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54 The Scene Tom Petty, Arcade Fire, Fresh Snow 56 Interview Rocco DeLuca 58 Club & concert listings 60 Interview Death from Above 1979 Interview The New Pornographers 62 Roundup TIFF music 64 T.O. Notes 70 Album reviews

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72 Theatre interview Monday Nights’ Byron Abalos and Colin Doyle; Theatre listings 74 Theatre reviews Hedda Gabler; Kurios 76 Out-of-town theatre review Alice Through The Looking Glass; Comedy listings 77 Dance listings

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25 Tackling TIFF NOW’s film team reviews more than 60 movies, including lots with major buzz 30 Cumberbatch coup Sherlock star Benedict Cumberbatch cracks the A list in The Imitation Game

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78 Director interview Welcome To New York’s Abel Ferrara 79 Review The Captive 80 Playing this week 85 Film times 87 Indie & rep listings Plus Life After Beth at the Royal

“The ‘don’t take naked pics if you don’t want them online’ argument is the ‘she was wearing a short skirt’ of the web. Ugh.”

42 Review Montecito 44 Top five foodie movies 48 Drink up! Where to get what TIFF’s stars drink

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1. Blame game After Tina Fontaine’s body is pulled from the Red River, the usual victim-blaming ensues. 2. One last dance Is it just us, or do you have a sense of déjà vu about council and Rob Ford erupting into dance at the final meeting of the term? 3. Frustration brews If the current booze system isn’t delivering maximum benefits for the province, what’s stopping us from changing it? 4. Wake-up call A new report by the Social Planning Council says child poverty has reached epidemic proportions in Toronto. 5. Lessons learned Saving the David Dunlap Forest would help mitigate the effects of climate change on bridges, sewers and roads in the Don Valley, but the powerful just see the woodland as an opportunity to make money.

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WICKEd A touring production of the hit musical about the backstory of The Wizard Of Oz continues at the Ed Mirvish Theatre. 1:30 and 7 pm. To Nov 2. $36$139. 4168721212. OPERATORS Dan Boeckner’s hooky new dance pop band hits the Horseshoe. Doors 8 pm. $15. HS, RT, SS, TF.

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+MONdAy NIghTS This collec tively created interactive play examines guys bonding over a weekly basketball game. At the Theatre Centre until Sep 20. 7:30 pm. $25$30. 416538 0988. ThE CRuCIBLE Soulpepper’s awardwinning production of Arthur Miller’s allegory about McCarthyera witch hunts continues at the Young Centre until Sep 20. 7:30 pm. $29$74. 4168668666.

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dict Cumberbatch plays WWII code breaker Alan Turing in this Oscarbound biopic. 6 pm. $24. Princess of Wales. tiff.net KAThy REIChS Bestselling forensic anthropologist signs copies Bones Never Lie. Noon. Free. Indigo Manulife Centre. 4169253536.

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ALEx COLVILLE This major survey of work by the influen tial Canadian painter continues at the AGO. To Jan 4. $16.50 $25, $12.50 Wed after 6 pm. 4169796648, ago.net 9 TO 5 Leigh Cameron, Becky Johnson, Hannah Spear, Alex Tindal and others star in this improvised comedy show about the working woman. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre. 9:30 pm. $10$12. baddogtheatre.com

singer/songwriter plays Indie 88’s birthday and benefit for SKETCH Working Arts, along with the Darcys and Lowell. Opera House. Doors 8 pm. $8.81. BEAChES TERRy FOx RuN 5 and 10K walk, run, bike in support of cancer research. Registra tion 8:15 am, run at 9 am. terryfox.org

Granduciel and Co. bring their superb Lost In The Dream al bum to the Phoenix. Doors 8 pm. $26. RT, SS, TF.

play about piano icon Glenn Gould continues at the Young Centre in a new Soulpepper production. To Oct 1. 8 pm. $5$74. 4168668666. +judy NATAL Photos probing our planet’s uncertain future hang at Circuit Gallery @ Pre fix ICA, to Sep 20. Free. 4165910357.

ist/writer launches She Of The Mountains with an onstage interview with NOW’s Susan G. Cole at the Gladstone. 8 pm, $10, free with book purchase. 4165314635. ThE BOOK OF MORMON The terrific touring production of the Tony Awardwinning musical about missionaries in Uganda opens at the Princess of Wales. To Nov 30. 7 pm. $49$130. 4168721212.

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Nichol Robertson, Danny Marks and others fete the country singer. Lula Lounge. Doors 7 pm. $20. lula.ca NERd NITE TORONTO Mad Science show, local history and talk by Steam Whistle founder Greg Taylor. 7:30 pm. $5. Tran zac Club. toronto.nerdnite.com

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cal English singer/songwriter returns to the Drake Under ground for three nights. Doors 8 pm. $22.50. RT, SS, TF. To Sep 13.

pop singer shows Canada love by having Montreal’s Majical Cloudz open. Molson Amphi theatre.Doors 7 pm, all ages. $46$60. LN, TM. NO gOOd dEEd Taraji P Henson and Idris Elba star in this thrill er about a mother being ter rorized by an escaped con. Opening day.

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artists’ riffs on ancient Greek art at Daniel Faria Gallery. Free. 4165381880. dAy OFF Danny Brown, Le1f, ATrack, Lunice and others take over Sherbourne Common for Fool’s Gold Day Off. 1:30 pm. $20. fgdayoff.com ChARITy FuNFEST Musician Daniel Lanois takes part in Roncey neighbourhood event for Redwood Shelter and Moosonee Northern Dogs Rescue. From 10 am. 2 Howard Park. rmrato.org

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The sidebar to Matthew Behrens’s Torture Blowback (NOW, August 28-September 3) states that Maher Arar “was detained and tortured in Syria based oninflammatoryallegationsbytheRCMP.” At the O’Connor Inquiry, RCMP officialsinvolvedinthecasetestified they told the U.S. that they didn’t know either way whether Arar had terroristaffiliations. Thiswasgoodenoughfortheparanoid post-9/11 Americans, who sent Ararbacktowherehisflightoriginated, in Lebanon. More bad luck returnedhimtoSyria. Butthatbadluckreallybeganwhen helandedinNewYorkCityonastopover,ratherthanMontreal,wherehe should have arrived, quietly, safely andun-harassed. Ian Scott Toronto

Dunlap activists can’t see forest for the trees

TheaerialphotothatillustratesJohn Bacher’s Forest Fight Above Toronto (NOW, August 28-September 3) is misleading. Ofthe71hectaresofthemainDavid Dunlap Observatory property, more thanhalfhasbeenprotected. This outcome is the result of an OMB mediation between the developersasownersofthepropertyand the Town of Richmond Hill, York

egion, the Toronto and Region R ConservationAuthorityandtheDDO Defenders. The Richmond Hill Naturalists chosenottoparticipate.Theirrefusal to acknowledge these positive gains bringsintoquestiontheircredibility. Wilhelm Bleek Richmond Hill

“ The RCMP told the U.S. they didn’t know if Arar had terrorist affiliations.”

Billboard ban loved in São Paulo

ThankyouforDaveMeslin’sOutdoor Advertising:TheNewInvasiveSpecies (NOW, August 28-September 3). São Paulo,Brazil,bannedallbillboardsin 2007 and loves the result. Check the videoatbanbillboardblight.org. Diane Beckett From nowtoronto.com

St. Royals sound more than “jumbled blur”

What a bummer to read Julia LeConte’sreviewoftheSt.Royalsshow attheModClub(NOW,August28-September3)! Not her recounting of the night’s layout, which was accurate, or her

SEPT 25 ORGANIC WEEK MOVIE NIGHT – FOOD BEWARE For the first time, our children are growing up less healthy than we are. Why? Food Beware begins with a visit to a small village in France, where the town’s mayor has decided to make the school lunch menu organic and locally grown. A wide variety of people with differing perspectives to find common ground are interviewed- children, parents, teachers, healthcare workers, farmers, elected officials, scientists, researchers and the victims of illnesses themselves. Revealed in these moving and often surprising conversations are the abuses of the food industry, the competing interests of agrobusiness and public health, the challenges and rewards of safe food production and the practical solutions that we can all take part in.

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commendations of the band, which were apt and well-deserved; but her dismissaloftheprototypeAdamson E12soundsystemasa“jumbledblur.” From my perspective onstage as monitorengineer,summing31separate mic and line channels together is, LeConte would surely agree, an immensetask–especiallywiththat manylivehornsandarrangements withsuchdynamics. There is more to the sound systemthanjustspeakers. Eric Stecki Toronto

LCBO a real piss off

Re Familiar Whine (NOW, August 28-September 3). The LCBO’s monopolyontheretailbeveragesectorin this province is one the few topics that really pisses me off. No, we’re not well served. We’re very badly servedbytheLCBOmonopoly.Time toendit. William Mougayar From nowtoronto.com

Why Israel keeps firing

Sinceletter-writerG.R.Sherwinwants ustoimaginewhyHamaskeepsfiring rockets (NOW, August 28-September 3), I would like NOW’s readers to imaginewhyIsraelhasclosedtheborder to a population that has stated and demonstrated its determination to destroyIsrael. Yes,lifeisdifficultinGaza.Violence isnotgoingtomakeitbetter.Onthe contrary, violence has brought us to thisimpasse.ThemorerocketsHamas fires,thelessIsraelwillbewillingto trustthepeopleofGaza. David Palter Toronto NOW welcomes reader mail. Address letters to: NOW, Letters to the Editor, 189 Church, Toronto, ON M5B 1Y7. Send e-mail to letters@nowtoronto.com and faxes to 416-364-1166. All correspondence must include your name, address and daytime phone number. Letters may be edited for length.

Writer and director Michael Moore (far right) filming Roger & Me, which celebrates its 25th anniversary with a screening at TIFF September 8.

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Moore, please When Michael Moore unleashed Roger & Me during the 1989 holiday season – occasioning NOW’s wide-ranging interview with the director – the world of documentary filmmaking experienced a seismic shift. As journalist-turned-moviemaker Moore gleefully put himself in the frame chasing down the General Motors CEOs who’d abandoned Flint, Michigan, cinéma vérité got its ass kicked, the neutral documentary seemed a thing of the past and the once unseen doc maker became a rock star. Since then, his 12 pointedly political films have, among other things, dissected capitalism (Capitalism: A Love Story), lashed out at America’s lack of medical insurance (Sicko) and bemoaned the national gun obsession in Bowling For Columbine, which won the Oscar for best documentary feature in 2003 – all with a hefty dose of humour. Of course, some argue that Moore created a few monsters by giving directors permission to unleash their egos. (See Morgan Spurlock.) But others insist Moore gave docs new life. Check out Roger & Me when TIFF celebrates its first appearance at the fest 25 years ago with a screening Monday (September 8). Moore also participates in day 1 of the Doc Conference Tuesday (September 9). Our TIFF coverage beSUSAN G. COLE gins on page 25.

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At council’s final meeting before the October 27 municipal election last week, Rob Ford thanked Norm Kelly for leading council when things got, well, a little rocky last November. “I know I embarrassed council and I want to thank, sincerely, the deputy mayor for taking the reins,” Ford said. Councillor Gloria Lindsay Luby surprised council by announcing she’s retiring from politics (and now we’ll never get to hear about the video Ford allegedly sent her the first time he ran for office against her back in the 90s and lost). Rob’s brother Doug hinted that he’d take a run at provincial politics. And then, because this is Toronto, the mayor embarrassed council again with a set of joyless dance moves to a performance by local reggae artist Jay Douglas. ICYMI video and resulting memes at nowtoronto.com.

LINE 9 GETS MORE SLIPPERY

A solicitor for the city of Toronto presented council with a report last week on the status of Enbridge’s emergency response plans for its Line 9 pipeline project. But that report couldn’t detail what plans Enbridge has in place to respond to a spill or emergency because they are still at the draft stage, emergency response exercises have not yet taken place, and Enbridge is still assessing locations in Mississauga for a promised emergency response crew. Nearing the end of their epic four-day meeting, councillors approved the report with a three-part amendment moved by York West Councillor Anthony Perruzza. Most significantly, however symbolically, the city manager was asked to write Enbridge “to request that diluted bitumen not be transported through the city of Toronto.”

Last month, Andrews decried the outpouring of grief over Robin Williams’s suicide, calling him “the epitome of the wimpy white man – his depiction of a cross-dresser in Mrs. Doubtfire proves that, in the destruction of the family in America.”

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Go figure. Washed-up former Canadian Nazi Party leader William John Beattie is once again making waves, running for deputy reeve in Minden, Ontario. Nationalist Party of Canada leader and perennial Toronto mayoral candidate Don Andrews was of course all over the news, which was picked up internationally after the Star broke the story; on the NPC website, he describes Beattie as the “Paul Revere of the dangers of diversity.”

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Chow is finding out that campaigning in a federal riding is a completely different animal from running city-wide. Both Ford and Tory have the advantage there. Conservative Tory, as former head of CivicAction and before that Ontario PC leader, has experience campaigning on a larger scale. The Chow campaign has also made a number of uncharacteristic missteps as well. First was trying to position Chow out of the gate as the only

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trition programs and study the downtown relief line, a project Chow had up until this point dismissed as too expensive. Former United Way CEO and Metrolinx board member Frances Lankin was on hand to lend her support to the initiative and endorse Chow. Already bringing out the big guns? Fiona Nelson, the long-time former school board chair, dropped by unannounced, too, to add to the political theatre. It was under Nelson that Chow championed nutrition programs as trustee back in the 80s. Earlier in the day, a revamped web page was launched focusing not only on improving transit but also on kids’ programs and youth unemployment. However, the mood was decidedly off in the room among campaign volunteers trying to escape notice. Campaign director John Laschinger was on the phone, hunched in a doorway outside, during most of Chow’s presser. Later in the day a Nanos Research poll confirmed the stampede to Tory, showing him at 42 per cent, with a 14-point lead over Ford at 28, and Chow at 26. Politicians say summer polls are

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the state of our local politics. Maybe RoFo is right: all people really expect municipal government to do is to pick up their garbage without ’coons jacking it. World-class we are. But back to the moment at hand and the mission critical Chow finds herself in. There’s no denying she’s the underdog now, just like she’s been her whole career – or at least that’s the narrative coming from her camp. Now there’s a real possibility of Chow being the odd person out in what was supposed to be a two-way race between her and Tory. What if the next poll shows her support declining further still? Chow has been a fighter all her life. But the real danger for her is that downtown progressives and liberals, big L and small, freaked at the prospect of another Ford victory, could abandon her for Tory. At Chow campaign headquarters on Yonge south of St. Clair on Tuesday, September 2, the post-Labour Day campaign push emphasized winning those progressives back. To that end, Chow announced a 1 per cent boost in the land transfer tax on homes and condos over $2 million to fund expanded school nu-

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t’s arrived: the postLabour Day push, the moment of truth in mayoral race 2014. Folks aren’t supposed to begin paying attention to municipal elections until after Labour Day. Let’s not kid ourselves: a lot of voters have already made up their minds. In some ways it’s beginning to look a lot like 2010 all over again, when some nobody named Rob Ford was in first place through the dog days of summer and pretty much stayed there. Only this time it’s John Tory on the top rung. Olivia Chow, ahead in the spring, has unexpectedly dropped to third. Barring any weird scenes, like a huge miscue by Tory, this thing could already be over. Have you read the latest from Forum Research? I’m not talking about the poll putting Ford in a solid second and (supposedly) on the comeback trail. (More on that later.) I’m talking about the one suggesting that Torontonians favour euthanizing raccoons. That was after the mayor cracked wise last week about the pesky critters terrorizing the masses. The raccoon problem seems to typify

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more volatile and can’t be trusted. But as Laschinger pointed out in a August 28 fundraising letter to supporters, the widening gap in favour of Tory is particularly worrisome and can’t be ignored when it’s higher than the margin of error. How did it all go sideways for Chow? Some have blamed her flatfooted performance at debates. But it’s also true she’s finding it hard making inroads in those suburban pockets she needs to win.

one who could beat Ford. Tory’s emergence in the lead quickly put the lie to that notion. Before Joe Cressy left the fold to run for the Chow’s old seat in TrinitySpadina, the talk was of selling Chow as the progressive candidate. After four years of Ford’s gutter politics, it’s arguable that voters, particularly those in racialized communities suffering under stifling poverty in the inner burbs, would be looking for someone with vision thing to lift them up. But somewhere along the line the decision was made to sell Chow as a pragmatist. And so the narrative of her immigrant roots and growing up watching every penny became the focal point. As a result, she’s looked out of sorts and heavily scripted more often than not. There were a few bad strategic decisions as well. The recruiting of former Liberal strategist Warren Kinsella proved a disaster. He exited the campaign under a cloud last week after he essentially called Tory a racist because his SmartTrack proposal would bypass Rexdale and Jane and Finch. Kinsella was supposed to be a conduit to Ford Nation (he writes a column for the Sun and is a regular on Sun News Network). Some say his ego was behind attacks on Tory, the man he once supported for mayor. Truth be told, more than a few Chow insiders were always leery about whether he’d be a good fit. For Chow there’s still the all-important TV ads period to help turn things around. The possibility of a Ford win is still remote. Ford’s ceiling is 30 per cent. For Tory, the issue is whether he can withstand the barrage that will invariably come nearer the finish. Maybe some of us overestimated Chow. But I wonder how much her heart can still be in it given the dramatic turn. Conservative media commentators are already beating the drums for her to drop out. 3 enzom@nowtoronto.com | @enzodimatteo

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The difference, of course, is that there are bombs in the sky over Gaza. The idea began with a report about online video games launched within weeks of the assault on Gaza: Whack The Hamas, Iron Dome Missile De fense, Bomb Gaza. On what planet can coders coolly exploit the enter tainment potential of the killing of

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GAZA IN TORONTO Pro-Palestine filmmaker John Greyson’s video Gazonto reimagines what the bombing of Gaza would look like if it took place in Toronto – minus the Hamas rockets flying into Israel Gazonto is a frantic, homemade bouillabaisse stewed from the hor rors of daily headlines in an over heated digital canteen. It’s also my latest video, imagining what Israel’s ongoing bombing of Gaza would look like if it were taking place in Toron to. Gazonto is made from scraps of so cial media junk culture: Google maps of Parkdale, Rosedale, Willowdale;

online photos of Bluffers Park Beach, Scarborough Injury Rehab Centre, Caplansky’s Deli. It’s cellphone wit nessing, as people record the pancak ing of their own homes and families and places of worship. Bomb cams. Bono. Red dots. Can this crude animated collage make us imagine an iota of the terror of being trapped in a walled city with nowhere to hide, where no square

inch is safe when the bombs start falling? Making Gazonto, I was shocked at how effortlessly Gaza maps onto To ronto: from the Credit to the Rouge, from Eglinton down to the water, we share a similar amount of shoreline, a similar population density, similar humidity. We swim, jog, laugh, love, go to school and work, sit in cafés and watch the same World Cup matches.

innocent civilians in real time? It continued with the Is rael Defence Force’s purpose ful release to the Washington Post of a video of a “knock on the roof’ warning telling Gaz ans, in Hebrew, to evacuate within minutes before the bombs begin fall ing. On what planet does an army boast about such terror tactics, think ing they present its humanitarian face? It continued with Stephen Har per’s release of his “Through Fire And Water” ad extolling his unswerving, unconditional support for Israel even while the rest of the world con demned the bombing of the UN’s Ja balia Elementary Girls School. On what planet does a world leader ig nore the bombing of a schoolyard? The answer, of course, is this pla net, where video war games generate more profits than any other enter tainment genre, where U.S. cops kill a black man every 36 hours, where nineyearold girls accidently shoot their instructors during Uzi training sessions, where Israelis congregate

on hills above Gaza at sunset, sipping cocktails as they watch and cheer the bombs. This planet, this country, this city: how do you bring the war home to Toronto, especially in a country that anaesthetizes itself against empathy with smug platitudes and hypocriti cal gestures, a place where not a sin gle party leader speaks out meaning fully against this? On July 30, Dr. Izzeldin Abuelaish, the Gaza doctor who lost three daughters in the 2009 attack on Gaza, proposed that Canada airlift 100 badly injured children here for urgent medical treatment since

Gaza’s hospitals had become re peated IDF targets. Ontario’s minister of health said yes, SickKids said yes, but Harper and his foreign affairs minister, John Baird, refused, claiming it was too “risky.” Instead they proposed that Canadian doctors should go to Gaza to treat the wounded. Okay. On August 6, London, Ontario, emergency room doctor Tarek Lou bani tried to do just that – and was promptly arrested, jailed and deport ed by the Israeli authorities for his efforts. The Canadian government’s response? They told Loubani they can’t “assist in facilitating the entry of Canadians into the Gaza strip.” Through fire and water, they didn’t blush. 3 John Greyson was arrested in 2013 on his way to Gaza and held in an Egyptian prison for seven weeks. news@nowtoronto.com | @nowtoronto

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term had been traumatic; for all it had been exhausting. It’s difficult to remember now, but Rob Ford began his mayoral tenure with as firm a grip on council as anyone could have. Basking in a benefit of the doubt that had never been earned, the mayor and his brother created a sort of kingdom in their image. A clear majority of councillors fell in line with them out of deference and a desire for a slice of that power; public servants fell into line out of fear. A friend working for a left-wing councillor compared it to Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows, in which the forlorn protagonists wander the blighted landscape of a realm overcome by the evil Lord Voldemort. How do you survive in a world in which you’ve already lost the war? This was in some ways the opposite of what many council observers had expected. Nearly as surprising as the spectacular circumstances in which Ford ultimately bled away his power was the fact that he’d possessed it as long as he did. Councillor Pam McConnell in the Star, August 2010: “It’s inevitable. This man can’t even convince five people to vote with him. So if disaster happens and voters are sucked into this tale, the other members of council will steer the ship.” Councillor Kyle Rae in the Sun, the same month: “In my opinion, if [Ford is elected mayor], city council will have a caucus meeting and they will

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choose their own mayor and [Ford] He says the governance situation will be the mayor in name.” with Deputy Mayor Kelly was closer Jaye Robinson was first elected to to what he’d expected from the Ford council in 2010 after previously administration, and commends serving for over a decade as a city staff for being the real manager in the city’s set ters of the agenda. culture division. The power dyna Despite being a mic he describes, North Toronto with civil servants centrist, she running the took a role on show against a Ford’s execu backdrop of tive commit ineffectual polit tee and be icians, more came a resembles the member of his model of a school – former Ford ally Jaye Robinson outer circle be board than a mu fore finally, explo nicipal council. sively, splitting with “I think [retiring city him in the spring of manager] Joe Pennachetti’s 2013 upon the initial news of been running the city for the crack scandal. the last four years. And he’s been do Although she says she took the ing a good job of it.” executive post to help “soften some The Ford era has brought to light of his objectives and his goals, which that at the centre of municipal power, I thought were a bit harsh,” she came the overriding theme is one of power to buy into his persecutionbased lessness. From members of council mythology. Up until the crack scan to staff, activists, lobbyists and the dal, “my impression was that the Star media, democracy is less about exer was picking on him a little bit.” She cising power than it is about the fear credits his staff for doing “a great job of not doing so. in cloaking” his substance and beha Whether you’re running the city viour issues. or just trying to make a little dent in Even though she recalls he seldom the fine print of an obscure policy, showed up at City Hall, she hadn’t civic engagement involves contem witnessed any firsthand evidence of plating the gap between the things his problems and so had trouble be you’re doing and the even more sub lieving the reports. stantial things you could be doing if “I guess I was looking through only you had the time or the resour rosecoloured glasses,” she says. “You ces or the talent or a more conducive want the city to succeed, you want political climate and a more coopera the city to be productive. And you tive bureaucracy. It’s having the know he [will be] in office for four privilege to access a great force for years.” good and feeling impotent in the “Ironically,” says Councillor John face of its majesty. Parker, the term “worked out not a Politics is an ongoing struggle in whole lot different than I would have the creation of meaning. What can I expected, but not for the reasons I do to make me feel less powerless in had in mind.” the world? That’s the question driv The Leaside representative, who ing all of us. endorsed Ford in the last election The last item of the last meeting and served as his deputy speaker at was Restricted Access To Fire Hydrant council, says he figured the mayor Safety Hazard. It passed unanimous “would not be a particularly signifi ly by a show of hands, the mayor’s cant factor in the agenda or in the termlong insistence on recorded business of council” but trusted that votes suddenly ceasing to carry any his advisers would be. weight. “We saw how that worked out,” “Well, that was a quiet four years,” Parker says. “He had a strong staff to said Councillor Josh Colle. begin with, but one by one they were And they were off to campaign for thrown overboard or they jumped their return. 3 jonathang@nowtoronto.com | @goldsbie for one reason or another.”

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In the town near my reserve, there’s a Junior C hockey team called the Chiefs, which I don’t think was a con scious decision to honour local police or fire chiefs. The team logo is an In dian head wearing a feathered war bonnet. A plethora of Braves, Warriors, Indians and other such team names populate arenas and rinks across the country. The Canadian Football League’s Edmonton Es kimos still seem perfectly happy being called “eaters of raw meat,” which is the literal Cree translation of what’s now considered a pejorative word. Perhaps the CFL players are big fans of sushi or tar tare. Or maybe it’s those Eskimo Pies. But of all the aboriginally named teams in North American sports – the Braves, the Indians, Blackhawks, etc – few are more problematic than Washington’s football team. That would be the National Football League’s Redskins, who open their regular season on Sunday (Septem ber 7) against the Houston Texans. Several U.S. sportscasters have said they will stop using the team’s name during their broadcasts.

Broadcasters Phil Simms of CBS and NBC’s Tony Dungy, will probably just refer to the team as “Washington.” CBS is allowing its announcers to decide on their own whether to call the team the Redskins. So is Fox, which will televise most of Washing

Some U.S. announcers will stop using the name Redskins during broadcasts.

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ton’s games. This is a good thing. Other announcers, however, say it’s not their job to take a stance. This is an old argument; complaints about the Redskins name go back decades. In June, the U.S. Trademark and Patent Office cancelled the team’s trademark on the name Redskins on the basis that it is “disparaging to Na tive Americans.” The team is fighting the decision, and its billionaire own er, Daniel Snyder, refuses to budge, referring to the name as a “badge of honour.” The man believes in tradition. But there’s tradition and then t h e r e ’ s tradition.

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For example, it seems to be a tradition in America for white billionaire owners of sports teams to get into trouble over racist issues. Donald Sterling was the owner of the National Basketball Association’s L.A. Clippers before he got caught on tape telling his then girlfriend, who is black, that she should stop associating with black men. The outcry that followed resulted in his being banned by the league and forced to sell his team. Before that there was Marge Schott, former owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball franchise, who got into trouble over comments about Japanese and African-American players as well as Jews. Perhaps this is one of those issues the average non-native might not care about. Coincidentally, there’s been an effective movement to rename places with the surprisingly popular geographic name of “Squaw,” as in Squaw River or Squaw Creek. I don’t remember seeing any White Bitch Mountain or White Slut Valley on Google Maps, but I digress. The usual refrain you hear from people on the other side of this issue is “It’s just a name.” Or “It only hurts if you let it hurt.” True, I suppose. But obscure and forgotten terms like “mongoloid,” “mulatto,” “crippled” or “progressive conservative” have rightly gone the way of the dodo. One school of thought has it that the term “redskins” came from Newfoundland’s Beothuks, who used to cover their bodies with a red pigment as part of cultural celebrations. Pretty soon the name spread to mean all native people across the continent. And in 1932, it was chosen as the name of an American football team. During halftime in a game last October, NBC sports personality Bob Costas said in an essay, “Think for a moment about the term ‘redskins’ and how it truly differs from all the others. Ask yourself what the equivalent would be if directed toward African Americans, Hispanics, Asians or members of any other ethnic group. When considered that way, ‘redskins’ can’t possibly honour a heritage or noble character trait, nor can it possibly be considered a neutral term.” Still, things could be worse. They could be called the Senators. 3

led to scheduling changes for some of the problems, and says CPFW secured 16 rooms at the Shangri-La Hotel for designers and their staff. As for the customs issue, he explains, “The designers’ cargo was initially lost in transport, [through] no fault of CPFW. Only when it was found could we process the documentation at our end.” As with TOM*, volunteers claim that despite repeated requests for basic financial info – how much CPFW made and how much was donated to charity – little was forthcoming. “Those who demanded pay were the same ones who were demanding transparency,” says Rustia. “There were volunteers who were disgruntled at both TOM* and CPFW who forgot the meaning of volunteerism and its benefits.” Some insight into Kol Hope’s financials can be found in the Canada Revenue Agency’s (CRA) charity database. In the 2012-13 tax year, the foundation apparently spent $2,524 on fundraising and donated $3,000 to other registered charities. In the 2011-12 tax year, Kol Hope spent $42,253 on a fundraising gala, but only gave $2,000 to registered charities.

Rustia says that the gala actually generated a surplus of $10,015, which includes a $2,000 donation made in 2011. He says “the remaining funds were left to cover future donations, including a $5,000 donation made to St. Martin De Porres, a school for children with disabilities in Cebu, Philippines, on March 12, 2013.” The former TOM* and CPFW volunteers who came forward for this piece requested anonymity for fear of reprisals. They say Rustia, who has already filed a $1 million suit against a local Filipino community newspaper for its coverage of the Kol Hope Foundation and CPFW last year, has threatened legal action against former volunteers. TOM* volunteers say they had to sign a waiver agreeing to “refrain from making any disparaging, critical or other comments respecting TOM* or its representatives.” “The point of that passage was to ensure volunteers comported themselves in a way that communicated welcoming and positive feelings,” says Rustia. Perhaps a little more transparency would have gone further toward fostering those positive feelings. 3

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ago First thursdays Celebration of Alex Col-

ville exhibition, art conversations, pop-up performances, dance by Katie Ewald, live music by Bry Webb, DJ party and more. 7-11:30 pm. $15, adv $12. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. ago.net/firstthursdays. community meeting on rail saFety MP Peggy Nash hosts a meeting on rail safety and related issues, with speakers and municipal and provincial representatives. 5:30-8 pm. Free. West Toronto Baptist Church, 3049 Dundas W. peggynash.ndp.ca.

rcorn roast, marKet and heritage Fair

Bake sale, local produce, bluegrass music and heritage displays. 5-8 pm. Free. Montgomery’s Inn, 4709 Dundas W. 416-394-8113. employment essentials: get your ged Learn about resources to help you complete your high school education. 4:30-5:30 pm. Free. Maria A Shchucka Library, 1745 Eglinton W. Pre-register 416-394-1000. Food Fighters Screening of the documentary about small businesses that work together to create alternatives to large-scale food production. 8 pm. Free (RSVP). The Farm Lot, 369 King W. freshcityfarms.com/events/farm-lot-filmnight.

the home that community Finance Built

Presentation by sustainable economist Tim Nash. 6-8 pm. Free. Centre for Social Innovation Annex, 720 Bathurst. Pre-register socialinnovation.ca/six. marKet 707 Farmers marKet Local produce, veggies, meats, cheese and more. Thursdays from 3-7 pm. Free. Scadding Court, 707 Dundas W. scaddingcourt.org/farmers_market. nerd nite toronto Show by Mad Science, local history from Muddy York Walking Tours and a talk from SteamWhistle founder Greg Taylor. 7:30 pm. $5. Tranzac Club, 292 Brunswick. toronto.nerdnite.com. seed saving 101 Learn about the Toronto Seed Library and get started with borrowing seeds for your garden. 2-3 pm. Free. Barbara Frum Library, 20 Covington. Pre-register 416-3955441.

seeing the west toronto rail corridor through new lenses Guest talks in tandem

with an exhibit by U of T urban design grads showcasing ideas for using and developing the space. 6-9 pm. Free. Urbanspace, 401 Richmond W. urbanspacegallery.ca. tBg organic Farmers’ marKet Produce, bread, meat, cheese, honey, gardeners’ advice clinic and more. 2-7 pm. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. 416-397-1340.

west toronto Junction historical society

Business meeting at 7:30 pm, speaker Donna Bernardo-Ceriz of the Ontario Jewish Archives at 8:15 pm. Free. Annette Library, 145 Annette. wtjhs.ca. yiddish vinKl Director Naomi Jaye talks about making the first Yiddish film in Canada. Noon. $20 (includes buffet lunch). Free Times Cafe, 320 College. yiddishvinkl.com.

Friday, September 5 the art oF living – Being happy Learn how

you can keep your balance and harmonize your life. 12:10-12:50 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. torontopubliclibrary.ca.

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Toronto UrbanFilm Festshows shortflicks onsubway platforms.

this week

Beach celtic Festival Ceilidh celebration

with live music and dance by Bold Step Dancers, Don Graham, Caledon County, the Mahones (Sat), and others, dancing lessons, vendors and more. 9 am-7 pm. Free. Kew Gardens, 2075 Queen E (at Lee). thecelticfestival.com. Sep 6 to 7 caBBagetown Festival oF the arts Events include the Cabbagetown Short Film and Video Festival (Sep 5), the street festival (Sep 6-7) with music by Toronto All Star Big Band, Puente Del Diablo and others, vendors, a sports zone, kids’ activities and more. Various prices, many events free. Carlton & Parliament area. oldcabbagetown.com. Sep 4 to 7 Faith, art and activism Festival Outdoor services, live music, talks on art and faith, dramatic readings, poetry and more explore the intersection of religious faith, artistic practice and social justice. Free/pwyc-$15. St Stephen-in-the-Fields Church (365 College) and other venues. saintstephens.ca. Sep 4 to Oct 7 new groundswell Festival Nightwood Theatre’s annual festival of new works by women featuring workshop productions, play readings, talks and more. Plays $22.60, other events pwyc. Distillery District, 55 Mill. 416-368-3110, nightwoodtheatre.net. Sep 8 to 14

southside shuFFle Blues & Jazz Festival

Downchild Blues Band, Watermelon Slim, and many others. $5-$20. Memorial Park, Port Credit. southsideshuffle.com. Sep 5 to 7 rtaste oF the Kingsway Food sampling, classic cars show, performances by Disco Nights and MudMen, buskers, community Juried arts and crafts show as part of the Cabbagetown Festival. Today 1-7 pm; tomorrow 10 am-6 pm; Sep 7, 10 am-6 pm. Free. Riverdale Park, enter off Sumach and Carlton. cabbagetownartandcrafts.org.

caBBagetown short Film and video Festival Screening of international shorts as part

of the Cabbagetown Festival. 8-10 pm. $15. Winchester Street Theatre, 80 Winchester. cabbagetownshortfilmandvideofestival.com.

girl gunslingers & Frontiersmen riders: new mexico at Junction horse corrals in wwi Urban heritage walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Runnymede subway. 416-593-2656.

haunted toronto scavenger hunt Trivia-

based team competition. 8-10:30 pm. $30. Meet in front of 273 Bloor W. Pre-register 416895-2378, urbancapers.com. Kensington Krawl Walking tour with tastings. 11:30 am. $55. Bellevue Square, Augusta and Wales. Pre-register savourtoronto.com. rshow love Community event with games, a barbecue, music and more. 1-8 pm. Free. Regent Park, 620 Dundas E. regentparkarts.ca. teen gaming drop-in Test your skills and have some fun with the PS3. 4-6 pm. Free. Don Mills Library, 888 Lawrence E. 416-395-5710, torontopubliclibrary.ca.

Saturday, September 6

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rneighBourhood saFety & charity FunFest (Redwood Shelter/the Moosonee North-

ern Dogs Rescue) Roncesvalles Macdonell Resident’s Association family event with traffic safety and cycle booths, musician Daniel Lanois, face painting, vet booth, dog kissing, illusionist Ken Margoe and more. 10 am-4 pm. 2 Howard Park Ave. rmra-to.org. weeKend to end women’s cancers (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre) Walk 30km in one day or 60km in two days to raise funds and awareness. Today and tomorrow. Pledges. Walks start at Rogers Centre, 1 Blue Jays Way. Pre-register endcancer.ca.

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archetype sustainaBle house tour Guided tour of a model home. 2:30 pm. Free w/ ad-

man” Hart signs autographs at a charity wrestling event featuring karaoke, arm wrestling challenges and more. VIP event w/ Hart from 2 pm, pro wrestling match at 4 pm. $15, VIP $40. Variety Village, 3701 Danforth. varietyvillage.ca. parKinson superwalK (Parkinson Society Canada) Fundraising walk. Donation. Earl Bales Park, 4169 Bathurst, south of Sheppard. parkinsonsuperwalk.ca. toronto walK oF hope (Ovarian Cancer Canada) 9:30 am. Woodbine Park, Coxwell & Lakeshore E. ovariancancerwalkofhope.ca.

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atop the davenport hill in the 1920s Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. heritagetoronto.org.

Bird walKs at tommy thompson parK

Guided nature walk every Sun in September. Bring snacks and binoculars. 8-11 am. Free. 1 Leslie, south of Commissioners. 416-661-6600 ext 5770.

BuBBling springs: greeKtown’s oasis oF water on danForth Lost rivers walk. 6:30 pm. Free. Pape subway. 416-593-2656.

rc3 toronto Festival Family-friendly event

exhibits, midway rides and more. Free. Bloor between Prince Edward and Montgomery. tasteofthekingsway.ca. Sep 5 to 7 toronto international Film Festival This year’s edition of TIFF features red carpet premieres, short films, TIFF Docs, parties, a street festival on King West, director discussions, art exhibits and more. TIFF Bell Lightbox (350 King W) and other venues. tiff.net/thefestival. Sep 4 to 14 tuFF – toronto urBan Film Festival North America’s largest commuter film festival features silent one-minute films screening on subway platforms across the city. Free with TTC fare. torontourbanfilmfestival.com. Sep 5 to 15 mission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley (Woodbridge). Pre-register 905-832-2289, kortright.org. Bloorcourt arts and craFts Fair 11 ammidnight. Bloor from Dufferin to Montrose. facebook.com/events/753955521329674. Bloorcourt cup Outdoor wrestling tournament featuring Psycho Mike, Ashley Sixx, RJ City and others. Part of the Bloorcourt Arts & Crafts Fair. Noon. $15-$20. Bloor West at Concord. fightbrand.ca. cathedral BluFF paddle tour An 18K standup paddle board tour. 10 am-4 pm. $79. Preregister oshaosha.ca. rcentreville’s amusing race Trivia-based family scavenger hunt. Today and tomorrow. Free w/ admission. Centreville Amusement Park, Centre Island. centreisland.ca. Fall migration hiKe Learn about migrating birds and butterflies, watch for raptors and more. 11:30 am & 1 pm. Free w/ admission. Kortright Centre for Conservation, 9550 Pine Valley (Woodbridge). kortright.org. imsta Festa Panels and talks by music industry experts on the art of music-making, the state of the biz, technology and more. 10 am-6 pm. Free. Ryerson Rogers Communications Centre, 80 Gould. Pre-register imsta.org. introductory meditation Learn three easy techniques. 1 pm. Free. Eastminster United Church, 310 Danforth. 416-539-0234. Kensington culinary adventure Uncover history, folklore, and street foods in a triviabased team challenge. 11 am-2:30 pm. $25. Kensington Market. Pre-register 416-8952378, urbancapers.com.

national Franchise and Business opportunities show Today and tomorrow 11 am-5

pm. $10. International Centre, 6900 Airport Rd (Mississauga). franchiseshowinfo.com. pay it Forward Fest Creative interactions including a puppet show, giveaways, art and more as part of the Cabbagetown Festival. Today and tomorrow noon-4 pm. Kendall & Co, 227 Carlton. kendallandco.ca. phoenix poetry Bring six copies of your poem, read for feedback and listen to others. 2:30-4:30 pm. Free. College/Shaw Library, 766 College. phoenixpoetryworkshop.ca.

vegetarian Food Festival Cooking demos, screenings, workshops with chefs and vegetarian food. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. festival.veg.ca. Sep 5 to 7

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cariBBean tales Film Festival Films from

the Caribbean diaspora with screenings and networking events. Royal Cinema, 608 College. caribbeantales-events.com. To Sep 13 eco-art-Fest Outdoor art, heritage and cultural festival, with workshops, painting, art tours, an exhibit and more. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. 416-644-1019, no9.ca. To Sep 21

the really really Free marKet Community

space for sharing clothes, toys, music, furniture, artisan goods, services, free legal advice and more. 10am-4 pm. Free. Campbell Park, 195 Campbell near Lansdowne and Wallace. rrfmarket.blogspot.ca. rep your region talent showcase Amateur youth talent from across the GTA including dancers, singers and instrumentalists. $10. Metro-Central YMCA, 20 Grosvenor. 416-9283362 ext 22543. rouge parK walKs Guided walks in the urban wilderness. Today and tomorrow 9:30 am, 12:30 & 2 pm. Free. See website for meeting points. rougepark.com/hike. rsolar oBserving Look at the sun with filtered telescopes. 10 am-noon (weather permitting). Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. rsuper sleuth septemBer Kids 5 to 12 train as lead detectives, hunt for clues, look for fingerprints, solve the case and more. $60. Scarborough Historical Museum, 1007 Brimley. Pre-register 416-338-8807. theatres in old toronto Heritage Toronto walk. Meet at Bay Adelaide Centre. 1:30 pm. Free/pwyc. 333 Bay. heritagetoronto.org. toronto salsa practice No lesson, beginners to pros, no partner required. 3:30-5 pm, 5:30-8 pm. $5. Trinity-St Paul’s Centre, 427 Bloor W. torontosalsapractice.com.

union stocKyards: British military remount station wwi Urban heritage walk. 2

pm. Free. Meet at West Toronto St at Keele. 416-593-2656. rvocal play Family friendly vocal improvisation workshop for all ages and levels. 2-3 pm. $5-$8. Artscape Youngplace, 180 Shaw, Studio 106. Pre-register maychook.com/vocalplay.

Sunday, September 7

Benefits

Feast oF Fields (Organic Advocates) Organic

food feast with sampling, local wines and more. 1-6 pm. $100. Cold Creek Conservation Area, 14125 11th Concession (King). feastoffields.org. golden harts (Variety Village) Bret “The Hit-

with an inflatable obstacle course, pony rides, food, games, prizes and more. 12:30-5:30 pm. Free. St Luke Elementary School, 319 Ossington. c3toronto.com.

discover hidden toronto scavenger hunt

Teams answer trivia and solve clues about Hogtown history. 2-4:30 pm. $30. Yorkville and U of T area. Pre-register 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. distillery sunday marKet Juried art market. Every Sun rain or shine. Free. Distillery District, 55 Mill. thedistillerydistrict.com. downton aBBey tea Learn about the upstairs and downstairs stories of the Harris and Sayers families and their staff. 3-5 pm. $15. Benares Historic House, 1507 Clarkson N (Mississauga). bit.ly/1g5BK5p. an enchanted evening Group meditation, live music and a vegetarian meal. 6-8 pm. Free/pwyc for meal. Trinity-St Paul’s Church, 427 Bloor W. 416-539-0234. grandparents’ day in high parK Enjoy the trails, tours, zoo, pond and more all day, plus a special family tea at the Grenadier from 3-5 pm ($6-$13, RSVP online). High Park, 1873 Bloor W. highpark.org. leslieville Farmers’ marKet Meats, baked goods, fruits, veg and dairy from local producers Sundays to Oct 26. 9 am-2 pm. Jonathan Ashbridge Park, 20 Woodward (between Queen & Eastern). leslievillemarket.com. the leslieville Flea Vintage, salvaged and upcycled goods, furniture, antiques and more. 10 am-5 pm. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. leslievilleflea.com. liBerty village Farmers marKet Sundays through the fall. 9 am-2 pm. Green P parking lot, Liberty and Atlantic. my-market.ca. liFe drawing sessions Sketch from live models. 2:30-5:30 pm. $10. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com. murder at the rom scavenger hunt Solve the clues and crack the case. 1-3:30 pm $30. Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen’s Park. Preregister 416-895-2378, urbancapers.com. myths and legends walKing tour Tour exploring the myths and legends told about High Park. 10:30 am-noon. Free. Benches across from Grenadier Restaurant, High Park. highparknature.org.

rnational grandparents day at the Jcc

Interactive, intergenerational programs including badminton, karate, a family photo booth, a classic radio show workshop and more. 9:30 am-4 pm. Free. Miles Nadal JCC, 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211, mnjcc.org. neighBourhood movie theatres Heritage Toronto walk. 11 am. Free/pwyc. Location provided on registration. Pre-register heritagetoronto.org. open mic Musicians, storytellers and poets welcome. 7:30 pm. Free. Bampot, 201 Harbord. bampottea.com. otoB open house Tour the studio and enter a draw to win free lessons. Bring your flute/fife for a clinic at 3 pm. 2-5 pm. Free. On the Off Beat Music School, 1113 Queen E.

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chickencallingcontestandmore.10am-4pm. Free.RiverdaleFarm,201Winchester. second chinatown Food touRVisitaChinesebakery,groceryshopsandmore.10am-1 pm.$35-$50(includessnacks).393DundasW. Pre-register416-923-6813. YoRkvilleGuidedROMwalk.2pm.Free.YorkvilleLibrary,22Yorkville.rom.on.ca.

Monday, September 8 aBcs oF mnemonicsLearnhowtoimprove

yourmemory.6:30-8pm.Free.BarbaraFrum Library,20Covington.Pre-register416-3955440. act ii studio inFoRmation daYLearnabout coursesandactivitiesofferedbythetheatre schoolforolderadults.10:30am-12:30pm. Free.RyersonUniversity,380Victoria,POD 250.416-979-5000ext6297,act2studio.ca. emploYment essentials: FaceBookLearn aboutusingthesocialmediasitetofindyour nextjob.6-7pm.Free.MariaAShchuckaLibrary,1745EglintonW.Pre-register416-3941000. FaRm citY FaRmeRs maRketFruitandveg, homemadespicesandmore.4-8pm.SEcor-

nerofBathurstandNiagara.416-392-0335. intRoductoRY meditationLearnthreeeasy techniques.7pm.Free.College/ShawLibrary, 766College.416-539-0234. mississauga maYoRal FoRumDiscussion withourcandidatesonarts,cultureandheritageissues.7-9pm.Free.LivingArtsCentre, 4141LivingArts(Mississauga).905-306-6100. new music 101DIYoperaperformancesby ToyPianoComposersandtheBicycleOpera Project.7-8pm.Free.ReferenceLibrary,789 Yonge.musicgalleryorg. rsummeR dance seRiesFamilyfriendlysummerCubandanceclassesoutdoors.5-6:30pm. Free.DanielsSpectrum,585DundasE.info@ cobainc.com. toRonto swing dance societYWestCoast swinglessonandpractice.7:30pm.$15.LithuanianHouse,1573BloorW. torontoswingdancesociety.ca. tRampoline hallMini-lectureshostedby MishaGlouberman.8pm.$5-$6.Garrison, 1197DundasW.trampolinehall.net.

Tuesday, September 9

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hogtown tRivia(HeritageToronto)Evening ofToronto-themedtriviagames.$5.GladstoneHotel,1214QueenW.416-531-4635.

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ashBRidge estate tRee touRExplorethelivingheritageoftheestateandlearnaboutits conservationtechniques.6-8pm.Pwyc.1444

QueenE.Pre-registeryourleaf.org. BugsScarboroughGarden&Horticultural SocietytalkbyMalcolmGeast.7:30pm.Free. ScarboroughVillageCommunityCentre,3600 Kingston.gardenontario.org. citY Building on the wateRFRontTalkby urbandesignerKenGreenberg.7-9pm.Free. RadissonAdmiralHotel,249QueensQuayW. yqna.ca.

FRanklin caRmichael aRt gRoup open houseMeettheinstructorsandlearnabout classesandworkshopsatthiswest-endart centre.7-9pm.Free.34Riverdale.416-7406520,fcag.ca/events.

formationsecuritythreatsandbestpractices. 6-8pm.Free.Conversion,174Spadina.Preregistermeetup.com/marketersunbound/ events/199051612. inuit knowledge and climate change ScreeningofQapirangajuqanddiscussion withZachariasKunukandIanMauroonthe socialandecologicalimpactsofawarming ArcticandhowtheInuitareadapting.6:15 pm.Free.AnnetteLibrary,145Annette. green13toronto.org. patagoniaTraveltalkwithGAdventures. 6:30pm.Free.MeritTravel,408KingW.416345-9726,merittravel.com. putting YouR dReam into actionLearnthe stepstostartingasmallbusiness.6:30-8pm. Free.AgincourtLibrary,155Bonis.Pre-register 416-396-8943. the science oF peRsonal dRessWorkshopon howtochoosecolours,styles,fabricsandaccessories.7-8:15pm.Free.NorthYorkCentral Library,5120Yonge.416-395-5535. spinning stRaw into... papeR?Learnabouta companythatisturningwheatstrawwaste intocopypaper.7-8pm.Free.BarbaraFrum Library,20Covington.Pre-register416-3955440.

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Wednesday, September 10

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taste oF tYphoon haiYan ReBuild launch (GawadKalinga)Chefsandartistshelpraise fundsforvictimsofthetyphooninthePhilippines.6pm.$20-$30.CabalLounge,782King. Pre-registerinfo@vcglobalmgmt.com.

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email maRketingWorkshoponcollecting data,usingMailChimpandmore.6-9pm.$65. CentreforSocialInnovation,215Spadina.Preregistercamptech.ca. h.e.a.R.t. exhiBition & showcaseVisualart, spokenwordandmusicby13emergingartists fromtheAdaSlaightYouthArtsMentorship Program.6-9pm.Free.DanielsSpectrum585 DundasE.regentparkarts.ca. living meditationClassforadvancedaswell asthosehavingtroublesittingstill.7-8:30pm. Free.RalphThorntonCentre,765QueenE. 416-392-6810.

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Faith guides activism

Atatimewhenreligionseemstobe leadingpeopleinallthewrong directions,it’sinspiringtonotethe Faith, Art And Activism Festival unfoldingThursday(September4)to October7.Readings,discussion groupsandartists–co-organizedby authorandordainedminister Maggie Helwig–exploretheinteractionsandcontradictionsbetween religiousfaith,artisticpracticeand actionforsocialjustice. saintstephens.ca

lac-mÉgantic comes home

CouldaLac-Mégantictraindisaster happenhere?Infact,theverysame volatilecrudeoilthatexplodedin QuebeciscarriedbydangerousDOT111tankercarsrightthroughToronto’sJunctionneighbourhoodevery day.TheTransportationSafetyBoard concludedinitsrecentfindingsthat mezcal & BeeR loveRs mexico cultuRal touRTraveltalk.6:30pm.Free.MeritTravel,

408KingW.416-345-9726,merittravel.com. mike tYson: undisputed tRuthOne-man showwiththeformerheavyweightboxer. $70-$125.AirCanadaCentre,40Bay. ticketmaster.ca. QigongClassforalllevelsandabilities.7:30-9 pm.$20.LotusArts&Wellness,920Yonge. lotusartswellness.com. Rouge paRk walksGuidedwalksintheurban wilderness.9:30am.Free.Seewebsitefor meetingpoints.rougepark.com/hike. RYeRson’s FaRmeRs maRketFreshlocalproduce,foodtrucksandmusic.EveryWed11 am-3pm.Freeadmission.GouldEofYonge. food.ryerson.ca.

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MAST D: Alanis Obomsawin. Canada. ñ 85 min. Sep 5, 2:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 6, 9 am Jackman Hall

CLOUDS OF SILS MARIA D: Olivier Assayas w/ Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart. France/U.S. 124 min. Sep ñSP4, 9:45 pm Princess of Wales; Sep 5, 9:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN

The fabulous K-Stew holds her own opposite the exquisite Binoche as a frumpy and loyal personal assistant to a veteran actor frightened by aging. As their characters debate art, gossip, career choices and Google, the actors’ palpable intimacy is intensified by how much the meta-dialogue reflects their own work. An upcoming stage role casts Binoche’s Maria Enders as an older woman, reminding the icon that her career can only go downhill. She’s starring opposite a young Hollywood starlet (Chloë Grace Moretz) whose troublesome appearances on TMZ reflect Stewart’s struggle with fame and scandal. Assayas occasionally gets carried away with the layered, self-reflexive insights, but the actors keep every scene anchored, tackling the material RS with genuine warmth, melancholy and frailty.

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(AGO). Rating: NNNN Opening with an incendiary press conference and never flagging, this film by Obomsawin, Canada’s foremost First Nations documentarian (Hi-Ho Mistahey!), looks at the Idle No More movement and the deception of Treaty 9 and Omnibus Bill C-45. The doc balances equal amounts of justified skepticism with moments of true hope and grace. Letting people speak in the moment instead of relying too heavily on talking-head interviews, Obomsawin shows how continued on page 28 œ

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Treaty 9 was a lie, a command to surrender rather than a helpful document. Her subjects, like hunger-striking Chief Theresa Spence (and First Nation women in general), are hopeful that their work will better the lives of future generations. Most importantly, we see how easily a government can deceive its people, regardless of race or other affiliation. AP And that’s terrifying.

Sonja Bennett is hilarious and touching as the only childless woman among her friends.

WINTER SLEEP (KIS UYKUSU) MAST D: Nuri Bilge Ceylan w/ Haluk Bilginer, ñ Melisa Sözen. Turkey/France/Germany. 196 min. Sep 5, 3 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 14, 9 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4. Rating: NNNNN

Ceylan’s recent Cannes Palme d’Or winner is a masterful and multi-layered film, as finely crafted and sophisticated as the Chekhov short stories that inspired it. Revolving around a retired stage actor (Bilginer) who operates a hotel in Cappadocia, it’s essentially a series of engaging conversations arising out of the hotelier’s personal relationships with his wife (Sözen) and sister. Right from the start the filmmaker establishes a seductive rhythm that draws us in and makes the three and a quarter hours fly by. Even the exterior shots, when they do occur, act as a spectacular counterpoint to the rich dialogue. It’s a wonderful depiction of the full spectrum of the human condition, a film to be explored PE and enjoyed for years to come.

THE PRICE WE PAY (LA FACE CACHÉE DE L’IMPÔT) DOC D: Harold Crooks. Canada. 92 min. Sep 5, 5 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 7, 9:30 am Jackman Hall (AGO). Rating: NNN

This exposé of corporate malfeasance in the form of tax avoidance is an eye-opener. Using interviews with economists and academics, the doc uncovers the way companies are maximizing profits by taking advantage of tax havens like the Cayman and Jersey islands. (And now Canada: I’m talking about you, Burger King.) The aim is noble: explain how tax havens work, why we should tax financial transactions, how digital models are ripping us off, and more. The problem is that apart from the very smart talking heads, there’s not much going on except filler images of things like Occupy demos and gleaming corporate headquarters. You might as well be reading a book or article. You will, however, find a new hero in British MP Margaret Hodge, who chairs the Public Accounts Committee and gives those Google SGC and Amazon guys bloody hell.

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SP D: Jacob Tierney w/ Sonja Bennett, Paul Campbell. Canada. 106 min. Sep 5, 9:15 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 8, 3:30 pm Scotiabank 3. Rating: NNNN

Actor/writer Bennett’s written a sharp comedy that explores the societal pressure on women without children and gives a knockout performance as bad girl Ruth. She’s the only one in her close circle who

hasn’t embraced family life, and has alienated her old pals by behaving very badly at a baby shower. When she pretends she’s pregnant, the reaction from family, friends and strangers on the bus makes the idea of perpetuating the lie irresistible. The script slyly pokes fun at poop-obsessed new moms and the beatification of pregnant women and is smart enough to consider the

serious issue of infertility at the same time. James Caan and Danny Trejo appear in key supporting roles, but they’re eclipsed by Bennett – who looks like shit throughout – and is hilarious and touching. This is the first time in ages I’ve seen the Telefilm logo in the movie credits and not been pissed off at how my money’s being wasted. SGC

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DISC D: Pat Mills w/ Mills, Zahra Bentham. Canada. 83 min. Sep 5, 6:30 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 6, 4:30 pm Scotiabank 8. Rating: NNN

SP D: Ruben Östlund w/ Johannes Bah Kuhnke, ñ Lisa Loven Kongsli. Sweden/Norway/Denmark/ France. 118 min. Sep 5, 7 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 6,

Acclaimed for his short films, writer/director/ star Mills confidently moves into features with this darkly comic look at David (Mills), an underemployed, alcoholic and deeply closeted former child star who scams his way into working as a high school guidance counsellor and soon becomes popular with the students by plying them with booze, pot and bad advice. Mills skilfully sets up characters and situations, draws strong work from his cast of mostly locals (expert at playing straight-faced) and makes fine use throughout of a silly motivational recording David’s seen making in the first scene. But halfway through, the energy flags until a terrifically absurd sequence involving tanning salons. Stay for a hilarious scene in the closing GS credits.

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DUKHTAR DISC D: Afia Nathaniel w/ Samiya Mumtaz, Mohib Mirza. Pakistan/U.S./Norway. 93 min. Sep 5, 7 pm Scotiabank 13; Sep 6, 3:45 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 13, 3:30 pm Scotiabank 4. Rating: NNN

This story of Allah Rakhi (Mumtaz), a Pakistani woman desperate to prevent the arranged marriage of her 10-year-old daughter, has plenty of narrative drive and good performances, especially from Mirza as the truck driver who decides to help her. But it has many plot holes. If Allah has been kept by her tyrannical husband from contacting her mother, how does she have her cellphone number? And it needs more character development, to say nothing of a few more subsidiary characters. Still, with her ability to ratchet up the tension and a very good eye – the landscapes are stunning – Nathaniel is definitely a talent to SGC watch.

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9:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN A Swedish family’s five-day Alpine vacation is the idyllic setting for a caustic moral tale that would have done Eric Rohmer proud. The photogenic, seemingly perfect upper-middle-class unit is thrust into a psychodrama that’s as darkly comic as it is shocking, the effects heightened by the evolving emotional reactions illuminated by the repetition of each day’s banal events. Director Östlund is surgically precise and unfailingly perceptive in his detailing of the breakdown of family dynamics after an avalanche threatens an otherwise ordinary lunch at a restaurant’s outdoor terrace. The husband’s sudden run for safety and abandonment of his family appall his wife, who is equally troubled by his inability at first to admit his cowardice. This unexpected and primal act upsets their equilibrium and launches the delicious turmoil PE to come.

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COMING HOME SP D: Zhang Yimou w/ Gong Li, Chen Daoming. China. 109 min. Sep 5, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 6, 8:45 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNN

Away From Her meets Doctor Zhivago in this melodramatic period piece set against China’s Cultural Revolution. Chen stars as a “rightist” political prisoner released after two decades to find his family torn apart and his wife (Gong) suffering from amnesia and unable to recognize him. Her condition makes an apt metaphor for a past that is willfully forgotten while the trauma still lingers. Unfortunately, the movie lingers, too. After a thrilling but unnecessary first act that caters to Zhang’s strengths with choreographing dance and suspense, the film settles into a repetitive tearjerker that looks great while hitting the piano chords too hard. The affecting performances rise above the unconvincing writing. RS

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This teen pregnancy story begins with grim social realism worthy of the Dardennes before it loses its grip. In a fine performance, Nguyen plays Huyen, a young college student with barely enough money to get by in her dilapidated apartment. She endures morning sickness while searching for the resources to buy an abortion. If early scenes captivate, it’s because Huyen’s problems are a consequence of her character’s poor decisions, where innocence becomes dangerous ignorance. Things become less convincing when Huyen turns to prostitution and her only client becomes a possible deus ex machina à la Richard RS Gere in Pretty Woman.

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EVEN BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH GETS ROAD RAGE.

Midway through our phone interview to talk about his highly buzzed performance in The Imitation Game, the actor begins raising his voice. “Look at that sign!” he exclaims, temporarily making me wonder if I’ve missed something – a metaphor, maybe? – in our thus far polite, if static-filled, conversation. Then he apologizes. “Idiot driver,” he mutters, probably from the back of a London cab. “There’s a sign about who has the right of way, of course telling him to wait.” Oh, what I’d give to be a passerby seeing Cumberbatch’s pale, inquisitive, highly recognizable noggin pop out of a car window to chew someone out. Look, it’s Sherlock! You don’t achieve his level of fame without a good idea of where you’re heading. The hit BBC TV series based on Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous detective, which earned him an Emmy two weeks ago, has made him a household name. And he’s demonstrated his range playing everyone from Frankenstein and the creature (alternating in roles with that other Sherlock, Jonny Lee Miller, in Danny Boyle’s stage version of Mary Shelley’s book) to Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (in TIFF 2013’s disappointing opener The Fifth Estate) and evil genius Khan in the sci-fi blockbuster Star Trek Into Darkness. Next year the man with the most unlikely movie star name is set to play the continued on page 32 œ

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Mount Everest of acting challenges, Hamlet, onstage in London. But good luck getting a ticket. After they were announced, 100,000 seats sold out in minutes. And along with his voice work for the granddaddy of all dragons, Smaug, in The Hobbit films, Cumberbatch is playing another nonhuman villain, Shere Khan, in his Hobbit costar Andy Serkis’s new version of The Jungle Book. In fact, as we speak he’s on a lunch break from filming it. Judging from that list (there are other examples), tortured smart guys are his specialty. Which might explain why he was eager to play Alan Turing in The Imitation Game after Leonardo DiCaprio bowed out of the project. Turing was the brilliant mathematician who

end,” says Cumberbatch. “Everything he had was going: his intellect, his stature as a human being, his health. He became a shell of what he was. And that upset me, to strip him down to that level.” No method techniques were required to get into character. “Often, as an actor, you draw on your own experience or memories, but I really didn’t have to here,” he says. “He got under my skin. It was just so pitiful. Imagining the physical weakness, the vulnerability, the exhaustion, how the hormones affected his emotional state…. It was all ungovernable.” After meeting with director Morten Tyldum (Headhunters), the actor agreed that it was very important to humanize one of the world’s greatest thinkers and pioneers. “If you open up books by Turing, they’re impossible to make sense of unless you’re a maths PhD,” he says, adding with a chuckle that he’s always been terrible at the subject. “Naturally, the way in was to look for the human story. And his is so heartbreaking. The story isn’t just a human tragedy but also a tense thriller, and the emotional line between the characters is strong.” Loosely based on The Enigma, mathematician Andrew Hodges’s book about Turing, Graham Moore’s screenplay shuttles back and forth between Turing’s wartime work at Bletchley Park, surrounded by other brilliant minds trying to crack the Enigma code; his childhood, where he shares a gift for solving puzzles with a friend and begins recognizing his burgeoning sexuality; and post-war life in Manchester, where he’s interrogated by a cop after clues to a burglary suggest the suspect might be one of Turing’s lovers. The script also includes a chaste relationship between Turing and Joan Clarke (Keira Knightley, reuniting with her Atonement co-star), another Bletchley Park code breaker. The two were briefly engaged, although Turing knew he was gay. The Sunday Times reported that Hodges has criticized the film for its “alarming inaccuracies,” including making much more of the TuringClarke relationship. “It’s artistic licence – that’s what drama does,” says Cumberbatch. “You do at some point have to speculate. I imagine it was pretty clear that [Turing] knew what his sexuality was. I don’t think Joan was that naive. She was young. “This same man [Hodges] was up in arms about the fact that there was a ‘heterosexual romance.’ There’s absolutely no implication or suggestion that there’s anything physical going on between them. By that rationale we should never make films about anyone who’s ever lived. It’s a stupid argument.” Speaking of romance, Cumberbatch laughs when I ask if he’s getting used to his status as a sex symbol. “I don’t see it…” he begins, modestly. Then he chooses another tack. “I’m very flattered. And it makes my mom proud. I suppose it’s a nice reflection on the work. That people feel something for me after 15 years of working as an actor.” 3

“THE STORY ISN’T JUST A HUMAN TRAGEDY BUT ALSO A TENSE THRILLER WITH A STRONG EMOTIONAL LINE BETWEEN THE CHARACTERS.” helped break the Nazis’ Enigma code during the Second World War, essentially building the foundations of the modern computer. Turing was also gay, and in the 1950s was arrested for it. Rather than go to prison, he agreed to experimental hormone therapy – essentially chemical castration. He killed himself in 1954. “He was one of hundreds of thousands of men who were persecuted,” says the actor. “The 50s here were an era of McCarthyist repression and intolerance.” In fact, it was Turing’s personal story, and not his intellectual feats, that made Cumberbatch want the role, which brings out shades of vulnerability, shame and fear that his fiercely loyal Sherlock fans haven’t seen before. “At the end, he was at his physical and wits’

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THE IMITATION GAME D: Morten Tyldum w/ Benedict Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley. UK/U.S. 113 min. Sep 9, 6 pm ñSPPrincess of Wales; Sep 10, 3 pm Princess of Wales. Rating: NNNN

First-rate performances and an irresistibly exciting and moving story help this drama rise above the traditional biopic. Brilliant Cambridge mathematician and cryptanalyst Turing (Cumberbatch) is hired by the British government to crack the Germans’ Enigma code during the Second World War. Used to working solo (he’d eventually lay the ground for the modern computer), he must collaborate with a team of misfit geniuses and keep their work a secret. Also secret is his homosexuality, which after the war gets him persecuted by the country he helped save. Shuttling back and forth between three time periods, the script is often blunt, especially in a repeated line of dialogue about nonconformists doing extraordinary things. Director Tyldum also adds some unnecessary archival war footage. But the film explores fascinating moral issues in its final third. Cumberbatch is a revelation as the socially inept man who fights for his dignity, and he’s given strong support by Knightley, Matthew Goode, Charles Dance, Rory Kinnear and Mark Strong as intriguing variables in GS Turing’s complex personal equation.

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LIFE IN A FISHBOWL (VONARSTRAETI) DISC D: Baldvin Zophoníasson w/ Hera Hilmar, ñ Thorsteinn Bachmann. Iceland/Finland/Sweden/ Czech Republic. 130 min. Sep 5, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 14; Sep 7, 1:45 pm Scotiabank 8; Sep 14, 1:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4. Rating: NNNN

Three stories connect loosely in this intense drama out of Iceland. Single mother Eik (Hilmar) works at a daycare centre and turns tricks on the side. Móri (Bachmann) is a famous poet turned drunk. And Sölvi (Christian Slater lookalike Thor Kristjansson) is an ex-soccer star now working at a bank for a boss with unethical practices. Strong on story and with a ton of tension – at times it’s actually harrowing – the film serves as a vivid snapshot of a country in financially dire straits. It’s also a subtle study of the impact of child sexual abuse. Zophoníasson’s follow-up to his gay comingof-age debut, Jitters, reveals an ambitious artist SGC who’s shown huge artistic growth.

SAT, SEP 6 NATIONAL GALLERY DOC D: Frederick Wiseman. France/U.S. 173 min. Sep 6, 12:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 7, 12:15 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 12, 11:30 am Jackman Hall (AGO). Rating: NNN

Art lovers will be chuffed that Wiseman puts his fly-on-the wall camera inside London’s National Gallery. Unfortunately, he wasn’t shooting during a particularly interesting period. The mammoth Leonardo exhibit has been up for a while, so there’s little curatorial discussion about it. Debates between gallery director Nicholas Penny and head of communications Jill Preston over whether the gallery should get involved in charity work have the most energy. For the most part, docents guide gallery-goers through the venerable institution’s impressive collection of Old Masters. When an eco-activist hangs a banner off the gallery’s facade, Wiseman doesn’t follow through with either the politico or gallery honchos to get a reaction. That shows the limitations of his I-shoot-only-whats’s-in-frontSGC of-me strategy.

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You could call this Australian sex comedy a pervert’s take on Love Actually. Multiple couples navigate their depraved fetishes in an attempt to strengthen their relationships. These include somnophilia (sex with someone who’s asleep), dacryphilia (involving tears or sobbing), traditional role-playing and rape. The contrived plots don’t shed light on such kinks; they’re just excuses to exploit the slapstick possibilities each presents. The game ensemble cast wins you over by engaging with the risky humour and making the weird feel sexy. A guilty pleasure that demands a shower RS afterwards.

NNNN Canadian director Shin’s sophomore feature is an expertly plotted drama that packs a paralyzing, emotional gut punch. In rural South Korea, a well-to-do city woman (Yoon) moves in with an elderly farm woman (Kil Hae-yeon) and her pregnant teen (Ahn) with the secret intention of adopting the child. While various other figures pass through, In Her Place is essentially a slow-burning three-hander, and our sympathies are skilfully rotated between the three nameless women. Societal demands and class differences are just two of the factors that cause a rift in their arrangement and stir this dramatic pressure RS cooker.

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CWC D: Ole Giaever, Marte Vold w/ Giaever, Marte Magnusdotter Solem. Norway. 80 min. Sep 6, 7:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 9, 11:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 13, 6 pm Scotiabank 3. Rating: NNNN

VAN D: Pieter Van Hees w/ Jérémie Renier, Natali Broods. Belgium. 97 min. Sep 6, 9:30 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 8, 4:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 13, 6:30 pm Scotiabank 13. Rating: NNN

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PRIDE SP D: Matthew Warchus w/ Ben Schnetzer, Imelda Staunton. UK. 120 min. Sep 6, 2:45 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 7, 12:30 pm Isabel Bader. Rating: NNNN

Made in the crowd-pleasing spirit of Billy Elliot and based on a true story, Pride tracks the attempts of a grassroots organization of gays and lesbians based in London to support striking mineworkers against Thatcher’s vicious regime. Of course, the small-town miners aren’t sure they’re interested. The pic, directed by stage veteran Warchus, taps some familiar tropes – flamboyant queers teaching the uptight miners to loosen up, closeted miners, coming-out stories – but that just ups the pleasure factor. The actors are excellent, especially Schnetzer (The Book Thief) as the activists’ charismatic leader and Staunton as a union supporter. The suggestion of the coming AIDS crisis is SGC subtle but telling.

THE VANISHED ELEPHANT (EL ELEFANTE DESAPARECIDO) DISC D: Javier Fuentes-León w/ Salvador del Solar, Angie Cepeda. Peru/Colombia/Spain. 110 min. Sep 6, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 8, 9:15 pm Scotiabank 8; Sep 14, 5 pm Scotiabank 7. Rating: NNN

This pulpy, ambitious detective story from Peru tries to be a bit too deep and clever for its own good, detouring into Mulholland Drive territory without a road map. Celeste (del Solar) is a former cop turned crime novelist whose fiancée disappeared years earlier, leaving him as the only suspect. As he finishes off his final novel, secret packages and unusual persons start dropping clues to Celeste’s “gone girl,” leading him on a pageturning hunt that blends with his own fiction. Director Fuentes-León crafts an entertaining ride that ultimately rings hollow when it delves RS into meta-fiction.

A 30-something Norwegian office worker named Martin (Giaever), who’s ambivalent about his wife (Solem) and distant from his young son (Sivert Giaever Solem), escapes for a solo weekend hike in the mountains to mull over his life in this subtle, funny and moving depiction of middle-class ennui. Martin’s stream-of-consciousness voice-over feels painfully authentic, even in its petty observations, and Giaever delivers a performance of straight-faced Nordic neutrality. As Martin treks across the rugged terrain (beautifully captured by Øystein Mamen), the film gains in texture and complexity, with careful interweaving of memory and fantasy and a surprising but touching final reel. Also: best film use ever of the cheesy song GS Forever Young.

Waste Land is a moody psychological thriller about a homicide cop (Dardennes regular Renier) who gets in over his head trying to solve the murder of a young Congolese Belgian immigrant whose corpse has been found dumped in a Brussels river. Turns out the man was involved in selling African statues, and all clues lead to a mysterious art dealer who may dabble in the occult. Meanwhile, the cop’s wife (Broods) is pregnant but doesn’t know if she wants to keep the child, which triggers something in the slowly unravelling husband. Despite the unresolved plot threads, director Van Hees keeps you intrigued with effectively bleak mise en scène, a hypnotic score, strong performances and the disturbing underlying GS theme of the legacy of colonialism.

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DOC D: Amer Shomali, Paul Cowan. Canada/Palestine/ France. 75 min. Sep 6, 8:15 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 9, 2:30 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 12, 5:30 pm Scotiabank 14. Rating: NNN

CWC D: Julie Lopes Curval w/ Ana Girardot, Bastien Bouillon. France. 95 min. Sep 6, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 8, 6:30 pm Scotiabank 8; Sep 14, 3:30 pm Isabel Bader. Rating: NN

This is a hybrid documentary combining interviews, archival footage, drawings and stop-motion animation re-enactments – if you can call sequences involving talking cows “re-enactments.” Beginning with the dawn of the First Intifada in 1987, the film follows a herd of milk cows purchased by residents of the West Bank town of Beit Sahour so they can boycott an Israeli milk company. As the Intifada burgeons, the cows are hunted down by the Israeli army and must be secreted from one hiding place to another to survive. Co-directors Cowan and Shomali find an appropriate balance of gravity and comedy for this playful chronicle of one of recent history’s more peculiar resistance narraJT tives.

Everything’s done too delicately in this film about the romantic entanglement and subsequent tension between working-class Alice (Girardot) and rich kid Antoine (Bouillon). Alice dreams of working in haute couture, so her affection for Antoine is convenient career-wise, yet it seems genuine. It’s hard to say for sure since the emotionally restrained film rarely lets the couple show any passion or feeling, allowing social triggers to unravel the relationship at a languid pace. The ambiguity is both admirable and numbing, especially since the topic feels redundant. Last year’s Blue Is The Warmest Color tackled the same class tensions with far more passion, fury and RS art.

SUN, SEP 7 WET BUM DISC D: Lindsay MacKay w/ Julia ñ Sarah Stone, Craig Arnold. Canada. 95 min. Sep 7, 3:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 10, 2:15 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NNNN

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NED RIFLE SP D: Hal Hartley w/ Liam Aiken, Aubrey Plaza. U.S. ñ 85 min. Sep 7, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 9, 4:15 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 12, 8 pm Winter Garden.

Rating: NNNN Richard Linklater’s long-term productions get all the acclaim, but writer/director Hartley has been working on his own decades-spanning trilogy – only it’s more of an absurdist comedy than a philosophical inquiry into maturity. Ned Rifle finishes the story arc begun in 1997’s Henry Fool and extended in 2006’s Fay Grim, with the son of those two characters (Aiken) turning 18 and setting out to find his father (Thomas Jay Ryan) and kill him for ruining the life of his mother (Parker Posey). But first he has to figure out what the deal is with the odd girl (Plaza) who’s stalking his uncle, poet-turnedweb-comedian Simon (James Urbaniak). Hartley’s precise deadpan hasn’t lost a beat, his ensemble knows how to play these notes in their sleep, and newbie Plaza slots in perfectly. It’s weird, jazzy fun, just like the good old days.

CHARLIE’S COUNTRY CWS D: Rolf de Heer w/ David Gulpilil, Peter Djigirr. ñ Australia. 108 min. Sep 7, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 9, 12:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 13, 1:15 pm

Scotiabank 1. Rating: NNNN Legendary Australian actor Gulpilil (Walkabout) and his Ten Canoes director, de Heer, reunite for a more grounded drama about an aging Aboriginal who decides to leave his community and live by “the old ways,” only to find himself drifting into increasingly unpleasant situations. It’s a beautifully photographed, unrelentingly bleak picture that works as a Rorschach test for empathy. De Heer and Gulpilil, who wrote the script together, constantly ask us to consider how complicit Charlie is in his own unhappiness. A key sequence in Darwin, when Charlie falls in with a group of drinkers, should prove particularly divisive. But Gulpilil’s simmering performance tells us everything we need to know about Charlie’s NW choices.

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VAN D: Gerard Johnson w/ Peter Ferdinando, Stephen Graham. UK. 112 min. Sep 7, 6:45 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 9, 9 pm Scotiabank 12; Sep 12, noon Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NN

MM D: David Robert Mitchell w/ Maika Monroe, ñ Keir Gilchrist. U.S. 97 min. Sep 7, 11:59 pm Ryerson; Sep 9, 4 pm Scotiabank 9. Rating: NNNN

Working both sides of a murder investigation – the victim was his partner in a drug-running scheme – a dirty London cop (Ferdinando) finds himself squaring off against Albanian sex traffickers and trying to outrun a probe into his own corruption. Writer/director Johnson’s second feature is best approached as a combination of Bad Lieutenant and Drive, a highly stylized study of a bad man trying to do a good thing. But those movies had carefully constructed scripts, whereas Hyena apes their studied torment, substituting posturing for character development. Which is a pity, because Ferdinando makes NW desperation look positively magnetic.

Midnight Madness often favours flash and excess, so it’s nice to see proper slow-burn horror get a chance to freak out a crowd. Mitchell, director of the thoughtful teen drama The Myth Of The American Sleepover, ups his game in this high-concept nail-biter about 19-year-old Jay (Monroe), whose new boyfriend infects her with a sexually transmitted demon that will stalk and kill her – unless she passes the curse along to someone else. It’s a metaphor worthy of early Cronenberg, and the movie runs with it, building unnerving tension with long takes of mundane activity that aren’t interrupted so much as invaded by something walking into the frame. Monroe is fantastic in the lead, letting us see Jay’s evolution from skeptic to believer to calculating survivor, and Mitchell’s script has thought its monster through to the last detail, teaching us the rules as we go and letting his characters NW be as smart as the menace they face.

MON, SEP 8 WHIPLASH SP D: Damien Chazelle w/ Miles Teller, J.K. Simmons. U.S. 106 min. Sep 8, 3:15 pm Ryerson; Sep 9, 12:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NN

THE VALLEY BELOW DISC D: Kyle Thomas w/ Kris Demeanor, Alejandro Rae. Canada. 87 min. Sep 7, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 8, 8:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 12, 2:45 pm Scotiabank 2. Rating: NNN

Thomas’s network narrative tracks the lives of several Drumheller, Alberta residents over three seasons. A 19-year-old (Mikaela Cochrane) discovers she’s pregnant; a singer/songwriter (Demeanor) finds his ambitions undone by alcoholism; a taxidermist (Stephen Bogaert) quietly struggles to reanimate his failing marriage; a constable (Rae) looks after local families while wondering if he’ll ever start a family of his own. Some vignettes are moving and insightful, while others seem stuck at the sketch level. The vagaries of procreation and the difficulty of sustaining love over the long term are the dominant themes, while the surrounding Badlands, whether seen through heat shimmer or encrusted with frost, evoke the vastness of geological time in contrast to the fleeting lives JT depicted in the foreground.

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SONGS SHE WROTE ABOUT PEOPLE SHE KNOWS DISC D: Kris Elgstrand w/ Arabella Bushnell, Brad Dryborough. Canada. 80 min. Sep 8, 5 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 10, 2:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 13, 5:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NNN

This über-quirky Canadian pic about a woman who takes the advice of a music therapist too far is sometimes infuriating but often gobsmackingly good. In order to “express herself,” Carol (Bushnell) starts sending songs in phone messages to people who are pissing her off. A composition for her boss (Dryborough) inspires him to fire her, but for her own good – he thinks she has talent – which sends both of them on another kind of journey. Bushnell plays Carol as someone with almost no affect, a bad decision by writer/director Elstrand. But the smooth-jazz music is terrific, making the whole thing strangely beautiful. SGC continued on page 36 œ

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Whiplash sounds a few wrong notes, but Miles Teller (left) and J.K. Simmons give it their all.

At an elite music college in Manhattan, a driven young drummer (Teller) squares off against a monstrous conductor (Simmons) for a potentially lifechanging spot in the school’s jazz orchestra. With Simmons hurling abuse and Teller doing his best to roll with each new humiliation, it’s basically Full Metal Drum Kit. The only question is, will the kid crack or will the grown-up accept his talent? Teller and Simmons commit completely to the concept, and their performances are enough to power the drama through its first hour. But writer/director Chazelle’s plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous, prizing intensity over credibility, and the final act has the feel of a fever dream. Audiences loved it at Sundance and Cannes, but I wonder how many of them subsequently realized its ultimate message is “Bullying works.” NW

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tination with tragic results, forcing Theeb to make some life-changing decisions. Eid, who is in almost every frame, can express a range of feeling without saying a word. The sound is startling, and the landscapes are spectacularly shot by cinematographer Wolfgang Thaler. It may not get much attention on TIFF’s red carpet, but this is the kind of small gem festival-goers should SGC be seeing.

SP D: Mike Leigh w/ Timothy Spall, Marion Bailey. UK. 149 min. Sep 8, 5:45 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 9, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNNNN

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FOXCATCHER GALA D: Bennett Miller w/ Channing Tatum, Steve Carell. U.S. 133 min. Sep 8, 6 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 9, noon Princess of Wales. Rating: NNN

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A GIRL AT MY DOOR (DOHEE-YA) CTC D: Jung July w/ Bae Doona, Kim Saeron. South Korea. 119 min. Sep 8, 9:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 11, 4 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 14, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 8. Rating: NNN

In this tightly woven melodrama that turns on sexual manipulation, an alcoholic female cop (Bae) with a checkered big-city past assumes a new post as chief in a small seaside town and almost immediately takes an abused and bullied 14-year-old girl (Kim) under her protection. Bae convincingly walks a fine line, balancing her character’s demons with a compassionate heart and a sense of duty, giving a nuanced performance with emotional heft. Kim brings believable vulnerability and freshness to her role, but the rest of the cast is too one-note to elevate the movie to something really special. PE

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DISC D: Philippe Lacôte w/ Abdoul Karim Konaté, Isaach De Bankolé. France/Ivory Coast. 100 min. Sep 8, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 10, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 13, 6:15 pm Scotiabank 14. Rating: NNN

DOC D: Gabe Polsky. U.S./Russia. 85 ñ min. Sep 9, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 10, 11:45 am Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NNNN

This ambitious attempt to encapsulate the last 20 years of Ivory Coast history ultimately fails to fulfill its lofty aim, but not before providing insights into a part of the world we rarely see. The film begins with its eponymous protagonist (Konaté) announcing that he has just assassinated the prime minister. Flashbacks return him to his well-travelled life (which Lacôte uses to personify a generation) and provide an explanation for his radical political act. But in trying to account for the violence that has shaped Ivory Coast’s recent past, the filmmaker slips. Run’s own picaresque life, though, whether as a child aspiring to be a rainmaker or as a young man zealously supporting the corrupt regime, is both entertaining and inPE formative.

Veteran producer Polsky (The Bad Lieutenant: Port Of Call New Orleans, Little Birds) makes his directorial debut with this pleasantly off-centre look at the Soviet Union’s fanatical pursuit of superiority in the field of ice hockey, which culminated in the so-called Red Army of the 80s. Soviet coach Anatoli Tarasov favoured a cooperative strategy and a refined passing game, which stood in beautiful contrast to the goon-driven NHL. Polsky has fun with the archival material – much of it drawn from Canadian media sources, as you might expect – and tells some compelling stories about the lives of Soviet stars like Vladislav Tretiak and Slava Fetisov, and how they balanced their beautiful game with the insane NW political situation back home.

TUE, SEP 9 THE IMITATION GAME SP D: Morten Tyldum w/ Benedict ñ Cumberbatch, Keira Knightley. UK/U.S. 113 min. Sep 9, 6 pm Princess of Wales; Sep 10, 3 pm Princess of Wales. Rating: NNNN

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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT) SP D: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre ñ Dardenne w/ Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione. Belgium/France. 95 min. Sep 9, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 10, 12:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating:

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TIMBUKTU MAST D: Abderrahmane Sissako w/ ñ Ibrahim Ahmed (aka Pino), Toulou Kiki. France/Mauritania/Mali. 97 min. Sep 9, 6:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 12, 2 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN

Sissako’s humanism in the face of jihadi repression resonates powerfully. It’s a clear-eyed, moving examination of the lives of ordinary people in northern Mali who want nothing more than to make music, play soccer and, for the women, to feel the breeze on their hands without being forced to wear gloves at all times. All of these simple acts have been declared violations of sharia law by thuggish Arab invaders. Gorgeously photographed by Sofiane El Fani, the cinematographer of Blue Is The Warmest Color, the film focuses on a loving family whose pastoral life outside of town is riven by a tragic accident that puts them in the foreigners’ merciless grip. In telling their story and those of the other innocent victims, Sissako stands up for freedom everywhere. PE

TU DORS NICOLE CWC D: Stéphane Lafleur w/ Julianne ñ Côté, Catherine St-Laurent. Canada. 93 min. Sep 9, 6:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 11, 4:45 pm Scotiabank 4. Rating:

NNNN There’s not a lot going on in this weird, beguiling coming-of-ager, and that’s perfectly fine, because director Lafleur and his cast know how to make the most of it. A wonderfully restrained Côté stars as insomniac 22-year-old Nicole, who’s spending her hot summer days while her parents are away looking for something to do with her similarly aimless best friend (St-Laurent). Characters both idiosyncratic and absurd pass through, but whether they’ll have any effect on Nicole’s arrested development is left in the air. Lafleur counters the lackadaisical narrative with direction, editing and sound cues that are both precise and mysterious, making every note in this exceptionally well-made film someRS thing to savour.

GIRLHOOD (BANDE DE FILLES) Timothy Spall delivers a masterful performance as painter J.M.W. Turner.

CWC D: Céline Sciamma w/ Karidja ñ Touré, Assa Sylla. France. 112 min. Sep 9, 8:45 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 11, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 14, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 3. Rating: NNNN

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Don’t call Mr. Turner a biopic. It opens in 1826, when J.M.W. Turner is at the peak of his fame – none of that “Wow, look at the light!” from an eight-year-old with a sketchbook – and focuses on his daily life painting, arguing with artists and having (mostly) bad sex. Scenes in the Royal Academy, where Turner’s paintings hang alongside his romantic contemporaries, reveal how radical Turner was, laying the groundwork for

the Impressionists. Dick Pope shoots those inspiring landscapes spectacularly, but writer/director Leigh also conveys the impact of reality – slave ships, the rise of the steam engine – on Turner’s otherworldly masterpieces. Spall, winner of the Cannes best actor prize, inhabits the role with brute force, speaking in grunts, spitting on his canvases to get the right effect, yet showing an achingly human side in a brothel sequence or when tragedy strikes. Mr. Turner is about art and what ignites it and it’s perfectly happy to take its time. Art film in every sense of SGC the word.

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CWC D: Joel Lamangan w/ Nora Aunor, Romnick Sarmenta. Philippines. 120 min. Sep 9, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 11, 9 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 13, noon Isabel Bader. Rating: NN

DISC D: Jefferson Moneo w/ Nadia ñ Litz, Justin Kelly. Canada. 104 min. Sep 9, 7 pm Scotiabank 13; Sep 11, 8 pm

This Filipino crime drama starts off promisingly with a gritty (though exaggerated) look at Manila’s corruption and poverty through the eyes of an elderly house worker in a peculiar position. Biring (Aunor) is fiercely loyal to her employer, a human trafficker who sells young girls into sex slavery. She even takes on the daily tasks of the criminal enterprise, paying off politicians and the Church, while remaining conflicted about her role in these activities. Aunor sells these early scenes believably, layering Biring’s emotions beneath a guarded exterior. But even she can’t keep things convincing when the film goes all Scarface, with betrayals and power plays that turn the proceedings into a kitschy, contrived Mafioso soap James Le Gros gets down RS opera. ’n’ dirty in Big Muddy.

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Pursued by an old associate, a Saskatchewan grifter (Litz) flees with her teenage son (Kelly) to her childhood home to hunker down for a final confrontation with her enemies. It’s set in the present day, but it doesn’t have to be. Except for the presence of the occasional cellphone, Big Muddy plays out like a pulp novel, with a good-sized cast of characters on collision courses due to decisions they made years or decades earlier. It works surprisingly well within its modest parameters. Litz anchors a strong cast (including Stephen McHattie, Rossif Sutherland, David La Haye and a nicely chilly James Le Gros), and Moneo creates moments of strange grace that contrast sharply with all the bloody vengeance.

This classical coming-of-age story set in the Parisian suburbs vibrates like a street opera. Sixteen-year-old Marieme (Touré) drops out of school, falls in with a gang of three girls led by Lady (Sylla), changes her name and adopts their glam look. Always together, always brash and lively in public, they exude an energy and camaraderie that are completely natural and infectious. Sciamma has directed films involving young women before, but here she deals exclusively and non-judgmentally with black teenage girls, and masterfully so. Watching Marieme mature into a confident young woman in control of her life is a joy. PE

MERCHANTS OF DOUBT DOC D: Robert Kenner. U.S. 96 min. Sep 9, 9:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 10, 8:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NNN

Profit-seeking corporations are nasty pieces of work. That’s the point of Kenner’s new doc, which looks at companies’ strategies for fooling the public into believing whatever helps maximize profits. He starts by reminding us about the lies Big Tobacco told us about the health impact of cigarettes, but most of the material is about how energy interests have changed the conversation about climate change. Think tanks operated by these interests pretend to be neutral, and paid knownothings claim to be experts – “I took two economics courses and a science course in college,” says one – and the media fall for it big time. Using a magician’s tricks as a metaphor for corporate tactics is clever, and Kenner’s found an eloquent talking head in history of science prof Naomi Oreskes, but as with his previous flick, Food, Inc., he keeps hammering away at the same idea. This coulda been done in an hour easy.

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MAPS TO THE STARS GALA D: David Cronenberg w/ Mia Wasikowska, Julianne Moore. Canada/ Germany. 112 min. Sep 9, 9:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 10, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin). Rating: NN

Wet Bum, dry humour Emerging director makes a splash with her feature debut, a clever semi-autobiographical coming-of-age pic By NORMAN WILNER In addition to being one of the more fun titles to say aloud at this year’s Toronto Film Festival, Lindsay Mac Kay’s Wet Bum is a really lovely little observational drama. It’s the story of awkward 14yearold Sam (Julia Sarah Stone), who goes through a very bumpy comingofage while working as a cleaner at the retire ment home owned by her mother. It’s also MacKay’s story, as she ex plains over coffee a couple of weeks before her movie makes its world premiere at TIFF. “I grew up in St. Mary’s, Ontario, and my parents used to run the nurs ing home facility in that town,” she says. “When I was around Sam’s age, my mother was like, ‘Well, you need some responsibility,’ so she made me be a cleaning woman in the retire ment home – which was a lovely choice on her end. But it was the kind of thing that really made me grow up quickly.” Asked to explain how, MacKay talks about Sam’s tentative friendship with the widowed Ed (Kenneth Welsh), an angry resident at the home, and how it reflects her own experience of de veloping perspective.

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“I remember, when I was really kid and as an adult. What was young, thinking, ‘Okay, at 25 I’m gon really interesting about working na be an adult; everything’s going to at a retirement home, and what be totally worked out.’ But the older I’m trying to portray in this mov you get, the more you realize noth ie, was [realizing] that we’re still ing ever really makes sense – kind of figuring that out. you’re always kind of figur “The Ed character, he’s Director obviously isolating him ing out who you are. And you make mistakes, as a interview self because of his wife’s death, but I also think Lindsay there’s a part of him MacKay that needed to grow, and needed to learn, and Sam is helping him do that.” Given the project’s autobio graphical nature, was it difficult to direct Stone as a character so close to her own younger self? “It was really interesting with Julia,” says MacKay. “I think nat urally there’s just something you can see, that you recognize, in somebody you connect with. So it was a lot of just letting her be her, because she’s so intuitive. Her performance is incredible. Her eyes are amazing. I kind of would shape her, but I barely touched her, to be honest. She kind of pulled it all off on her own.” 3 normw@nowtoronto.com | @normwilner

WET BUM D: Lindsay MacKay w/ Julia Sarah Stone, Craig Arnold. Canada. 95 min. Sep ñDISC 7, 3:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 10, 2:15 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema. Rating: NNNN

MacKay’s debut feature tracks a winter in the life of awkward 14-year-old Sam (Stone), who’s tormented by her classmates, drawn to her older lifeguarding instructor (Arnold) and strangely sympathetic to a cranky resident (Kenneth Welsh) of the retirement home where she works as a cleaner. The coming-of-age story is familiar territory, but MacKay gives this one a sensual texture that feels like you’re immersed in a really thoughtful short story, with a measured pace that gives us time to understand Sam’s thoughts and feelings. And Stone, whom you may remember from The Year Dolly Parton Was My Mom, is terrific as the conflicted lead, caught between timidity and self-assertion and trying to figure out who she is and what she wants. Arnold and Welsh provide nicely complex supporting performances, and Leah Pinsent does a lot with limited screen time as Sam’s overwhelmed NW mother.

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Cronenberg has turned Bruce Wagner’s satirical Hollywood novel into a flat, psychologically trite tale of absent parents and ruined children. Moore plays a neurotic actor trying to land a part originally played by her famous, and famously dead, mother (Sarah Gadon, glimpsed in clips and hallucinations), while Wasikowska is a troubled young woman who arrives in Los Angeles on a collision course with an even more troubled child star (Evan Bird) whose parents have at least one terrible secret of their own. There are some interesting ideas knocking around, and the idea of parents’ mistakes literally haunting their children is a perfect metaphor for Cronenberg. But there’s no centre to the script, which wanders back and forth between the various characters with no real point or logic. Nothing has any impact, and the biggest revelations are just sort of left hanging. NW

SILVERED WATER, SYRIA SELF-PORTRAIT (MA’A AL FIDDA) DOC D: Ossama Mohammed, Wiam ñ Simav Bedirxan. Syria/France. 92 min. Sep 9, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 10, 9 am Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 13, 6 pm Scotiabank 11. Rating: NNNN

In this extraordinary lament for a nation, Paris-based Syrian expat Mohammed compiles videos shot by Bedirxan over a period of 1,001 days during the siege of the Kurdish city of Homs. Mohammed also incorporates reams of YouTube footage, narrating the whole as one loosely structured chronicle. It’s an artfully composed poem about the tangible horrors of civil war. Bedirxan, a Kurd who was a teacher before one of the anti-Assad rebels objected to her lack of head covering, is fascinated by a streetwise little boy who has a remarkable ability to play amidst the detritus of the hostilities. Those scenes stand in chilling contrast to the battles recorded on cellphones, footage that’s often outlasted the lives of the citizens who PE photographed it.

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SP D: Xavier Dolan w/ Anne Dorval, Antoine-Olivier Pilon. Canada. 134 min. Sep 9, 9:30 pm Princess of Wales; Sep 10, noon TIFF Bell Lightbox 1. Rating: NNNN

Precocious auteur Dolan (J’ai Tué Ma Mère) again mines his rocky relationship with his mother in this exceptional film about a single mother (Dorval) coping, barely, with the troubled, often violent, son (Pilon) she loves. Things start looking up when she befriends a neighbour (Suzanne Clément) with speech problems. Pilon is an endearing sweetheart when under control, but terrifying when he loses it. As the tough mom who dresses like a teenager, Doral is equally incendiary, and it’s a tribute to Clément’s gift that she can match her in a much quieter role. Operatic, beautiful and explosive, Mommy is wholly unpredictable. This guy has turned into one of Canada’s SGC best filmmakers.

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NNNN A wholly original take on the crime thriller genre in the mould of Gomorrah or A Prophet, Slaboshpytskiy’s film follows an innocent outsider (Fesenko) as he learns the ropes, rises up in the organization, falls in love with an unattainable woman (Novikova) and tries to get out. But it’s not the Mafia or a prison he’s navigating; it’s a boarding school for the deaf, where a violent criminal clique operates a prostitution ring and engages in stealing and mugging on the side. There are no subtitles or dialogue in this brutal love story, but the soundtrack is not silent. While some small details may be murky, the big picture is clear enough. The plot is propelled by sign language and body movements (including much graphic sex) – think pantomime or even ballet. And nothing is sugarcoated, PE including the ending.

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IN THE CROSSWIND (RISTTUULES) CWC D: Martti Helde w/ Laura Peterson, Mirt Preegel. Estonia. 87 min. Sep 9, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 11, 5 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 14, 9:30 pm Scotiabank 13. Rating: NNNN

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Helde’s daring first feature finds a unique way to embalm tragic memories. Erna Tamm (Peterson) and her young daughter were among thousands of Estonians shipped off to Siberia by the Soviets in 1941. Her letters to her husband, who was sent to prison camp, are recited in this lyrical, devastating account of what she endured for two decades. Instead of a straightforward narrative, Helde couples Erna’s melancholic words with tableaux vivants and a camera that roves between people frozen in a moment. The result is much like walking through a museum, where time is reflected in space and every instant is steeped in confusion, sorrow, horror and heartbreaking resignation. Throughout its run time, the film rarely wavers from this mode of remembering, and the effect never fades. RS

After 2011’s Moneyball, director Miller returns to the chilly tone of his Capote for another tale of interpersonal tensions and murder, though this time the result isn’t quite as impressive. In 1987, Olympic gold medalist Mark Schultz (Tatum) was recruited by John du Pont (Carell) to build a wrestling team that could win gold in the 1988 Seoul Games. It ended badly. The script divides itself awkwardly among three principals – in addition to du Pont and Schultz, there’s Mark’s older brother David (Mark Ruffalo), who gets caught up in du Pont’s ambitions – and Miller drenches every scene in heavy portent. All three leads wear distracting prosthetics, which works against Tatum and Ruffalo’s naturalistic performances and makes Carell’s precise, creepy turn as the self-absorbed, deluded du Pont far too obviously unhinged. It’s unnecessary, especially since Vanessa Redgrave is right there, looking exactly like herself as du Pont’s imperious mother, to show us how powerful an NW unadorned performance can be.

Channing Tatum (left) and Steve Carell give fine performances, when you’re not distracted by the prosthetics.

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FILM FEST GUIDE REVIEWS Oscar winner Marion Cotillard struggles with mental illness in the latest Dardennes drama.

[REC]4: APOCALYPSE ([REC 4]APOCALIPSIS) MM D: Jaume Balagueró w/ Manuela Velasco, Paco Manzanedo. Spain. 96 min. Sep 9, 11:59 pm Ryerson; Sep 10, 10 pm Scotiabank 8. Rating: NNN

Gathering the plot strands of the previous three [REC] features and abandoning the series’ found-footage conceit for a slicker, more selfaware aesthetic, Apocalypse is intended to be a great big crowd-pleasing action movie that wraps the whole series up in a great big bloody box. Velasco returns as overwhelmed TV reporter Angela Vidal, who’s wound up (along with a handful of other survivors of that virulent superrabies outbreak) on a paramilitary research vessel that’s quickly overrun by the raging infected. That’s basically all there is to it, with Balagueró (going solo after co-directing the first two films with Paco Plaza) following characters through the ship’s murky corridors and giving his heroes a number of chances to go all Peter Jackson on hordes of raging zombies. NW It’s silly, but it sure is satisfying.

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stimulate. Despite the lack of conventional narrative, it’s his most accessible and fun film in years. Palpably energizing, it flies by on wings of puns and song. The director’s dog proves a most genial guide to his owner’s ruminations on nature and metaphor in a film that is as densely PE packed as most movies twice its length.

LEVIATHAN MAST D: Andrey Zvyagintsev w/ Alexey ñ Serebryakov, Elena Lyadova. Russia. 141 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 11, 4:45 pm

TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNNNN Set in a small town where a property dispute between a hotheaded family man (Serebryakov) and the venal local mayor (Roman Madyanov) leads to a series of escalating confrontations, Zvyagintsev’s epic drama plays equally well as slow-motion tragedy and a study of the internalized corruption of post-Soviet Russia. Framed as a kitchen-sink drama that grows darker and darker as the story unfolds, Leviathan’s misery advances inexorably. Even in happier moments, it’s always there, looming like the jagged mountain range beyond the characters’ village. Toronto audiences will find some uncomfortable parallels in Madyanov’s character – a drunken, grasping boor whose single-minded selfishness destroys the lives of everyone NW unfortunate enough to get in his way.

INFINITELY POLAR BEAR GALA D: Maya Forbes w/ Mark Ruffalo, Zoe Saldana. U.S. 88 min. Sep 10, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 11, 12:30 pm Winter Garden. Rating: NNN

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TWO DAYS, ONE NIGHT (DEUX JOURS, UNE NUIT) SP D: Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne w/ ñ Marion Cotillard, Fabrizio Rongione. Belgium/ France. 95 min. Sep 9, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 10, 12:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNNNN

The Dardennes chisel out yet another excellent working-class drama, this time with the magnificent Cotillard at the fore. Her Sandra is struggling with depression and has just received word that her factory job has been eliminated so her fellow employees can keep their bonus. While her initial reœcontinued from page 39

WE WERE WOLVES DISC D: Jordan Canning w/ Peter Mooney, Steve Cochrane. Canada. 94 min. Sep 9, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 13; Sep 10, 8 pm Scotiabank 9; Sep 13, 5 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4. Rating: NNN

After their father’s death, a 30-ish husband and father (Mooney) and his estranged brother (Cochrane) go on a trip to clean out the dead man’s cottage. There’s a really solid relationship at the core of Canning’s modest two-hander, and Cochrane (who co-wrote the script with Canning) and Mooney are wholly believable as siblings who fall instantly back into their decades-old rivalry. But there just isn’t enough going on to sustain a feature, and once Republic Of Doyle’s Lynda Boyd turns up as an old friend of the father’s, We Were Wolves just drifts into a holding pattern until the time comes to release painful revelations. It’s not bad, exactly, it’s just not enough. NW

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action would be to drown her sorrows in pills, her husband and friends insist she should convince her co-workers to forgo their bonus to save her job. Sandra’s door-to-door pleading makes up the time span of the title, but her appeal for socialism eventually takes a back seat to a furious private struggle against mental illness, beautifully conveyed by Cotillard’s quivering face and resigned posture. Set in a dehumanizing economy, this is a RS powerful film about rallying self-worth.

ALLELUIA VAN D: Fabrice Du Welz w/ Laurent Lucas, Lola Dueñas. France/Belgium. 95 min. Sep 9, 10 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 11, 3 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 13, 9:15 pm Scotiabank 13. Rating: NNN

Du Welz masterfully creates a suffocating, repulsive and gut-wrenching film inspired by the Lonely Hearts killers, an American couple who committed serial murders in the 1940s. I just wonder what purpose Alleluia serves beyond exploiting gory and horrifying true crimes for voyeuristic thrills. After con man Michel (Lucas) seduces desperate single mom Gloria (Dueñas), they begin an unrepentant murder spree, infiltrating the lives of unsuspecting women and hacking them to pieces. The performances are terrific, Dueñas in particular reeling us in to Gloria’s insanity while keeping us aware of her stormy emotions. Meanwhile, Du Welz shoots every grainy, offcentre scene with nightmarish intensity, taking us to a very disturbing place that I’m not sure I RS ever wanted to visit.

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LI’L QUINQUIN (P’TIT QUINQUIN) CWC D: Bruno Dumont w/ Alane Delhaye, Bernard ñ Pruvost. France. 200 min. Sep 10, 2 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 11, 11:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 14,

9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 4. Rating: NNNN Who would believe that the director of such intense dramas as L’Humanité and Hadewijch could have concocted this hilarious screwball police procedural? The chief investigator (Pruvost) is a human tic machine and a delightful combination of Hercule Poirot and Inspector Clouseau. He’s looking into a series of macabre murders (body parts stuffed inside dead cows) in a rural community in northern France. Observing from the periphery is the titular character (Delhaye), a preteen prankster passing his summer holidays with his sweetheart and like-minded pals. Dumont has mined this oddball territory before, but the difference here is that he’s using comedy to unleash his unique view of human nature, and doing so inside a crackerjack plot of weird twists and bizarre PE turns.

GOODBYE TO LANGUAGE 3D (ADIEU AU LANGAGE) MAST D: Jean-Luc Godard w/ Héloise Godet, ñ Kamel Abdelli. France. 70 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 12, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 14, 9:15

pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNNNN Godard, the legendary enfant terrible of cinema, uses 3D in an ultra-modern, eye-popping way. Placing his camera in the foreground, he skews our perspective by focusing on objects upfront. This enhances and changes the way we view the characters in this exploration of an illicit love affair, and Godard adds literary, political and cinematic references to amuse and

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A bipolar Boston man (Ruffalo) struggles to raise his two daughters (Imogene Wolodarsky, Ashley Aufderheide) when his wife (Saldana) leaves town for grad school in New York. Writer/director Forbes draws heavily on her own life story, even dressing Ruffalo to match family photos of her father and casting her own daughter, Wolodarsky, as her younger self. It’s possible that Forbes is a little too close to the material – a more objective filmmaker might have refined the script’s episodic structure and clarified certain logistical questions – but she gets a fantastic performance out of Ruffalo. He plays the mercurial Cam as a self-aware disaster, his eyes flashing with uncertainty and panic even when he’s projecting confidence and joy. He holds Infinitely Polar Bear together NW by sheer force of will.

AMOUR FOU CWC D: Jessica Hausner w/ Christian Friedel, Birte Schnöink. Austria/Luxembourg/Germany. 96 min. Sep 10, 7:15 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 12, 9:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 3. Rating: NNN

Drawing inspiration from the life and death of the German Romantic poet and playwright Heinrich von Kleist (Friedel), who killed himself in his early 30s, writer/director Hausner debunks the romantic myth of dying for love by deconstructing his double suicide. Ironically, Kleist’s suicide partner (Schnöink) was not even a love interest, just an acquaintance who may or may not have been terminally ill. Not without irony, Hausner makes the most of the distancing effect of the stilted 1811 dialogue. She’s also well aware of the absurdly comic formality of her characters and their desires – the film’s title is no accident. Still, despite its great attention to period detail, beautifully composed cinematography and PE unerring artfulness, it left me cold.

NNNN = Excellent NNN = Entertaining

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THU, SEP 11 AN EYE FOR BEAUTY (LE RÈGNE DE LA BEAUTÉ) SP D: Denys Arcand w/ Éric Bruneau, Mélanie Merkosky. Canada. 102 min. Sep 11, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 12, noon Scotiabank 3. Rating: NNN

THE GATE (LE TEMPS DES AVEUX) SP D: Régis Wargnier w/ Raphaël Personnaz, Kompheak Phoeung. France. 95 min. Sep 10, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 11, 10 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 13, 6:15 pm Isabel Bader. Rating: NNN

The Gate de-emphasizes both the scope and intensity of the insane horrors perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge in 1970s Cambodia and the suffering of its victims. Instead, it uses its simple story to pose an interesting moral question about forgiveness and what you owe to the man who saved your life but killed thousands of others. A French ethnologist working on ancient manuscripts and monuments in backwoods Cambodia is captured by the Khmer Rouge. They’re convinced he’s a spy, but his captor seems genuinely interested in establishing his guilt or innocence. The fact-based drama plays out with perfect naturalism against the Cambodian forest, AD whose beauty only adds to the tension.

A HARD DAY (KKEUT-KKA-JI-GAN-DA) CTC D: Kim Seoung-hun w/ Lee Sun-kyun, Cho Jin-woong. South Korea. 111 min. Sep 10, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 4; Sep 11, 9:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 14, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 8. Rating: NNNN

This diabolical and hilarious thriller centres on a corrupt cop who commits a hit-and-run, buries the corpse and is blackmailed immediately after by a mysterious caller à la I Know What You Did Last Summer. Detective Ko Gun-soo (Lee) had already gone off the rails. The fateful event happens when he ducks out of his own mother’s funeral to deal with an internal affairs investigation pegging him for bribery. All these poorly timed events collide, ricochet and twist with hair-raising precision. Director Kim has a knack for getting the most tension and laughs out of every ludicrous scenario. Plausibility may go out the window, but you’ll have a fun time watching it hit the paveRS ment.

MAIDAN (MAÏDAN) WL D: Sergei Loznitsa. Ukraine/Netherlands. 133 ñ min. Sep 10, 9:45 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 11, 3:15 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 13, 7:30 pm

Scotiabank 10. Rating: NNNN Loznitsa turns his static camera on the titular Kiev square in all its glory and randomness as he chronicles the final three months of the massive demonstrations that led to the ouster of president Yanukovych in February 2014. It’s the essence of documentary filmmaking, unconventional as it may appear. There is no narration, only the found sounds of bullhorns, occasional media blasts and the hubbub of the masses. Early on it’s like we’re in a minimalist travelogue centred on the square, complete with a wide variety of passersby. Interestingly, it’s the film’s form that makes it so compelling. The unmoving camera serves to draw the audience in, transforming the viewer into a participant, much more than a passive PE voyeur.

Arcand’s latest is another micro/macro dramedy along the lines of The Decline Of The American Empire and The Barbarian Invasions. The writer/director hangs political and social commentary on a very simple premise: married Charlevoix architect Luc Sauvageau (Bruneau) finds himself drawn to a Toronto administrator (Merkosky). Much of the first hour consists of little vignettes and conversations that don’t amount to much. A subplot about Luc’s mentor falling ill plays like a reprise of Barbarian Invasions, with Marie-Josée Croze once again appearing as a sympathetic medical professional. But when Arcand finally gets around to moving Luc’s wife, Stéphanie (Mélanie Thierry), to the forefront of his narrative, things come into dramatic focus. It just takes a long time for NW that to happen.

OVER YOUR DEAD BODY (KUIME) VAN D: Takashi Miike w/ Ebizo Ichikawa, Ko ñ Shibasaki. Japan. 90 min. Sep 11, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 12, 9 pm Bloor Hot Docs Cinema; Sep 13, 6:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2. Rating: NNNN

During rehearsals of a kabuki play about murder, bigamy and ghostly vengeance, life begins imitating art for the glamorous lead actors (Ichikawa, Shibasaki), who’ve got some skeletons in the closets of their high-tech loft. Veteran genre director Miike (Ichi The Killer) has a great time with the stylized, elaborate kabuki sequences, generating tension with each shot and lingering over props with fetishistic glee. The actors are brilliant, particularly the brooding, charismatic Ichikawa as a no-good samurai and a cheating, monosyllabic lover. But the real star is Miike, who creates a nightmarish GS vision of fury and never lets you escape.

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SAT, SEP 13 THE GUEST MM D: Adam Wingard w/ Dan Stevens, Maika ñ Monroe. U.S. 99 min. Sep 13, 11:59 pm Ryerson; Sep 14, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 3. Rating: NNNN

A stranger (Downton Abbey’s Stevens, sporting a perfect Middle American accent) comes to a small town to visit a fallen soldier’s family, is invited to stay… and then things get nasty. After the wickedly clever You’re Next – a Midnight Madness hit in 2011 – Wingard and screenwriter Simon Barrett’s new feature is a self-aware homage to the early films of John Carpenter, and one in particular. But even if you’ve never seen a Carpenter film, you can enjoy The Guest as an energetic, inventive thriller that takes a premise and runs with it, pitting Stevens’s charming time bomb against the dead soldier’s sister (a terrific Monroe), who sees through him almost immediately and tries to figure out what’s really going on. The action is inventive, the characters well drawn and the climax is… well, not original, exactly, but in a movie like this that’s kind of the NW point.

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At Montecito, herb polenta comes with heirloom tomatoes, zucchini and goat cheese (right); an heirloom tomato salad has hits of buffalo mozzarella; and wild mushroom pizza is a specialty.

Look who owns a restaurant Ivan Reitman becomes the latest celebrity proprietor, opening the promising Montecito near TIFF By ADRIAN BELL MONTECITO (299 Adelaide West, 416-5990299, montecitorestaurant.ca) Complete meals for $95, including two drinks. Open daily 11:30 am-2 am. Reservations. Licensed. Access: washrooms upstairs. Rating: NNN The idea of a celebrity going into the restaurant biz makes as much sense as a chocolate fireguard. C’mon, unless you have a pedigree of genuine kitchen smarts, what’s the point? Maybe they’ve got too much money to know what to do with it. In Hollywood, that’s what Maseratis and escorts are for. Famed director Ivan Reitman (Meatballs, Ghostbusters) is now a restaurateur. Montecito, in the TIFF ’hood, shares its name with his movie company; in Spanish, it means “little mountain.” That’s fitting – it’s got some humps to get over yet. My sneakered host wears jeans, black shirt and a greeter’s smile. He may be a little too cool for my liking, kinda like TIFF itself. Sure, Toronto’s the epicentre of film each year, but I like my movies with a tub of buttery popcorn, sans the red carpet, Veuve Clicquot and cameras, thanks. I’m offered the choice of a seat in the brasserie, a gorgeous French bar, or, my preference, the spacious dining room.

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It’s ritzy but feels casual, has a down-toearth vibe and there are – hallelujah! – no white tablecloths. The huge interior impresses with its high ceiling, stylish antique mirrors and circular lampshades overhead. Olivegreen drapery and tawny upholstered banquettes wrap the room; you can’t help but feel special on this set sprinkled with Hollywood stardust. I have no Maserati, but even plebs like me can feel famous here, like Reitman’s showbiz friends Danny DeVito, Bill Murray and Arnold Schwarzenegger, whose photos hang on the wall of fame. Reported elsewhere as Italian, Montecito’s daily-changing menu is actually California-Canadian and uses “fresh ingredients from local farms” – the industry’s stale buzz phrase. It’s complemented by eclectic wines under sommelier Stephanie Guth’s watch. Resident mixologist James Taylor makes funky cocktails and pours some brews, too. (Tip: bring a coaster; my beer dribbled all over me.) My starter is hellishly expensive. A 12buck fava, pea, mint bruschetta? Thickcut multi-grain bread, pea purée and sliced red radish? It’s pleasing but needs more seasoning, and the mint is an apparition. “I’m tasting too much multi-

grain, not enough of the purée,” I gently tell the attentive server during his quality check. “Really good to know. Thank you,” he says sincerely. Sadly, my choice of roasted mackerel ($24) can’t happen. “Sorry, we’re out of that tonight. And the pork,” I’m informed. Hmm... well, Montecito is still tweaking things. So I go for the pickerel and samphire with potato-dill butter ($26). There’s more frisée than samphire, and the potato-dill butter lacks dill and is not butter at all, but creamed potato. It’s salty, too. Thankfully, two wonderfully seared fillets make up for it. They’re slightly crisped, golden and melt in my mouth. The presentation is a little weak, needing some colour to pop off the plate. Spicy rapini ($9), wasn’t, but chef’s JW potatoes ($9) – crunchy outside, soft in the middle and dusted with Parmesan and rosemary – are sensational. Chef Jonathan Waxman, parachuted in to design the menu, graduated from La Varenne in Paris, honed his skills with pioneer Alice Waters and now owns Barbuto in Manhattan. Executed by head chef Matt Robertson, his Montecito food leans upscale but remains accessible while borrowing slightly from nearby restaurants (ironic, since

Montecito executive sous chef Gaetano Ferrara gets the mushroom pizza into the oven.

Reitman has dismissed the area’s eateries as “chain things”). It’s mainly pizza, salads, pasta, protein and signature sides. Leave room for dessert. I would’ve licked the bowl like a porn star if not for the couple next to me. And trifle’s not trifle without a dollop of custard, but Montecito’s – with macerated berries, whipped cream and candied lemon zest – was delectable. Craving a sweet movie moment before you leave? Choose the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man Baked Alaska. With these signature goodies and a few tweaks ahead of TIFF crowds, the new place from Waxman and the director of Ghostbusters (to which the baked Alaska is an obvious reference) could attract regular patrons like gangbusters. 3 Adrian Bell has worked as a professional culinary guy (saucier, garde manger and other positions) in renowned French, Italian, Swiss and Canadian restaurants. He’s a freelance writer who currently contributes to BBC Radio.

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A great movie about food has to have more on the menu than beautiful plates that make you want to chow down after the credits. To mark a couple of recent foodie-friendly films – including The 100-Foot Journey and The Trip To Italy – and TIFF, of course, here’s our list of films that best combine culinary art with larger themes: friendship, family, collaboration, even spirituality. Bon appétit!

1 Big Night (Campbell Scott,

Stanley Tucci, 1996) In this movie about genius, compromise and brotherly love, Primo (Tony Shalhoub) and Secondo (Stanley Tucci) are trying to find customers for their Italian restaurant. Thing is, their Jersey shore customers want red sauce and spaghetti, not chef Primo’s sublime Tuscan dishes. When Louis Prima and his band plan to visit – which will surely change the resto’s fortunes – the boys prepare a fabulous feast with loving precision. In Big Night’s most poignant sequence – shot in one take and with not a word spoken – Secondo prepares a perfect omelette for Primo. There’s obviously something magical about that egg dish. SGC

2 Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (David Gelb, 2011)

Most movies about food invite you to take pleasure in a given dish; David Gelb’s remarkable documentary lets you appreciate every step of that dish’s creation. Japanese sushi expert Jiro Ono, 85 when the doc was shot, approaches food preparation as a kind of Zen exercise. He believes there is one perfect way to do something, and finding that way is worth a lifetime’s dedication. Gelb illustrates that concept by talking to Jiro’s employees and family and shooting the fruit of his labours in glossy, high-definition close-up. By the end of the film, it’s hard to argue with the idea. NWs

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3 Chef (Jon Favreau, 2014)

Returning to a low-budget, personal indie after a decade making big studio pictures like Elf and the first two Iron Man movies, Jon Favreau tells a little story about a Los Angeles chef who reinvents himself with a food truck after a public meltdown. (The story was inspired by the life of chef Roy Choi, whom Favreau hired to consult on the movie’s menu.) It’s a lovely picture, in no small part because it pays as much attention to the characters’ clear love of cooking as it does to the meals they prepare. Much as Big Night packs a world of emotion into that long take of one brother making breakfast for the other, Chef builds elegant beats of feeling into a scene in which Favreau’s Carl Casper teaches his young son (Emjay Anthony) to make the perfect Cuban sandwich. Ingredients, timing, patience: it all comes down to loving both the process and the people you’re feeding. NW

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Drop by for a taste of the Caribbean! Owned by Ed and Lily Pottinger, Toronto’s No. 1 Caribbean Restaurant for over 30 years! Awesome food, Delicious Cocktails, Great service, fantastic ambiance and Toronto’s best and biggest Caribbean rum bar. Check out Irie-okee Thursday’s hosted by MC Lytesout.

Free party Saturday Sept 13 with DJ Nigel B. Are you a Real Jerk Rum Connoisseur? Monthly Rum Tastings. Large groups welcome and catering available, call or email for info or reservations The Real Jerk Beaches Coming Soon!

POPULAR DISHES: Chicken, Lentil and Shrimp Rotis, Jerk Chicken, Shrimp Rundown and Oxtail.

APPETIZERS: Cod Fish Fritters and Dumpling. FAMOUS FOR: Jerk Pork, Chicken and Ribs.

4 Ratatouille (Brad Bird, Jan 5 Babette’s Feast Pinkava, 2007) This delightful Pixar comedy about a Parisian rodent (voiced by Patton Oswalt) who dreams of cooking for humans makes us understand the appeal of little Remy’s dishes without showing a single image of actual food. Writer/ director Brad Bird knows it’s not about the meals themselves, but about the connections great food allows us to make in our hearts and minds. In the exquisite, wordless climax , critic Anton Ego tastes the eponymous dish and is instantly transported back to his childhood. If that’s never happened to you, you’re just not eating at the right restaurants. (Fun fact: a friend of mine who’s an actual chef refuses to see this movie to this very day because the notion of rats in a kitchen makes him ill.) NW

(Gabriel Axel, 1987) In Isak Dinesen’s short story set in the late 19th century, housekeeper Babette (Stéphane Audran), who’s fled to a remote Danish village to escape France’s civil war, receives a financial windfall. She decides to spend it on an elaborate, extravagant meal for her Puritan hosts and an assortment of crabby villagers. The cooking is done almost entirely in silence – the sequence where she makes turtle soup is mesmerizing – and the source of tension ingenious: can Babette’s sumptuous feast be a transformative experience for her guests, who claim to be happier with a pickle up their bums than with sensuous food in their mouths? SGC

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McGuGan’s Fine scottish Pub

1058 Gerrard St. East @ Jones, 416-901-9859 | mcgugans.com McGugan’s is perhaps the best gastropub this side of the Don. It walks the line between being a solid neighbourhood local and a destination for Scots looking to claim their stake in a city full of Irish pubs. On tap are a dozen beers, mostly local craft products and staples like Tennants and Guinness. The food is comforting and classic pub fare with the usual pot pies, curry and burger as well as massive buttermilkbattered chicken wings. The Roast Beef Sannie —

thin-sliced beef served on a yorkshire pudding bun — is a must-try. This wee East end gem has live music every Friday and two of the best backyard patios in the city — a flower-festooned ground-level 60-seater and a rooftop bar with a big-screen TV, as well as a giant indoor TV. Almost deep-fried mars bar season on our fully heated patio! Yum!

GOOD TO KNOW: Live Music Every Friday, Outdoor Rooftop Patio TV, Open until 2am

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Hank’s

91/2 Church Street (north of Esplanade), 416-504-2657 | hanks9church.com Hank’s is a cafe diner in the St. Lawrence market area. It’s hip, upmarket vibe offers an ideal respite from the bustle of downtown. Menus are home-style and well executed. Notable are the various Eggs Bennies and the 2-Hander Sandwiches on thick, grainy bread. Hank’s espresso is some of the city’s best. The all-day breakfast is certainly a hit with the market crowd and creative types who want to

get some business done over a casual meal. Hank’s also works well to grab a latte and a homemade baked good. Take out is available but recommend eating in. A very cool and relaxing spot that is a sure hit for weekday brunch/lunch and weekend brunch. Morphs nicely into modish event space in the evenings. Fully Licensed.

GOOD TO KNOW: Must try dishes include Hank’s famous Breakfast Poutine with Hollandaise and soft poached egg in place of the usual gravy. Get your Lipitor Rx ready!

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APRILE BAMBINA CUCINA

1054½ Gerrard Street East | 647-352-6969 | aprilebambina.com Walk into Aprile’s and step back in time to the classic Mom and Pop Italian. From the red vinyl kitchen chairs and to the vintage Italian American Album covers on the wall, the whole feel is familiar and homey kitsch. And that homey goodness extends to the food! For starters, try the grilled Caesar with pancetta. Pizzas are made using “00” flour imported from Italy to ensure a light, tasty crust. There are the classic offerings as well as

pizzas like pear, walnut, gorgonzola or an impeccable wild mushroom. You’ll also find traditional pastas done well with the standout being a homemade pappardelle with slow cooked beef cheek, burnt butter and pinenuts. A boutique selection of beers including Peroni is offered. Aprile’s wine list is simple, well-chosen and very affordable. Perfect for casual date night or a family meal.

GOOD TO KNOW: Summer Garden Patio, Open for Sunday Brunch, Takes Reservations.

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THE WINE BAR

9 Church Street (north of Esplanade), 416-504-9463 | 9church.com Wine Bar claims it offers the cure for menu boredom. Indeed, the menu of sharing dishes changes monthly and leans heavily on local ingredients. Menus are designed to create a broad palate of taste experiences and they lend themselves to plenty of pairing options. Wine-wise, roughly 25 bottles are available by the glass and plenty of those options won’t break the bank. The

full wine list is 350 bottles long and features some rare and eccentric finds. Ideal venue for intimate dinners or when you actually want to engage with your dining mates! Notable for its cozy, carefree ambience and its friendly low-key Chef’s bar, which serves as both entertainment and the ideal conversation starter.

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HOT HOUSE RESTAURANT & BAR

35 Church St. (at Front St.), 416-366-7800 | hothouserestaurant.com One of the busiest restaurants in Toronto and the reason is clear... Great food. Located in Downtown Toronto’s historic St. Lawrence Market neighbourhood we offer spacious colourfully decorated rooms and upbeat atmosphere in addition to an eclectic menu to suit all tastes. Extensive selection of wines, impressive cocktail menu

and great Canadian microbrews. The sun-drenched 150 seat patio is an ancellent setting to sample some fine Italian wines, Canadian craft beers, or one of the best mojitos and margaritas in the city! THE We offer great food and wine, service and a comfortable RESTAURANT AND BAR atmosphere at a reasonable price.

FEATURES: Thin-crust Gourmet Pizzas, Steaks, Rack of Lamb, Cajun Shrimp, Pasta Dishes,

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PAGANELLI’S DOWNTOWN

106 Front St East, 416-363-8370 | paganellis.com

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In 1997, Chef Gabriele Paganelli started a restaurant with the idea of introducing Toronto to the cuisine of Emilia Romagna. Our pasta are all freshly-made daily, with lots of labour & lots of love. Our risottos, which have won Best & Silver Spoon Awards, are unforgettable once you’ve tried them. Every dish is designed with great taste and flavour.

We’re often the “Talk of Town” from visitors & locals alike and there have been many accolades bestowed upon Paganelli’s however, the achievement we are most proud of is giving Toronto its only truly traditional Northern Italy dining experience.

MAINS: Branzino alla Griglia, Spezzatino di Cinghale, Tagliata di Manzo, Coscia d’Agnello Arrosto

Antipasti: Bresaola, Prosciutto Originale di Parma, Carpaccio di Manzo, Piadina Prosciutto Stracchino

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THE EMPANADA COMPANY

122 Fortieth St. Etobicoke, 647-435-5003 | empanada.ca The Empanada Company has been around for some time now, supplying empanadas for retail and wholesale. This restaurant offers up over 15 types of empanadas large and mini as well as traditional and nouveux flavours. Chilean Beef, Grilled vegetable and goat cheese and braised beef short rib are some of the favourites. An assortment of the mini empanadas are always a hit for any party or gathering. Gluten-free Top Selling Items: BRAISED BEEF SHORTRIB EMPANADA, AVOCADO FRIES, GLUTEN FREE VEGAN EMPANADA

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OUR DESSERT: CHURROS Crispy fried spanish doughnuts sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and served with dulce de leche.

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HAWTHORNE FOOD & DRINK

60 Richmond Street East (just west of Church), 647-930-9517 | hawthorneto.ca Local. Seasonal. Sustainable. Our chefs put a spin on modern comfort food using fresh seasonal ingredients from Ontario’s agricultural bounty. Classic techniques are used to transform simple dishes into the extraordinary. The menu changes frequently but the result is always the same — Delicious! Hawthorne is the enterprise arm of the Hospitality Workers Training Centre.

When you eat at Hawthorne Food & Drink you’re participating in an age-old tradition that sees hospitality as a meaningful two-way relationship. We provide a great food experience, you support training for good jobs in Toronto’s hospitality industry. LUNCH: 11:30am - 2:30pm DINNER: 5pm - 10pm

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BATIFOLE

744 Gerrard St East, 416-462-9965 | batifole.ca Hailed as the best french cuisine in Chinatown East, Batifole offers up a menu teaming with classic comfort foods from the south of France. Duck rillettes, brandade de morue, cassoulet royale, souflees and an extensive wine offering take front and centre in the cozy dining room that has been

Riverdale’s hidden gem for over 10 years. Fresh and exciting things are always being cooked up under the hand of new chef-owner Pascal Geffroy that are sure to delight.

MAINS: Cote de Veau farci au Fromage de Chevre Frais Jambon Cru et Sauce Marsala

Appetizers: Melange de Terrine Maison et ses Condiment, Moules Mariniere ou a la Provencale

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Starring in Laggies The drink Knightley, who famously spilled red wine all over her Chanel Lagerfeld wedding dress (which, in awesomely irreverent and non-traditional fashion, she continued to wear out partying well beyond her special day), obviously has a thing for fermented grape juice. Where to get it Channel your inner English rose with a gorgeous Bordeaux from the insane wine cellar at Barberian’s (7 Elm, 416-597-0335, barberians.com), washed down with a delectably old-school steak dinner. Spilling isn’t actually encouraged.

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Starring in Cake The drink Aniston, in true SoCal fashion, loves her margaritas. She never seems to crack, so maybe good tequila is the fountain of youth. The only way we can test this theory is by going on a margarita diet for the duration of TIFF – in the name of research and development, of course. Where to get it Head to Toronto’s proliferating tequila joints (most of which cleverly also serve tacos) and decide for yourself who mixes the meanest margarita. El Catrin in the Distillery District (18 Tank House, 416-203-2121, elcatrin.ca) offers variations on tequila’s famous cocktail – from the Mayan (Milagro reposado, Patron Citronge, tamarind and citrus, $12.50) to the Frutas Fresca (Tromba blanco, Patron Citronge, agave with fresh fruit, $11). For a thirsty crew, pitchers of margaritas run from $45 to $47. Right in the thick of TIFF-land, El Caballito (220 King West, 416-628-9838, elcaballito.ca) has a big selection of tequilas for your margarita gulping pleasure. Go classic ($9.50) or spring for the tasty Manny’s Margarita (pink peppercorn- and juniperinfused blanco, triple sec, citrus and agave, $11.50). If you’re craving an excellent margarita in a laidback atmosphere, Reposado (136 Ossington, 416532-6474, reposadobar.com) is where to look. 3

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Blazers aren’t just for the boys. Rock one of these with wide-leg trousers to make a red carpet statement alla Madonna.

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If you’ve ever wondered why starlets all have such big beautiful eyes, the answer is simple: false eyelashes. Don’t take my word for it – just ask one of the most colourful leading ladies of all time, Marge Simpson. Girl has unreal lashes. MAC Cosmetics teams up with The Simpsons on an eeexcellent limited-edition beauty line, and while some products like neonlime-yellow lipglass might be more... niche, MAC has always been known for quality lashes that can withstand multiple wears. The Simpsons 7 Lash is just what you need to glam up your party look for TIFF, whether you’re schmoozing at Soho House or hiding from the paparazzi at Moe’s Tavern. ($22, MAC Cosmetics, 363 Queen West, 416-979-2171, maccosmetics.com)

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store of the week Jack Lux Vintage Pop-Up 536 Queen West, 647-350-1221, jackluxvintage.tumblr.com

When i hear the words “pop-up shop,” i generally picture a quaint little space stocked with of-the-moment items. So i was surprised by the vast sea of vintage gems at the Jack Lux Vintage Pop-Up on Queen West. The main floor boasts racks upon racks of just about every sort of garment. Downstairs, there’s another ocean of vintage shoes. Jack Lux has a permanent location in Montreal and owns one of the largest vintage collections in Canada, thanks to the purchase of the Centre National du Costume’s costuming trust in 2005 when that organization was dismantled. The Quebec government established the trust to curate a massive vintage clothing collection for filmmakers and production houses shooting in Quebec. Jack Lux now has more than 200,000 pieces spanning everything from womenswear and menswear to children’s clothing and accessories, originating from the 1920s to 90s. Stock rotates every couple of weeks, so this is a shop you want to keep coming back to. Unlike some other trendy local vintage spots, the pieces here are reasonably priced and high-quality. Jack Lux picks the store just got a big back-to-school shipment last week. it includes hundreds of white lab coats, artist smocks, mechanic jumpsuits and housecoats and robes circa the 1950s. For one week, starting Friday (September 5) get spring/summer merchandise at two for the price of one. Look for the store’s unique collection of vintage children’s clothing – perfect for your little hipster. also, no one wants to think about it yet, but mark your calendar for September 26, when Jack lux’s winter stock arrives. Hours Monday to Wednesday 11 am to 7 pm, thursday and Friday 11 am to 9 pm, Saturday 11 am to 8 pm, Sunday noon to 7 pm. 3

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Roots celebrates the National Film Board of Canada’s 75th anniversary with a limited-edition collection featuring images from iconic canadian animated shorts as well as the NFB’s logo. the collection drops online

(canada.roots.com) and in stores (220 Yonge, 416-593-9640, and others) on thursday (September 4) and includes t-shirts, long-sleeve ts and hoodies from $44 to $98.

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When you’re addicted to the planet By ADRIA VASIL

IT TAKES UP TO 8,500 LITRES OF WATER TO GROW THE COTTON NEEDED FOR A SINGLE PAIR OF JEANS. FACTOR IN COTTON’S STATUS AS THE WORLD’S MOST INSECTICIDE-HEAVY CROP, NOT TO MENTION ALL THE RIVERPOLLUTING DYES AND CHEMS USED FOR PROCESSING. SO WHO’S OFFERING JEANS THAT ARE A CUT ABOVE? H&M, LEVI ECO LINES H&M currently has one pair of women’s jeans made of 35 per cent recycled cotton in its Conscious collection, while Levi has one for men that’s 15 per cent recycled. Levi also has a few “Water<Less” men’s jeans made with up to 96 per cent less water. Levi ditched its organic collection, but says it’s going to use 20 per cent water-saving, pesticide-reducing Better Cotton Initiative fabric by 2015. H&M is now the world’s largest buyer of organic cotton, and plans to get 20 per cent of its cotton from organic, recycled or Better Cotton by 2020. Both have signed Greenpeace’s Detox pledge. It’s hard to imagine with H&M’s rockbottom prices, but post-Bangladesh factory collapse, it’s pledged to pay textile workers a living wage by 2018. SCORE: NN

G-STAR RAW FOR THE OCEANS Fresh to stores this week, Dutch-based G-Star has cocreated this higher-end men’s and women’s line with Pharrell Williams using something called Bionic Yarn made of recycled ocean plastic – yep, the stuff trashing our seas. The made-in-India jeans are about one-third each recycled plastic, conventional cotton and lyocell (a greener form of rayon using gentler chemicals to process tree pulp into fibre). As of last year, 20 per cent of all GStar’s cotton was organic. Kudos for disclosing factory addresses on g-star.com, though a living-wage pledge would be sweet. Thankfully, it’s promised to pull hazardous pollutants from production by 2020. SCORE: NNN

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If loving the local is your creed, then you’ll want to hop on the Second bandwagon. The Montreal outfit behind the notorious Yoga jean makes all its women’s clothes in Canada using biodegradable wash agents and water-saving techniques. However, the cotton itself is conventional, as is its polyester (so we’re docking a big point). It’s a shame it discontinued its Eco line made of organic cotton. It just didn’t have the stretch of their Yoga line and never took off. If you love Yoga jeans, then I say make your request for an organic version on Second’s FB page. SCORE: NNN

Buying organic jeans is a vote for a happier planet (or at least healthier workers, wildlife and waterways). Most organic denim companies sadly folded in the recession, but not Nudie. I’ve got a huge crush on this hot Swedish men’s denim company (though ladies can rock these styles, too). All its jeans (made in Italy and Tunisia) are 100 per cent certified organic, workers are paid a living wage and textiles are even OEKO-Tex certified (ensuring there are no harmful chems on the product). Plus Nudie’ll send you a jean repair kit for free. nudiejeans. com/stores. The conscientious peeps at Patagonia also offer quality certified organic (made in Sri Lanka) jeans online, but the cuts aren’t quite as hip. SCORE: NNNN

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It’s hard to tell what you’re hearing on Rocco DeLuca’s self-titled fourth album (released last month on 429 Records). You can hear the California songwriter’s shimmering falsetto on top of his dobro and lap-steel, augmented by guitar, drums, strings and electronics. It’s back-porch, soulful blues and gospel meet futuristic alt-rock. The surprising thing is that there aren’t actually any keyboards or synthesizers on the record. “That’s your Canadian comrade [producer] Daniel Lanois,” DeLuca explains, back on the grid in Nashville after a few nights camping under the stars in Kentucky. “He’s invented his own sounds by manipulating guitars and voices. Those are new sounds that no one’s heard before, ever – that’s what I’m so proud about. Those are sounds that have been brewed over and woodshedded by a scientist for quite a while.” DeLuca met the Canadian producer/musician almost a decade ago; Lanois also produced his second solo album, 2009’s Mercy. This time around, DeLuca recorded at his home studio in East L.A. – where he says

he records stuff every day – before bringing the tapes up to Lanois’s westend Toronto studio for “performance mixing.” “He would perform the mix as if he was playing an instrument,” says DeLuca. “It was really stunning to watch. He has an emotional swing while he mixes.” Their collaboration runs deep: DeLuca also lent his voice to Lanois’s upcoming experimental album, Flesh And Machine (out this fall on Anti-). The two albums even share the same ver-

sion of the song Two Bushes, a meditative electronic piece Lanois worked out of DeLuca’s voice and guitar playing. Lanois has a tendency to show up at DeLuca’s Toronto shows when he’s in town (as he did recently at the Belljar) and this week’s Rivoli show should be no exception. “If he’s around, he always comes up and plays with me,” says DeLuca. “But he might be doing his own trip at that time. “He’s an old pirate, and I like the way he runs his outfit. He’s tough, and he’s also very kind and beautiful – those are qualities I like in people and their art.” 3

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BLOOD CEREMONY, FUNERAL CIRCLE, SPELL Silver Dollar (486 Spadina), Saturday (September 6) Doom metal with flute flair. WEAVES, FRESH SNOW, MOST PEOPLE, MATROX Artscape Gibraltar Point (Toronto Island), Sunday (September 7) End-of-summer Wavelength show. OPERATORS Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Sunday (September 7) Dan Boeckner’s danceable new band. A$AP ROCKY, A$AP FERG, CARNAGE AND OTHERS Echo Beach at Molson Amphitheatre (909 Lake Shore West), Sunday (September 7) Rap stars play to frosh. LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS Horseshoe (370 Queen West), Tuesday (September 9) North Carolina soul musician. ROCCO DELUCA Rivoli (332 Queen West), Wednesday (September 10) See preview, page 56.

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Rich Aucoin doesn’t do anything in a small way. His last album featured 500 guest musicians, his shows include confetti cannons and parachutes, and his video for Brian Wilson Is A.L.I.V.E. touched on key moments in the Beach Boys’ history – with Aucoin in spot-on makeup and prosthetics to achieve Wilson’s changing looks – earning him a Prism Prize for best Canadian video. Ambition unabated, the joy-seeking Halifax experimental pop guy’s new album, Ephemeral (Bonsound), includes gang vocal choruses of up to 20,000 people. How that’s possible we aren’t even sure. The themes are big, too, inspired by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince, and focusing on solitude, the transience of human existence and the importance of relationships. That last one fuels Aucoin’s modus operandi: interaction, community and a we’re-all-inthis-together attitude are everything. At King West at Peter for TIFF Festival Street, Thursday (September 4), 8:30 pm. Free. tiff. net/festivalstreet; and at the Drake Underground (1150 Queen West), Tuesday (September 9), 8 pm. $15. 416531-5042.

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ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO First Thursdays Bry Webb, the Weather Station, Tor Luñ kasik-Foss 7 pm. THE CENTRAL Mutoid Man, SludgeHammer, Guiltfeeder doors 9 pm.

HARD LUCK BAR Madball 7 pm. HAWAII BAR Luke Vajsar (solo bass) 9:30 pm. HORSESHOE Cardboard Crowns, Julian Cruz,

Labcats, Fantasy Defender. THE JAZZ BISTRO CD release Andrew Craig 9 pm. KING W AT PETER TIFF Festival Street Adrian X, Maylee Todd, Elaquent, Rich Aucoin 6 to 11 pm. See TIFF music roundup, page 62. LINSMORE TAVERN Matthew Wrinkler (rock/ top 40) 9 pm. PAUPER’S PUB Jam Mike Barnes (rock) 10 pm. PRESS CLUB Anamai, Black Walls 9 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Auras, Walrus, Bad River, Familiars doors 8:30 pm. SMILING BUDDHA UPSTAIRS Drugs in Japan, the Faps, the Flu 9:30 pm. SMILING BUDDHA DOWNSTAIRS Rosewater, Daisy, Terry Green doors 9 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Skip Tracer (rock/top 40) 9:30 pm. TATTOO Scion Sessions Mixtape Series eMC, the Dopplegangaz, King Reign (hip-hop) doors 9 pm. 3030 DUNDAS WEST Running Red Lights (rock).

Just Announced TEENANGER, CROSS, THE BEVERLYS, DJ MICHELLE WILLIAMS, ANDREW WINKLER EP LP Record release

show The Garrison 9 pm, $10. September 12.

BORDEEN, TEDD, VOLUME ACADEMY Sneaky Dee’s doors 9 pm, $10. TF. Sep-

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THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE Dakota Tavern. September 17.

BLOWFLY Smiling Buddha doors 9 pm, $10. RT, SS, TF. September 18.

JULIE DOIRON & THE WRONG GUYS, BRENDAN CANNING, EAMON MCGRATH, AROARA, THE HIGHEST ORDER, ARMY GIRLS, TERROR LAKE, BABY EAGLE AND MANY OTHERS Bloor Ossington Folk Festival

Christie Pits Park free. bloorossingtonfolkfestival.ca. September 19 to 21.

LILY & THE HAMMER, INDIRA NANAVATI CADENA Junction Music Festival

3030 Dundas West 11 am to 2 pm. September 20.

BRUTAL YOUTH, PEARS, THE NEW ENEMY, HOUNDS, OWEN WILSON

Smiling Buddha doors 9 pm. September 26.

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Smiling Buddha doors 9 pm, $5. September 29. CHRISTOPHER OWENS Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 8 pm, $20. TF. October 1.

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THE POSTS, TOMAHAWK, JAREK HARDY Album release party Sneaky Dee’s

9 pm. October 10. WAMPIRE Silver Dollar doors 8:30 pm, $10. RT, SS. October 14.

UNEARTH, CARNIFEX, DARKEST HOUR, ORIGIN, BREATHER, BLACK CROWN INITIATE Hell Or High Wattage Tour Opera House doors 5:30 pm, all ages. $20.25. TF. October 15.

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ICON FOR HIRE, FIT FOR RIVALS, WOUNDS Tattoo doors 5:30 pm, all ages,

TORQ PERCUSSION ENSEMBLE Edward Johnson Building Walter Hall 12:10 pm, free. October 16.

doors 7 pm, $8. TS. October 4.

$15. RT, SS, TF. October 4. SEETHER Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 7 pm, $27.50. LN, RT, SS. October 7. AB-SOUL Phoenix Concert Theatre doors 9 pm, all ages, $26.50. INK, PDR, RT, SS, TM.

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DILLY DALLY, ARMY GIRLS, WISH, BAD CHANNELS Dilly Dally Release Show S.H.I.B.G.B’s 9 pm. October 17.

GREAT LAKES, DAYS LIKE TODAY, BITTER KIDS, PARKSIDE, HIND-

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CAMERON HOUSE Devin Cuddy w/ Ferraro 10 pm, Corin Raymond 6 pm.

SIGHT, ROSEWATER Duffy’s Tavern doors 7 pm, $8. TS. October 18. BLACK MILK, NAT TURNER, KING REIGN Tattoo doors 8 pm, $18. INK, PDR,

RT, SS. October 23. THE BRAINS Horseshoe doors 8:30 pm, $11.50. HS, RT, SS, TF. October 30. SLIPKNOT, KORN, KING 810 Prepare For Hell Tour Air Canada Centre 7 pm, $59.75-$80.50. TM. October 30.

BUCK PROPHET & THE MISSION EXPRESS Horseshoe doors 8 pm, $15. HS, RT,

SS, TF. November 9. ANTEMASQUE Virgin Mobile Mod Club November 14. BOB DYLAN & HIS BAND Sony Centre for the Performing Arts doors 7 pm, $55$135. LN, TM. November 17 and 18. BEAR’S DEN Virgin Mobile Mod Club doors 7 pm, $17.50. RT, SS, TF. November 21.

CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Oxford Blue. CASTRO’S LOUNGE Jerry Leger & the Situtation (folk/rock/country) 6 pm.

DAKOTA TAVERN Run with Kittens, Commun-

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FREE TIMES CAFE Roman Walte (songwriter) 10 pm, James Gray (songwriter) 8 pm.

GEARY LANE Sound Seance II Tashi Dorji, Sir

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DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979 with THE CURE, CITY AND COLOUR, METRIC, THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and many more as part of RIOT FEST, at Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Saturday (September 6), gates 11 am. Single day pass, $95-$150; two-day pass $180-$290. TF, riotfest.org

When scrappy Toronto hard rock duo Death from Above 1979 announced in 2011 that they were reuniting for some shows, they took their sweet time confirming that a sequel to their critically acclaimed 2004 debut, You’re A Woman, I’m A Machine, was coming. Turns out their evasiveness wasn’t about trying to cultivate a mysterious image around their upcoming album, The Physical World (Last Gang/Warner), but rather a reflection of how unsure they were about reviving the project. “We’d secretly started playing together again in 2010, but it wasn’t until we started doing shows that we even considered recording something new,” drummer/vocalist Sebastien Grainger admits between rehearsals. “It was really just an experiment to see if we still liked the music, and if other people still liked the music and the band. We weren’t really sure of that, because it’s one thing to read comments online where

people talk about the band in a hypothetical sense, but it really took getting out there and playing in front of an actual audience.” One of the first things Grainger and bassist Jesse Keeler noticed when they got onstage again was how their fan base had changed. The intensity and level of interest surprised them, suggesting that their momentum hadn’t really slowed after they broke up in 2006. “We had a growing audience and kids were coming to the shows back in the day, but it never hit that moment where people are singing along the whole time. That didn’t happen until we came back. They did have five years to learn the lyrics, I guess.” Grainger says things are running much more smoothly this time, and that’s reflected in the confident assertiveness of the new recordings. A big factor for him is no longer feeling like he has to be defensive about the band’s sonic identity. “Nobody is trying to fit us in some other box any more, because we built our own box 10 years ago.” 3

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When Riot Fest debuted in 2005, the Chicago festival was all about punk rock, featuring the Misfits, the Germs and the Dead Kennedys. As it’s grown and evolved, it’s become a multi-city affair, hitting Toronto and Denver as well as the Windy City and incorporating less aggressive big-name alt-rockers. Nevertheless, a few legendary punk pioneers have been squeezed onto the bill – well worth heading out early to catch.

The Buzzcocks While less famous than their 70s UK competitors the Sex Pistols and the Clash, the Buzzcocks’ influence on pop-punk can’t be overstated. Bratty humour and buzz-saw bubblegum hooks. Sunday (September 7).

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Carl Newman and Kathryn Calder on the supergroup’s latest effort By SAMANTHA EDWARDS THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS with THE CURE, CITY AND COLOUR, METRIC, DEATH FROM ABOVE 1979, DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE and many more as part of RIOT FEST, at Downsview Park (35 Carl Hall), Sunday (September 7), gates 11 am. Single day pass, $95-$150; two-day pass $180-$290. TF, riotfest.org

What does British one-hit-wonder Sigue Sigue Sputnik have in common with indie rock supergroup the New Pornographers’ latest record? More than you think. Sputnik’s 1986 amped-up new wave single Love Missile F1-11 was one of three songs frontman Carl Newman sent to his bandmates as inspiration for their recently released album, Brill Bruisers. (Olivia Newton-John’s Xanadu and Johnny And Mary, by Robert Palmer, were the other two.) “Sigue Sigue Sputnik is like a real rock footnote,” Newman says as he plays Love Missile on his iPad during our interview at Last Gang HQ in Liberty Village. “Who cares if they were a lame band who only had one good

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song? It’s a good song.” Co-vocalist Dan Bejar, for one, took Newman’s sonic mood board very seriously. “When Dan’s three songs for the album showed up, I realized they were so much faster than mine,” says Newman. “I had to speed up all my songs. We re-drummed about eight of them.” This kind of thing happens when a band’s three main songwriters are scattered across North America. Bejar lives in Vancouver, Neko Case is in Vermont, and Newman has a home studio in Woodstock, New York. But even when the band is able to record together, it’s an off-the-cuff process that involves writing from scratch and cutting songs as they go. Keyboardist Kathryn Calder describes recording Brill Bruisers as a week-long brainstorm session. “Go play something,” Newman would say, giving her a few chords. “It was such a whirlwind,” Calder says. “I didn’t really remember even one

thing I played after the fact. When I listen to the record, it all sounds really cool, but I have no idea how what I played turned into that.” Brill Bruisers comes after a string of excellent solo records from Newman, Bejar and Case. But despite those successes and accolades, Newman still has moments of uncertainty. “I’m plagued by so much self-doubt. At the beginning of a re-

cord I just think, ‘How are we going to do this?’ But you just keep going and you realize that even when you think you’re failing, you’re often not,” he says. “I’ve gotten more than I ever thought I’d get from music. Sure, there’s some luck involved, but there must be something else going on, too.” We couldn’t agree more. 3

Social Distortion Long before alt-country was a word, California’s Social Distortion were marrying twang with power chords and drawing lines between the outlaw appeal of Johnny Cash and the punk scene. Sunday (September 7).

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Bob Mould The melodic hardcore of Bob Mould’s 80s band Hüsker Dü not only inspired the Pixies but was also one of Nirvana’s key influences. Their 1984 release, Zen Arcade, tested the idea of a punk rock concept album long before Fucked Up’s David Comes To Life. Sunday (September 7).

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TIFF + Rdio This year, music streaming service Rdio becomes the fest’s official music partner. It’ll have a strong presence on King Street (specifically Rdio House at 335 King West) and also at Massey Hall. On Saturday (September 6), Rdio presents English indie pop artist Ellie Goulding for free at the storied venue. Get tickets at Rdio House or through social media. Follow @RdioCA on Twitter and use the hashtag #RDIOTIFF.

The Valley Below Oh, you want to see an actual film, do you? Plenty at the fest have great soundtracks, but few contain all-original music by local and Canadian artists. The Valley Below – set in a small town in the Alberta Badlands – boasts a score produced by Gavin Gardiner of Toronto indie rockers the Wooden Sky (whose new album came out September 4) that includes solo work from him, as well as by Vancouver singer/ songwriter Dan Mangan, Montrealbased Rae Spoon and others. See The Valley Below review, page 35.

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BY The WaY cafe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm. emmeT raY Bar John-Wayne Swingtet (jazz/ gypsy/swing) 9 pm. harBourfronT cenTre BouleVard TenT

Dancing On The Pier: Spoken Word With Dance Luis Orbegoso (hip-hop/salsa/reggaeton/Colombian folklore) 7 to 10 pm. hugh’S room Jazz2Funk Show Monica Chapman & Coldjack, Terry Tuck 8 pm. muSideum Jennis (jazz/blues/folk) 8 pm. The rex Norbert Botos w/ Mike Murley 9:30 pm, Kevin Quain 6:30 pm.

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Rafwat & Chorniy, Cosmic JD, Graham Plant 8 pm. clinTon’S Throwback Thursdays (90s hip-hop

& pop) doors 10 pm. cluB 120 T-Girl Party DJ Todd Klinck.5 holY oak cafe DJ Breezes, Gloctor Clock & Brigitte Bardont (avant Krautrock sludge) 10 pm. WaYla Bar Random Play DJ Dwayne Minard (disco/yacht rock/new wave/70s/80s) 10 pm.

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alleYcaTz Jee Jee & James. caSTro’S lounge The Untameable Ronnie Hayward (rockabilly) 6 pm.

eTon houSe The Ronnie Hayward Trio (rockabilly) 9:30 pm.

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Panama Red doors 9 pm. hugh’S room One Of These Nights: A Tribute To The Eagles Lori Yates, Samantha Martin & Delta Sugar, the Claytones, Tracey Brown & Randall Prescott, the Echo Hunter, Suzie Vinnick, Burke Carroll & Co and others 8:30 pm. The Jazz BiSTro CD release Andrew Craig 9 pm. king W aT PeTer TIFF Festival Street Bobby Bazini, Badbadnotgood, DIANA, Reuben & the Dark, Eon the Soul Proprieter 6 to 11 pm. See TIFF music roundup, page 62. linSmore TaVern Rockaholics (classic rock) 9:30 pm. monarchS PuB Classic Rock Fridays The Tim Bovaconti Band. SilVer dollar Ladyface, Bamboo, Os Tropies, Heavyset Quartet.

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Virgin moBile mod cluB Big Sound & Litno. Yonge-dundaS Square Indie Fridays Fast Romantics, Kandle 8 to 10 pm.

Folk/BluEs/Country/WorlD

cameron houSe Kayla Howran 10 pm, Patrick Brealey 8 pm, David Celia 6 pm. The flYing BeaVer PuBareT Blast From The Past Alan Reid, Len McCarthy, Carrie Chesnutt, Jeff Beauchamp (popular 60s/70s songs) 9 pm. free TimeS cafe Latin Night Arturo Rojas (folk/Latin) 8:30 pm. groSSman’S Combo Royale 10 pm, Sandi Marie 6 to 9 pm. The hole in The Wall Ken Yoshioka Trio (blues) 10 pm. lou daWg’S Live Acoustic Blues/Funk/Soul Night 10 pm. lula lounge Yani Borrell (salsa) 10:30 pm. muSideum Small World Project Sébastien Dufour, Patrick Graham, Frédéric Samson (folk) 8 pm. PorT crediT memorial Park Southside Shuffle Andria Simone & Those Guys, Coco Montoya, the Steve Strongman Band, Jack de Keyzer, Downchild Blues Band and others. Tranzac SouThern croSS Nicolas Caloia & Yves Charuest 10 pm, the Foolish Things (folk) 5 pm.

11:30 am to 2:30 pm.

arraY SPace Departure Series Battle

Trance, King Weather, Not the Wind Not the Flag doors 7 pm. See Battle Trance album review, page 70. BY The WaY cafe Patio Jazz Tzevi Sherman Experience 8 TO 10 PM. gallerY 345 Bridge Between The Arts: A Move Towards Peace Catherine Gardner, Dobrochna Zubek, Adam Zukiewicz 8 pm. harlem Samantha Clayton 7:30 pm. lula lounge World/Jazz Fridays Eric St-Laurent Trio 7:30 pm. old mill inn Tom Szczesniak Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. The rex Tim Ries & East Gipsy Band 9:45 pm, Sara Dell (vox/solo piano) 6:30 pm, Hogtown Syncopators 4 pm. Touché Mistura Fina Quartet (Brazilian MPB music) 10:30 pm. Tranzac SouThern croSS Evan Ziporyn (jazz) 7:30 pm.

DanCE musiC/DJ/loungE

Bunda lounge Therapy Osunlade, Jojoflores, Mike Steva, Yogi doors 10 pm. ñ caSTro’S lounge DJ I Hate You Rob (soul/ funk/R&B/punk rock/rockabilly) 10 pm.

claSSic lounge Vybz Friday Soul Vibes, Em-

pire Sound (reggae/dancehall/soca/R&B/hiphop) doors 10 pm.

cluB 120 diner DJ Shane Taylor.5 coda Fixation Funkagenda, Simon Jain &

Paul Quzz, Rzq El Toro & Nick James 10 pm. drake hoTel underground Y2K: The Millenial Dance Party doors 11 pm. holY oak cafe Double Tooth (psych dance) 10 pm. The PiSTon Building Blocks (funk/pop dance party) 10 pm. riVoli Pool lounge DJ Stu (rock & roll). The SaVoY Get Low Fridays DJ Caff (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. 3030 dundaS WeST All Vinyl Retro Dance Party DJ What’s Her Problem? 10 pm. uniun Factory Fridays Maxum, Manzone & Strong doors 10 pm.

Saturday, September 6 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

alleYcaTz Lady Kane. The cage 292 Experiment Specimen, Blood-

less Child, the Curse Within, AxMinister, From Faith Within 8 pm. The caVe Jad Fair & Danielson, Norman Blake doors 8 pm. The cenTral Junior Bob, Peace be Still, Odd Dates, Surges, Alex Jeffery Young doors 10 pm. doWnSVieW Park Riot Fest The Cure, City & Colour, Metric, the National, Billy Talent, Rise Against, the Flaming Lips, Social Distortion, Death Cab for Cutie, Paul Weller, Die Antwoord, Death From Above 1979,

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NOW September 4-10 2014

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Tokyo Police Club, Bring Me the Horizon, the New Pornographers, Pup and others gates 11 am, all ages. See Death from Above 1979 and New Pornographers previews, page 60. Drake Hotel Joseph Arthur doors 8 pm. tHe Duke live.com Sarah Pops The Duke! Sarah Burton 10 pm. Grossman’s Beggar’s Banquet (Rolling Stones tribute) 10 pm. HanDlebar Album release party Shaky Knees (rock/folk) doors 9 pm. Harlem ZimZum (jazz/funk) 7:30 pm. HorsesHoe The Blasters, Gas House Gorillas, Ginger St James (rockabilly blues) doors 9 pm. tHe Jazz bistro CD release Andrew Craig 9 pm. kinG W at Peter TIFF Festival Street Choir! Choir! Choir!, the Dears, Buck 65, DJ Misty, Sven Løve 6 to 11 pm. See TIFF music roundup, page 62. lee’s Palace Will Hunter Band, the Crux, Sam Clayton. linsmore tavern The Legendary Castaways (70s southern rock) 9:30 pm. tHe local Gest Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts Sara B & the Booth Boyz 5 to 10 pm. masseY Hall TIFF Ellie Goulding (singer/songwriter) doors 6:30 pm. metro central Ymca Rep Your Region Talent Showcase 5 to 8 pm. musiDeum Iskwé (hip-hop) 8 pm. muzik Fool’s Gold Day Off Danny Brown, A-Trak, Lunice, Le1f, Tommy Kruise, Thugli, Nick Catchdubs, High Klassified, Sleepy Tom and others from 1:30 pm. oPera House OMG Music Fest Jacob Whitesides, Round2crew, Alyssa Shouse, Dylan Holland, Reed Deming, Grant Landis & Tyler Matl doors 7 pm, all ages. rivoli Rachel Ann Weiss (folk-pop) 7 pm. silver Dollar Blood Ceremony, Funeral Circle, Spell 9 pm. smilinG buDDHa BA Johnston, Strange Attractor, HotKid, Ketamines doors 10 pm. sounD acaDemY Chevelle, Middle Class Rut, Dayshell doors 6:30 pm. soutHsiDe JoHnnY’s In 2 U (rock/top 40) 10 pm, the Bear Band (rock/blues) 4 to 8 pm. stout irisH Pub Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts Erin McCallum 5 to 10 pm, Snooky Tymes noon to 5 pm. 3030 DunDas West The Intentions (funk/ soul) 10 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Wool & Howl (indie rock) 10 pm. villaGe of Yorkville Park Summer Music In The Park Endless Summer Duo 1:30 to 4:30 pm. virGin mobile moD club Landmark Events Showcase Festival Justin Toito & the High

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Rollers, Tea with Lincoln, Taylor & Bryn, Goliath Paw, Gina Horswood, the Rathburns, Down from Paris and others 4 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

blakbirD Music Networking Jam Worry Free World 8 pm. cameron House Chris Culgin 10 pm, Rattlesnake Choir 6 pm. castro’s lounGe Big Rude Jake 4:30 pm. Dakota tavern Bluegrass Brunch 10 am to 2 pm. eton House Thelonious Hank (classic country) 8:30 pm. free times cafe Russell Leon Band (folk/rock) 8:30 pm. HuGH’s room Friends of Fiddler’s Green 8:30 pm. tHe local Los DoBros (blues) 9 pm, Arthur Renwick (blues) 5 pm. lula lounGe Ricky Franco (salsa) 10:30 pm. Port creDit memorial Park Southside Shuffle Andria Simone & Those Guys, Coco Montoya, the Steve Strongman Band, Jack de Keyzer, Downchild Blues Band and many others. Portobello Words And Music Salon Glen Gary, Michael Laderoute, Harpin’ Norm Lucien, Bob Cohen 1:30 to 4:30 pm. tranzac soutHern cross Abigail Lapell (singer/songwriter) 7:30 pm, Jamzac 3 pm. WincHester kitcHen & bar Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts Imbayakunas noon to 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

bY tHe WaY cafe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm. Grossman’s The Happy Pals (trad jazz) 4:30 to 8 pm. olD mill inn Ted Quinlan Trio 7:30 to 10:30 pm. tHe rex Brian Dickinson 9:45 pm, Tara Kanangara 7 pm, Chris Hunt Tentet & 2 3:30 pm, Chris Kettlewell noon. seven44 Climax Jazz Band 4 to 7 pm. sonY centre for tHe PerforminG arts

rePLAY: Symphony of Heroes (music from video games) 8 pm. toni bulloni Sam Broverman, Mark Kieswetter (jazz) 9 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

castro’s lounGe DJ Spinson’s Dance Party (old school/underground/hip-hop) 11 pm.

celt’s Pub Dracula’s Daughter DJ Darkness

Visible (gothic/dark alternative/retro) 10:30 pm. clinton’s Shake, Rattle, Roll Bangs & Blush (60s rock/pop/soul) doors 10 pm. coalition lounGe United Saturdays Matthew Byrnes doors 10 pm. coDa Chus & Ceballos, Addy, Brent Hayward, Jonathan Rosa. Detour bar Friends With Benefits Volume 5 DJ Alrighty Then, DJs Bill Slinnton, SLY, Cole Burns. Drake Hotel unDerGrounD Never Forgive Action 10th Anniversary Agile, Mensa, Big Jacks, DJ Numeric, DJ Dalia (classic

T.O. Music NOTes THE WEEKND’S WEST END

hip-hop/R&B) 11 pm to 4 am. flY 2.0 Fly 2.0 Saturdays doors 10:30 pm.5 Harlem West back Patio Fly Lady Di (R&B/ house/hip-hop/trap/funk) 11 pm. HolY oak cafe Freakaholics Anonymous (funk/disco) 10 pm. lou DaWG’s DJ Kenny Bounce (funk/soul/ blues/hip-hop) 10 pm. monarcH tavern Dancecrasher! Soul Bhoys (soul/ska/reggae). nocturne Dirty Cupcake. PHoenix concert tHeatre Technicolour Dreams Joe Ghost, Violince, Deboer (EDM) doors 10 pm. tHe Piston With It (mod/Northern soul ) 10 pm. PoetrY Jazz cafe DayDream DJ Jennifer Loveless, DJ Deep 2:30 to 7:30 pm. revival Do You Love House? 5th Anniversary Edition Groove Institute, Junior Palmer, Dino & Terry. Kevin Jazzy J, Jason Palma, Dirty Dale, Cullen G, Alvaro G doors 10 pm. tHe savoY Maad City Saturdays (R&B/hiphop/dancehall) 10 pm. 751 Motown Party Sean Caff, Fawn BC, Brett Millius, Reverend Throwdown. tattoo basement Donate two items of clothing to get in free. Häus DJ Dom Ds, Angelo Nitz and others (hip-hop/pop). uniun Film Fest Launch Party Russell Peters (DJ set) doors 10 pm.

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On Sunday (September 7), from 4:30 to 9:30 pm, local bands Fresh Snow, Weaves, Most People and Matrox play the Wavelength Island Show (all ages) at Artscape Gibral-

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DoWnsvieW Park Riot Fest The Cure, City & Colour, Metric, the National, Billy ñ Talent, Rise Against, the Flaming Lips, Social

Distortion, Death Cab for Cutie, Paul Weller, Die Antwoord, Death From Above 1979, Tokyo Police Club, Bring Me the Horizon, the New Pornographers, PUP and many more gates 11 am, all ages. See Death from Above 1979 and New Pornographers previews, page 60. free times cafe Delrose (pop/songwriter) 8 pm. tHe Garrison Zammuto doors 8 pm. Hirut fine etHioPian cuisine Nicola Vaughan (pop rock) 3 to 6 pm.

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tHe local Gest Cabbagetown Festival of the Arts Sara B & the Booth Boyz 5 to 10 pm. s.H.i.b.G.b’s Pregnancy Scares, TV Freaks, Pelvic Floor, Soupcans 9 pm, all ages. soutHsiDe JoHnnY’s Open Jam Rebecca Matiesen & Phoenix 9:30 pm.

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tar Point on Toronto Island. Minus the ferry fee, it’s a free show – with special guests! – which should make it enticing enough. But not to worry if you can’t make it across the water. The concert’s being filmed for Wavelength’s forthcoming online video series, thanks in part to financial help from the provincial government’s new Ontario Music Fund. We’re happy to see the initiative at work with one of Toronto’s great non-profits.

Sure, Toronto musicians make videos here all the time. Drake rented out the CN Tower for Started From The Bottom. K’naan, Nas and, yes, Jamie Hector (aka Marlo from The Wire) shot Nothing To SO LONG, ANDY Lose at Jane and Weston. Even rappers College Street stalwart Andy Poolhall is from out of town (we’re looking at you, shutting its doors after 11 years on the Wale) have filmed in the 6. But with nightlife strip. We’ll miss its retro-funky his recent video for King Of The Fall, decor and inclusive atmosphere, and the Weeknd is a contender for the mostly, its famous weekly and monthly most Toronto, of-the-moment Toronevents and resident DJ nights, which have to video in years, not just for its gritty included, over the years, UKULA, Cherry depictions of Parkdale, Kensington Bomb, Version Xcursion, Beatdown, Major Market and Queen and Spadina locaTHE WEEKND Rager, Unwound Wednesdays, Get Slayed and tions, but also for its myriad cameos. B-Boy & B-Girl Tuesdays. Owners and life partNotable locals include rapper Teddy Fantum ners Michael Sweenie and Scott Lane (who both and the rest of his DSTRY crew, Get Home Safe emrecently had health scares) report that they’re in need of cees Derek Wise and Jazz Cartier, plus DJ Happy Boy change after nearly four decades in the nightlife biz. Tona, a bunch of XO crew plus many more people we aren’t cool enough to recognize. R.I.P. REINER SCHWARZ (1948-2014)

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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 6

Canadian TV and radio personality Reiner Schwarz has passed away. Schwarz’s radio work included stints on CHUM-FM, CFNY, Energy 108, TALK640, JAZZ FM and CIUT. He is also remembered for his cable TV show, Nightmusic, and was an actor on CBC’s Liberty Street.

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Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

GroSSman’S New Orleans Connection All

Star Jazz Band 4:30 to 9 pm. holy oak cafe Dan Gaucher’s Kitties (jazz) 9 pm. morGanS on the danforth Bill McBirnie, Stephen Gardner (jazz) 6:30 pm. muSIdeum Christopher Simmons (jazz/blues/ classical/gospel) 8 pm. the rex Valerie Matzner (Latin jazz) 9:30 pm, Ken Aldcroft’s Hat & Beard 7 pm, Club Django 3:30 pm, Excelsior Dixieland Jazz noon. tonI bullonI Beverly Taft, Reg Schwager (jazz) 6 pm.

toronto muSIc Garden Summer Music In The Garden: Soundscapades – An Exñ ploration Of A City Full Of Sound TorQ Percussion Quartet 4 pm.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

caStro’S lounGe Watch This Sound (rare/

vintage ska/reggae/dub vinyl) 9 pm. clay & PaPer theatre StudIo Uma Nota End Of Summer Block Party General Eclectic, A Man Called Warwick, K-Zar Dubwise, Chocolate, Circle Research, Samba Elegua, Maracatu Mar Aberto 2 pm.

echo beach at molSon amPhItheatre Frosh Festival A$ap Rocky, A$ap Ferg, ñ Carnage, Dzeko & Torres, Joe Ghost 4 pm. handlebar Nite Comfort 12 Bongwater (blissful lush soundscapes), Shamanta (soulful synth rhythms), Hardon Collider (bent circuit glitch) doors 8 pm. Sherbourne common Dirtybird BBQ Claude Von Stroke, Justin Martin, J Phlip, Christian Martin, Ardalan doors 1:30 pm. unIun Act Sundays: Turn Down For What! Lil Jon (DJ set), Jed Harper doors 10 pm.

Monday, September 8 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

caStro’S lounGe Rockabilly Mondays The Cosmotones (old-school rockabilly) 6 pm.

GroSSman’S No Band Required 10 pm. horSeShoe Sylvan Esso, Doe Paoro doors

8:30 pm. kItch Hypnotic Lounge Series Luke Vajsar (solo bass). Sauce on the danforth The Out of Towners (soul/jazz/funk) 9 pm. yonGe-dundaS Square Lunchtime Live! The Heavyweights Brass Band 12:30 to 1:30 pm.

Folk/Blues/Country/World

cameron houSe Thelonious Hank (old school

country) 10 pm, David Newbury 8 pm, Sarah Jane Scouten 6 pm. caStro’S lounGe blueVenus (singer/songwriter) 9 pm. free tImeS cafe Open Stage Monty Brown 7:30 pm. humble beGInnInGS Dave Cassells (flamenco/rhumba guitar) 12:30 to 2:30 pm.

the local Hamstrung String Band (bluegrass/traditional country) 9 pm. lou daWG’S ryerSon Open Mic Night Don Campbell 9 pm. tranzac Southern croSS Open Mic Mondays 10 pm.

Jazz/ClassiCal/experimental

by the Way cafe Patio Jazz Adriaanse/ Stanley Duo 8 to 10 pm. lula lounGe Dear John-A Musical Divorce (opera) 8 pm. muSIdeum Binary & Hugh Marsh (jazz/electronic) 8 pm. reference lIbrary New Music 101 Toy Piano Composers, the Bicycle Opera Project 7 to 8 pm. the rex Forq 9:30 pm, Run Stop Run 6:30 pm. younG centre for the PerformInG artS Glenn Gould Remix Project Billy Wild.

danCe musiC/dJ/lounge

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Tuesday, September 9 pop/roCk/Hip-Hop/soul

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lease, Late Nights: The Album, Chicago singer Jeremih has put out an aptly named seven-track free mixtape. Unfortunately, the usually on-point singer should have left most of it on the cutting room floor. The opener, Get Paid, is whiny and hookless; overly serious Already isn’t much better; bass-heavy lovemaking tune Can’t Go No Mo is catchy, but couldn’t Jeremih have picked someone less ubiquitous than Juicy J for the self-aggrandizing sex-god feature? DJ Khaled ruins what would otherwise have been the best song, the Confessions-era-Usher-like Wake Up/ DJ Khaled Speaks, with his unintentionally hilarious monologue: he calls Jeremih the voice of the people (eehhhh?) and himself the biggest mogul in the world (def not). Key Wane-produced, rap-sung track Chillin’ would have made a fine album cut. But nothing else on N.O.M.A. is as infectious as Late Nights’ debut single, Don’t Tell ’Em (easily one of the best songs of the summer) or as interesting productionwise as Jeremih’s recent Shlohmo collab. Top track: Chillin’ JL

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SLOAN Commonwealth (Yep Roc) Rating: NNNN

Canada’s answer to the Fab Four, Sloan, are still charming after 23 years together – yep, 23 years. The band’s 11th studio album is meant to be experienced as a double record on vinyl, one side dedicated to each of Sloan’s four co-songwriters. But even over headphones attached to a computer, the record unfolds in distinct chapters: Chris Murphy’s eclectic Heart side is a little Tom Petty, with some minor-key piano balladry breaking into Police-like reggae on So Far So Good, and boasting a slow, melodic standout in Misty’s Beside Herself. Patrick Pentland’s Shamrock contribution is fuzzy, psychedelic and rocking – take it with you on your next run. Andrew Scott’s closing Spade side is one epic, eccentric track complete with a children’s chorus. But Jay Ferguson’s opening Diamond section is worth the price of admission alone: 13½ minutes of power pop perfection that feels like familiar territory. Top track: Cleopatra Sloan play the HMV Underground Tuesday (September 9). SARAH GREENE

R&B TY DOLLA $IGN Sign Language (independent) Rating: NNN L.A. crooner/rapper Ty Dolla $ign’s latest in a slew of raunchy-romantic mixtapes maintains a cohesive fluidity despite enlisting a handful of producers (including himself). On smoother bedroom jams, classic R&B tropes commingle with stuttering electro modernity. The rap tracks, meanwhile, are handclapping club

types. At times, the signature R-rated storytelling veers into undisguised misogyny, like on Type Of Shit I Hate, when Fabolous body-shames women for misrepresenting themselves on Instagram. (Idea: stop picking up on social media.) Ty’s voice is low, laid-back and a little gruff, but I wish he’d tackle a few more ballads solo. He enlists a slew of high-profile collaborators, but the only unassisted tune, Stretch // She Better, is one of the finest. The best track, In Too Deep, comes

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care of the artist’s brother, Big TC – from prison, where he’s facing life – presumably via iPhone. The singer bucks the album’s money and sex themes for a reflective and melodic take on what landed him in jail. Top track: In Too Deep Ty Dolla $ign plays the Guvernment October 24. JULIA LeCONTE

JEREMIH N.O.M.A. (Not On My Album) (independent) Rating: NN In advance of his upcoming Def Jam re-

KAREN O Crush Songs (Cult) Rating: NNN Each track on Karen O’s long-awaited debut solo album is as short and fleeting as the summer flings she sings about. O wrote this collection of lo-fi ditties back in 2006 and 2007, after the Yeah Yeah Yeahs frontwoman split from filmmaker Spike Jonze – a period, she says, when she felt like she’d never fall in love again. The 15 songs sound more like demos than final recordings – most don’t even reach the two-minute mark – and feature O’s vulnerable, trembling vocals over a lilting guitar and maybe the soft bleeps of a drum machine or piano. Just when a song feels like it’s reaching an emotional climax, her voice fades and the magic is over. (The worst offender is NYC Baby, a beautiful but criminally short 58-second “song.”) While it’s refreshing to hear O sing so delicately – a contrast to the over-the-top persona of her slick main gig – we wish she’d let the heartbreak linger a few moments longer. Top track: NYC Baby SAMANTHA EDWARDS

You Worry About A Thing. Top track: Kansas City The Wooden Sky play Lee’s Palace October 17 and 18.

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ing: There isn’t a single voice more evocative of mid-to-late-aughts Southern gangsta rap than Young Jeezy’s sonorous wheeze. But in a year dominated by stylistic experimentalists like Migos and Future, Jeezy faces the very real threat of sounding outdated. On his seventh studio album, however, he’s reinvigorated, dipping a toe into some of rap’s newer stylistic trends. On Black Eskimo he debuts a variation of the “Migos flow” to add a rarely heard sense of humour to his punchlines. The Future-featuring No Tears is a mournful yet exuberant examination of overcoming inner-city life’s lopsided odds. Holy Ghost is one of the best songs of Jeezy’s career, offering a regretful 3-D portrait of a friendship ruined by poor decision-making and stunted personal growth. On the title track, Jeezy is sage and triumphant – a man aware of the impact he’s had on the rap game and not ready to relinquish his spot. Top track: Holy Ghost JORDAN SOWUNMI

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Let’s Be Ready (Chelsea) Rating: The Wooden Sky’s latest album captures a band mid-transformation and full of motion. On their fourth record, the Toronto roots rockers navigate lineup changes (bassist Andrew Wyatt’s no longer in the group, though he played on the record) and kick off a new label – their own Chelsea imprint. Let’s Be Ready’s long-haired Canadian indie rock pays homage to American heartland music and name-drops California, Kansas City and Memphis. It’s urgent, lush, loud and live-sounding: Gavin Gardiner’s quivering voice plays out emotionally over shimmery yet warm guitar tones. There are reprieves from the driving pace, too, on songs like Kansas City – which references the Hip’s Escape Is At Hand For The Travelling Man and would do well on a mixtape with Saskatoon’s Deep Dark Woods; the title track – a regretful quiet goodbye of a song; and comforting call-and-response closer Don’t

Palace Of Wind (New Amsterdam/NNA Tapes) Rating: Travis Laplante woke up one day with a vision for a band of four saxophonists. But instead of dismissing it as a very bad idea (as most people would have done), he decided to make the noise in his head real. Palace Of Wind is the opposite of those soft rock sax licks that keep popping up on indie rock records these days. The results are often closer to noise than conventional music, but those moments of intensity are perfect counterparts to the gently droning meditative sections. Rather than playing solos against each other, Laplante executes intricately layered and rhythmically complex interlocking parts that make the four saxes seem like a single powerful instrument. The circular breathing techniques and lightningfast arpeggios are reminiscent of Colin Stetson, particularly the way he fuses free jazz’s extended techniques with black metal attitude and contemporary classical exploration. But the four layers of tenor sax blending into each other make the overall results quite distinct, and occasionally exhilaratingly terrifying. Top track: Palace Of Wind II Battle Trance play Array Space Friday (September 5). BENJAMIN BOLES

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art Judy Natal’s Future Perfect photo project includes this mural of thriving wildlife standing in a barren landscape.

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Natal hopes and fears for Earth By FRAN SCHECHTER JUDY NATAL at Circuit Gallery @

Prefix ICA (401 Richmond West, #124), to September 20. 416-591-0357. Rating: NNNN

Artistic visions of the future are often informed by contemporary fears and hopes. Instead of spinning tales of mechanical wonders, totalitarian dys-

topias or rebellious robots, many of today’s futurists focus on survival in a degraded ecosystem. In Chicago photographer Judy Natal’s Future Perfect project, both tentatively hopeful and disturbing images of the present become harbingers of decades to come. On her website, Natal

books SHORT STORIES

Older, wiser STONE MATTRESS: NINE TALES by

Margaret Atwood (McClelland & Stewart), 268 pages, $29.95 cloth. Rating:

NNNN Well, we know what’s on Margaret Atwood’s mind these days. Many of the stories in this collection are about aging or are laced with vampire references, suggesting a preoccupation with mortality in upsetting ways. She calls them tales, so they often have an air of unreality, but at the same time they’re terribly real. The first three make up a trilogy about the people around aging poet Gavin. His star has been eclipsed by that of his wife – an author of megaselling fantasy fiction who’s old and barely coping with the ice storm in the first story – whom he cheated on. Set in part in the 60s, when the Riverboat hosted poetry readings, these three stories have Atwood’s trade-

mark acid humour (an ambitious young academic gets nothing out of an interview with Gavin), but there’s bitterness there, too. In Lusus Naturae, a vampire takes over a house, and I Dream Of Zenia With The Bright Red Teeth brings back characters from The Robber Bride in a story about reincarnation. Things get even darker in stories featuring characters with murderous intent. In The Freeze-Dried Groom, an unethical antiques dealer finds a corpse in one of the storage units he’s purchased. This story makes you wish Atwood would write a full-on thriller. In The Dead Hand Loves You, a bestselling author has lost control of his royalties and goes out for blood. And the seasoned killer in the title story finds another victim when she goes on an Arctic adventure tour. Atwood has a gift for making appalling behaviour make infinite sense. Whereas the MaddAddam trilogy took on the big issues – corporate lust for power, the degradation of the

sorts the untitled images by years – 2040, 2030, 2020 and 2010 – but Circuit Gallery curator Claire Sykes has chosen to present selections from the project without labels. We’re left to sense a progression toward an increasingly inhospitable planet. They’re shot at three locations: Iceland, Biosphere 2 in Arizona and a Las Vegas desert preserve. Biosphere offers slightly more hopeful scenes of greenhouses and lab work, but they still give the impression that massive human intervention will be necessary to maintain life. An image of a cactus held up by wooden supports is particularly poignant. Natal has an eye for unusual framing of the landscape and quirky architectural details of futuristic structures. A few people, some clad in protective gear, pose with faces obscured by geothermal mists that evoke polluted air or fading snapshots. She’s also interested in artistic interventions on the land, suggesting the role of art as a repository of memories of vanished nature. An Icelandic artist has tacked a photo of a baby to the blank wall of a power plant. A wall in an arid, weedy field bears a folk-art-style mural of ducks flying over a pond, perhaps a memento of vanished wetlands. In the centre of Natal’s thoughtprovoking show, a bookcase holds a few natural and sculptural artifacts and texts by Buckminster Fuller, E.O. Wilson and other futurists and naturalists, and a table and chairs to peruse them. We have a lot to reading to do if want to avert the future Natal foretells. 3 art@nowtoronto.com

planet – this book feels much more personal. Atwood’s not exactly warm and toasty. Irony rules here, for sure. But for all its winking wit, and though it’s not about grief per se, it’s got a strong emotional core. The final shattering story is a knockout. She may bleakly reflect her own worries about aging, but Atwood’s SUSAN G. COLE definitely still got it.

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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS ART GALLERY OF MISSISSAUGA The Sahmat Collective, to Oct 19. 300 City Centre (Mississauga). 905-896-5088. ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO Fan The Flames: Queer Positions In Photography, to Sep 7. 1st Thursdays, 7 pm Sep 4 ($12-$15). Before And After The Horizon: Anishinaabe Artists Of The Great Lakes, to Nov 25. Alex Colville, to Jan 4, 2015 ($25, srs $21.50, stu $16.50). Aimia Photography Prize, to Jan 4, 2015, reception 5-6:30 pm Sep 5. $19.50, srs $16, stu $11, free Wed 6-8:30 pm (special exhibits excluded). 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Why Can’t Minimal, to Oct 19. This Area Is Under 23 Hour Video And Audio Surveillance, Sep 4-Jun 30, 2015, reception 4-6 pm Sep 4. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398.

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Charles Edenshaw, to Sep 21. $15, stu/srs $12. 10365 Islington (Kleinburg). 905-893-1121. MOCCA TIFF Future Projections: Amie Siegel, Sep 4-14. Installation: Mark Soo, Sep 6-Oct 26.

TDB group show, Sep 6-Oct 26. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067. ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM Michael Awad, to Sep 28. Paul Kane, to Jan 24, 2015. Fashion Follows Form; Cairo Under Wraps: Early Islamic Textiles, to Jan 25, 2015. $16, stu/srs $14.50; Fri 4:30-8:30 pm $10, stu/srs $9. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM OF CANADA The Eternity Code: Archaeology, Textiles And Preservation, to Sep 21. $15, srs $10, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321. UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ART CENTRE Allen Ginsberg, AA Bronson and Robert Giard, to Dec 6, Victor Coleman talk 6-7 pm Sep 8, poetry doc screening 6-7 pm Sep 10. 15 King’s College Circle. 416-978-1838. 3

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IN PERSON Mining her experience as a forensic anthropologist, Kathy Reichs has turned her Bones series of crime novels into one of the most successful ever written. A TV series spinoff definitely helped. She’s on to the 17th instalment in Bones Never Lie ($32, Simon & Schuster), in which forensic pathologist Tempe Brennan is forced to face down some old demons while pursuing a serial child-killer. Reichs signs the new novel on Tuesday (September 9) at Indigo ManuLife Centre. See Readings, this page. SGC

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READINGS THIS WEEK 5 indicates queer-friendly events Thursday, September 4 LIVEWORDS Poetry by Shawna Dimitry, Cathy Petch, Jacob Scheier and Jim Bella Smith, plus an open mic. 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. livewords.ca.

noon, readings from noon to 8 pm. Free. High Park, 1873 Bloor W, sites 24 and 25. jesstay7@gmail.com. WORDS AND MUSIC SALON Storytelling by Pat Bisset, poetry by Robert Priest, Steven McCabe and Lucile Barker, plus music. 1:30-4:30 pm. Free. Portobello, 995 Bay. 416-926-1800.

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Sunday, September 7

Martin, JP Larocque, Kelly Wilk and Savoy Howe. 8 pm. Free. 519 Church Street Community Centre, 519 Church. queerconfessions.com.

BRAINS, WORDS & VOICES Contest with pre-

Saturday, September 6

Tuesday, September 9

HIGH PARK READING FESTIVAL Readings by

FRANCIS PEDDIE Book launch for Young,

TION LGBTQ memoir reading with Janice

Jeremy Dodds, James Pollock, Jacob Schier, Adam Sol, Paul Vermeersch, Liz Howard and many others. Opening ceremonies 10 am to

1975 poems recited from memory. 6:30 pm. Pwyc. Tutorino, 109 Niagara, buzzer 007. therotarydial.ca/brainswordsandvoices.

Well-Educated, And Adaptable, a book about Chileans who migrated to Ontario and Quebec after the 1973 coup. 6:30 pm.

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Free. Artscape Wychwood Barns, Peter McKendrick Community Gallery, 601 Christie. openbooktoronto.com. KATHY REICHS Signs her new novel Bones Never Lie. Noon. Free. Indigo Manulife Centre, 55 Bloor W. 416-925-3536, chapters.indigo.ca. SECLUDED SEPTEMBER Emerging Writers Reading Series with Julia Chan, Josh Edgar, Jason Freure and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. Duffy’s Tavern, 1238 Bloor W. ewreading.com. SHAWN SYMS Launch for the story collection Nothing Looks Familiar with guest Alec Butler, Marcy Rogers and Vivek Shraya. 7 pm. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. facebook.com/events/259036587630782.

Wednesday, September 10 BROCKTON WRITERS SERIES Readings by Nora

Gold, Ghadeer Malek, Cathy Petch and Ray Robertson. 7 pm. Pwyc, sugg $3-$5. Full of Beans, 1348 Dundas W. farzanadoctor@rogers.com. 3

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Holding court

Byron Abalos (left) and Colin Doyle are having a ball in Monday Nights.

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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

How a weekly pickup basketball game turned into an interactive new play By JON KAPLAN

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All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Theatre, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include title, author, producer/ company, brief synopsis, times, range of ticket prices, venue name and address, and box office/ info phone number or website. Listings may be edited for space. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm. If your free listing requires a correction, send info to: fixevents@nowtoronto.com.

Opening CACTUS FLOWER by Abe Burrows (Scarborough Theatre Guild). A philandering dentist falls for his assistant in this comedy. Opens Sep 4 and runs to Sep 20, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sep 14 and 20 at 2 pm. $20, stu/srs $17. Scarborough Village Theatre, 3600 Kingston. 416-267-9292, theatrescarborough.com.

MONDAY NIGHTS written and performed by Byron Abalos, Colin Doyle, Darrel Gamotin, Richard Lee and Jeff Yung. Presented by 6th Man Collective and the Theatre Centre at the Theatre Centre (1115 Queen West). Previews from Friday (September 5), opens Monday (September 8) and runs to September 20 at 7:30 pm; see theatrecentre.org for schedule. $30, stu/ srs $25. 416-538-0988.

Shooting hoops is good for community-building. It also leads to an unusual theatre production. The collectively created Monday Nights is about a group of guys who bonded during regular Monday games and found something precious in what they learned about themselves and each other. And audience members not only get to watch what they discovered; they can, if they want, join the five on the court. In the summer of 2008, theatre artist Richard Lee sent an email to a group of friends saying he’d be at the basketball court at Bathurst and Queens Quay at 10 pm. Anyone who wanted to join him was welcome. “That’s the dark night in theatre, a time we could all come out after we’d done with our work, our kids and our

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laundry,” recalls Byron Abalos. He and Colin Doyle, Darrel Gamotin, Lee and Jeff Yung make up 6th Man Collective. “People showed up, older guys past our physical prime but happy to play a game we loved. We were searching for something, though we didn’t know it at the time. And while we felt really rusty, made bad shots and had aches and pains the next day, we also felt wonderful about the experience of getting together.” Nothing could keep them away. They did it for the rest of the summer, every Monday, until the lights were turned off. “There was something special about this group, and we wanted to explore why and how this game allowed us to transform as friends and people. We loved basketball, and we decided to share that love for the game and each other.” “How we play says a lot about who we are as people,” continues Doyle. “I wanted to explore that thesis, because you learn about each other quickly when you interact in a game, with all its frustrations and joys. You discover who gets nervous in a tense moment, who’s willing to take a big shot, who tries to be better than he’s been so far.”

A few years down the road, the idea already in their heads, Theatre Centre’s Franco Boni invited the quintet to be part of the Centre’s residency program. Doyle thinks Boni recognized the diverse community around the theatre and saw this group of five men – Filipino, Chinese and Caucasian – coincidentally reflecting that community. As it turned out, the Theatre Centre’s previous home at Queen and Dovercourt was a YMCA at the turn of the 20th century and housed one of the city’s first basketball courts. “We did two years of residency there but six years of talking about the show,” smiles Doyle, who fell in love with basketball as a child and played it in high school, as did Abalos. “That developmental period gave us ownership of the piece,” adds Abalos. “We did one version that was predominantly text-based, another that focused on movement. The most recent was an interactive durational version that was part of SummerWorks 2013, a five-hour version at Trinity Bellwoods Park that invited people to play along with us. “People kept coming back to watch and play. It clearly struck a chord.”

The current show divides the audience into groups, each of whom backs a certain player and his team. Using headset broadcasts, different for each player, we learn about the man whose team we root for – what drives him on and off the court. “We think about the performance as a kind of bromance,” says Abalos, whose narrative focuses on his growing relationship with the woman who became his wife. “We’re sharing our real stories and names, what broke our hearts and what we’re afraid of.” The two compare sports and theatre as public events that gather a group of strangers who have a communal experience involving both escape and celebration. “We five may be the leaders, but the fun is with the individual audience members who maybe nervously take a shot at the basket,” says Abalos. “But in a sense we all gather around that story and tell it together. At the end of the day, it’s not the score that matters but that we came together, played and supported each other.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com

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CAPUT: REDEMPTION THROUGH HOCKEY AND HIP HOP (Michael Copeman). Copeman per-

forms his solo show. Opens Sep 5 and runs to Sep 21, Fri-Sat 8 pm (no show Sep 19), and Sun Sep 21 at 2 pm. $20 or pwyc. Southern Ontario, various cities. m.copeman@yahoo.ca. THE CRUCIBLE by Arthur Miller (Soulpepper Theatre). A community is thrown into chaos by accusations of witchcraft in 1692 Massachusetts. Previews to Sep 4. Opens Sep 6 and runs to Sep 20, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. CYCLE OF A SARI by nisha ahuja (The Cycle Collective). This workshop production uses storytelling, dance, aerial silks, song and shadow play about ancestors, women who love women and partition from land and love. Sep 5-7, Fri-Sun 7 pm. $20 or pwyc. Annex Theatre, 730 Bathurst. nishaahuja.com. 84, CHARING CROSS ROAD by James RooseEvans (Markham Little Theatre). This play is based on 20 years of correspondence between an American writer and a U.K. bookseller. Opens Sep 10 and runs to Sep 13, WedSat 8 pm. $24-$26. Flato Markham Theatre, 171 Town Centre Blvd. markhamtheatre.ca. THE MISUNDERSTANDING by Albert Camus (Lester Trips Theatre). An innkeeper mom and daughter rob and kill their guests in this modern take on Camus’s absurdist tragicomedy. Opens Sep 4 and runs to Sep 13, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $15, stu $10. Helen Gardiner Phelan, 79A St George. lestertrips.tickets@gmail.com. MONDAY NIGHTS by Byron Abalos, Darrel Gamotin, Colin Doyle, Richard Lee and Jeff Yung (Theatre Centre/6th Man Collective). Five guys play basketball every week in this immersive and interactive theatrical performance (see story, this page). Previews Sep 5-6 at 7:30 pm. Opens Sep 8 and runs to Sep 20, ThuSat and Mon 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $30, stu/srs $25, Sun pwyc. 1115 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org.

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Much Ado About NothiNg by William Shake-

speare (Single Thread Theatre Company). The romantic comedy gets a site-specific staging at the historic house and gardens. Opens Sep 10 and runs to Sep 27, Wed-Sat 8 pm (no show Sep 17 and 24). $25. Spadina Museum, 285 Spadina Rd. singlethread.ca. New grouNdswell FestivAl (Nightwood Theatre). The festival of new works by women features workshop productions by Nicole Brooks and Susanna Fournier, play readings, talks and more. Opens Sep 8 and runs to Sep 14, see website for schedule. Plays $22.60, other events pwyc. Nightwood Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315, (and at Dancemakers, suite 313). 416944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net. rAdio :30 by Chris Earle (Blyth Festival). A voice actor wrestles with his conscience while recording a radio ad in this dark comedy. Sep 4-6, Thu 5 pm, Fri-Sat 2 & 8 pm. $25, stu $15. Phillips Studio, 209 Dinsley, Blyth. 1-877-862-5984, blythfestival.com.

richArd iii, the PleAsures oF violeNce

based on text by William Shakespeare (Kadozuke Kollektif/Bad New Days). Performance and film are used to explore the passion, violence and disaster that surrounds brothers Edward, Clarence and Richard. Previews Sep 9. Opens Sep 10 and runs to Sep 28, Thu-Sun 7:30 pm. $35. Zuke Studio, 1581 Dupont. zuke.ca. roMeo ANd (her) Juliet based on the play by William Shakespeare (Headstrong Collective/Urban Bard). This site-specific production features a female Romeo and Juliet living in contemporary Toronto. Opens Sep 5 and runs to Sep 20, Fri-Sat and Wed 7:30 pm. $18-$25, preview $10. Bloor Street United Church, 300 Bloor W. randjto.com. shed PlAys (The Toronto Fringe/Toronto International Film Festival). Micro-plays by Monkeyman Productions, Kanika Ambrose, Morro & Jasp, Faisal Butt and others are presented as part of TIFF’s Festival Street. Opens Sep 5 and runs to Sep 7, Fri-Sun 11 am to 7 pm (see website for exact times). Free. Pop-Up Shed, NE corner of King West and Duncan. fringetoronto.com.

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(Cabbagetown Theatre Company). This allages, panto-style comedy is presented as part of the Cabbagetown Festival. Sep 5-7, Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun noon, 1, 2, 3 & 4 pm. $5. Necropolis Chapel, 200 Winchester. facebook.com/ slightlyfrozen. soMethiNg to sAy by Bruce Dow (Buddies in Bad Times Theatre). Dow performs a semi-autobiographical solo cabaret. Sep 6-7, Sat-Sun 7:30 pm. $15-$20. 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, buddiesinbadtimes.com. wicked by Stephen Schwartz and Winnie Holzman (Mirvish). The hit musical about the backstory of The Wizard Of Oz returns. Opens Sep 4 and runs to Nov 2, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun and Wed 1:30 pm. $36-$139. Ed Mirvish Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. with iNdividuAl desire by Susanna Fournier (Lady Parts Theatre). American poet Edna St Vincent Millay leaves Paris with a secret in this play about the complexities in mother/daughter relationships. Part of the New Groundswell Festival. Opens Sep 10 and runs to Sep 14, Wed-Thu and Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $22.60. Nightwood Studio, 9 Trinity, suite 315. 416-944-1740, nightwoodtheatre.net.

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deAr JohN – A MusicAl divorce by Andrew

Hodge (A Hodge). Wanting to leave her lover, a woman starts to write him a letter, but he comes home before she finishes it. Sep 8 at 8 pm. $20. Lula Lounge, 1585 Dundas W. 416588-0307, andrewsopera@gmail.com. A MidsuMMer Night’s teAse (Bettie Royale). Bianca Boom Boom, Sam Antics, Bombyx Mori, Bettie and others perform a Shakespeare-inspired burlesque show. Sep 6 at 9 pm. $12-$20. The Circus Academy East, 1300 Gerrard E. bettieroyale@gmail.com. Put uP your hANd (Norm Reynolds). Reynolds performs his monologue play about school characters including the high school teacher from hell and the career student. Sep 7 at 2 and 7 pm. $20, stu/srs $15. Red Sandcastle Theatre, 922 Queen E. 416-845-9411, redsandcastletheatre.com. the soNgs oF bryce kulAk (Soulpepper Cabaret Series). Singer-songwriter/pianist Kulak performs. Sep 6 at 8:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50

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Continuing gleNN by David Young (Soulpepper Theatre). Two versions of Bach’s Goldberg ñ Variations frame this look at iconic Canadian

artist Glenn Gould. Runs to Oct 1, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. hAir: the MusicAl by Gerome Ragni, James Rado and Galt MacDermot (Lower Ossington Theatre). Youth of the 60s explore free love and flower power in the wake of the Vietnam War. Runs to Sep 20, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat-Sun 3:30 pm. $39-$70. Randolph Theatre, 736 Bathurst. lowerossingtontheatre.com. heddA gAbler by Henrik Ibsen (Leroy Street Theatre). A new bride wreaks havoc on all around her to keep her past secret (see review, this page). Runs to Sep 7, Tue-Sat 8:30 pm, Sun 5 pm. $20. The Storefront Theatre, 955 Bloor W. leroystreettheatre.com. NNN (JK) kurios – cAbiNet oF curiosities by Michel Laprise (Cirque du Soleil). The Seeker looks to his curio cabinet to give him access to a secret, invisible world in this show featuring acrobatics, music, dance and design (see review, page 77). Runs to Oct 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 5 pm, mat Sat 4:30 pm, Sun 1:30 pm. $60-$160, stu/srs/child from $50. Grand Chapiteau Tent, Port Lands, Commissioners at Cherry. cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. NNNN (GS) Mercury Fur by Philip Ridley (Seven Siblings Theatre Company). In a lawless city, two brothers survive by realizing their clients’ darkest fantasies. Runs to Sep 6, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $15-$25. Unit 102, 376 Dufferin. mercuryfurtoronto.bpt.me. the Music MAN by Meredith Willson (The Civic Light-Opera Co). A conman fools smalltown folks in this family musical. Runs to Sep 21, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28. Zion Cultural Centre, 1650 Finch E. musictheatretoronto.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. Runs to Sep 28,

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The image I have in my mind for Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler is that of a woman standing on a high ledge, unable to move forward; she has no choice but to leap off into darkness. The classic drama centres on the strong-willed Hedda (Lauren Horejda), recently married to scholar George Tesman (Cameron Sedgwick), who has no real sense of his bride. Back from their honeymoon, they move into a new house and discover that Tesman’s academic rival, Eilert Lovborg (John Chou), has also returned to town. With the help of Thea Elvsted (Anne van Leeuwen), Lovborg has written a book that might overshadow Tesman’s own studies. Emotional needs go in all directions: Hedda desires the formerly hedonistic Lovborg, with whom she was once involved; he has a bond with Thea; Hedda enjoys taunting the nervous Thea, her former classmate; Tesman dotes like a schoolboy on Hedda; family friend Judge Brack (Carmine Lucarelli) suggests an exclusive and ongoing affair with the sensual Hedda.

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Sun 1 pm. $30-$40. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. lowerossingtontheatre.com. seussicAl the MusicAl by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty (Lower Ossington Theatre). This all-ages musical is based on the classic books of Dr. Seuss. Runs to Sep 14, Sat-Sun 11 am and 1 pm. $30-$60. 100A Ossington. 416915-6747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. sPAMAlot by Eric Idle, John Du Prez and Neil Innes (Lower Ossington Theatre). The Monty Python-based musical retells the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Runs to Sep 21, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm, Sun 4 pm. $49-$59. 100A Ossington. 416-9156747, lowerossingtontheatre.com. tArtuFFe by Molière (Soulpepper Theatre). Director László Marton’s high-concept production of the 1664 comedy takes some risks with a shifting, mobile set and contemporary actors trying on period costumes. These gambles pay off in the second act. The cast, headed by Diego Matamoros’s hypocritical title character and Oliver Dennis as the wealthy man he’s conned, is generally fine, although some actors make us hear the rhymes instead of the meaning in Richard Wilbur’s verse translation. Runs to Sep 20, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. NNN (GS) A teNder thiNg by Ben Power (Soulpepper Theatre). Power imagines what might have happened if star-crossed lovers Romeo and Juliet had lived into adulthood. Using text from the Shakespeare play along with some other writings of the Bard, the script is a minor work, clever though not always memorable, but the luminous work of Nancy Palk and Joseph Ziegler shows us the pair’s enduring love. Runs to Oct 1, see website for schedule. $29-$74, rush $5-$23. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 50 Tank House Lane. 416-866-8666, youngcentre.ca. NNN (JK) true by Rosa Laborde (Criminal Theatre/ Aluna Theatre). Three sisters are hurled back in time with the arrival of their estranged father in this play about the nature of memory. Runs to Sep 13, Tue-Sun 8 pm. $24. Citizenry, 982 Queen W. criminaltheatre.com. twist & shout (Famous People Players).

Director and adaptor Harrison Thomas shapes most of the relationships well, giving the script a different turn by having the battling academics concerned not with history but with biology. The tension between characters is the production’s most successful element. Thomas gives two of them – Thea and Tesman’s aged aunt (Lynne Griffin) – stronger personalities than is often the case. As a result, they become worthy antagonists for Hedda. The best scenes are between Hedda and Thea, who generate anxiety, frustrated anger and even a touch of sensual heat in each other’s company, and the flirtatious push-pull between Hedda and Brack, with Hedda seeming to follow the judge’s seductive lead but pulling back when things look like they’ll actually become physical. Tesman can be an annoyingly weak and malleable character, but Sedgwick gives him some interesting shading later in the play. Too bad the miscast Chou brings little fire to Lovborg. His scenes with both women who care

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Memories of Dick Clark, juke boxes, drive-in movies and early rock ’n’ roll are part of this all-ages black-light theatre show. Runs to Oct 25, see website for schedule. $40-$65. 343 Evans. 416-532-1137, fpp.org. voices iN the vAlley by Kathleen Payne (Words in Motion). This walking outdoor play looks at three historical figures who lived in the Don Valley through three different centuries. Runs to Sep 28, Sun 2 pm (Sep 21 and 27 at 12:30 and 2:30 pm). Pwyc. Todmorden Mills, 67 Pottery. wordsinmotion.ca.

Out of Town Alice through the lookiNg-glAss adapted by James Reaney (Stratford Fesñ tival/Canada’s National Arts Centre). Alice en-

ters a world of wonders through a living-room mirror in this adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s book (see review, page 76). Runs in rep to Oct 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) ANtoNy ANd cleoPAtrA by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Passion engulfs the Egyptian queen and the Roman ruler in this classic tragedy. Runs in rep to Sep 28. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. ArMs ANd the MAN by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A woman is caught between two men on opposite sides of the 1885 SerboBulgarian War. Runs in rep to Oct 18. $35$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. the beAux’ strAtAgeM by George Farquhar (Stratford Festival). Two men try to restore their ruined fortunes by pursuing wealthy women. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. cAbAret by Joe Masteroff, John Kander and Fred Ebb (Shaw Festival). Director Peter Hinton’s take on the classic musical is darker than many, with fine performances by Deborah Hay, Gray Powell and Juan Chioran in key roles. The set, a revolving tower that simulates a wheel of fortune – no sooner do

about him, moments that should crackle with energy, are flat. No production of the play works without a strong Hedda, and Horejda communicates most of the nuances of this robust woman, disdainful of those around her while concerned with scandal and how society views her. She’s rejected by those she wants to be accepted by, coveted by those she wants to leave her alone. When all the desired possibilities for her future disappear, we understand why she chooses her JoN kAPlAN final course of action.

Lauren Horejda brings shading to Ibsen’s classic character.

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you rise to the summit than you fall – is a great metaphor for this journey to hell in 30s Berlin. Don’t miss it. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK)

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(Shaw Festival). A crusading do-gooder and her daughter invite social misfits to their country home. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. ChrisTiNa, The girl KiNg by Michel Marc Bouchard (Stratford Festival). The Swedish queen battles conservatives who oppose her lifestyle and her plans. Runs in rep to Sep 28. $40-$90. Studio Theatre, 34 George E, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. Crazy For you by George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin and Ken Ludwig (Stratford Festival). A banker’s son dreams of Broadway fame in this musical set in the 30s. Runs in rep to Oct 19. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. stratfordfestival.ca. hay Fever by Noël Coward (Stratford Festival). An eccentric family and their house guests spend a weekend together in this comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. JuNo aNd The PayCoCK by Sean O’Casey (Shaw Festival). Political and financial volatility afflict a family in 1920s Dublin. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. KiNg JohN by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). The English king defends his throne against the rival claim of his nephew. Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. KiNg lear by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). In director Antoni Cimolino’s intelligent production, Colm Feore makes a human figure – a king who’s easy to relate to. Most of the cast surrounding him is just as strong, which helps the audience feel that we go on an eventful and harrowing journey with the characters. Despite some flaws, the show’s power is undeniable. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) a lovely suNday For Creve Coeur by Tennessee Williams (Shaw Festival). Four women ponder their future on a warm June day in this Lunchtime one-act production. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. maN oF la maNCha by Dale Wasserman, Joe Darion and Mitch Leigh (Stratford Festival). This 60s musical about Don Quixote author Cervantes has one legitimate hit, The Impossible Dream, but a weak book and middling production don’t help sell it to today’s audiences. But Tom Rooney is terrific as Cervantes/ Quixote, as is the winning Steve Ross as his servant. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/ srs $20-$67. Avon Theatre, 99 Downie, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NN (Susan G Cole) a midsummer NighT’s dream by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director Chris Abraham’s take on the Dream is full of queer content, including sexy, robust performances by Evan Buliung and Jonathan Goad, who alternate as Oberon and Titania. But the emphasis on slapstick doesn’t allow the play’s poetry to shine as it should. Runs in rep to Oct 11. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Festival Theatre, 55 Queen, Stratford. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (JK)

a midsummer NighT’s dream: a ChamBer Play by William Shakespeare (Stratñ ford Festival). Pared down to four actors by

director Peter Sellars, this take on the play, in which the characters are caught in a limbo of unrequited desire, is intense, dark and almost entirely lacking in laughs. The cast is powerful, but you may not get much from the production if you don’t know the play well. Runs in rep to Sep 20. $70-$90. Stratford Masonic Concert Hall, 15 Church, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNNN (JK) moTher Courage aNd her ChildreN by Bertolt Brecht (Stratford Festival). Brecht’s anti-war play about a woman who profits by selling goods from a cart during the Thirty Years’ War gets a solid, if uninvolving, production, with Seana McKenna, Geraint Wyn Davies, Ben Carlson and others delivering their lines with clarity and commitment. If the journey feels like a bit of a slog, maybe it’s because the message isn’t as fresh as it was 75 years ago. Runs in rep to Sep 27. $50-

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$135, stu/srs $20-$67. Tom Patterson Theatre, 111 Lakeside, Stratford. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. NNN (GS) THE MOUNTAINTOP by Katori Hall (Shaw Festival/Obsidian Theatre). Dr Martin Luther King, Jr opens up to a young woman working at the motel on the eve of his murder. Runs in rep to Sep 7. $50-$60. Studio Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. THE PHILADELPHIA STORY by Philip Barry (Shaw Festival). A wealthy socialite’s wedding plans are complicated by her ex-husband and a nosy reporter. Runs in rep to Oct 25. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. THE PHILANDERER by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). In this early Shaw comedy, the title character is caught between two women, one cool and calculating, the other passionate and unpredictable. The actors in this triangle – Gord Rand, Marla McLean and Moya O’Connell – are scintillating, and director Lisa Peterson’s decision to use Shaw’s original ending gives the production a surprising seriousness. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Festival Theatre, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800511-7429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW by Richard O’Brien (Something-Something Productions). A couple find a freaky castle in this rock musical. Runs to Oct 11, Sat 8 pm. $30. Corks’ Theatre, 19 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 289-6680482, somethingsomethingproductions.ca. THE SEA by Edward Bond (Shaw Festival). Bond’s striking blend of bizarre comedy and unsettling drama, set in a British seaside village dominated by a sharpedged society woman, gets a strong staging by director Eda Holmes and the excellent Shaw acting ensemble. Fiona Reid captures both the dragon-like and the sympathetic sides of the woman, and Patrick Galligan is just as fine as an increasingly paranoid draper who believes that space aliens are invading the village. Runs in rep to Oct 12. $35$113, stu mats $24. Court House Theatre, 26 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-5117429, shawfest.com. NNNN (JK) THE UGLY ONE by Marius von Mayenburg (Thousand Islands Playhouse/Theatre Smash). A man enjoys his new beauty until his plastic surgeon offers his face to others in this black comedy. Runs to Sep 20, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mat Fri-Sat 2:30 pm. $16-$32. Firehall Theatre, 185 South, Gananoque. 1-866-3827020, 1000islandsplayhouse.com. WHEN WE ARE MARRIED by JB Priestly (Shaw Festival). A big secret is revealed when three couples gather to celebrate their silver anniversaries. Runs in rep to Oct 26. $35-$113, stu mats $24. Royal George Theatre, 85 Queen, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. 3

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Alice amazes ALICE THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS by Lewis Carroll, adapted

by James Reaney (Stratford Festival/ Schulich Children’s Plays/National Arts Centre). At the Avon Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to October 12. $50-$135, stu/srs $20-$67. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. See Out-Of-Town, page 74. Rating: NNNN

If you want to turn loose the child inside you and let it play, catch Lewis Carroll’s Alice Through The Looking Glass, adapted by Canadian playwright James Reaney. Credit not only the story but also the collaboration between director Jillian Keiley and designer Bretta Gerecke, along with a cast that clearly delights in revving up the show’s fun, for the smile that’ll be on your face from beginning to end. You know the story but maybe don’t recall all its details. This isn’t Alice In Wonderland but Alice’s trip through her living room looking glass to a mirror-image world. Trish Lindström makes a perfect Alice, wide-eyed, curious and eager to become part of this alternate world by being crowned when she works her way across the chessboard set. One of the problems with Reaney’s script, though, is that once the action is set in motion Alice often takes a back seat to the extraordinary

characters she encounters. But you won’t forget that Alice is the central figure; there are representations of her all through the show, mirror-reversed, of course. Gerecke’s imaginative mirror world is a delight, with giant flowers, a talkative gnat (the endearing Elliott Loran), look-alikes Tweedledum (Mike Nadajewski) and Tweedledee (Sanjay Talwar) and the philosophical, grumbling Humpty Dumpty (Brian Tree), whose huge blue arms are worked by other cast members. Using a touch of music hall, a bit of barbershop quartet and some magicians’ tricks, Keiley nicely underlines the tale’s punning text, metaphysical questions and twisted logic. Though the second act is occasionally inflated, Keiley and Gerecke’s invention always pulls us back into the tale. There’s fine work by the cast, notably Tree’s self-impressed egg, Cynthia Dale’s imperious Red Queen, Sarah Orenstein’s dithering White Queen, Rylan Wilkie’s charmingly inept White Knight, Kevin Bundy’s tea-sipping Mad Hatter and Tom McCamus as the March Hare and Jabberwocky narrator. When there’s not a sound of restlessness or sigh of boredom from a young audience, you know they’re caught up in what they’re watching. Alice is that kind of magical show. JON KAPLAN

Brian Tree (clockwise from top), Sarah Afful, Trish Lindström and Tom McCamus get cracking in Alice.

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Thursday, September 4 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents headliner Ryan Belleville, Tommy Fitz & host Ted ñ Bisaillion. To Sep 7, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm,

Sat 8 & 10:45 pm, 8 pm. $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. DOING IT! WITH MONIQUEA MARION Comedy Bar presents the comedian doing characters, solo and improv. 8 pm. $10. 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, comedybar.ca. LAUGH SABBATH Comedy Bar presents Tom Henry, Alex Pavone, David DineenPorter, Tom Hobson, Sean Devlin, hosts Chris Locke & Aaron Eves and others. 9:30 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. laughsabbath.com.

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Second City presents previews of its upcoming fall show. Tue-Thu 8 pm, Fri-Sun 7:30 pm (and Fri-Sat 10 pm). $25-$29, stu $16-$18. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. STONED UP COMEDY Amanda Day presents a weekly stand-up show. 7 pm. $5. Hot Box Cafe, 204 Augusta. 416-203-6990. TWO CATS COMEDY presents pro and amateur comics w/ host Jackie Pirico. 8 pm. Free. Not My Dog, 1510 Queen W. 416-532-2397. UNCALLED FOR Bad Dog Comedy Theatre presents scripted sketch comedy by Dan Jeannotte, Anders Yates and Colin Munch. 9:30 pm. $10. 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

YOUR HOOD’S A JOKE – SCARBOROUGH VS HIGH PARK Toronto Comedy All-Stars presents

a comedy turf war hosted by Danish Anwar w/ Scarborough Brap Braps (Monty Scott, Moe Ismail, Nicholas Reynoldson) vs High Park Magic Shrooms (Wojtek Arciszewski, Allison Dore, Al Valius). 9:30 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, torontocomedyallstars.com. YUK YUK’S presents Shannon Laverty. To Sep 7, Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

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sic and original sketch and improvisation. 10:30 pm. $24, stu $18. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. COMEDY KAPOW! Club 120 Diner presents skits w/ Amish Patel, Andy Fruman and Jeff Tseng. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca.

MURDER AT THE BURLESQUE: EPISODE 1 – THE MAL-TEASE FALCON The Social Capñ ital presents film noir improv comedy set in a

burlesque club w/ Kerry Griffin, Thomas MacKay, Red Herring Burlesque and others. 8 pm. $15. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. 416-903-5388, eventbrite.ca/e/12434721587.

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Ricardo Mejias presents Arthur Simeon, Pat MacDonald, Zabrina Chevannes, Nicholas Rizzi, Ernie Vicente and Marito Lopez. 8 pm. $20. Maja Prentice Theatre, 3650 Dixie, Mississauga. eventbrite.ca/e/12023890781.

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sents epic fantasy improv w/ Filthy & Squalor and host Cameron Algie. 7 pm. Pwyc. 603 Markham. tomesimprov.com. YUK YUK’S See Thu 4. SEASON SPONSORS:

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Rocket Coffee, 1364 Danforth. 416-406-0880. DRINKALONG LIVE The Social Capital presents a live recording of the podcast w/ David Followes and Jeremy Schultz. 11:30 pm. Free. 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com. FAN FICTION: POKÉMON Fan Fiction The Show presents scripts performed by FFS cast and Sushi Boys, hosted by Steve Hobbs. 8 pm. $10. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, facebook.com/fftheshow. IMPROV DROP-IN TSC presents a weekly class and show w/ Ralph MacLeod. 6 pm. $5. The Social Capital Studio, 115 Danforth. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com. IMPROV LEAGUE: GAME 1 The Social Capital presents a shortform improv competition w/ Shots and High Fives, We Happy Few, Calvinball & World’s Greatest Monster. 8 pm. $5. 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. 416-9035388, blackswancomedy.com. MICETRO Bad Dog Theatre presents competitive shortform improv. 7 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-551-6540, baddogtheatre.com.

PERFECT 10 PRESENTS: THE SEPTEMBER EDITION Comedy Bar presents Darryl ñ Orr, Daniel Woodrow, Paul Thompson, Eddie Della Siepe and host Dylan Gott. 10:30 pm. $10-$15. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.

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THEATRESPORTS Bad Dog Comedy Theatre presents the team improv competition. 8 pm. $12, stu $10. 875 Bloor W. 416-5516540, baddogtheatre.com. YUK YUK’S See Thu 4.

Sunday, September 7 COMEDY @ THE WELL presents a weekly show w/ hosts Dred Lee & Jag Ghankas and others. 8:30 pm. Free. The Well, 121 Ossington. thewellbarcafe.ca. HAPPY HOUR COMEDY: GIVE ME MY SPOT EinStein presents the Round 5 Finals w/ Charles Fernandes, Andy Fruman, John Mostyn, Nick Martinello, Franco Nguyen, Justin Laite, host Julia Bruce and others. 8 pm. Free. 229 College. ein-stein.ca. SECOND CITY FALL 2014 MAINSTAGE REVUE

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SUNDAY NIGHT LIVE The Sketchersons present

a weekly sketch and live music show. 9 pm. $10. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. YUK YUK’S See Thu 4.

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A Trivial Comedy for Serious People By Oscar Wilde Directed by Cory Doran

Shannon Laverty gets big laughs this weekend at Yuk Yuk’s.

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sic and original sketch and improvisation. 8 pm. $14. Second City, 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. CHEAP LAUGHS MONDAY PJ O’Briens Irish Pub presents a weekly open mic w/ Russell Roy and guests. 9:30 pm. Free. 39 Colborne. 416-815-7562. COMEDY MUSIC MAYHEM Kelly Dwyer presents parody music, novelty songs and more w/ Killy Dwyer, Paul Hutcheson,

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Mark Shyzer, Chelsea Manders, BTM, George Westerholm, Copy Red Leader and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Cameron House, 408 Queen W. facebook.com/events/1495985637284935. daWN paTrol Comedy Bar presents queered up stand-up w/ Nile Seguin, Rhonda Lidgold, Jordan Foisy, Martha Chaves and Jess Beaulieu. 8:30 pm. $7. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. hard daY coMedY The Office Pub presents a weekly all-female comedy show w/ hosts Cassandra Sansosti & Eesha Brown, booked acts and 3 lotto spots. 8:30 pm. Free. 117 John, 2nd floor. 416-977-1900. 200% VodKa The Social Capital presents longform improv with the Social Capital Rep Company and guest hosts. 8 pm. Pwyc. The Social Capital Theatre, 154 Danforth, 2nd floor. 416-903-5388, blackswancomedy.com.

Tuesday, September 9 acadeMY TuesdaYs BDT presents a student showcase. 8 pm. $5. Bad Dog Comedy Theatre, 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com. flaT TIre coMedY Amsterdam Bicycle Club presents weekly stand-up w/ host Chrissie Cunningham & others. 9:30 pm. Free. 54 the Esplanade. facebook.com/FlatTireComedy. MeGa craZY craZY freNZY! The Garrison presents stand-up w/ Claire Stollery, Jason Gracey, Michael Kolberg, Camille Côté, Craig Brown & host Matt Collins. 9 pm. Free. 1197 Dundas W. 416-519-9439. secoNd cITY fall 2014 MaINsTaGe reVue

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The sKIN of MY NuTs presents a weekly

open mic w/ host Vandad Kardar. 9:30 pm. Free. Sonic Espresso Bar, 60 Cecil. facebook. com/skinofmynuts. socap sTudeNT NIGhT The Social Capital presents longform improv w/ players of the Repertory Program. 8 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. TeQuIla TuesdaYs Club 120 Diner presents host JJ Liberman and others. 9 pm. Free. 120 Church. club120.ca. YuK YuK’s TuesdaYs The Humber School of Comedy at 7:30 pm, Launching Pad for new stand-ups at 9:30 pm, every Tue. $4/show. Yuk Yuk’s, 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.

Wednesday, September 10 aBsoluTe coMedY presents Pro-Am Night w/ headliner Ryan Dennee, Aaron Kinnersly, Jeff E Strella, Rino Palumbo, Merv Hartlen, Maneesh Jay, Sean McKiernan and host Ron Vaudry. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. coMedY NIGhT aT MusIdeuM presents biweekly stand-up, improv and sketch. 8 pm. $5. Musideum, 401 Richmond W. 416-5997323, musideum.com. holodecK follIes The Dandies presents the monthly improvised Star Trek variety show w/ stand-up Zabrina Chevannes and sketch comedy from the Con Artists. 8 pm. $8. The Social Capital, 154 Danforth. improvdandies.wordpress.com. INTerNaTIoNal NIGhT of coMedY MusIc

Kelly Dwyer presents novelty and comedy folk and rock songs w/ Killy Dwyer, Jessica Delfino, Chelsea Manders, Debs & Errol, Paul Hutcheson, Bad Teenage Moustache and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. Free Times Cafe, 320 College. 416-967-1078, freetimescafe.com. lIar, lIar: all sTar specTacular The Flying Beaver Pubaret presents a tall tales competition w/ host Paul Bellini, Rory McGee, Shannon McDonough, Amy Lester, Martha Chaves, Dave Code, Kismet Dyment and others. 7:30 pm. Free. 488 Parliament. 647-347-6567, pubaret.com. MaGIc oVeN coMedY presents weekly standup. 8 pm. Free. Magic Oven, 347 Keele. 416604-0202, facebook.com/MagicOvenKeele. NIGhT oWl JaM The Social Capital present an improv jam w/ the Dandies, guests and audience sign-up. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 154 Danforth, 3rd floor. blackswancomedy.com. 9 To 5 Bad Dog Comedy Theatre BDT presents an improv show for the working woman w/ Leigh Cameron, Becky Johnson, Hannah Spear, Alex Tindal and others. 9:30 pm. $12, stu $10. 875 Bloor W. baddogtheatre.com.

A steampunk aesthetic works magic in Cirque du Soleil’s Kurios.

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sIreN’s coMedY Celt’s Pub presents open-

mic stand-up w/ host Marc-Anthony Sinagoga and headliner Alex Breckelmans. 8:30 pm. Free. 2872 Dundas W. 416-767-3339.

Touch MY sTereoTYpe: do You BelIeVe IN GoaTs? TMS presents a new sketch revue set

in the woods, where people tell stories about the paranormal. To Sep 13, Wed-Sat 8 pm. $12-$15. Unit 102 Theatre, 376 Dufferin. touchmystereotype.com. YuK YuK’s presents Chris Molineux. To Sep 14, Wed-Thu and Sun 8 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat 8 & 10:30 pm. $13-$22. 224 Richmond W. 416967-6425, yukyuks.com. 3

dance listings Opening The MuTed NoTe Susanna Hood presents a

stage work that fuses the poetry of PK Page with music and dance. Sep 5-7, Fri-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20. The Citadel, 304 Parliament. 416-364-8011, colemanlemieux.com/citadel.

Continuing rehearsal/perforMaNce Ame Henderson presents live rehearsals as part ñ of her residency at the AGO and in prepara-

tion for a Nuit Blanche event. Sep 10 from 6 to 8 pm. Free. Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648, ago.net/amehenderson. 3

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Kurios kills KurIos by Michel Laprise (Cirque du Soleil). At the Grand Chapiteau (Cherry and Commissioners). To October 26. $50-$160. Cirquedusoleil.com/kurios. See Continuing, page 74. Rating: NNNN

For three decades now, Cirque du Soleil has been satisfying our curiosity for thrills, chills and acrobats risking spills in their high-fashion-meetsworld-culture takes on the old-fashioned circus show. So it’s appropriate that their special 30th anniversary offering is titled Kurios. After cranking out dozens of inspired (and a few less so) works, the company shows no signs of artistic fatigue. This is one of Cirque’s most consistent productions. A dark steampunk aesthetic suffuses everything from the darkly tarnished sets to the futuristic Victoriana costumes. More im-

portantly, the acts – from the opening evocation of a steam-engine train onwards – are perfectly integrated, displaying lots of imagination and skill. It’s hard to know what to single out. If you think riding a bike in Toronto is hazardous, try riding one while suspended in midair, as Anne Weissbecker does with effortless ease. (Actually, spinning above roads could be safer than T.O. during rush hour.) Kurios also puts a fascinating aquatic twist on the contortion act, having four fiercely flexible women outfitted like electric eels elegantly form a series of tableaux that’ll make you wish you had tried harder in gymnastics class. I don’t usually rave about the clown turns in Cirque shows, which often feel like filler between the oohs and aahs. But there’s some highly amusing work here, one piece involving an invisible circus that should really delight the kids, another a lonely guy who gets to have a date with an audience member and show off

physical comedy worthy of the great silent stars. Of course, it wouldn’t be a Cirque show without those amazing feats of strength. The Russian cradle duo consists of Olena Tereshchenko flipping about and landing securely on Roman Tereshchenko’s shoulders. It’s astonishing because it’s so gracefully done. And brothers Roman and Vitali Tomanov execute their aerial straps sequence with perfect timing. Some acts don’t quite work. A dude wielding yo-yos, however virtuosically, doesn’t quite register for an audience of 2,000. But Cirque still evokes a sense of wonder and magic, whether it’s a simple dinner scene that takes on a whole other dimension (I don’t want to spoil the surprise) or a sequence involving finger shadows projected onto a hot-air balloon. You can’t get more old-school than finger shadows. But what the company does with them will more than GleNN suMI satisfy your curiosity.

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Abel Ferrara made his name with pictures like King Of New York and Bad Lieutenant – the original one, with Harvey Keitel’s penis – so it made perfect sense that he should tackle the Dominique Strauss-Kahn case. Strauss-Kahn, you may recall, was the managing director of the International Monetary Fund when, in 2011, he was pulled off a plane about to depart from JFK and arrested for sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper at the Sofitel New York. He spent several weeks under house arrest before the case was dropped. Ferrara’s fictionalized version casts Gérard Depardieu as Devereaux, a highpowered player who’s also an unapologetic hedonist. In the first half-hour of the movie, he consumes women, drugs and alcohol by the fistful, until he’s in such a state that he

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thinks nothing of forcing himself on a maid (Pamela Afesi). The second movement deals with the fallout from the assault, as Devereaux attempts to flee the country only to end up arrested and dropped into the prison system. The final third focuses on Devereaux and his wife (Jacqueline Bisset) trapped together in a Tribeca townhouse. “It’s an ugly situation in a lot of ways,” says the filmmaker, who’s at TIFF this week with his next movie, a biopic starring Willem Dafoe as the director Pier Paolo Pasolini. “We’re talking about people who are in a lot of pain, a lot of suffering, and they create a lot of pain and suffering on the other side. It’s supposed to be engrossing, not entertaining.” The director says co-writer Christ Zois and his producers were more interested in a study of corrupted power, not so much in the real-life specifics. “They didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about Strauss-Kahn, I’ll tell you that,” he says. “It was a good starting-off point for them. I did a lot of research, but they felt

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they understood the essence of that story WELCOME TO NEW YORK and that character. And we worked it, you (Abel Ferrara) know? We brought it to the personal, we Rating: NNN brought it beyond that – we found a deeper Provocateur filmmaker Abel Ferrara reimagines Dominique rage.” Strauss-Kahn’s 2011 encounter with the New York But Devereaux’s rage – and his City justice system as the unpleasant consequence money and power – is nothing in the of the French banker’s unrestrained debauchery. face of the implacable New York jusGérard Depardieu plays Devereaux, a man of tice system, which forces him to profoundly deranged appetites who’s so confront his own impotence by coked-up, drunk and horny that he thinks grinding him down with the rest of nothing of forcing himself on a housekeeper in his the skells. Manhattan hotel. “Riker’s Island is a 19th Ferrara divides the story into three century nightmare no parts – the bender, the prison system matter how you look at and Devereaux’s weeks under house it,” says Ferrara. “It arrest in the company of his furious doesn’t care who the wife (Jacqueline Bisset). If the result fuck gets there. You plays like an HBO take on Law & think the people out Order: Special Victims Unit, it’s there knew he was the also a master class in acting head of the IMF? Do from a ferocious, fearsome they even know what Depardieu, who finds the the IMF is? I don’t ugly, unrepentant soul of his think they do. I don’t Gérard Depardieu opportunistic character and think they care.” 3 delivers a ferocious, brings it out into the light. normw@nowtoronto.com fearsome performance. NW

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The Captive, which bombed at Cannes, wasn’t accepted into TIFF, but releasing it in Toronto this festival week – and having director Atom Egoyan do press – is obviously designed to seem like it was. Don’t be tricked: it’s an overwrought, nonsensical mess of a movie. Good on TIFF for saying no. Teenager Cass (Alexia Fast) was abducted as a child (played with charm by Peyton Kennedy) from the back of her father’s car in Niagara Falls eight years earlier by a pedophile ring. Now she works for her abuser trolling the internet to lure new victims. Distraught dad Matthew (Ryan Reynolds) has never stopped looking for her, even though one of the detectives

(Scott Speedman) on the case suspects him of foul play. Meanwhile, another detective (Rosario Dawson) has disappeared, and Matthew’s wife, Tina (Mireille Enos), is receiving clues that Cass is still alive. Rehashing themes from his earlier movies, Egoyan and co-writer David Fraser use an unnecessarily complicated structure to tell the story, which also involves a glowering, ridiculous Kevin Durand as a pedophile even more hackneyed than Stanley Tucci’s in The Lovely Bones and a breezy Bruce Greenwood as his sleazy associate. But even if the scenes were in chronological order, they would still be weighed down by clunky expository dialogue, characters and situations that go nowhere and terrible acting. And after its head-scratching continual use in this film, the Queen of the Night’s famous aria from Mozart’s The Magic Flute is forever ruined for me. So thanks for that, Mr. Egoyan.

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ñBOYHOOD

(Richard Linklater) is the best American movie I’ve seen in years – and one of the very best movies about America ever made, capturing the maturation of Texas kid Mason (Ellar Coltrane) from first grade through leaving for college. If I see another movie more ambitious, more honest or more illuminating this year, I’ll be stunned. 164 min. NNNNN (NW) Canada Square, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE CALLING

(Jason Stone) is an interesting, idiosyncratic take on the chilly police procedural, with a nicely spiky Susan Sarandon as a detective investigating a creepy murder in rural Fort Dundas, Ontario. It’s remarkable what a little care and attention can do for a genre picture. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

AND SO IT GOES (Rob Reiner) is a pleasant diversion designed for mature audiences. Michael Douglas and Diane Keaton play CALVARY (John Michael McDonagh) neighbours who band together when he’s follows an Irish priest, Father James put in charge of a granddaughter he never (Brendan Gleeson), who’s told he’ll be knew existed. Douglas relishes the role, murdered in a week’s time. But this isn’t a and Keaton is winning as a wannabe mystery; rather, it’s an inquiry into the lounge singer who can’t get through a whole village’s crisis of single song without refaith – and by extencalling her recently desion, Ireland’s. And it’s ceased husband and EXPANDED REVIEWS great. 101 min. NNNN breaking into tears. 94 nowtoronto.com (NW) min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square Regent Theatre CAPTIVE (Atom Egoyan) 112 min. See AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (John Erick Dowdle) THE review, page 79. N (GS) isn’t very scary but offers spooky claustroOpens Sep 5 at 401 & Morningside, Beach phobia in the Paris catacombs as anthroCinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, pologists search for the Philosopher’s Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Stone. The action consists of running, Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, yelling and falling down, the supernatural SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Silverelements show up late, and the tedious City Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 found-footage gimmick drags the film down. 93 min. NN (AD) CHEF (Jon Favreau) is 20 minutes too 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, long and a hair too manipulative, but Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum writer/director/star Favreau is intent on Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Cendelivering such a pleasurable little movie

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movie director Folman wanted to make, but I can’t imagine it’s one anybody else will enjoy. It’s a spectacular mess of competing ideas, vintage cartoon imagery and dystopian sci-fi pap. 123 min. NN (NW) Varsity

ñDAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

(Matt Reeves) harvests the useful plot points of 2011’s clumsy Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes in its first three minutes and never looks back. Where the last one paid lip service to ape/human ethics and rushed through its character development to get to what it thought audiences wanted, Dawn is willing to put in the work, with complex characters on both the human and primate sides. Some subtitles. 130 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

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anniversary re-release of Ivan Reitman’s comedy about a group of ragtag ghostremovers (Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis). 107 min. Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway

THE GIVER (Phillip Noyce) is adapted with

workman-like fidelity from Lois Lowry’s forerunner of the YA dystopian genre, offering little more than a snack between Hunger Games. In a sterile futuristic society where people don’t perceive colour, several nifty ideas (some with a troubling Christian slant) play out, but the movie zips through them in a way that will only satisfy genre fans. 91 min. NN (RS) Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24

THE GRAND BUDAthe same mediocre PEST HOTEL (Wes actioner as ExpendAnderson) finds direcables 1 and 2, with a tor/co-writer Anderson EXPANDED REVIEWS few fresh faces and building a magnificent nowtoronto.com without the jokes. This playhouse, populating it time Sylvester Stallone with actors he knows and and his team of mercentrusts – among them Ralph Fiennes, Adaries are after a billionaire arms dealer. An rien Brody, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton, Jeff epic climax has our heroes taking on an Goldblum and Edward Norton – and runentire army, but as before, the middle sags ning riot. And when moments of genuine badly. 126 min. NN (AD) emotion pierce that perfectly constructed 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, artifice, they hit as powerfully as ever. 100 Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, min. NNNN (NW) Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Kingsway Theatre, Mt Pleasant Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, THE GRAND SEDUCTION (Don McKellar) is SilverCity Yorkdale an English-language remake of Jean-François Pouliot’s 2003 comedy Seducing Dr. THE F WORD (Michael Dowse) is a Lewis, with the action transposed from funny, charming, sharp and sweet rural Quebec to a depressed Newfoundreworking of When Harry Met Sally… with land harbour community. Director McDaniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan as two Kellar is less interested in belly laughs perfectly matched people who can only than in generating a constant hum of be friends because she’s in a long-term contentment, which works very nicely. relationship. 100 min. NNNN (NW) 115 min. NNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Eglinton Town Regent Theatre Centre, Queensway, Rainbow Market

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FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (John

Maloof, Charlie Siskel) sifts through some of the 100,000 photographs shot by nanny and compulsive hoarder Vivian Maier, constructing a compelling portrait of a mysterious artist who refused to be seen. 83 min. NNNN (RS) Kingsway Theatre

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(Lenny Abrahamson) takes a central theme of journalist/screenwriter Jon Ronson’s work – our fascination with the unknowable – and runs with it, reimagining Ronson’s time with the 80s novelty singer Frank Sidebottom as the story of a lost young man’s experience with an enigmatic musician (Michael Fassbender, amazing even disguised). It’s really something. 95 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Kingsway Theatre

FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller)

brings the original’s lurid, monochromatic palette with its violent splashes of red back to the big screen after a nine-year hiatus. Time has not faded Miller’s striking visuals, but the narrative is not always on target. This sequel-prequel combo once again featuring multiple hard-boiled plots has epic highs and joyless lows, the wicked humour of the original being the most sorely missed aspect. 102 min. NNN (RS) 401 & Morningside, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dun-

ñGUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY

(James Gunn) is a blockbuster space adventure about misfit heroes trying to save the universe from a maniac (Lee Pace) bent on wiping out everything and everybody who isn’t him. In the hands of director/co-writer Gunn, it is easily the weirdest, loosest thing to come out of Marvel Studios to date. 122 min. NNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñAN HONEST LIAR

(Justin Weinstein, Tyler Measom) profiles James Randi, a Toronto-born magician and escape artist who reinvented himself as the world’s premier debunker of psychics and faith healers – most famously by helping Johnny Carson discredit Uri Geller on The Tonight Show in 1973. The man’s decency comes through loud and clear. 91 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (Lasse Hallström) gives big fun to foodies. When family patriarch Om Puri opens a Bollywood-style eatery in a Gallic town across from the Michelin-approved resto owned by Madame Mallory (Helen Mirren), intense competition ensues. There are no surprises but lots of pleasures: Puri and Mirren are obviously having a gas, and it’s literally a feast for the eyes. Prepare to want to eat afterwards. 115 min. NNN (SGC) Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress

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IDA (Pawel Pawlikowski) follows

novitiate nun and orphan Anna (luminous Agata Trzebuchowska), whose aunt Wanda (Agata Kulesza) informs her that her real name is Ida and she is Jewish. The pair set out to find the village where Wanda believes Ida’s parents were killed. Shot in crisp black-and-white, the film tackles the complex issues of faith, hypocrisy and wartime accountability with nuance. Subtitled. 80 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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entirely on the easy chemistry of New Girl Roger Ebert’s life and legacy with co-stars Jake Johnson and Damon Wayans tremendous affection. But it doesn’t shy Jr. goofing around in a dopey comedy about away from the ugliness of Ebert’s death, two Los Angeles roommates who dress up which gives James’s documentary its real as LAPD officers for a costume party, keep power. Like the man himself, it’s unfailthe charade going for fun and wind up in a ingly honest and profoundly insightful. turf war with a Geor120 min. NNNNN (NW) gian gangster (James Bloor Hot Docs Cinema, D’Arcy). The ending’s a Carlton Cinema EXPANDED REVIEWS bust, but the actors LIFE OF CRIME (Daniel nowtoronto.com are fun. 100 min. NNN Schechter) follows a pair (NW) of small-time Michigan 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colicrooks (John Hawkes, Yasiin Bey) who kidseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton nap the wife (Jennifer Aniston) of a local Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, developer (Tim Robbins), only to find their Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, mark isn’t particularly interested in getSilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 ting her back. The pacing of the picture is strangely slack, but Aniston and Hawkes LIFE AFTER BETH (Jeff Baena) 88 min. See are a pleasure to watch together. 99 min. review, page 87, and Q&A with actor Matthew Gray Gubler at nowtoronto.com/ NNN (NW) movies. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema Opens Sep 5 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep AIM_NOW_SEPT04_QTRPG_BETH.qxp 9/2/14 2:29Knight) PM isPage 1 LOCKE (Steven an intense Film, page 87) character study about a construction

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LUCY (Luc Besson) marks Besson’s return to directing fierce females in kick-ass action films. The film doesn’t make a ton of sense, but it’s fun and silly enough to pass the time. Scarlett Johansson plays an American student-turned-unsuspectingdrug-mule who finds herself with a superbrain. The action scenes are the real star, including one jaw-dropping car chase sequence through Paris. 89 min. NNN (GS) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

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(Robert Stromberg) applies the Wicked formula to the Sleeping Beauty story, with Angelina Jolie as Maleficent, the sprite-turned-avenger who lays a curse on the princess in the neighbouring kingdom. It’s spectacular to look and puts a glorious twist on the kiss, but kids may find it too scary. Big fun, but definitely for grown-ups. 97 min. NNNN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

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ñNIGHT MOVES

(Kelly Reichardt) is a low-key, high-stakes thriller about three activists (Jesse Eisenberg, Dakota Fanning, Peter Sarsgaard) who come together to blow up a dam in the Pacific Northwest, and what happens in the aftermath of that operation. Layered with social insight, dense character detail and genuine tension, it’s like micro-Michael Mann. 113 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (Bille August) is a dreary Euro-pudding that wastes several very talented actors in two stories separated by four decades. Jeremy Irons has a few nice scenes with Martina Gedeck as an optometrist with whom his character becomes friendly, but that’s hardly a reason to endure the rest of it. 111 min. NN (NW) Kingsway Theatre THE NOVEMBER MAN (Roger Donaldson)

- John DeFore

COARSE LANGUAGE, VIOLENCE

stand what’s really at stake. And the centre of his movie is Hoffman, watchful and worried and vulnerable and alive. Some subtitles. 121 min. NNNN (NW) Canada Square, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Eglinton Town Centre, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Varsity

GERMAN FILM @ CANADA www.goethe.de/canada/germanfilm

is a rote espionage thriller starring Pierce Brosnan as a world-weary spy chased through the former Soviet Union by his former protege (Luke Bracey). If you’ve never seen one of these movies before, you might be intrigued by director Donaldson’s generic chase staging and fondness for CIA operators staring intently at monitors in under-lit situation rooms. 98 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Humber Cinemas, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñOBVIOUS CHILD

(Gillian Robespierre) is a sharply observed character study built around a knockout performance by Jenny Slate as a Brooklyn stand-up comic mining her life for material even as her world falls apart. Jake Lacy, Gaby Hoffmann, Richard Kind and Polly Draper contribute fine supporting performances, but this is Slate’s movie from beginning to end. 85 min. NNNN (NW) Kingsway Theatre

THE ONE I LOVE (Charlie McDowell) stars

Mark Duplass and Mad Men’s Elisabeth Moss as a couple who try to revitalize their relationship at a rustic retreat, only to enter something out of the Twilight Zone. The actors are engaging and the screenplay is brisk and sly – until the end, when writer Justin Lader turns a clever script into something pedestrian 91 min. NNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema

PLANES: FIRE & RESCUE 3D (Roberts Gannaway) is an economy flight as far as animated movies go but one that will elicit few complaints. There’s little in the way of bells and whistles in the workmanlike story, characters and visual design, yet the result is a satisfactory kids’ toon about Dusty the crop-duster’s transition from

racer to firefighter that does a fine job saluting the real people on the job. 84 min. NNN (RS) Grande - Steeles

ñSLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

(Danny Boyle) flashes back and forth through the life of a former Mumbai street urchin (Dev Patel) accused of cheating on an Indian game show. Boyle plays with the form and flash of Bollywood epics and overdoes the dramatics to orchestrate a crowd-pleasing payoff. 120 min. NNNNN (NW) Yonge & Dundas 24

ñSNOWPIERCER

(Bong Joon-ho) takes a supremely ridiculous premise – 17 years after an attempt to curb global warming freezes the planet, the only life left on Earth is jammed aboard a constantly speeding train where a few dozen people living in steerage plot to overthrow their upper-class masters a dozen cars ahead – and turns it into a gripping, thrilling and utterly credible adventure. See it with a crowd. Some subtitles. 126 min. NNNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema

SWEARNET (Warren P. Sonoda) stars the Trailer Park Boys actors as themselves. They’re launching a web series that involves profanity, dangling male genitalia and consumption of illegal substances in a desperate attempt for laughs. The filth of the series remains, but without likeable characters or even the suggestion of emotion, it all feels empty. 112 min. N (Phil Brown) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (Jonathan Liebesman) is an overblown superhero adventure that tries to get by on bombast but too often it feels like an orgy of in-your-face 3D and a loud, oppressive score supporting bargain-basement plot, characters and big action set pieces. Four turtles and a rat mutate and develop martial arts skills to battle the evil Foot Clan and its plan to dominate New York. 101 min. NN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Cineplex Cinemas Empress Walk, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24

ñTHE TRIP TO ITALY

(Michael Winterbottom) finds Steve Coogan, Rob Brydon and director Winterbottom reuniting for another grand tour of fine dining, conversation and deep human insight, this time knocking around a splendid series of hotels and restaurants in scenic Italy. Delightful. 108 min. NNNN (NW) Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Queensway, Varsity

WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (Lydia Smith) is a spectacular

snore, tracking a dozen pilgrims making their way along Spain’s historic trail to Santiago de Campostela, delivering more bromides than a 19th-century apothecary. It is good to look at, but go watch a travelogue if that’s what you’re after. Some subtitles. 84 min. NN (SGC) Kingsway Theatre

WELCOME TO NEW YORK (Abel Ferrara) 124 min. See interview and review, page 78. NNN (NW) Opens Sep 5 at the Royal (see Indie & Rep Film, page 87)

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BLOOR HOT DOCS CINEMA (I) 506 BLOOR ST. W., 416-637-3123 ALIVE INSIDE (G) Thu 6:30 LIFE ITSELF (14A) Thu 8:45 112 WEDDINGS (PG) Thu 4:00

CARLTON CINEMA (I) 20 CARLTON, 416-494-9371

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) 1:35, 4:05, 6:55, 9:30 COLDWATER Thu 4:00 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Thu 4:00, 9:10 Fri-Wed 1:15, 6:30 THE EXPENDABLES 3 (PG) Thu 1:15 FRANK (14A) Thu 1:50, 4:05, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Wed 4:15, 9:30 THE GIVER (PG) Thu 1:25, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:25 IF I STAY (PG) 1:25, 4:15, 7:00, 9:25 LIFE ITSELF (14A) Fri-Wed 1:20, 6:45 LIFE OF CRIME (14A) 1:40, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20 LUCY (14A) Thu 1:45, 3:50, 7:05, 9:35 Fri-Wed 3:45, 9:35 NIGHT MOVES (14A) Fri-Wed 1:25, 6:40 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 1:30 3:55 6:45 9:15 FriWed 1:30, 3:55, 6:50, 9:15 THE ONE I LOVE (14A) 1:20, 7:05 Thu 3:45 mat, 9:20 SNOWPIERCER (14A) Fri-Wed 3:35, 9:15 TORONTO INDIE FILM FESTIVAL Thu 6:00, 7:30, 9:15 ZULU Fri-Wed 4:00, 9:10

RAINBOW MARKET SQUARE (I) MARKET SQUARE, 80 FRONT ST E, 416-494-9371

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 12:35, 2:40, 4:45, 6:55, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 BOYHOOD (14A) Thu 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 THE F WORD (14A) 7:15, 9:30 Thu 12:45, 2:55 mat, 5:05 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (18A) Thu 12:40, 2:45, 4:55, 7:20, 9:40 GHOSTBUSTERS 30TH ANNIVERSARY 12:20, 2:30, 4:45 Sat, Tue 11:05 late GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35 Sat, Tue 11:30 late A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) 12:40, 3:40, 7:00, 9:40 Sat, Tue 11:10 late THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) 12:25, 2:35, 4:50, 7:05, 9:25 Sat, Tue 11:30 late

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VARSITY (CE)

55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 BOYHOOD (14A) 1:00, 4:30, 8:15 THE CAPTIVE 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon only 2:00 4:35 7:15 9:55 THE CONGRESS (18A) Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10 Fri 12:45, 3:40, 9:25 Sat 1:20, 4:10, 7:00 Sun 4:05, 7:00, 10:00 Mon 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 Tue 12:45, 7:00, 9:50 Wed 12:45, 3:40, 6:35, 9:25 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 2:05, 4:30, 7:05, 10:00 Fri, MonWed 2:20, 4:45, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 12:45, 8:05, 10:30 Sun 12:45, 3:10, 5:35, 8:00, 10:30 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 4:30, 10:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20 Fri 1:00, 7:30 Sat 10:00 Sun 1:50, 7:30, 10:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:25, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu, Mon 1:10, 9:45 Fri 1:10, 3:55, 10:05 Sat 12:45, 3:35, 9:30 Sun 6:30, 9:20 Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45 THE TRIP TO ITALY 2:00, 4:45, 7:25, 10:15

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THE F WORD (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun 1:55, 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 12:45, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:20, 9:10 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 12:55, 3:20, 6:10, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 7:15, 9:40 THE TRIP TO ITALY Thu-Fri, Mon-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30

YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (CE) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-977-9262

THE ADMIRAL: ROARING CURRENTS (14A) Thu 7:20, 10:20 THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 (PG) Thu 1:45, 9:45 AMERICAN BEAUTY (14A) Fri 1:55, 7:20 Sat 9:45 Mon 1:55, 7:15 Tue 4:40, 10:00 Wed 1:55 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 3:20, 6:10, 9:15 Fri 3:35, 5:50 Sat-Sun 1:20, 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 Mon-Wed 3:35, 5:50, 8:05, 10:20 BOYHOOD (14A) Fri-Wed 2:30, 6:00, 9:30 BUT ALWAYS Fri, Mon 1:45, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50 Sat-Sun, TueWed 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 THE CALLING (14A) Thu-Fri, Mon, Wed 3:15, 6:45, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:15, 6:45, 9:45 Tue 6:45, 9:45 THE CAPTIVE Fri 2:10, 4:30, 4:45, 6:35, 7:20, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Sat 1:40, 4:30, 4:45, 7:20, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Sun 12:40, 1:30, 4:00, 4:30, 7:20, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Mon 2:10, 4:45, 7:20, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 Tue-Wed 2:10, 4:30, 4:45, 7:20, 7:30, 9:55, 10:30 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30 Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:45 DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES 3D (PG) Fri, MonWed 7:20, 10:10 Sat-Sun 6:40, 9:55 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 4:30, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Sun 2:15, 4:45, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 7:40, 10:15 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 3:30, 6:30, 6:55, 9:30, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 3:30, 4:25, 6:30, 7:35, 9:30, 10:30 Sat 1:30, 4:25, 6:45, 7:35, 9:30, 10:30 Sun 1:30, 3:30, 4:25, 6:35, 7:35, 9:30, 10:30 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:35, 7:35, 9:30, 10:30 THE GIVER (PG) Fri 1:55, 4:20, 7:00 Sat 1:40, 4:15, 7:00 Sun

1:10, 7:00 Mon-Wed 7:15 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu 3:00, 3:45, 6:00, 7:30, 9:00, 10:30 Fri 6:00, 9:00 Sat-Wed 3:00, 6:00, 9:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:00 Fri 8:00 Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:00 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG) Thu 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri, Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:20, 7:10, 10:05 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 3:25, 7:30, 10:30 Fri 3:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:55, 3:25, 6:50, 9:50 Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:00 IF I STAY (PG) Thu 4:30, 7:15, 7:30, 10:25 Fri 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 10:25 Sat-Sun 1:10, 4:50, 7:15, 10:25 Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:25 KUNDO: AGE OF THE RAMPANT Thu 3:10, 6:35, 9:55 FriSun 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:40 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu 7:30, 10:05, 10:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:20, 4:55, 7:30, 10:05 LOCKE (14A) Thu 4:50 LUCY (14A) 7:05, 9:25 Fri 2:10 mat, 4:35 Sat-Sun 11:55, 2:10 mat, 4:35 MARY KOM Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:50, 7:35, 10:20 Sat-Sun 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA Thu 7:00 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:10 Fri 1:50, 4:40, 7:25, 10:10 Sat 1:00, 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:50, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:25, 10:00, 10:10 RAJA NATWARLAL (PG) Thu 2:00, 6:05, 9:45 ROAD TO NINJA: NARUTO THE MOVIE Sun 12:30, 3:45, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 7:30 SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE (14A) Fri 4:30, 10:00 Sat 1:00, 7:00 Mon 4:30, 9:50 Tue 1:55, 7:15 Wed 4:30, 9:45 SWEARNET Thu 2:35, 6:15, 9:40 THE SWIMMER (PG) Sat 4:00 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Fri, Mon-Wed 1:50, 4:10 Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:10 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Wed 6:50, 9:20

Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444

BOYHOOD (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:20 Fri 4:30, 8:00 Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:00 CALVARY (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 7:40 Fri 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sat-Sun 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 CHEF (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 6:00, 8:30 Fri 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00 THE GIVER (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:30 Fri 4:10, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50 LET’S BE COPS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:40, 8:10 Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 7:50 Fri 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 Sat-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:10, 8:30 A MOST WANTED MAN (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:20 Fri 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 6:00, 8:40 WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:10, 8:00 Fri 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10

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675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Fri 9:15 Sat 9:20 Sun, Wed 7:00 THE LUNCHBOX (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 7:00 Sun 4:30

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SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236

AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 1:15, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 FriSat 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 10:00 Sun 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:35 Mon, Wed 2:15, 4:30, 6:50, 9:15 Tue 2:10, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50

THE CAPTIVE Fri-Sat 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:15 Mon, Wed 2:25, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Tue 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 THE F WORD (14A) Thu 1:25, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Sat 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 Sun 1:25, 3:50, 6:45, 9:15 Mon, Wed 2:35, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10 Tue 1:25, 3:50, 6:40, 9:10 FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR 3D (18A) Thu 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Fri 7:40, 10:15 Sat 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:05 Mon 2:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:25 Tue 1:55, 10:10 Wed 2:00, 4:20, 9:25 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 1:40, 4:30 Sun 1:30, 4:30 Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:40 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY 3D (PG) Thu, Sun, Tue 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat 7:30, 10:30 Mon, Wed 7:25, 10:15 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu, Tue 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:40 Sat 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05 Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10 Mon 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 Wed 4:45, 7:30, 10:15 IF I STAY (PG) Thu 1:50, 6:40, 9:20 Fri-Sat 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Sun 1:40, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:05 Tue 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 Wed 4:10, 7:00, 10:05 NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: MEDEA Thu 7:00 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) Thu, Tue 1:30, 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10 Sun 1:20, 4:00, 7:10, 9:55 Mon, Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 SWEARNET Thu 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES (PG) Thu 3:40 Fri-Sat 2:30, 5:10 Sun 2:20, 5:00 Mon, Wed 2:40, 5:00 Tue 1:15, 3:40 TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES 3D (PG) Thu 9:10 FriSat 8:00, 10:25 Sun 7:50, 10:15 Mon, Wed 7:20, 9:50 Tue 6:30, 9:20

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FRANK MILLER’S SIN CITY: A DAME TO KILL FOR (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30 GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY (PG) 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20 THE HUNDRED-FOOT JOURNEY (PG) Thu 1:20, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 Mon 4:10, 7:10, 9:40 IF I STAY (PG) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30 THE NOVEMBER MAN (14A) 1:00, 3:40, 6:50, 9:50

KINGSWAY THEATRE (I) 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939

CHEF (14A) Thu 12:05, 8:45 Fri-Wed 3:25, 8:50 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Thu 12:15 FRANK (14A) Thu 8:35 Fri-Wed 7:05, 10:35 THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A) Thu 3:45 Fri-Wed 12:00 AN HONEST LIAR (PG) Thu 5:15 Fri-Wed 2:55 IDA (PG) Thu 10:45 Fri-Wed 11:30 IT WAS YOU CHARLIE (14A) Thu 7:00 MAGIC IN THE MOONLIGHT (PG) Thu 10:25, 2:00, 7:00 Fri-Wed 1:40, 7:05 MALEFICENT (PG) Fri-Wed 5:25 MR. PEABODY & SHERMAN (G) Sat-Sun 10:25 NIGHT TRAIN TO LISBON (14A) Thu 3:15 Fri-Wed 1:00 OBVIOUS CHILD (14A) Thu 10:15 Fri-Wed 8:45 WALKING THE CAMINO: SIX WAYS TO SANTIAGO (G) Thu 1:45, 5:25 Fri, Mon-Wed 10:25, 5:25 Sat-Sun 5:25 THE ZERO THEOREM (14A) Thu 10:35 Fri-Wed 10:15

QUEENSWAY (CE)

1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 AS ABOVE, SO BELOW (14A) Thu 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35 Fri 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:50 Sat, Mon-Wed 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25 continued on page 86 œ

WHEN THE GAME STANDS TALL (Thomas

Carter) is a botched attempt to create a faith-based Friday Night Lights. This tale of a high school football team with a 151game winning streak is overlong, clichéd, and never able to bring all of its characters together into a coherent whole. 115 min. NN (Andrew Parker) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Eglinton Town Centre, Queensway, SilverCity Yorkdale 3 NOW SEPTEMBER 4-10 2014

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SAT 6 – The Forbidden Films Of Bugs Bunny

463 BATHURST. 416-603-6643.

THU 4 – Gertrud (1964) D: Carl Theodore Drey-

ñ= Critics’ pick (highly recommended)

er. 8 pm.

and friends. 7 pm. Salo: 120 Days Of Sodom (1975) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 9 pm. SUN 7 – The Gospel According To St Matthew (1964) D: Pier Paolo Pasolini. 2 pm. Siddhartha (1972) D: Conrad Rooks. 4 pm. Metropolis (1927) D: Fritz Lang. 6 pm. Kid Dracula: Nosferatu (1922) D: FW Murnau w/ soundtrack of Radiohead’s Kid A and OK Computer albums. 9 pm. MON 1 – The Amorphous Mind Police Factor (2014) D: Chris Minz. 8 pm. TUE 2 – Oz/Darkside: The Wizard Of Oz (1939) D: Victor Fleming and George Cukor w/ soundtrack of Pink Floyd’s The Darkside Of The Moon. 8 pm. WED 3 – Don’t Look Back (1967) D: DA Pennebaker. 7 pm.

All listings are free. Send to: events@nowtoronto.com, fax to 416-364-1168 or mail to Rep Cinemas, NOW Magazine, 189 Church, Toronto M5B 1Y7. Include film title, year of release, names of director(s), language and subtitle info, venue, address, time, cost and advance ticket sales if any, phone number for reservations/info or website address. Deadline is the Thursday before publication at 5 pm.

FESTIVALS CABBAGETOWN SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

WINCHESTER STREET THEATRE, 80 WINCHESTER. CABBAGETOWNSHORTFILMANDVIDEOFESTIVAL.COM

FRI 5 – Festival of films from around the world and around the corner. $15. FRI 5 – One Night In Florida D: Tess Martin, Firecrackers D: James Mozaffari, Seasick D: Eva Cijanovic, A Mile In These Hooves D: James Brylowski, Flotsam & Jetsam D: Jan Berdnaz, Mano A Mano D: Ignacio Tatay, and others. 8 pm.

CARIBBEAN TALES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROYAL CINEMA, 608 COLLEGE. CARIBBEANTALES-EVENTS.COM

MON 8-SEP 13 – Festival of films from the

Caribbean diaspora. $10, festival pass $100.

MON 8 – Yurumein (2014) D: Andrea L Leland,

The Amerindians (2013) D: Tracy Assing, Punta Soul (2008) D: Nyasha Lang, and short Potato Nose. 6:30 pm. Thunder In Guyana (2003) D: Suzanne Wasserman, Darkie (2013) D: Shea Best, La Joie De Lire (2014) D: Dominique Telemaque, and short Rebecca’s Story. 9:30 pm. WED 10 – Passage (2013) D: Kareem Mortimer, and Poetry Is An Island-Derek Walcott (2013) D: Ida Does. 6:30 pm. Elza (2011) D: Mariette Monpierre, NOKA/Keeper Of The Worlds (2014) D: Shaun Escayg, and Not Today (2013) D: Mandisa Pantin. 9:30 pm.

TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX, 350 KING W, AND OTHER VENUES. 416-599-8433, TIFF.NET

THU 4-SEPT 14 – The 39th edition of one

LIFE AFTER BETH (Jeff Baena) Rating: NN Life After Beth has a fantastic cast and a really good premise. That it fails to do much with either is so damn disappointing. I Heart Huckabees co-writer Jeff Baena’s directorial debut starts off as a dry comedy about morose young Zach (Dane DeHaan), who’s been blindsided by the recent death of his beloved Beth (Aubrey Plaza). Except Beth isn’t dead exactly; she’s inexplicably returned home to her parents (John C. Reilly, Molly

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REITMAN SQUARE, 350 KING W. 416-599-8433, TIFF.NET

THU 4-SEPT 15 – A film festival for commuters,

tival screenings. FRI 5 – TIFF presents Bill Murray Day: Stripes (1981) D: Ivan Reitman. 10 am. Groundhog Day (1993) D: Harold Ramis. 12:45 pm. Ghostbusters (1984) D: Ivan Reitman. 3:30 pm. St Vincent (2014) D: Theodore Melfi. 9 pm. Free.

screening silent one-minute film, video and animation from across Canada and around the world. Films run every 10 minutes on subway platform screens all over the city. Free w/ TTC fare. Films can also be viewed online.

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THU 4 – 112 Weddings (2014) D: Doug Block. 4 pm. Alive Inside (2014) D: Michael RossatoBennett. 6:30 pm. Life Itself (2014) D: Steve James. 8:45 pm. FRI 5-SEPT 14 – Toronto International Film Festival screenings.

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THU 4 – X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (2014)

Life After Beth lurches around

of the biggest film festivals in the world. See cover story, reviews and features in the special TIFF guide, from page 25.

REVUE CINEMA

Even ﬁne actors Dane DeHaan and Aubrey Plaza can’t resuscitate this pic.

Shannon), who don’t understand the circumstances of her resurrection but are happy to have her back. Zach’s happy, too, though he worries about Beth’s new unpredictable mood swings and explosive temper. Those of us who’ve seen Return Of The Living Dead 3 and Zombie Honeymoon will be ahead of the plot, which wouldn’t be a problem if Life After Beth went somewhere different – or anywhere at all. Instead, Baena just keeps humping his premise – it’s hard to miss someone when they won’t go

away – long after it runs out of steam, and he doesn’t have the budget to it play out on the scale that it needs. DeHaan and Plaza give it their best shot, and Anna Kendrick and Matthew Gray Gubler pop up in small parts that suggest much more intriguing possibilities, but this is a dead movie walking. Opens Friday (September 5) at the Royal. See listings, this page.

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SAT 6- – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. Noon & 2 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm. SUN 7 – Island Of Lemurs: Madagascar. Noon & 2 pm. Under The Sea. 1 pm.

CBC MUSEUM, CBC BROADCAST CENTRE, 250 FRONT W, 416-205-5574. CBC.CA

Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm. Free. THU 4-FRI 5 & MON 8-WED 10 – Highlights of current programming.

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FOX THEATRE

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THU 4 – X-Men: Days Of Future Past 3D (2014) D: Bryan Singer. 7 pm. Begin ñ Again (2013) D: John Carney. 9:30 pm. FRI 5 – Boyhood (2014) D: Richard Linklater. 6:30 pm. Dawn Of The Planet Of ñ The Apes 3D (2014) D: Matt Reeves. 9:40 pm. SAT 6-SUN 7 – Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D. 12:30 & 9:40 pm. ñ Boyhood. 3 & 6:30 pm. MON 8 – Boyhood. 6:30 pm. Dawn Of The Planet Of The Apes 3D. 9:40 pm. TUE 9-WED 10 – Boyhood. 6:30 pm. Walking The Camino: Six Ways To Santiago (2013) D: Lydia Smith. 9:40 pm.

Celebrate Bill Murray Day September 5 at the Lightbox with 1981’s Stripes, starring Murray (left) and Warren Oates.

= Critics’ Pick NNNNN = Top ten of the year NNNN = Honourable mention NNN = Entertaining NN = Mediocre N = Bomb

D: Bryan Singer. 7 pm. A Most Wanted Man (2014) D: Anton Corbijn. 9:30 pm. FRI 5 – Boyhood (2014) D: Richard Linklater. 6:30 pm. Lucy (2014) D: Luc Besson. 9:45 pm. SAT 6-SUN 7 – How to Train your Dragon 2 3D (2014) D: Dean DeBlois. 1 pm. Boyhood. 3 & 6:30 pm. Lucy. 9:45 pm. MON 8 – Boyhood. 6:30 pm. Lucy. 9:45 pm. TUE 9 – Lucy. 7 pm. Boyhood. 9 pm. WED 10 – Boyhood. 1 & 6:30 pm. The Grand Seduction (2013) D: Don McKellar. 9:45 pm.

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THU 4 – Lawrence & Holloman (2013) D: Matthew Kowalchuck. 9 pm.

FRI 5 – Welcome To New York (2014) D: Abel

Ferrara. 6:45 pm. Life After Beth (2014) D: Jeff Baena. 9:15 pm. SAT 6 – Life After Beth. 4 & 9:15 pm. Welcome To New York. 6:45 pm. SUN 7 –Welcome To New York. 4 & 6:45 pm. Life After Beth. 9:15 pm. MON 8 – CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. See listings, this page. 6:30 pm. Welcome To New York. 6:45 pm. TUE 9 – Welcome To New York. 6:45 pm. Life After Beth. 9:15 pm. WED 10 – CaribbeanTales International Film Festival. See listings, this page. 6:30 pm.

OTHER FILMS THU 4-WED 10 –

The CN Tower presents Legends Of Flight 3D. Continuous screenings daily 10 am-9 pm. 301 Front W. cntower.ca. Casa Loma presents The Pellatt Newsreel (2006) D: Barbra Cooper, a film and permanent exhibit on the history of Casa Loma and Henry Pellatt. Daily screenings 10 am-4:30 pm. Included w/ admission. 1 Austin Terrace. 416-923-1171, casaloma.org. The Hockey Hall of Fame presents Stanley’s Game Seven 3D, a film of Stanley Cup history. Plays daily at the top and half past each hour. Mon-Sat 9:30 am-6 pm, Sun 10 am-6 pm. Included w/ admission. Brookfield Place, 30 Yonge. hhof.com. THU 4 – TAS and Fresh City present the documentary Food Fighters D: Paula Kaston, about alternatives to large-scale food production. 8 pm. Free (RSVP).The Farm Lot, 369 King W. freshcityfarms.com/events/farm-lot/filmnight. TUE 9 – Green 13 and Annette Library present Qapirangaguq D: Zacharias Kunuk. Director and filmmaker Ian Mauro discuss the ecological and social impacts of a warming Arctic and how the Inuit are adapting. 6:15 pm. Free. 145 Annette. green13toronto.org. 3

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Porn hate-on irrational My wife and i went through a long-

distance period when we were still dating and she went away to school. I used porn as a masturbatory aid during that time. I did not tell her this, as she believes that porn use is equivalent to cheating. Well, fast-forward a couple of years (and a marriage), and I let it slip that I had watched some porn during the times we were apart. She flew off the handle, and ever since then insists that we can’t have children because I’m a pedophile for watching porn that may or may not have contained women acting like teenagers. She literally yells at me in public if my gaze goes anywhere near girls or women she perceives to be younger than she is. The same goes for watching TV, looking at magazines, you name it. A lot of this stems from her best friend’s cousin, who worked with people in the porn industry and seduced underage girls into sexual acts. To her, watching porn is the same as what this guy did, but I am pretty sure I am not a sexual predator. I’ve never made any kind of sexual advance toward anyone else in the time I’ve been with her, and until my admission, she assumed I was a generally good person. At this point, I’m not sure how to get her to see me for the person I am rather than the person she thinks I’ve become. How do I convince her I am still the same person she fell in love with and get her to put aside this irrational fear she has about me? Sincerely Not A Pedophile DTMFA. There’s just one thing you should be trying to convince your wife of right now, SNAP, and it’s this: you aren’t gonna put up with her abusive bullshit any more. So go gather your things together – don’t forget your balls – and move the hell out. Because this conflict has nothing to do with porn, it has nothing to do with your character, and it has nothing to do with the criminal behaviour of your wife’s best friend’s cousin (whatever the fuck to that rationalization). The issue here – the only issue – is that you made the mistake of marrying a controlling, irrational, abusive psycho. Sticking around to reason with a CIAP doesn’t get you anywhere. Begging and pleading with your wife – desperately trying to convince her that you’re the person she fell in love with – only demonstrates that you’ll take whatever she dishes out and come crawling back for more. Get out. Leave. Don’t look back. DTMFA. Want a second opinion? I posted your letter to my blog, and here’s what one of the more astute commenters had to say: “This is what happens when you marry someone you already know you have to lie and cheat to be with. She set her conditions plainly—she feels porn use is evil. You knew you were fine with porn use and used it yourself. You should have broken up for irreconcilable differences then and there. But instead you chose to lie and to pretend to be someone you weren’t. Break up now and find someone who accepts you for who you are.” There you go, SNAP. This advice columnist and an anonymous commenter both agree that you have to leave this

woman. Do you fear being alone? You shouldn’t. Being alone – and being free to enjoy porn – is better than being with someone like your wife. But if you can’t stand the thought of being alone, if you absolutely, positively must stay with this woman for reasons you don’t list (does she have any redeeming qualities?), then you will have to tell the CIAP what she wants to hear: you did a terrible thing (you didn’t), you’re an addict (you’re not), you have a problem (you don’t). Find a therapist for some confidential sessions, talk about the weather, then come home and tell your wife that you’ve been cured and that you will never look at porn – or other women – ever again. And even if you never look at porn ever again – which isn’t likely – your controlling, irrational, abusive spouse will find something else to blow up at you about. If you don’t take my advice and DTMFA now, SNAP, you’re gonna have to DTMFA at some point.

Bondage and pregnancy My husband and i had been in the

market for some Japanese bondage rope and finally found a kit we liked. The day before it arrived, I found out I was pregnant. My husband was excited when he opened the package, but the pregnancy means we probably won’t be able to use them for a long time. The ropes are now set aside, unused. Personally, I don’t think I can wait. However, since we’re both very new to rope

bondage (and bondage in general), I would prefer if we knew what we were doing. Are there any resources you can point me in the direction of that can give us some guidance in safe rope bondage practices (specifically during a pregnancy), or should we just play it vanilla until the baby arrives? Bondage With Baby If you go to BabyCenter.com and search “safe to ski while pregnant,” you’ll find a post that says, yeah, skiing is safe enough during the first two trimesters and highly unlikely to harm the fetus – barring a major accident. (Skiing is obviously no-go during the third trimester.) Mary Lake Polan, chair emeritus of the department of gynecology and obstetrics at Stanford University school of medicine, included this in her response to the skiing-while-pregnant question: “[The] baby is very well protected in the uterus – it usually takes a car accident or major trauma to harm the baby.” I’ve never been pregnant myself, BWB, but I snowboard and I have been tied up – and snowboarding is a lot more physically taxing. Twisted Monk, a bondage expert and hemp rope merchant (twistedmonk.com), advises couples who want to do bondage while one partner is pregnant to stick to “limb ties” (rope around arms and legs, no rope around torsos and breasts). Hardcore BDSMers are advised to avoid serious pain and/or fear play, as both can result in the release of stress hormones; fetal exposure to stress hormones has been linked to

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low birth weight, restricted blood flow to the uterus and adult mood disorders. So stick to limb ties only, BWB, avoid scary fear-play scenes and don’t let your husband tie you up in a moving car.

Sexless marriage plan i have been Married for 26 years and

dated my wife for two years before that. We have not been intimate for the last 11 years. I have been going to a sex therapist to deal with this issue. My wife says that she will make an appointment but does not follow through. She now has informed me that she never wants to have sex again. It seems strange to want to leave this marriage over sex, but what other options do I have? Sexless Husband Is Troubled You’re not a regular reader, SHIT, are you? If you were, you would know that your options are hiring sex workers, cheating on your wife (but it hardly counts as cheating, as you’re not cheating your wife out of anything she wants) or seeing other women with your wife’s permission. Go ask your wife what she wants – an open marriage or a failed one? – and then make your move(s). On the Savage Lovecast, fashion forceof-nature Simon Doonan weighs in on camel toes: savagelovecast.com. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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