GIBRALTAR POINT Pat Jeffries, to Sep 30 (Sat-Sun noon-6 pm, 647-606-1133). 443 Lakeshore Ave, Toronto Island. 416392-7834. ARTSCAPE TRIANGLE GALLERY Collage: Andrea Silk, to Sep 13, reception 5:30-10 pm Sep 6. 38 Abell. artscapetrianglegallery.ca. BAU-XI Painting: Bobbie Burgers, Sep 8-22. 340 Dundas W. 416-977-0600. BAU-XI PHOTO Jeffrey Milstein, Sep 8-22, reception 2-4 pm Sep 8. 324 Dundas W. 416-977-0400. CANADIAN LESBIAN AND GAY ARCHIVES At The Same Time group show, to Sep 22. 34 Isabella. 416-777-2755. CENTRE SPACE Sculpture/installation: Jérôme Fortin, to Sep 8. 65 George. 416-3231373. DAVID KAYE Textiles: Chung-Im Kim, Sep 6-30. 1092 Queen W, Dovercourt entrance. 416-532-9075. DRAKE HOTEL Video (TIFF Future Projections): Peaches, Sep 6-16. 1150 Queen W. 416-531-5042. GALLERY 1313 Now Playing group show; Anastessia Bettas, to Sep 16, reception 7-10 pm Sep 6. 1313 Queen W. 416-5366778. GLADSTONE HOTEL Video (TIFF Future Projections): Ming Wong and Liang Yue, Sep 6-16. Photos: Fred Ivar Utsi Klemetsen, to Sep 30. Being Scene group show, to Oct 28. Queen West Walking Art Tour, ongoing (Sat noon-2:30 pm, $25, $45/two). 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. GOODFELLAS GALLERY Next Level Art Collective, Sep 6-27, reception 7-11 pm Sep 6. 1266 Queen W (enter at back). HANG MAN Painting: Joan Andal Romano, to Sep 16. 756 Queen E. 416-465-0302. HUMBER PEDESTRIAN BRIDGE Installation: Interactive Arts Collective, to Sep 28. W of Sunnyside Boardwalk. indiegogo.com/ humberbridgeart. HUNT CLUB The Hunt group show, Sep 6-16, reception 6-11 pm Sep 6. 709 College. 905580-1345. JOHN B. AIRD The Print Show, to Sep 21. 900 Bay. 416-928-6772.

JOSEPH D CARRIER GALLERY Photos: Neil Dankoff and Beverley Abramson, Sep 12Oct 1, Saluti A Jerusalem benefit 7:30 pm Sep 12. 901 Lawrence W. 416-789-7011. LITTLE ISLAND COMICS Tomi Ungerer, book signing 2 pm Sep 8. 601 Markham. 416-9017489. LOOP GALLERY Painting: Linda Heffernan and Ester Pugliese, to Sep 23, reception 2-5 pm Sep 8. 1273 Dundas W. 416-516-2581. MARK CHRISTOPHER GALLERY Painting: Dmitri Fedosseev, to Sep 22, reception 7 pm Sep 7. 1594 Queen W. 416-705-3052. MKG127 Toolkit group show, to Sep 8. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682. O’BORN CONTEMPORARY Painting/photos: John Monteith, reception 6-9 pm Sep 6, Sep 7-Oct 6. 131 Ossington. 416-413-9555. OLGA KORPER Installation: Matthew Donovan and Hallie Siegel, to Sep 29, reception 2-5 pm Sep 8. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. ONSITE [AT] OCADU Letter Rip! Art, Words And Toronto group show, to Oct 6, Stephen Fowler talk 6:30 pm Sep 6. 230 Richmond W. 416-977-6000 ext 327. ONTARIO CRAFTS COUNCIL Toronto Potters 16th Biennial, Sep 6-30, reception 7-9 pm Sep 6. 990 Queen W. 416-925-4222. PATRICK INTERNATIONAL FINE ART Painting: Norman Yates, Sep 6-29. 190 Davenport. 647-825-4255. PENTIMENTO FINE ART GALLERY Will Simpson, to Sep 30, reception 6-9 pm Sep 6. 1164 Queen E. 416-406-6772. ROADSIDE ATTRACTIONS Installation: Mary Potter, to Sep 21. 911 Davenport. 416-5383997. STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Photos/painting: Bruce Cole, Brooke Opatowski and Jonthan Hiltz, to Sep 30. 255 Bremner. 416-3622337. TELEPHONE BOOTH GALLERY Painting: Frances Thomas and Alison Fleming, to Oct 6. 3148 Dundas W. 647-270-7903. TORONTO IMAGE WORKS Multimedia: Annie Sakkab, Sep 10-Oct 13. Photos: Deanna Pizzitelli, to Sep 8. 80 Spadina. 416-7031999. TORONTO SCULPTURE GARDEN Jed Lind, to Sep 30. 115 King E. 416-515-9658. URBANSPACE GALLERY Your Ontario Place, to Sep 29. 401 Richmond W. 416-595-5900.

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to go after his girlfriend leaves him, has also invaded; and Milo’s abusive father, Gus, has disappeared, only to turn up on a reality show in a retirement home. Strube juggles these multiple storylines with considerable skill and in the process delivers some savvy satire, especially when Milo appeals to the reality show producers to help him find his father, only to get roped into being on the program. And she expertly portrays Milo as the personification of ambivalence – toward his father, his acting career, his friends. But she tries to do way too much. A sequence where Milo finds himself lost in the bush while trying to get a gig with an experimental theatre company takes up too much space. But Strube demonstrates a rare fearlessness in her insistence on giving us characters who aren’t likeable but are very real. These are people dealing with life’s essential challenges – lost love, intransigent parents – with what little emotional intelligence they SUSAN G. COLE have.

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TYLER COWEN Talking about his book The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All The Low-Hanging Fruit Of Modern History, Got Sick And Will (Eventually) Feel Better. 7 pm. $20, stu $5. Isabel Bader Theatre, 93 Charles W. cowen.eventbrite.ca.

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GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE Reading from I & I and an open mic. 1:30 pm. Free. Academy of the Impossible, 231 Wallace. impossiblewords.ca. KAREN HOFFMAN Reading from In The Fool’s Footsteps. 11 am. Free. Pandemonium Books & Discs, 2920 Dundas W. 416-7695257. POETRY SLAM (Toronto Poetry Slam Team benefit) Competiton featuring David Bateman. 8 pm. $10. Nathalie Roze & Co, 1015 Queen E. davidsilverberg@rogers.com. SATURDAYS AT PORTOBELLO Poetry with Nik Beat, Charlene Jones and others. 1:30 pm. Free. Portobello, 955 Bay. 416-9261800. rTOMI UNGERER The comic book author signs copies of his books. 2 pm. Free. Little Island Comics (The Beguiling), 742 Bathurst. 416-901-7489.

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Davy Rothbart & co.’s Found project – a collection of discarded notes, letters and flyers sent in by readers – was a huge hit. He’s now released My Heart Is An Idiot ($27.50, Farrar, Straus and Giroux/D&M), a series of essays, most of them about his less than successful search for love. He reads from the soulful collection as part of Found Magazine’s 10th-anniversary tour on Friday (September 7) at the Garrison. See ReadSUSAN G. COLE ings, this page.

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Pretty cast and glossy exoticism can’t save syrupy lit flick By NORMAN WILNER THE WORDS written and directed by Brian Klugman and Lee Sternthal, with Bradley Cooper, Zoe Saldana, Dennis Quaid and Jeremy Irons. An Alliance release. 96 minutes. Opens Friday (September 7). For venues and times, see Movies, page 89. Rating: NN The Words is a literary movie for people who really, really like airport paperbacks. Though it has the glossy exoticism a certain subset of moviegoers has come to associate with highbrow entertainment, it’s as shallow as a puddle and as dumb as a post. But there’s kissing and tragedy and French people and Jeremy Irons wearing a scarf, so it’s basically critic-proof. Bradley Cooper’s Rory is a struggling writer whose big break comes

in the form of a manuscript he finds in a battered old valise his wife, Dora (Zoe Saldana), buys for him in Paris. Published as his own work through a series of wacky misunderstandings, the manuscript makes him a literary star and brings him to the attention of the embittered old man (Irons) whose work it actually is. As Rory and the old man have a heated conversation in Central Park, the movie shows us the story in question – the purplish tale of a GI who stays in France after the Second World War, falls for a local girl and learns that love brings pain. Remember the heat between Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams in The Notebook? Yeah, well, it’s nothing like that. Writer/directors Brian Klugman

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and Lee Sternthal pour on the syrup and the nostalgia, adding another layer of faux literary distance with a master narrative that sees the tale of Rory, Dora and the old man being read to us by author Clay Hammond (Dennis Quaid), who has written a book called The Words. But has Clay – who certainly seems like he could be an older, wiser Rory – written The Words as a means of finally confessing his sins? An alluring literary hanger-on (Olivia Wilde) thinks so, but there’s a twist: the movie doesn’t really care. It’s just about people standing around looking tormented in bespoke shirts, hoping that long pauses and an insistent soundtrack will do the work for them. 3 normw@nowtoronto.com

Henry Cavill and Verónica Echegui take us for a ride in The Cold Light Of Day.

(Alison (Alison Klayman) Klayman)lets letsus ussee seethe theinfamous infamous Chinese artist and dissident as a man Chinese artist and dissident as a manrather raththan a symbol, whose puckish wit wit allows er than a symbol, whose puckish alhim to make light of the darkest situations. lows him to make light of the darkest situBut we’re never allowed to forgetto the risks ations. But we’re never allowed forget he’srisks taking bytaking pokingby fun at a system the he’s poking fun atthat a sysdoesn’t a sense of ahumour. tem thathave doesn’t have sense ofSome humour. subtitles. 91 min. NNNN (NW) Some subtitles. 91 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema Carlton Cinema The THE AmAziNg AMAZING Spider-mAN SPIDER-MAN (Marc (Marc Webb) Webb) gives givesthe thefranchise franchiseaafresh fresh start, though the key story points are start, though the key story points arestill still the same: the same: Peter PeterParker Parker(Andrew (AndrewGarfield) Garfield)is imbued with the speed and strength of is imbued with the speed and strengthaof spider after an encounter with a genetically a spider after an encounter with a geneticenhanced arachnid, and driven by tragedy ally enhanced arachnid, and driven by trato become a superhero. At two and a quargedy to become a superhero. At two and a ter hours long, it could stand to lose 20 quarter it could to lose minutes,hours or addlong, 20 more, butstand Garfield and 20 minutes, addthis 20 more, but Garfield Emma Stone or make Spider-Man feel and Emma Stone make136 thismin. Spider-Man pretty amazing indeed. NNNN feel pretty amazing indeed. 136 min. (NW) NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 Park 16, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24 ANd if We All lived TogeTher? (StéAND IFRobelin) WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER? (Stéphane looks at five long-time phane looks atliving five long-time friendsRobelin) who decide that communally friends decide that living communwill helpwho them cope with old age. Jeanne ally helpisthem cope with old age. (Janewill Fonda) hiding an illness from husJeanne (Jane(Pierre Fonda) is hiding an illness band Albert Richard), who has early from husband Albert (Pierre Richard), Alzheimer’s. Lefty Claude (Claude Rich) who is has early Lefty Claude too old toAlzheimer’s. get arrested at a demo. And ladies’ man Jean (Guy Bedos) still trying (Claude Rich) is too old to getisarrested at to a get laidAnd despite his man heartJean condition. The is demo. ladies’ (Guy Bedos) storytrying doesn’t without Claude and wife still to work get laid despite his heart Annie’s (Geraldine Chaplin) fabulous house condition. The story doesn’t work without in suburban Paris,Annie’s but that’s presumably Claude and wife (Geraldine Chapwriter/director Robelin’s point. Got money? lin) fabulous house in suburban Paris, but You’re presumably still gonna die. Famous farceur that’s writer/director Richard is point. superb,Got as is Fonda as the lusty Robelin’s money? You’re still womandie. who connects with a young is anthrogonna Famous farceur Richard supologist who’s doing research on the perb, as is Fonda as the lusty womangroup. who The film veers off course when it comes connects with a young anthropologist to the fivesome’s sexual conflicts – ah, the who’s doing research on the group. The French! – but its core it’s an effective film veers offat course when it comes to enthe semble piece that takes a clear-eyed fivesome’s sexual conflicts – ah, thelook at aging. Subtitled. NNN (SGC) French! – but at its core it’s an effective Varsity ensemble piece that takes a clear-eyed look at aging. Subtitled. NNN (SGC) The AppAriTioN (Todd Lincoln) looks like it Varsity ran out of money and lost its writer before it finished shooting. How else to describe THE APPARITION (Todd Lincoln) looks like the jumble of disconnected imagery, plot it ranand outcharacters of money and its writerand belines that lost go nowhere fore it finished shooting. How else to dethe most anticlimactic final scene (given scribe of disconnected imaway inthe thejumble misleading trailer, not to menagery, linesof and thatfilm? go tion theplot poster) anycharacters recent horror nowhere theGreene most anticlimactic final Twilight’s and Ashley and Gossip Girl’s scene (given away theand misleading trailSebastian Stan playin Kelly Ben, a young er, not to mention the poster) any recouple taking care of her mom’sofbig old cent horror film?inTwilight’s Greene suburban home a bizarrelyAshley deserted and Gossip Girl’sUnbeknownst Sebastian Stan neighbourhood. toplay Kelly,Kelly

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Town, PleaseAs Give) a out to beHall far more theas Old paranormal debunker summoned to a reDark House template demands, Hall has to mote Cumbrian in 1920, creep around theboarding halls of a school forbidding old where student beenbells manse asetting uphas littleapparently traps involving frightened to death by a ghost. Of course, and powder. And because this is the 21st the truththose turnsold-school out to be far more complicentury, pleasures are encated. theCG Old Dark and House template hancedAs with scares musical stings demands, Hall has toaudience creep around thefall so the contemporary doesn’t asleepofora start textingold their friends. Things halls forbidding manse setting up get dodgy the last reel, director little trapsin involving bellswhen and powder. Murphy and co-writer Stephen Volk deploy And because this is the 21st century, those a double-twist endingare so convoluted it has old-school pleasures enhanced with to be explained twice. Hall very sells CG scares and musical stings sonearly the conit anyway –audience she’s thatdoesn’t good – but it’s a bum temporary fall asleep or note in an otherwise entertaining start texting their friends. Thingsexercise. get 107 min. (NW) dodgy in NNN the last reel, when director MurYonge & co-writer Dundas 24Stephen Volk deploy a phy and double-twist ending so convoluted it has BeASTS of The SouTherN Wild (Benh to be explained twice. Hall very nearly Zeitlin) is an allegorical drama about the sells it anyway – she’s that good – but it’sof spirited, predominantly black inhabitants a bum note in an otherwise entertaining a fictitious New Orleans district known as exercise. 107 min. 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They play assorted retirthe whole thing collapses intoBritish caricature. ees who get lured to a once glorious, now 93 min. NN (NW) dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by a Varsity spirited but scattered manager. 124 min. THE NNNBEST (GS) EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (John Madden) is a middling, manipulative movCanada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interchange ie that’s saved by a first-rate cast that in30, Kingsway Theatre cludes Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Tom Bill W. (Kevin Hanlon, Dan Carracino) is an Wilkinson. They play assorted British retirearnest, straightforward and oddly unees who get lured to a once glorious, now involving portrait of William G. Wilson, who dilapidated Indian hotel for seniors run by helped change millions of lives via Alcohola but scattered min. icsspirited Anonymous, which hemanager. founded 124 in the NNNCombining (GS) 30s. talking heads (AA members Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Interof all ages deep in shadow) and competent changerecreations, 30, Kingsway period theTheatre directors bring out some of(Kevin the keyHanlon, moments in Carracino) the organizaBILL W. Dan is tion’s historystraightforward and shed light on horrific an earnest, and oddlyearly unmedical theories, debates about the idea involving portrait of William G. Wilson, of a higher power and even a pre-civil rights who helped change millions of lives via integrationAnonymous, issue. It’s notwhich a greathe documenAlcoholics founded tary, the man – flawed andheads always(AA unin thebut 30s. 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up of various covert programs in the wake of Jason Bourne’s rebellion, and Jeremy Renner and Rachel Weisz as a super-soldier and a researcher trying to stay ahead of the bagmen. Eschewing the kinetic sensibility of Paul Greengrass’s sequels for sleeker, more carefully composed visuals, Gilroy finds new angles on the Bourne mythology, making nearly every player complicit in awful things at some level even if they think themselves above reproach. And Renner makes a great action hero, slipping into the role of Aaron Cross just as smoothly as Damon made Bourne his signature character. There’s life in this franchise yet. 126 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Brave (Mark Andrews, Brenda

Chapman) is a lovely, stirring and very funny mythical adventure about Merida (voiced by Kelly Macdonald), a Scots princess bristling at what she perceives as constant criticism from her mother (Emma Thompson). Lifting elements from Disney and Studio Ghibli, directors Andrews and Chapman have constructed an entirely new myth – rooted in Scots mysticism, human pride and a very relatable mother-daughter conflict – and built a gorgeous movie around it. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

The BulleT vaNishes (Law Chi-Leung) of-

fers a Hong Kong twist on Guy Ritchie’s sardonic Sherlock Holmes movies, complete with period setting, eccentric detective (Lau Ching-Wan as an inspector who likes to put himself through the victims’ ordeals) and possibly supernatural mystery involving a murdered factory worker. The action is well staged, the mystery carefully plotted and the production values high. Though some of the cardboard villains can feel ripped out of Saturday morning cartoons and the fights can come out of nowhere, this production proves that Hong Kong can still crank out blockbusters that rival Hollywood’s. Subtitled. 103 min. NNN (Phil Brown) Eglinton Town Centre, Yonge & Dundas 24

The CampaigN (Jay Roach) stars Will

Ferrell and Zach Galifianakis as bumbling Southern politicians vying for a seat in Congress. Not all the jokes hit, but some of them are delirious fun, and Galifianakis is astonishing, morphing from a dim guy with a daddy complex to a man who under-

stands the total corruption around him. 85 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñCelesTe aND Jesse forever

(Lee Krieger) is a bittersweet comedy about exes (played by Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg) who haven’t quite figured out how to disconnect from each other. Jones, who co-wrote the movie with actor Will McCormack, is terrific as a conflicted, confused young woman just beginning to realize she isn’t as okay with moving on as she first thought. It’s a great dramatic performance; don’t let the rom-com packaging fool you. 93 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

The ColD lighT of Day (Mabrouk El Me-

chri) See Also Opening, page 84. 93 min. Opens Sep 7 at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24

CompliaNCe (Craig Zobel) is a tightly

wound thriller that explores the banality of evil – complete with a drive-thru. Inspired by the true events, it’s set in a fast food restaurant that becomes a panopticon-like prison when a mystery caller claiming to be a cop gets the manager (Ann Dowd) to detain a young female employee (Dreama Walker). The conclusion feels rushed, but Walker and Dowd’s performances ground the film in a complex moral ambiguity that’s wisely left unresolved. 90 min. NNNN (Kiva Reardon) Carlton Cinema

Cosmopolis (David Cronenberg) is the telepod fusion of two very chilly visionaries – novelist Don DeLillo and screenwriter/director Cronenberg, who aren’t exactly stylistically simpatico, but Cronenberg might be the only filmmaker who would try to adapt DeLillo’s 2003 tale of a financial wizard’s personal and professional meltdown during an endless limo ride across Manhattan. It offers the same sort of vaguely hallucinatory, suffocating internal journey as Naked Lunch or eXistenZ. Nothing seems entirely real – not the explosive protests outside Robert Pattinson’s cocoon-like limousine, nor his stilted conversations with his wife (Sarah Gadon), his head of security (Kevin Durand) or his theory consultant (Samantha Morton). The film glides along on dreamy inertia, with characters popping up for random conversations before vanishing from the narrative. The result is more interesting as an intellectual experience than as entertainment; you watch it fully aware that it wants to be deconstructed rather than enjoyed. 108 min. NNN (NW)

ParaNorman, featuring the voice of Kodi Smit-McPhee, is the best animated pic of the year. Canada Square

The Dark kNighT rises (Christopher

Nolan) is less a movie than a colossus, an unstoppable force crashing into your summer, bent on destroying all challengers. Everything’s inflated for spectacle, with the simplest of dialogue scenes thrumming with nervous energy, and filmed with largeformat IMAX cameras wherever possible for added bombast. But where Nolan’s first two Bat-films felt nimble and restless, The Dark Knight Rises is encumbered by its own self-importance (and its unwieldy allegory for the Occupy movement). When he concentrates on the action – a thrilling mid-air prisoner extraction, the villain Bane’s assault on Gotham’s financial heart, a massive climax that plays out on more levels than Inception – Nolan is in total control. And he can deliver a final flourish like nobody else. The last 30 seconds very nearly had me on my feet cheering. It’s just all the stuff in the middle that needs pruning. 164 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity

Diary of a Wimpy kiD: Dog Days (David

Bowers) is consistent with the series formula, targeting the under PG-13 crowd with silly kiddy humour but also mature lessons about growing up. The latest travails of Greg Hefley involves a summer playing video games and avoiding responsibilities, much to his dad’s chagrin. These movies relate to their audience without ever talking down to them, and parents can learn a few things in that regard. 94 min. NNN (RS)

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easy moNey (Daniel Espinosa) is a facile

thriller charting the fates of three characters as they work their way through Sweden’s cocaine underworld – a humble Stockholm university student (Joel Kinnaman of The Killing) with dreams of upward mobility, an escaped convict (Matias Padin Varela) with an estranged family and a Serbian heavy (Dragomir Mrsic) who gains a new perspective on things when he’s forced to take custody of his young daughter. It’s an ambitious set-up, but the demands of the gangster genre take over in the laboured second hour, when shootings, beatings and betrayals squeeze out thoughtful character development and insight. Subtitled. 119 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema

The expeNDaBles 2 (Simon West) be-

comes, in the hands of director West (Con Air), the all-star action cartoon that the Sylvester Stallone-helmed first film promised but failed to deliver. When the titular mercenaries go up against Jean-Claude Van Damme’s baddie, as in any good action sequel, this time it’s personal. Stallone, Van Damme, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Bruce Willis, Dolf Lundgren, Jason Statham, Chuck Norris and co. slaughter extras like it’s 1985 while winking at the audience with knowing humour. It’s cheesy, overwrought, ridiculously violent, unintentionally and intentionally hilarious, just as it should be. But let’s hope the Planet Hollywood veterans hang up their machine guns before they are way too old for this shit. 102 min. NNN (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at

Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ñfareWell, my QueeN

(Benoît Jacquot) is a fleet, alluring and engrossing take on Marie Antoinette (Diane Kruger) and the pivotal days of the French Revolution, told from the perspective of Sidonie Laborde (Léa Seydoux), a dutiful lady-in-waiting who recites verses from novels and fashion magazines at the queen’s whim. Citizens may be storming the Bastille, but Sidonie’s primary fuction is to make sure the queen’s up to date on what’s chic. Sidonie races between’s the queen’s chambers, where ignorance is bliss, and the servants’ quarters, where blind panic reigns. Director Jacquot rarely shows disdain for his historical players, who are humanized by Sidonie’s compassion. His film’s as layered as the elegant attire on display. Subtitled. 100 min. NNNN (RS) Varsity

ñfirsT posiTioN

(Bess Kargman) is a nail-biting doc that follows a handful of aspiring ballet dancers competing in the prestigious Youth America Grand Prix, which awards international attention and lucrative scholarships. Director Kargman takes a frank look at costs, job opportunities, body issues, injuries and gender. There’s lots of great dance, plus some humour thanks to one 10-year-old who balks at his stage mom. Some subtitles. 90 min. NNNN (GS) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema

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uptightprude(LaurenMiller)forcedtolive withanoutgoingfloozy(AriGraynor)who teachesheraboutthejoysoffemalefriendshipandprofessionalphonesexisthestuff ofsitcoms.Thissurefeelslikeone,completewithawisecrackinggaybestfriend andcelebritycameos.It’salllightand sweetenoughtopassbypainlessly.You’ll leavefeelingmomentarilysatisfiedbut ultimatelyrippedoff,muchlikeacertain phoneservice.86min.NN(PhilBrown) Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñHeadHuNters

(Morten Tyldum)isan energeticNorwegiancat-and-mouse thrilleraboutacorporaterecruiterwho moonlightsasanartthief(AkselHennie). Whenhisschemegoeswrong,ourhero mustgoontherun–oratleastthat’swhy hethinkshe’srunning.DirectorTyldum keepstheplottwistinginamannerthat feelsbothsurprisingandlogical,butbe warned:thisisdecidedlynotforthe squeamish.Subtitled.101min.NNNN(NW) Regent Theatre

Hit & ruN(Dax Shepard, David Palmer)isa weirdmashupofromanticcomedyandcarchasethriller.Charlie(Shepard,whowrote, producedandco-directed),adecentguyin witnessprotection,decidestoriskhisneck drivinghisgirlfriendAnnie(KristenBell)to LosAngelesforapotentiallylife-changing jobinterview.They’repursuedbyCharlie’s easilyflusteredminder(TomArnold), Annie’sstalkerishex-boyfriend(Michael Rosenbaum),apairofcops(JessRowland andCarlyHatter)andeventuallybyCharlie’soldgang,ledbyadreadlockedBradley Cooper.Thestuntwork’simpressive,but it’sultimatelyjustadistraction.Thismovie’sreallyabouttheconversationsCharlie andAnniehavewhenthey’renotrunning fortheirlives.Real-lifecoupleShepardand Bellareprettygreataspeoplewho’vebeen togetherforayearbutareonlyjustgetting toknoweachother,butIwishShepardhad hadtheconfidenceasawritertogivethem moretimeofftheroad.100min.NN(NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

Hope spriNgs(David Frankel)starsMeryl

Streepasawomandesperatetoreignite herrelationshipwithheremotionallyremotehusband(TommyLeeJones).ButdirectorFrankel,whoenabledStreep’sfine comicturninTheDevilWearsPrada,isway outofhisdepthhere,unabletogethisstars onthesamewavelength.I’msureadifferentdirectorcouldhavegotthemworking together;I’malsosureFrankelnevereven tried.Whatawaste.100min.NN(NW) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ice age: coNtiNeNtal drift(Steve Mar-

tino, Mike Thurmeier)isshowingitsage withgagsthatareprehistoric.Intheir fourthadventure,Mannythemammoth (RayRomano),Diegothesabre-toothtiger (DennisLeary)andSidthedim-wittedsloth (JohnLeguizamo)arefacedwithPangaea breakingapartintocontinents,separating themfromtheirherd.Theplothingeson naturalforces,butContinentalDriftfeels overlyschematic,asifwrittenbyaboardroomthathitallthepredictablenotes.94 min.NN(RS) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

tHe iNtoucHables(Olivier Nakache, Eric Toledano)isawell-acted,charmingFrench buddypictureaboutawealthywhitequadriplegic(FrançoisCluzet)wholearnstoreembracelifethroughhisfriendshipwitha worldly-wiseethniccaregiver(OmarSy).It feelslikeit’sbeenmeticulouslycalibrated tohitthecentreofsomegrandarthouse Venndiagram.Subtitled.112min.NNN (NW)

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ñKiller Joe

(William Friedkin)iseven crazier,bloodierandweirderthandirectorFriedkin’slastrunataTracyLettsplay, Bug.Thisone’sabigoldsliceofTexasmayheminwhichaDallasidiot(EmileHirsch) hiresahitman(MatthewMcConaughey)to murderhismotherfortheinsurance,only toseetheplanalmostimmediatelyspiral outofcontrol,expandingtothepoint wheretheidiot’sbeatificsister(JunoTemple)becomestheassassin’s“retainer.”Letts setsuparevolvingdoorofbetrayalsand reversalsworthyoftheCoenbrothers,and Friedkin’sembraceofdigitalcinemalets himcreateavividandunnaturallylurid landscapeinwhichtheamped-upperformancesoftheentirecastseementirelyat home.McConaughey–who’senjoyinga renaissanceofhisown–oozesgenteel menaceastheeponymousassassin,but ThomasHadenChurchstealsthepictureas Hirsch’sdefeatedfather,slouchingthrough theactionlikethehapless,helplessfoolhe knowshimselftobe.103min.NNNN(NW) Carlton Cinema, Scotiabank Theatre

last NigHt of tHe proms live – bbc proms 2012isalivebroadcastfrom

L ondon’sRoyalAlbertHallofthemusical celebration,featuringNicolaBenedettiand JosephCalleja.210min. Sep 8 2:30 pm, at Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, SilverCity Yonge

lawless(John Hillcoat)doesn’toffer illcoatorscreenwriterNickCavethesame H scaleorresonanceasTheProposition.This simple1930scrimepictureisillsuitedto theduo’sgrandioseartisticaspirations. Mighthavemadeagreattrackononeof Cave’smurder-balladalbums,though. BasedonMattBondurant’sfamilyhistory TheWettestCountyInTheWorld,it’sthe true-ishstoryofafamilyofProhibition-era moonshiners(ShiaLaBeouf,TomHardy, JasonClarke)whosecomfortableVirginia lifeisthreatenedbythearrivalofacrusadingbig-citylawman,playedbyGuyPearce withslicked-backhair,pigeonstrutand shavedeyebrowsasacartoonmaniacbristlingwiththepotentialforsadisticcruelty. Thescriptissimilarlymiscalculated,framingthebrothers’loveinterests(MiaWasikowska,JessicaChastain)inaclumsyMadonna-whoredichotomyandlayingonthe gangsterclichésextra-thickwheneverGary Oldman’smobsterpaysavisittoFranklin County.115min.NN(NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale madagascar 3: europe’s most waNted(Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath,

Conrad Vernon)iszippy,sillyandanticfun withAlexthelionandhisteamofcontinent-hoppingfriends.Makingabreakfor NewYorkCitybytrekkingacrossEurope, thegangjoinsatravellingcircusthatincludesasneeringSiberiantigerandasleek jaguar(JessicaChastain,oozingsexappeal evenasacartoonanimal).Ontheirtailsisa villainousanimalcontrolchiefvoicedbythe magnificentFrancesMcDormandwith malevolentglee.85min.NNN(RS) Colossus, Kingsway Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga

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Marvel’s the avengers (Joss Whedon) is, quite simply, an epic win – it’s tremendous fun, sprinting through its gargantuan adventure on a mixture of adrenaline, glee and wise-assery. That’s mostly due to director and co-writer Whedon, whose ability to render large, distinct casts of characters is exactly what’s required for a movie of this scale. Everything that happens is grounded in who these people are, not what they can do. And he’s the first filmmaker to crack the problem of the Hulk. Some subtitles. 143 min. nnnn (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Yonge & Dundas 24

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the MatchMaker (Avi Nesher) is an awkward but occasionally affecting coming-ofage drama about a teenager (Tuval Shafir) who spends a transformative summer working for a shady matchmaker (Adir Miller) in 1968 Haifa. The teenage stuff is fairly generic, with our hero lusting after a friend’s sexy cousin (Neta Porat), but the world of the matchmaker – whose survival of the Holocaust make him part of an 04/09/2012 12:05:02 PM underclass Israel would rather pretend doesn’t exist – gives the film a tragic subtext that keeps us watching even when the story’s at its most banal. Subtitled. 112 min. ” nnn (NW) Grande - Yonge

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ñMoonrise kingdoM

(Wes Anderson) might be Anderson’s purest work yet – a tender tale of longing and melancholy as seen through the eyes of a handful of people on an isolated (fictional) island off the coast of New England in September 1965, when two 12-year-old pen pals (Jared Gilman, Kara Hayward) run off together. It’s also one of the saddest comedies you’ll ever see, though that’s not a criticism. 94 min. nnnn (NW) Canada Square, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre

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the odd life of tiMothy green (Peter Hedges) is driven by a special kind of delusion. Not only has writer/director Hedges managed to get a major studio to finance his bizarre magic-realist tale of an infertile couple (Jennifer Garner, Joel Edgerton) whose imagined, idealized child (CJ Adams) crawls out of their garden one night after a mystical storm, but he’s roped supposedly sensible performers into making it with him. Viewed from another angle, this could have been an amazing horror-comedy about unwitting dolts who let a tree demon into their home. Every time Hedges pours on the syrupy music and the weird life lessons about opening up and being yourself and saving the local pencil factory – yes, really, that is a plot point – you wish it were. 104 min. n (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinema, Interchange 30, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, Yonge & Dundas 24 LANGUAGE MAY OFFEND

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seen this year, a funny and resonant adventure that’s not afraid to get really, really dark. It’s the tale of an 11-year-old (voiced by Kodi Smit-McPhee of The Road and Let Me In) whose ability to converse with the dead makes him an outcast in his New England town. But Norman’s abilities become an asset when a local legend turns out to be at least partly true, and a curse brings a quintet of Puritan zombies out of their graves. As Norman and his unlikely allies – including his spiteful older sister (Anna Kendrick) and a couple of awkward classmates (Tucker Albrizzi, Christopher MintzPlasse) – race to restore order, ParaNorman launches into a series of thrilling, inventive set pieces, engaging serious emotional themes while never shying away from the truly horrible implications of its mythology. This is a fantastic picture in every sense of the word. 93 min. nnnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñPeoPle like us

(Alex Kurtzman) stars Chris Pine as amoral salesman who finds out that his father had a daughter from another relationship and that he has an 11-year-old nephew. It may be a bit noisy and occasionally predictable, but it’s cool to see a well-acted, character-driven film in this season of actioners and half-baked sequels. 115 min. nnnn (SGC) Mt Pleasant, Regent Theatre

the Possession (Ole Bornedal) is a well told but only mildly scary Exorcist knock-off with a couple of okay twists in its highly predictable story. First, the heroic parent is the father, not mother, of the possessed child, which provides a psychological subtext for the increasingly hostile doings of the little girl who’s acquired a demon in a box. Second, the demon comes out of the Judaic, not Christian, tradition, which puts a different spin on the climactic exorcism. Director Bornedal comes up with a couple of striking images but relies too heavily on close-ups of the creepy box. Some subtitles. 92 min. nn (AD) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñPreMiuM rush

(David Koepp) may not be the best movie of the summer, but it’s definitely my favourite – a strippeddown action thriller in which gung-ho bike courier Joseph Gordon-Levitt and dirty cop Michael Shannon chase each other up, down and around the west side of Manhattan for possession of a very valuable envelope. It’s pulp filmmaking at its purest, a whizzy B-movie concept elevated to greatness by Koepp’s endlessly resourceful direction and engagingly self-aware script (cowritten with his Ghost Town partner, John Kamps), a charismatic star turn by GordonLevitt and a bravura performance by Shannon, who’s the best he’s ever been – and, yes, that’s really saying something. This was the most fun I’ve had at the megaplex all year. Some subtitles. 93 min. nnnn (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale

ProMetheus (Ridley Scott) follows a team of corporate explorers to a distant celestial body, where they encounter something

very similar to what the crew of Nostromo found in Alien – or will find, since this film takes place a good quarter-century before that one. But Prometheus doesn’t enhance or complement the original Alien as much as it builds a video-game module onto it, a weightless digital creation that can’t hold a candle to the original’s grimy analog impact. 119 min. nn (NW) Scotiabank Theatre

ñthe Queen of versailles

(Lauren Greenfield) is a riveting doc at ambition, greed and hubris. Jackie Siegel is a buxom 40-something former beauty queen raising seven children with her septuagenarian husband, David Siegel, owner of a multi-million-dollar time-share business. When the economic crisis hits, their empire and home life begin to crumble. Filming over three years, Greenfield captures remarkable moments, especially of Jackie, a compelling, if flawed, character. 100 min. nnnnn (GS) Varsity

roBot & frank (Jake Schreier) features another sterling lion-in-winter turn from Frank Langella as a former cat burglar struggling with Alzheimer’s, and an utterly credible near-future setting in which advanced technology is convincingly integrated into the everyday lives of its upstate New York characters. The supporting performances are also solid: James Marsden and Liv Tyler as Frank’s well-meaning yet distant kids, Susan Sarandon as a sympathetic librarian and Peter Sarsgaard as the voice of Frank’s little helper, a robot with an amoral nature that makes it the perfect accomplice for a couple of jobs Frank’s been meaning to pull. Jeremy Sisto turns in a gem of a cameo as a small-town sheriff who has no patience for fools but great respect for master criminals. In fact, Robot & Frank is so good that it’s doubly awful to watch it self-destruct in the last reel thanks to a profoundly stupid and ultimately unnecessary plot twist. 88 min. nnn (NW) Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Varsity

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(Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris) feels like the best Woody Allen movie Woody Allen never made. It’s a clever magic-realist romantic fantasy about an author (Paul Dano) so infatuated with his newest character (Zoe Kazan) that he literally brings her into being. Dano and Kazan are terrific, and directors Dayton and Faris avoid the twee flourishes that made Little Miss Sunshine feel like an overlong sitcom. 103 min. nnnn (NW) Carlton Cinema, Yonge & Dundas 24

searching for sugar Man (Malik Bend-

jelloul) introduces little-known musician Rodriguez, unravelling a mystery that nobody knew they wanted the answer to. The Detroit-based 70s folksinger never found an audience in the States and ended up fading into the shadows. Unbeknownst to him, bootleg copies of his albums reached South Africa, where the music inspired the nation. South Africans thought him dead until two self-appointed Cape Town sleuths decided to resurrect the legend. Don’t google Rodriguez before seeing this doc. Its pleasures come from the enigma and the revelations to an audience as ignorant of the facts as the South Africans whose investigation is the main focus. By celebrating this unsung hero and turning people on to his music, the film aims to redeem history’s slight. 85 min. nnn (RS) Varsity

sParkle (Salim Akil) is a dull remake of a 1970s movie and a swan song for Whitney Houston that falls flat. The late, great songstress delivers a stiff performance as a strict mother to musically inclined girls. Yet Houston’s mere presence, for lack of better material, still manages to be the film’s primary appeal. The soulless Motown-era musical stars American Idol winner Jordin Sparks as the titular Sparkle, a songwriter and singer constantly overshadowed by her two sisters – just as Sparks is by the much better actors Carmen Ejogo and Tika Sumpter, who play her siblings. But everyone chokes on a screenplay that strings together clichés, atrocious dialogue and illogical plotting. Even the musical numbers fail to take off, with the exception of Houston’s last gasp, which given the tragic circumstances leaves you waiting to exhale. 116 min. nn (RS)

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Step Up RevolUtion (Scott Speer) is dra matically inert but showcases bodies that are fluid, kinetic and very often aero dynamic. The revolution in the title is actually ironic, since the movie is all about conformity to commoditization. We are watching a franchise incorporate street dances, after all. 106 min. nnn (RS) Colossus, Yonge & Dundas 24

take thiS Waltz (Sarah Polley) takes a leap into far riskier territory than writer/ director Polley’s relatively conventional Away From Her. I’m not entirely sure Polley accomplishes what she’s reaching for in this tale of a young wife (Michelle Williams) considering an affair with a neighbour (Luke Kirby), but she’s reaching for it, and that makes all the difference. 116 min. nnn (NW) Mt Pleasant, Regent Theatre

ñted

(Seth MacFarlane) is the feature debut by Family Guy creator MacFar lane, who also voices the titular kneehigh teddy bear owned since boyhood by John (Mark Wahlberg). The toycometolife spews quickwitted, toxic verbiage that’s guaranteed to offend with jokes about race, sexual orientation and religion, but cares when it’s this fucking hilarious? 106 min. nnnn (RS) Colossus, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

to Rome With love (Woody Allen) has a

great cast – including Penélope Cruz, Roberto Benigni, Alec Baldwin and a bril liant Ellen Page – and multiple storylines, so when one plot line sags, another picks things up. You still have to juggle Woody the creep with Woody the endearing schlep – one moment you’re howling at his fear of flying and the next rolling your eyes at a woman being sexually liberated by a thief wielding a handgun. Some subtitles. 102 min. nnn (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Grande

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total Recall (Len Wiseman) manages to

take all the fun out of Paul Verhoeven’s 1990 actioner, despite making virtually no changes to its twistyturny story of a day dreaming Everyman who discovers (or does he?) that he’s really a highlevel secret agent. You’d think a movie that steals so much from Blade Runner, Minority Report, I Robot and Inception would be more excit ing than this. Or at least entertaining. 118 min. nn (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarbor ough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, Scotiabank The atre, SilverCity Mississauga

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sibly a sequel to writer/director/star Delpy’s 2007 dramedy 2 Days In Paris, catching up with her character Marion a few years down the road. Marion’s insouciance has curdled into whiny selfindulgence, and gags about her crass, lusty family land like bricks. Some subtitles. 96 min. n (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

the Watch (Akiva Schaffer) boasts a tal ented cast, but comedy is as rare a sighting here as UFOs are on Earth. Suburbanites form a neighbourhood watch patrol, only to discover they’re under attack by aliens. The few laughs hinge on witty criticisms of race relations and suburbia. Unfortunately, it’s not nearly as good as Joe Cornish’s Attack The Block, which explored similar terrain. 98 min. nn (RS) Colossus the WoRdS (Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal) 96 min. See review, page 84. nn (NW) Opens Sep 7 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande Yonge, Humber Cinema, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 3

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ICe age: ConTInenTal drIFT (PG) thu 4:35 Fri, mon-Wed 2:00, 4:25, 7:15 sat-sun 11:30, 1:50, 4:25, 7:15 ICe age: ConTInenTal drIFT 3d (PG) thu 7:15, 9:40 marvel’s The avengers 3d (PG) 3:35, 6:45, 9:50 satsun 12:25 mat marvel’s The avengers: an Imax 3d exPerIenCe (PG) thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:30 The odd lIFe oF TImoThy green (G) thu 3:20, 6:05, 8:45 Fri-sat 10:25 sun-Wed 10:10 The oogIeloves In The BIg Balloon advenTure (G) thu 2:10, 4:20, 6:25 Paranorman (PG) thu 2:05 Fri, mon-Wed 4:15 sat-sun 1:50 Paranorman 3d (PG) 6:40, 9:00 thu 4:20 sat-sun 4:15 Pee-Wee’s BIg advenTure sat 11:00 The PossessIon (14A) 2:15, 4:35, 6:55, 9:15 thu 3:15 mat, 5:35, 8:10, 10:25 sat-sun 11:55 mat r2B: reTurn To Base thu 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 ruBy sParKs (14A) thu 4:35, 7:25, 10:05 shIrIn Farhad KI Toh nIKal PadI (PG) thu 2:20, 5:05, 7:55, 10:30 sParKle (PG) thu 3:45, 6:30, 9:15 sTeP uP revoluTIon 3d (PG) thu 2:00 4:30 7:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:45 Ted (14A) 2:40, 5:05, 7:35, 10:00 sat-sun 11:40 mat To rome WITh love (PG) thu 8:35 The Words (PG) 3:45, 6:15, 8:40 sat-sun 1:10 mat

midtown canaDa square (ce) 2200 yonge st, 416-646-0444

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Cosmopolis (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40 Fri 4:25, 7:10, 9:30 Sat 2:00, 4:25, 7:10, 9:30 Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:50, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10 First position (G) 4:40, 7:20 Fri 9:25 Sat 2:20 mat, 9:25 Hit & run (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00 Sun 2:10, 4:20, 7:10, 9:20 Hope springs (14A) 4:30, 7:15 Fri 9:35 Sat 1:50 mat, 9:35 tHe intouCHables (14A) Thu 3:55, 6:20 Fri 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 1:45, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 Sun 1:30, 3:55, 6:20, 8:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50 moonrise Kingdom (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:45 Fri 4:45, 7:00, 9:05 Sat 2:05, 4:45, 7:00, 9:05 Sun 2:20, 4:40, 7:20, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:00 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) Thu 4:15, 6:50 Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 Sat 1:55, 4:10, 6:45, 9:00 Sun 2:00, 4:15, 7:00, 9:15 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:45 tHe oogieloves in tHe big balloon adventure (G) Thu 4:40, 7:10 Sun 2:30, 4:30, 6:55 to rome WitH love (PG) Thu 4:05, 6:30 Fri 4:00, 6:30, 8:50 Sat 1:40, 4:00, 6:30, 8:50 Sun 1:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30

MT PleaSanT (I)

675 MT PleaSanT Rd, 416-489-8484 people liKe us (14A) Fri-Sat 9:25 Sun, Tue 7:00 taKe tHis Waltz (14A) Thu-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:25

RegenT TheaTRe (I) 551 MT PleaSanT Rd, 416-480-9884

HeadHunters (14A) Thu 7:00 people liKe us (14A) Fri-Sat 9:25 Sun, Tue 7:00 taKe tHis Waltz (14A) Fri-Sat, Wed 7:00 Sun 4:25

SIlveRCITy yonge (Ce) 2300 yonge ST, 416-544-1236

tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50 Wed 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:15, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 FriSat 12:45, 2:55, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Sun 12:30, 2:40, 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Mon-Tue 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 1:50, 4:40, 9:45 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) 2:30, 6:30, 10:00 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 FriSat 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 6:50, 9:30 Hope springs (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 10:05 last nigHt oF tHe proms live - bbC proms 2012 Sat 2:30 laWless (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Tue 1:00, 3:40, 7:15, 9:55 Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:15, 9:55 madam butterFly 3d Sun 12:30 Mon 7:00 national tHeatre live: tHe Curious inCident oF tHe dog in tHe nigHt-time Thu 7:00 paranorman (PG) Thu 1:40 Fri-Sat 1:30 Sun 1:20 MonTue 1:10 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Sat 3:50, 6:40, 9:00 Sun-Wed 3:30, 6:40, 9:00 tHe possession (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:20, 7:30, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 premium rusH (14A) Thu 2:15, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 Fri 12:45, 3:00, 5:20, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 8:10, 10:25 Sun 4:00, 7:20, 9:35

Mon 1:20, 3:50, 9:45 Tue 1:20, 3:50, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 tHe Words (PG) Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:30, 7:40, 10:00

Metro

West end huMbeR CIneMa (I) 2442 blooR ST. WeST, 416-232-1939

tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:30 brave (PG) Thu 2:00, 4:15, 6:30 Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:00 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 6:45 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 8:40 Fri-Wed 7:45 Hope springs (14A) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 7:00, 9:15 Fri-Wed 4:15, 6:30, 9:00 iCe age: Continental driFt (PG) Thu 2:30, 4:40 Fri-Wed 2:00 marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Thu 8:30 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) Thu 1:45, 4:00, 6:35, 9:00 paranorman (PG) Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:30 tHe Words (PG) Fri-Wed 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15

KIngSWay TheaTRe (I) 3030 blooR ST W, 416-232-1939

tHe best exotiC marigold Hotel (PG) Thu 5:00 FriWed 3:00 tHe intouCHables (14A) Thu 3:00 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:00, 9:15 madagasCar 3: europe’s most Wanted (G) Thu 11:45 Sat-Sun 11:30 moonrise Kingdom (PG) Thu 1:20 to rome WitH love (PG) 7:20 2 days in neW yorK Fri-Wed 5:15

QueenSWay (Ce)

1025 The QueenSWay, QeW & ISlIngTon, 416-503-0424

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tHe amazing spider-man 3d (PG) Thu 1:15, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30 Fri, Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 1:05, 7:05, 10:00 Mon 1:05, 4:00, 9:50 Tue-Wed 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50 tHe apparition (PG) Thu 1:40, 3:50, 6:00, 8:10, 10:20 tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Mon 1:10, 4:05, 7:10, 10:10 Tue-Wed 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 brave (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:45 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:15 Sat 11:25, 1:50, 4:15 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:10 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55 Fri, Sun 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Sat 11:05, 1:15, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50 Mon-Wed 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:30 tHe Cold ligHt oF day (PG) Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:25, 5:40, 7:50, 10:00 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:40, 8:20 Fri-Wed 1:20, 4:45, 8:10 diary oF a Wimpy Kid: dog days (G) Thu 2:25, 4:55, 7:20 Fri, Sun 2:55, 5:10, 7:25 Sat 12:40, 2:55, 5:10, 7:25 Mon-Wed 2:15, 4:35, 6:55 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Fri, Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 Mon-Wed 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 For a good time, Call... (18A) Fri, Sun 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 Sat 11:10, 1:25, 3:35, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05 MonWed 3:20, 5:25, 7:30, 9:35 Hit & run (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:05, 10:00 Fri-Sun 9:35 MonWed 9:30 Hope springs (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:35, 7:15, 9:40 Fri, Sun 2:30, 4:55, 7:20, 9:45 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 MonTue 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:25 iCe age: Continental driFt (PG) Thu 3:00, 5:20 Fri, Sun 2:25, 4:40 Sat 12:05, 2:25, 4:40 Mon-Wed 2:35, 5:00 last nigHt oF tHe proms live - bbC proms 2012 Sat 2:30 laWless (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Sat 11:20, 1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:55, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 madam butterFly 3d Sun 12:30 Mon 7:00 marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Thu 6:15, 9:20 Fri-Sun 6:35 Mon-Wed 6:30 national tHeatre live: tHe Curious inCident oF tHe dog in tHe nigHt-time Thu 7:00 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) Thu 1:35, 4:20, 7:05, 9:35 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 tHe oogieloves in tHe big balloon adventure (G) Thu 2:15, 4:30, 6:55 paranorman (PG) Thu, Tue 2:30 Fri 2:40 Sat 12:20 Sun 12:55 Mon 2:05 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri, Sun 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Sat 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:35 Mon 4:25, 7:20, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:40

pee-Wee’s big adventure Sat 11:00 tHe possession (14A) Thu 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 Fri, Sun 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20 Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 premium rusH (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:15, 7:35, 10:10 Fri, Sun 1:25, 3:40, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Sat 11:15, 1:25, 3:40, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 robot & FranK (PG) Thu 2:20, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri 1:00, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Sat 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Sun 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 2:45, 5:05, 7:35, 9:55 sparKle (PG) Thu 9:25 ted (14A) Thu 9:45 Fri-Sun 9:40 Mon-Wed 9:20 total reCall (14A) Thu 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:00 tHe Words (PG) Fri 12:55, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon-Tue 1:00, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15 Wed 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15

RaInboW WoodbIne (I)

WoodbIne CenTRe, 500 Rexdale blvd, 416-213-1998 tHe bourne legaCy (14A) 1:00, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30 brave (PG) 12:45 Thu 4:15 tHe expendables 2 (14A) 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:40 Hit & run (14A) Thu 9:20 laWless (14A) Thu 12:55 3:55 6:50 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:50, 9:25 marvel’s tHe avengers (PG) Thu 6:40, 9:35 Fri-Wed 9:20 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:35 paranorman (PG) Thu 7:15, 12:40, 4:05 Fri-Wed 12:55, 4:05, 6:55 tHe possession (14A) Thu 1:05 4:00 7:05 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:10, 4:00, 7:05, 9:45 premium rusH (14A) 4:10, 7:00, 9:15 Thu 1:25 mat tHe Words (PG) Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:35

east end beaCh CIneMaS (aa) 1651 Queen ST e, 416-646-0444

tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:15 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 10:10 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30 Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:00, 10:00 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 6:40, 10:10 Fri 4:20, 7:50 Sat-Sun 2:30, 6:40, 10:10 Mon-Wed 6:30, 9:55 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 10:00 Fri 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40 MonWed 7:20, 9:45 Hit & run (14A) Thu 9:30 Hope springs (14A) Thu 6:50 laWless (14A) Thu 7:15, 9:50 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 6:50, 9:30 paranorman (PG) Sat-Sun 1:00 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 7:10, 9:40 Fri 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:15, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:10 tHe Words (PG) Fri 4:30, 7:10, 10:00 Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:10, 9:40

north york eMPIRe TheaTReS aT eMPReSS WalK (eT) 5095 yonge ST, 416-223-9550

tHe apparition (PG) Thu 9:40 tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 5:15 7:00 8:45 10:15 FriWed 5:15, 7:10, 8:45, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat tHe darK KnigHt rises: tHe imax experienCe (PG) Thu 3:00, 6:20, 9:45 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 5:00, 8:30 Fri, MonWed 3:00, 5:00, 6:20, 8:30, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:00, 5:00, 6:20, 8:30, 9:45 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 4:30 7:20 10:10 Fri-Wed 4:20, 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40 mat Hit & run (14A) 4:00, 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:15 mat iCe age: Continental driFt (PG) Thu 4:00 Fri, MonWed 3:40 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40 indiana Jones and tHe raiders oF tHe lost arK: tHe imax experienCe 4:30, 7:00, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat marvel’s avengers assemble 3d (PG) 3:15, 6:30, 9:30 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) Thu 3:45 6:50 9:45 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat tHe oogieloves in tHe big balloon adventure (G) Thu 3:30, 6:40 tHe possession (14A) Thu 4:20 7:30 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat

gRande - yonge (Ce) 4861 yonge ST, 416-590-9974 brave (PG) Sat-Sun 1:40

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brave 3d (PG) Thu 4:00 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 4:35, 7:15, 9:50 Fri, Sun 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Mon-Wed 4:35, 6:55, 9:30 Hope springs (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:50, 9:20 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 tHe intouCHables (14A) Thu 7:30, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:05, 6:45, 9:25 last nigHt oF tHe proms live - bbC proms 2012 Sat 2:30 laWless (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:00 Fri 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:25, 7:15, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 madam butterFly 3d Sun 12:30 Mon 7:00 tHe matCHmaKer Thu 4:30 7:00 9:35 Fri-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:45 mat national tHeatre live: tHe Curious inCident oF tHe dog in tHe nigHt-time Thu 7:00 paranorman (PG) Sat-Sun 2:00 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 4:05 6:30 9:10 Fri-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 premium rusH (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:45 Fri 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:30, 2:55, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 robot & FranK (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:20, 9:30 Fri 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:05, 9:20 to rome WitH love (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:05, 9:40 Fri, Sun 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sat 7:10, 9:50 Mon 4:15, 9:50 Tue-Wed 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 tHe Words (PG) Fri 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:05, 7:25, 9:45

SIlveRCITy FaIRvIeW (Ce)

FaIRvIeW Mall, 1800 ShePPaRd ave e, 416-644-7746 tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:45, 9:55 Fri 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Sat 1:10, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 Fri-Sat 8:05, 10:20 Sun-Wed 7:40, 9:55 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu-Fri 2:50, 6:30, 10:00 Sat 11:10, 2:50, 6:30, 10:00 Sun-Wed 2:00, 5:40, 9:20 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Fri 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 Sat 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 SunWed 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Hit & run (14A) Thu 4:40, 9:45 laWless (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20 Fri 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sun-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 tHe odd liFe oF timotHy green (G) Thu 2:05, 7:05 Fri 2:45, 5:35 Sat 12:00, 2:45, 5:35 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50 paranorman (PG) Thu 2:10 Fri 2:55 Sat 12:20, 2:55 SunWed 1:30 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 4:45, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Sat 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Sun-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:30 pee-Wee’s big adventure Sat 11:00 tHe possession (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri 2:40, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sat 12:10, 2:30, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 premium rusH (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:50 Fri 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Sat 12:40, 3:05, 5:25, 7:50, 10:10 Sun-Tue 2:20, 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 Wed 5:00, 7:30, 9:50 tHe Words (PG) Fri 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun-Tue 1:50, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45 Wed 4:45, 7:20, 9:45

SIlveRCITy yoRKdale (Ce) 3401 duFFeRIn ST, 416-787-2052

tHe apparition (PG) Thu 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 Fri-Wed 7:15, 9:30 tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:15, 7:25, 10:30 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:10, 7:20, 9:45 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:10, 10:25 Sat 11:15, 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Mon, Wed 2:15, 5:20, 7:45, 10:05 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 2:40, 6:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 Sat 11:10, 2:45, 6:45, 10:20 Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:40, 8:15 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Fri, Sun, Tue 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30 Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45 Mon, Wed 2:10, 5:00, 7:30, 10:05 Hit & run (14A) Thu 4:15, 9:45 iCe age: Continental driFt (PG) Thu 1:00 Fri 2:25, 4:50 Sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:50 Sun-Wed 1:15, 3:40 laWless (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:25, 7:30, 10:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 paranorman (PG) Thu 1:05 Fri-Wed 1:00 paranorman 3d (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:20, 9:15 Fri, Sun-Wed 3:30, 7:00, 9:20 Sat 3:30, 5:40, 7:55, 10:10 pee-Wee’s big adventure Sat 11:00 tHe possession (14A) Thu 1:55, 4:30, 7:40, 10:05 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:30, 5:50, 8:00, 10:30 Sat 1:15, 3:35, 5:55, 8:15, 10:35 Mon, Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10 premium rusH (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:40 Fri, Sun, Tue 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25 Sat 11:00, 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40 Mon, Wed 1:30, 4:45, 7:50, 10:10 sparKle (PG) Thu 1:25, 7:10 tHe Words (PG) 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:15 mat

Scarborough 401 & MoRnIngSIde (Ce) 785 MIlneR ave, SCaRboRough, 416-281-2226

tHe bourne legaCy (14A) Thu 5:10, 8:10 Fri, Tue 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:55 tHe Campaign (14A) Thu 6:10, 8:20 Fri, Tue 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 Sat-Sun 4:00, 6:10, 8:20, 10:30 Mon, Wed 4:30, 6:25, 8:30 tHe darK KnigHt rises (PG) Thu 4:35, 8:00 Fri-Sun, Tue 3:20, 6:45, 10:10 Mon, Wed 4:30, 8:00 tHe expendables 2 (14A) Thu 6:00, 8:30 Fri, Tue 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:35 Mon, Wed 5:35, 8:05 Hit & run (14A) Thu 4:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 4:30, 9:45 Mon, Wed 4:45

ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Fri, Tue 3:50 Sat-Sun 1:45 LAWLESS (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:00, 7:50 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 Sat-Sun 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:30 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu 7:20 Fri, Tue 7:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 7:00 Mon, Wed 7:10 THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (G) Thu 4:40, 7:00 PARANORMAN (PG) Fri, Tue 3:10 Sat-Sun 12:45 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 5:30, 7:40 Fri, Tue 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 Sat-Sun 3:00, 5:25, 7:40, 10:05 Mon, Wed 5:25, 7:40 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 5:45, 8:25 Fri, Tue 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:35, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35 Mon, Wed 6:00, 8:20 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 5:20, 7:30 Fri, Tue 3:10, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:05, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:15, 7:30 SPARKLE (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:10 Fri, Tue 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 SatSun 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon, Wed 4:40, 7:20 THE WORDS (PG) Fri, Tue 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:10

COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE) SCARBOROUGH TOWN CENTRE, 416-290-5217

THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 2:00, 7:05, 10:10 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:55 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 Sat 12:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 9:50 THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Mon, Wed 2:45, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 2:50, 6:30, 10:00 FriSun, Tue 2:50, 6:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:50, 6:45, 10:15 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:15 FriSun 12:35, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:00, 4:35, 7:25, 10:00 Tue 2:30, 5:05, 7:50, 10:15 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 Fri-Wed 7:20, 9:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:00 Fri, Sun, Tue 12:30 Sat 11:30 Mon 1:30, 7:05 Wed 1:30 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Fri-Sat, Tue 2:45, 5:00, 7:25 Sun 5:00, 7:25 Mon 4:05 Wed 4:05, 7:05 LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS LIVE - BBC PROMS 2012 Sat 2:30 LAWLESS (14A) Thu 1:10, 3:55, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun, Tue 1:10, 4:00, 7:15, 9:55 Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:55, 7:15, 9:55 MADAM BUTTERFLY 3D Sun 12:30 Mon 7:00 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Thu 7:00 PARANORMAN (PG) Thu 2:40 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:55 Mon, Wed 2:30 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Sun, Tue 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Sat 11:00 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05 Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:05, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon, Wed 2:20, 4:40, 7:15, 9:40 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 7:30, 9:50 Sun 4:50, 7:30, 9:50 Mon 9:25 Wed 7:00, 9:25 SPARKLE (PG) Thu 1:05, 7:15 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 4:25, 10:05 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 9:40 Mon 10:10 THE WORDS (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:25 Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:35, 10:15

EGLINTON TOWN CENTRE (CE) 1901 EGLINTON AVE E, 416-752-4494

THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 4:50, 9:40 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 3:45, 7:00, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:35, 7:40, 10:45 Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 MonWed 4:00, 7:05, 10:15 BRAVE (PG) Fri, Sun 2:10 Sat 11:30, 2:10 THE BULLET VANISHES Thu 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15, 9:45 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 3:40, 5:55, 8:10, 10:25 Fri-Sat 1:30, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30 Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 8:00, 10:20 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:35, 9:55 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 5:20, 9:00 Fri-Sun 3:00, 6:45, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:30 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (G) Thu 4:20, 6:50 Fri 2:40, 5:05, 7:40 Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40 Sun 2:30, 4:55, 7:25 Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:45 EK THA TIGER (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:20, 10:25 Fri, Sun 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:45, 9:50 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45, 10:15 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu 7:05 Fri-Sat, Mon-Wed 10:10 Sun 9:50 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:10, 9:40 JOKER (G) Thu 5:00, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sun 1:45, 4:30, 6:55, 9:30 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 LAWLESS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat 11:15, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 10:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu 9:10 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 Fri, Sun 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Sat 11:15, 1:50, 4:25, 7:05, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:30 THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (G) Thu 4:30, 6:50 PARANORMAN (PG) Fri-Sun 2:35 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:30, 6:00, 8:30 Fri, Sun 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Sat 11:00, 5:00, 7:35, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Sat 11:00 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:00, 10:30 Fri 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sat 1:05, 3:30, 5:50, 8:15, 10:45 Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:55, 7:20, 9:50 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:35, 10:00 Fri 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sat 12:50, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Mon-Wed 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 RAAZ 3 3D Fri 4:05, 7:25, 10:40 Sat 12:50, 4:05, 7:25, 10:40 Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 9:30 THE WORDS (PG) Fri 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:45, 3:10,

5:35, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25 Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

WOODSIDE CINEMAS (I) 1571 SANDHURST CIRCLE, 416-299-3456

EK THA TIGER (14A) Fri 4:15, 7:00 Sat-Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 JOKER (G) Thu 4:45, 7:00, 9:15, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:45

GTA Regions Mississauga

COLISEUM MISSISSAUGA (CE) SQUARE ONE, 309 RATHBURN RD W, 905-275-3456

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 10:10 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:05 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 1:20, 3:30, 5:40, 7:45, 9:55 FriWed 8:30 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu-Tue 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Wed 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 BRAVE (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:45 Sat 12:35, 2:45 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 3:35 Fri-Wed 4:55 THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG) Fri 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Sat 11:00, 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20 Sun, Tue-Wed 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:15 Mon 1:15, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:10 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15 Fri 1:00, 4:10, 7:15, 10:20 Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20 Sun-Wed 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) 2:20, 6:00, 9:30 Sat 11:00 mat THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri, Sun-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu 2:30, 5:00, 7:25, 9:50 Fri-Wed 7:10, 9:40 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Thu 1:30 3:55 6:30 Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:50, 6:10 Sat 11:20 mat LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS LIVE - BBC PROMS 2012 Sat 2:30 MADAM BUTTERFLY 3D Thu, Mon 7:00 Sun 12:30 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS 3D (PG) Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 Mon 1:00, 4:05, 9:55 Tue-Wed 1:05, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME Thu 7:00 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:30, 9:20 Fri, Sun-Tue 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 11:15, 1:45, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Sat 11:00 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 3:00 5:20 7:50 10:15 Fri-Wed 3:00, 5:15, 7:40, 9:50 Sat 12:40 mat SPARKLE (PG) Thu 9:00 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 6:45, 9:35 Fri, Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:00 Sat 7:25, 10:00

COURTNEY PARK 16 (CE)

110 COURTNEY PARK E AT HURONTARIO, 416-335-5323 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 10:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:10 Sat-Sun 2:35, 6:00, 9:10 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:40, 9:40 Fri, MonWed 3:50, 7:10, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:00, 3:50, 7:10, 10:05 BRAVE (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 3:15 Sat-Sun 11:20 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:50, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:45, 10:10 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:30, 7:45, 10:10 THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG) 4:40, 7:00, 9:35 Sat-Sun 2:15 mat THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) 3:00, 6:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:00 mat THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 3:30, 6:50, 9:30 Fri, MonWed 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu 5:00, 8:00, 10:25 Fri 3:05, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:05, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25 MonWed 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Fri 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40 Tue-Wed 4:05, 7:15, 9:45 INDIANA JONES AND THE RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Sat-Sun 2:00 mat LAWLESS (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:40, 10:30 Fri 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:55, 9:40 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) 9:20 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:40, 6:10 Fri 4:20, 6:50 Sat-Sun 11:10, 1:50, 4:20, 6:50 THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (G) Thu 4:15, 6:20 PARANORMAN (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 4:25 Sat-Sun 11:30 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:10, 6:00, 9:00 Fri, MonWed 6:45, 9:15 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:25, 6:45, 9:15

THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Fri 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 MonWed 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 4:50, 8:10, 10:30 Fri 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:00, 10:30 MonWed 3:25, 6:20, 9:00 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 9:10 Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 11:45, 2:45, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:40, 9:30 Wed 3:35, 6:35, 9:30 THE WORDS (PG) Fri 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:00, 5:30, 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:40, 9:30

SILVERCITY MISSISSAUGA (CE) HWY 5, EAST OF HWY 403, 905-569-3373

THE APPARITION (PG) Thu 6:00, 8:10 Fri-Sun 9:45 Mon, Wed 7:50 Tue 9:20 BRAVE (PG) Sat-Sun 1:10 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:45 Fri 4:40, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 3:55, 7:00, 9:30 Tue 4:40, 7:10, 9:35 THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG) Fri, Tue 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:10, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00 Mon, Wed 5:45, 8:15 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 5:40, 8:30 Fri, Tue 5:00, 7:25, 9:55 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55 Mon, Wed 5:05, 7:20 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:50 Fri 4:20, 6:45, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:20 Mon, Wed 4:45, 7:10 Tue 4:20, 6:40, 9:00 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 4:45, 8:40 Fri, Tue 4:45, 7:05 Sat-Sun 2:10, 4:45, 7:05 Mon, Wed 5:15 PARANORMAN (PG) Sat-Sun 1:00 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:40 Fri 4:25, 6:50, 9:15 Sat 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:15 Sun 3:20, 5:40, 7:55, 10:00 Mon, Wed 4:40, 7:00 Tue 4:25, 6:50, 9:10 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 4:55, 8:00 Fri 4:55, 7:15, 9:35 Sat-Sun 1:15, 3:30, 7:15, 9:40 Mon, Wed 4:50, 8:10 Tue 4:55, 7:15, 9:30 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 5:50, 9:00 Fri, Tue 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:30, 8:00 TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG) Thu 6:10, 8:50 Fri 4:35, 7:10, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:35 Mon, Wed 4:35, 7:30 Tue 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 5:30, 8:20 Fri 4:15, 7:20, 10:05 Sat 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05 Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:55 Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:40 Tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:45

North COLOSSUS (CE) HWY 400 & 7, 905-851-1001

THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 3D (PG) Thu 3:55, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 7:05, 10:00 Mon-Wed 3:40, 7:05, 10:00 BRAVE (PG) Fri, Sun 1:40 Sat 11:15 BRAVE 3D (PG) Thu 3:40, 6:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 4:20, 7:15 Sat 1:40, 4:20, 7:15 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu 5:25, 7:45, 9:55 Fri-Sun 12:55, 3:15, 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:35, 9:45 THE COLD LIGHT OF DAY (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:10, 9:45 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 4:00, 7:20, 10:20 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:50, 7:10, 10:30 Sun 12:30, 4:30, 8:00 Mon-Wed 4:30, 8:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu 6:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:15, 6:00, 9:30 Mon-Wed 6:00, 9:30 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu 4:15, 5:40, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:40, 1:30, 3:00, 4:10, 5:20, 6:35, 7:40, 9:10, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:10, 5:20, 6:35, 7:40, 9:10, 10:10 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu 4:50, 7:15, 9:40 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:00, 9:35 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Fri, Sun 12:35 Sat 12:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (PG) Thu 4:20, 6:40, 9:15 Fri-Sun 3:05, 5:25, 7:45 Mon-Wed 5:25, 7:45 LAWLESS (14A) Thu 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Fri-Sat 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Sun 1:55, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:30, 10:10 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) Thu 5:30, 7:50, 10:10 Fri, Sun 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Sat 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:20 PARANORMAN (PG) Fri, Sun 1:45 Sat 11:20 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu 5:20, 7:35, 9:50 Fri, Sun 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 Sat 1:45, 4:15, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 3:55, 6:40, 9:15 PEE-WEE’S BIG ADVENTURE Sat 11:00 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40, 10:00 Fri-Sat 12:50, 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:30 Sun 2:25, 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:55, 10:15 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 3:30, 5:50, 8:10, 10:15 Fri, Sun 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:05 Sat 11:45, 2:30, 5:00, 7:50, 10:05 Mon-Wed 3:30, 5:40, 7:50, 10:05 SPARKLE (PG) 10:05 Thu 4:30, 7:25 STEP UP REVOLUTION (PG) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 9:35 Fri-Wed 9:40 TED (14A) Thu 4:40, 7:10, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:35, 7:20, 9:50 TOTAL RECALL (14A) Thu 4:05, 6:55, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:55 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:45, 9:55

THE WATCH (18A) Thu 9:30 THE WORDS (PG) Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:05, 10:25 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:25, 9:50

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30 INTERCHANGE WAY, HWY 400 & HWY 7, 416-335-5323 THE APPARITION (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:30 Fri 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sat 1:15, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 10:00 Sun 1:15, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45 THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 9:40 Sun 12:40, 4:00, 7:45 THE BOURNE LEGACY (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 7:45 Fri 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30 Sat 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 6:30, 7:45, 9:00, 9:30 Sun 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 3:30, 4:30, 6:00, 7:00, 8:00 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (PG) Thu 5:05 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (G) Fri 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Sat 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:15 Sun 12:15, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00 Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:15 EK THA TIGER (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 7:10 Fri 6:15, 9:30 Sat 2:45, 6:15, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:25 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 7:45 Fri 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sat 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:30 JOKER (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:45 Fri 6:00, 9:15 Sat 2:00, 6:00, 9:15 Sun 2:00, 6:45 MAGIC MIKE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:15, 8:00 Fri 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sat 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00 Sun 12:00, 2:30, 5:15, 8:00 MARVEL’S THE AVENGERS (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:30 Fri 6:35, 9:35 Sat 12:35, 3:35, 6:35, 9:35 Sun 12:35, 3:35, 7:25 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:00 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Sat 1:30, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Sun 1:30, 4:00, 7:00 THE OOGIELOVES IN THE BIG BALLOON ADVENTURE (G) Thu 4:45, 7:00 SAVAGES (18A) Thu 7:35 Fri 4:00, 6:55, 9:45 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 6:55, 9:45 Sun 1:00, 4:20, 7:35 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:35

4:10, 7:10, 10:10 THE CAMPAIGN (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 5:30, 7:45 Fri 7:50, 10:15 Sat-Sun, Tue 5:30, 7:50, 10:15 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 6:30 Fri, Tue 6:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 2:30, 6:15, 9:45 THE EXPENDABLES 2 (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 4:45, 7:20 Fri 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 Tue 4:45, 7:20, 10:00 HIT & RUN (14A) Thu 4:15 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Thu, Mon, Wed 4:30, 7:05 Fri 7:05, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 Tue 4:30, 7:05, 9:30 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (PG) Sat-Sun 3:00 LAWLESS (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00 Fri 7:00, 9:55 Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 Mon, Wed 4:15, 7:00 Tue 4:15, 7:00, 9:55 THE ODD LIFE OF TIMOTHY GREEN (G) Thu 6:45 Sat-Sun 1:20 PARANORMAN (PG) Sat-Sun 1:50 PARANORMAN 3D (PG) Thu, Mon, Wed 4:20, 6:50 Fri 6:50, 9:20 Sat-Sun, Tue 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 THE POSSESSION (14A) Thu 5:00, 7:30 Fri 8:10, 10:30 SatSun 1:05, 3:30, 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 Mon, Wed 5:20, 7:40 Tue 5:45, 8:10, 10:30 PREMIUM RUSH (14A) Thu 5:15, 7:40 Fri 7:30, 9:50 SatSun 3:50, 7:30, 9:50 Mon, Wed 5:10, 7:30 Tue 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 THE WORDS (PG) Fri 8:00, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 Mon, Wed 4:50, 7:25 Tue 5:40, 8:00, 10:25 3

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If somebody had shaken half an hour out of The Five-Year Engagement, it might have been a great movie. Jason Segel and Emily Blunt (see cover story, page 34) spark as lovers Tom and Violet. There are lots of jokes, the cast is funny, and the idea of exploring a changing relationship over five years is solid. Ambitious San Francisco chef Tom moves to Michigan with Violet because that’s where her only careeradvancing job offer is, but he can’t find decent work there, so he goes to seed and tries to hide his resentment. It’s an engaging story, but the jokes get in the way. Every scene makes its point, then hangs around for a few more needless gags that kill the pace and oversell the themes. More jokes fill up the generous extras package; the making-of docs offer fascinating on-set material. EXTRAS Theatrical and unrated versions, cast and crew commentary,

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Les Vampires

(Kino, 1914-15) D: Louis Feuillade, w/ Musidora, Edouard Mathé. Rating: NNN; DVD package: none Back in the teens, Louis Feuillade invented – or swiped from other media – most of the key thriller devices we use today, and they’re all on display in Les Vampires: exotic weapons, a high-tech superweapon, death traps, secret panels, shootouts, things going boom, and classic Hitchcock-style suspense, where we know what peril awaits but the characters don’t. It also has stock characters. Intrepid reporter Philippe Guérande (Edouard Mathé) is determined to bring down the titular gang nominally led by a string of criminal masterminds but really inspired by Irma Vep (Musidora), the movies’ first great bad girl. The evil geniuses get busted or killed, and she just moves on to the next one and carries on with robbery, murder, kidnapping and looking good in hooded tights. There are also special effects and

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James Stewart delivers a hare-raising performance in Harvey.

Henry Koster, w/ James Stewart, Josephine Hull. Rating: NNNNN; Blu-ray package: NNN

Harvey is one of those movies that stays with people a long time and becomes beloved. This may have something to do with its being, arguably, the saddest comedy ever put on film. Harvey, the character, is a 6-foot-tall invisible rabbit who hangs out with Elwood P. Dowd (James Stewart) and is the reason Elwood’s sister tries to have him committed: the rabbit is ruining her standing in society and her daughter’s chances of marriage. Dowd’s gentle charm fits Stewart’s persona to a T, but his wistfulness and occasional furtive glances suggest there’s trouble under the affable surface. Josephine Hull’s prim, fussy Veta gives Stewart a perfect foil. He talks about her perstunts, the latter performed without safety wires or, for the most part, doubles. That really is Mathé fighting atop a moving train. Later on there’s a spectacular moment that prefigures Bruce Willis’s trick with the fire hose in Die Hard. Much of the first half of this nearseven-hour epic (it was originally a serial) is delivered in static master shots and inserts. Later on, Feuillade discovers more dramatic angles, close-ups, travelling shots, pans and tilts. They’re used sparingly and must have been breathtaking back in the day. There is no commentary, but go to Kino’s Fantomas set and you’ll find more of the same antique thrills and film historian David Kalat’s fine discussion of Feuillade, thriller history and a bit about Les Vampires. The print was restored in 1966 and remastered for high-def. It’s got

formance in an audio intro that’s well worth a listen. As a movie, Harvey lacks the fluidity and polish of The Philadelphia Story or the manic energy of Bringing Up Baby,

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scratches, dirt and flicker, but it’s still quite watchable. EXTRAS Pillarboxed, b&w, English intertitles.

up, so he investigates. Thriller fans will guess where this is going, but not how it plays out. Director Ken Loach, known for his bleak studies of working-class life, repurposes thriller conventions to paint a striking portrait of a devastated man, a close-up look at the horrors of war and a howl at the criminal stupidity of privatizing it. Loach gives the Baghdad bodies and combat a documentary realism, and uses the same techniques to emphasize Fergus’s isolation and inner agony. Mark Womack, as Fergus, and Andrea Lowe, his buddy’s wife, both give strong performances. Extras on factual background would be welcome here. Google Blackwater to find your own. EXTRAS English, French audio. No subtitles. 3

Route Irish (eOne, 2010) D: Ken Loach, w/ Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe. Rating: NNNN; Blu-ray package: none Route Irish is the name soldiers have given to the road between the Baghdad airport and the city itself. They say it’s the most dangerous road on earth. In 2007 a contractor – the term for a private security soldier – is killed by a roadside bomb. Back home in Liverpool, Fergus, the dead man’s buddy and a veteran contractor, thinks the death doesn’t add

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To Rome With Love. 4 & 7 pm. Ted. 9:15 pm. sun 9 – Ice Age: Continental Drift 3-D. 2 pm. Ted. 4 & 9:15 pm. To Rome With Love. 7 pm. mon 10 – To Rome With Love. 7 pm. Ted. 9:15 pm. tue 11 – Ted. 7 pm. To Rome With Love. 9:15 pm. wed 12 – Ted. 1 pm. Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) D: Colin Treverrow. 7 pm. To Rome With Love. 9 pm.

There’s life beyond TIFF: Brilliant Mistakes, starring Daniel Dambroff and Elise McNamara, screens September 8 as part of the Toronto Indie Film Fest.

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thu 6 – Magic Mike (2012) D: Steven Soderbergh. 7 pm. The Amazing Spiderñ man (2012) D: Marc Webb. 9 pm. fri 7-wed 12 – Call or check website for schedule.

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toronto underground cinema 186 spadina ave, basement. 647-992-4335, torontoundergroundcinema.com.

harbourfront centre, 235 queens quay w (hc). innis town hall, 2 sussex (it). caribbeantales-events.com

thu 6-sat 15 – TO Indie Film Festival 2012. See listings, this page.

thu 6-sep 15 – Celebration of cinema from

the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Britain and all corners of the Caribbean and Diaspora. Showcase $15, some screenings free. mon 10 – Film Showcase. 6 & 9 pm. La Hija Natural/Love Child (2011) D: Leticia Tonos, and short film A Day In A Bajan Life: Episode #5. 6:30 pm. Orpailleur (2009) D: Marc Barrat, and short films. 9:15 pm. Screenings at HC. tue 11 – The Story Of Lover’s Rock (2011) D: Menelik Shabazz, plus short films. 6:30 pm (IT). wed 12 – Broken Stones (2012) D: Guetty Felin, and Quiet Desperation (2010) D: Renee Pollonais. 6:30 pm. Juan de Los Muertos/Juan Of The Dead (2011) D: Alejandro Brugués. 9:30 pm. Screenings at HC.

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thu 6-sat 15 – TO Indie Film Festival 2012. A film festival for truly independent films, and a headline event for micro-budget and nobudget films in North America. $8. thu 6 – Detroit Winter D: Barbara Troy. 6 pm. Shorts Block 1: A Band Called Catl D: Jonathan Lawley, One Wish D: Jim Calarco, and others. 7:45 pm. Blissetraße D: Paul Donovan. 9:15 pm. fri 7 – She Paid The Ultimate Price D: Iryna Korpan. 6 pm. Shortsrestaurants! Block 2: Steel Viper nearly 2,000 Force D: Curtis Grahauer, Amalgamations Search by rating, genre, price, D: Elaine Poon, and others. 7:30 pm. Broadway’s neighbourhood, review & Finest D: Stephen Marro. 9:15 pm.more! sat 8 – Brilliant Mistakes D: Paul Brighton. 5:30pm. Shorts Block 3: The Borough D: Anthony Chambers, Dorothy D: Eros Romero, and others. 7:45 pm. Nothing Without You D: Xackery Irving. 9:15 pm. sun 9 – Welcome To Harlem D: Mark Blackman. 6 pm. Shorts Block 4: RootWork D: Dan Sacco, The Shining Night D: Keith Oncale, and others. 7:45 pm. Soft Gun D: Guillaume Collin, Jesse Kray and Alexandra Bégin. 9 pm. mon 10– Surviving Family D: Laura Thies. 6 pm. Shorts Block 5: Thanksgiving Wishes D: DJ Sweet, Dead Monday D: Mark Korven, and others. 7:45 pm. Dead Saints D: Robin North. 9:15 pm. tue 11 – Funeral Season D: Matthew Lancit. 6 pm. Shorts Block 6: Mauthausen Twice D:

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Seth Feldman, Chance D: Rob Comeau, and others. 7:45 pm. Godart D: Paul Plett. 9:15 pm. wed 12 – Material Success D: Jesse Mann. 6 pm. Shorts Block 7: Shuffle D: Garrett Bennett, White D: Sam Kay, and others. 7:45 pm. West Of Thunder D: Steve Russell and Jody Marriott Bar-Lev. 9:15 pm.

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thu 6-sep 16 – Toronto International Film Festival. See cover story and reviews, page 29. For complete listings, see nowtoronto. com/tiff.

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Moonrise Kingdom (2012) D: Wes Anderson. 7 pm. To Rome With Love (2012) D: Woody Allen. 9 pm. fri 7 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) tiff bell lightbox, reitman square, 350 king w, and D: John Madden. 7 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. other venues. tiff.net 9:30 pm. thu 6-sep 16 – See cover story and resat 8 – Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wantviews, page 29. For complete listings, ed 3-D (2012) D: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath see nowtoronto.com/tiff. and Conrad Vernon. 2 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 4 & 9:30 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 7 pm. sun 9 – Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted 3-D. 2 pm. The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. 4 & 6:45 pm. Moonrise Kingdom. 9:15 pm. 506 bloor w. 416-637-3123. bloorcinema.com mon 10 – Moonrise Kingdom. 9:15 pm. thu 6 – Old School (2003) D: Todd Phillips. 7 tue 11 – Moonrise Kingdom. 7 pm. Beasts Of pm. National Lampoon’s Animal House The Southern Wild (2012) D: Benh Zeitlin. 9 (1978)D: John Landis. 9:30 pm. pm. fri 7-sep 16 – Toronto International Film wed 12 – Hope Springs (2012) D: David FranFestival. See cover story and reviews, page kel. 1:30 pm. Take This Waltz (2012) D: Sarah nearly 2,000 29. For complete listings, seerestaurants! nowtoronto. Polley. 7 pm. Beasts Of The Southern Wild. com/tiff.Search by rating, genre, price, 9:15 pm.

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thu 6-wed 12 – Continuous screenings Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. thu 6-fri 7 – The Volcano That Stopped The World. mon 10-wed 12 – The Downside Of High.

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thu 6-wed 12 – See website for schedule.

reg hartt’s cineforum 463 bathurst. 416-603-6643.

sat 8 – The Salvador Dali Film Fest. 7 & 9 pm. sun 9 – Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 4

pm. Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom (2006) D: Don Alexander. 6 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau, with music from Radiohead’s Kid A & OK Computer. 7 pm. Alice In The Wall: Alice In Wonderland (1951) D: Clyde Geronimi, Wilfred Jackson and Hamilton Luske, with music from Pink Floyd’s The Wall. 9 pm. mon 10 – Without Lying Down (2000) D: Bridget Terry. 7 pm. tue 11 – Mary Pickford (2005) D: Sue Williams. 7 pm. wed 12 – Alice In The Wall. 7 pm.

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400 roncesvalles. 416-531-9959. revuecinema.ca

thu 6 – The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) D: John Madden. 9:30 pm.

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Admit to insecurities I have been In a long-term relatIon-

ship with a wonderful woman who doesn’t have a lot of people she socializes with in her daily life. She is a Burning Man person and converses online with other “burners.” I confronted her when I realized she was discussing the ups and downs of our relationship in a public online forum. She still hung out on that forum, but diminished her presence. I assumed she was socializing in private emails. A few months later, I discovered that she was actually moderating a different forum. I deleted the site from my history and decided to avoid it. Last week, while she was at Burning Man, I checked out the forum she moderates even though I knew I shouldn’t have. What I found was that she never mentions having a boyfriend, even when it might be relevant to a discussion. I was never mentioned, even in passing. I don’t mind that guys compliment her, and I understand the benefits of positive attention from the opposite sex. If she came to me and told me that is what she was seeking and that it was chaste, I would be fine with it as long as she made that clear to other forum members. We are both attractive, and I get attention at times from other women. I often mention that I have a girlfriend to avoid someone getting the wrong idea. I also feel like she saves the spontaneous, uninhibited and adventurous part of herself for these people at Burning Man.

Does it sound like she is cheating emotionally? How can I bring this subject up in a way that doesn’t make me seem like just more of a depressing part of her life? I don’t want her to lose her outlet, but I feel like she’s not showing me the respect one should show a partner of 10-plus years. Her Burning Man I don’t want to alarm you unnecessarily, HBM, but partnered people who go to Burning Man sans partner are typically planning to cheat cheat, not cheat emote. Casual straight sex, like sandy ass cracks and seeing my friend Eric naked, is a huge part of the Burning Man “experience.” But the kind of straight guy who goes to Burning Man for casual sex – and the art and the experience and the transcendence – doesn’t give a shit if the girls he fucks have boyfriends back home. Or in the next tent. Your girlfriend could post your picture to Burning Man forums, mention you in every face-to-face conversation she has and wear a shirt with your picture on it everywhere she goes on the playa, HBM, and she’d still find plenty of guys willing to fuck her brains out. Mentioning you in online forums, not mentioning you in online forums – neither action is proof that she plans to cheat or not cheat. So I’m sitting here racking my brain trying to come up with some other reason why your girlfriend might not have mentioned you in an online Burning Man forum that she moderates. Thinking, thinking, thinking. Hey! Maybe it’s because the last time you caught her talking about you and your relationship in a public online forum, YOU BLEW THE FUCK UP AT HER. Remember? You were angry then because she was talking about you on the interwebs. And you’re angry now that she isn’t talking about you on the interwebs. If you’re looking for a reason why your girlfriend feels inhibited around you, HBM, maybe it’s the mixed signals. She gets in trouble for talking about you; she gets in trouble for not talking about

you. If your girlfriend feels like she’s going to be in trouble with you no matter what she does, HBM, then she’s going to feel inhibited around you. And she’s going to err on the side of sharing less of what she does with you. When your girlfriend gets back from Burning Man, HBM, here’s what I think you should say: “I realize this makes me sound crazy, and maybe I am crazy. But remember when I was upset about you talking about me – about us – in that public online forum? Well, I stumbled on another online forum and you weren’t talking about me. And that upset me, too.” Acknowledge your insecurities, HBM, take some responsibility for the impact they may have on her behaviour, and then have a long talk about how you can both enjoy a little attention from members of the opposite sex without making the other person feel like shit.

Talk openly about chats I’ve been datIng someone for a lIttle

more than two months. After the second week, he was saying things like “We need a word between ‘like’ and ‘love,’ because ‘I like you’ doesn’t seem sufficient.” After weeks of telling him to slow his roll, I agreed to make it official and stop dating and sleeping with other guys because he wanted to “lock it down.” It’s been a week, and he’s still on Scruff and Growlr. I’m a little put off, because he was the one who pushed for exclusivity and the title of boyfriend. Should I be concerned? Can hookup apps be part of a healthy, monogamous relationship? Obviously a talk is needed. Sick of Scruff Obviously. Maybe your boyfriend wants to cheat but doesn’t want to be cheated on – he wants his boyfriend locked down but doesn’t want to be locked down himself – or maybe he thinks it’s too soon to delete his online personal profiles. Or maybe, like a lot of gay men, he treats hookup apps like a virtual gay bar, i.e., a place where he can hang out and socialize with friends and exes and, perhaps,

get his flirt on now and then. But if lurking on Scruff and Growlr makes his newly locked-down boyfriend feel insecure, he should stay off hookup apps. Or, if he simply can’t give ’em up, your new boyfriend should allow you to look at his chats whenever you care to so you can see for yourself that they’re either wholly innocent (just talking with friends) or wholly innocent flirting (swapping photos and compliments with hot guys but not making plans to hook up).

I eroticized my diet I’m a gay man who gaIned 30 pounds

after I met my current boyfriend. I started dieting about a week before you ran a letter from a woman who was wondering about withholding sex until her husband lost some weight. I told my boyfriend not to have sex with me until I lost 15 pounds. It took me three and a half weeks to lose the weight, but it really strengthened our relationship. He was supportive of my weight loss goals, he had an incentive to help me make healthier choices, and it brought an erotic tension to the process that we both dug. My only suggestion for the woman who wrote you: Don’t tell people about it! The people we told were angry at my boyfriend for “withholding” sex unless I lost weight. But, hey, it worked! Lighter In Loafers As I said in my response to Like Boys Slimmer, if a couple can make the withholding of sex into an erotic game that they’re both playing and both enjoying – and not an asshole move one partner is pulling – I could maybe see this sort of arrangement working. And I’m pleased to hear that at least one couple out there was able to successfully eroticize a diet by combining it with chastity play. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger. com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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