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thanks for your recent coverage of the bedbug situation (NOW, September 2-8). I’m thrilled to see this problem getting more media coverage and hoping it’ll inspire some young mad scientist entrepreneur to concoct a solution soon. If there’s one place everyone I know fears getting bedbugs, it’s on the TTC. Can we please get rid of those filthy plush seats ASAP?! There’s a good reason why they used to be plastic.The long Queen streetcar ride has me bracing myself when I guiltily sit down from exhaustion. Those seats need to be replaced with something Windex-able. Then seal the doors and Vikane that shit once a month. Mish G Toronto
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yep, i lost my iphone, from which I was tweeting images of the G20 demonstrations (NOW, September 2-8). After a dozen calls to Toronto Police, after emails sending them photo evidence that, yes, I did have my iPhone with me when I was arrested, after being made to contact the officer who sat on me and punched me while another man strangled me and punched me in the head, I was told that they had no record of my iPhone. I had to replace my iPhone at my own expense. Many others have also
had their equipment confiscated, with the police denying they took it. Who do you call? Some have reported their cameras returned to them with the video cassettes missing or memory cards erased. The Alternative Media Centre in Toronto is working to collect information on the cameras/images/footage that were broken/stolen/erased. Canadian Journalists for Free Expression is also collecting information on acts of censorship during the G20 protests. These efforts should be supported. Lacy MacAuley Washington, DC
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letter writer jeremy sager’s objection to gumming up the pavement (NOW, August 26-September 1) is right on. I’d like him to know what the nuns at my Toronto school had to say about gum-chewers back in the 1940s. They accepted that we would chew and told us there were only two ac-
ceptable ways to get rid of the stuff: wrap it and throw it in a garbage can, or swallow it. And why not? The gum has already been in your mouth for a while. And after all, the germs it contains should be kept to yourself, like a sneeze, and not shared with others. EJ 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.
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frankly, i am very disappointed with Eldon Garnet’s complaint about the None Is Too Many monument (NOW, September 2-8). One can like or dislike Daniel Libeskind, but he has a world-class reputation for a reason. Libeskind was chosen by a jury in a fair competition. Such whining by artists who are not chosen is in my view unseemly and disrespectful. Guest
Ford folly
i find joshua errett’s how much Does Rob Ford Weigh? (NOW Daily, September 1) disgusting. I hate personal attacks like this. Stop with it, honestly. I’m definitely against Ford’s politics and views, but let’s focus on those issues, not on physical attributes. If this was done in the National Post against a left-wing candidate, you would be calling them bigots and intolerant. You have now sunk to shit level. Shameful. Chris P
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regarding love for labour Lost (NOW Daily, September 3). Labour rights have gone downhill. The mayoral candidates debate youth unemployment, but most of the traditional restaurant and summer youth jobs have gone over to immigrants and laid-off factory workers. In the service industry, chef schools send workers (calling them trainees) to restaurants to work for free. In many cases, they can be refugees as well. How can our youth compete? It’s college and big debt, with no parttime work to help pay the bills. Jamey Franks
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Joe Pantalone The left’s standard-bearer in the race for mayor wins the official invite to the Labour Day parade. Howls of outrage follow from the Rocco Rossi and Sarah Thomson camps. See our story, page 14.
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Who: Russell Stewart of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union What: Labour Day Parade Where: Queen West, Monday, September 6, 2010
the POLL Worth seeing WE ASKED Academy Award-winning director Jonathan Demme’s collection of Haitian and Jamaican art at the Gladstone Hotel, to September 16. On Sunday (September 12), 2 pm, Demme hosts a benefit screening of his 2003 documentary, The Agronomist, there. Tickets $20.
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The papers seem certain that former OPP commish and fave T.O. son (LOL) Julian Fantino will run for Harper’s Tories in Vaughan. Others say he should think twice. The timing is all wrong. A by-election in November is too soon for the just-retired cop to line up enough ducks. And Fantino wants a coronation, but Vaughan’s no cakewalk. It may be the safest Liberal seat in the country, won by outgoing MP Maurizio Bevilacqua in seven straight elections since 88. Besides, isn’t Rob Ford hyping Julie for a return to the top cop job when he’s mayor? (We’re only half-joking here.) Scarier scenario: Julie gets the gig as head of security for the Pan Am Games and it’s G20 all over again.
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The Bridging Project, an art intervention on and under the traffic bridge on Lawrence Avenue east of Orton in Scarborough, is unveiled Friday and Saturday (September 11 and 12), with two days of arts, music and performances. The summer-long project evolved over concerns from youth and other residents that the six-lane bridge was physically cutting the KingstonGalloway/Orton Park community in two. Perhaps no more.
The number of tribes facing extinction in Colombia because of continuing violence between guerrilla groups and government troops, according to a new UN report. A contributing factor: the recruitment of indigenous youth into armed groups. Colombia’s indigenous people make up 15 per cent of the country’s 4 million internal refugees, despite representing little more than 2 per cent of the total population.
BAROMETER Toronto trees LEAF reports that the hot summer is wreaking havoc on the city’s canopy, putting our trees at risk of permanent damage.
Bill Blair He cops to bad policing decisions during the G20 kettling incident at Queen and Spadina. Is the chief’s admission meant to mitigate the damage from multimillion-dollar lawsuits against the force? Probably, but stupid all the same. Sounds like civil suit signatories have an open-and-shut case.
Tony Blair (no relation to Bill, above) Unrepentant over his support for the Iraq War, the former Brit PM is pelted with eggs and shoes at a Dublin book-signing for his recently released memoir. Mistakes, Blair’s made a few.
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Breathing room opens up for the choice of the left as rivals take hard right turn By ENZO DiMATTEO the scene: the green room at tvo studios on Yonge Street. The occasion: the first post-Labour Day mayoral debate, which aired Tuesday (September 7). Stage left: the standard-bearer of the city’s progressive forces, Joe Pantalone, studiously poring over briefing notes. He’s got his game face on. He’ll emerge an hour later from the taping to declare himself the winner to the assembled media. “Okay. Who wants to talk to Joe Pantalone?” he asks, clapping his hands and rubbing them a little. No takers among the television types. Citytv’s too busy hounding Rob Ford for a quote on accessibility
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issues. Go figure. The others corner Rocco Rossi and George Smitherman for a sound bite. Pantalone doesn’t let on, but the episode can’t be anything but deflating. Getting serious notice hasn’t been easy for him. As part of the David Miller regime that’s found itself talking to a hostile City Hall press gallery in its last days, Pantalone has few friends in this group. Even his big moment in the sun this week, being introduced as labour’s choice at the annual Labour Day parade Monday, was crashed by Rossi and Sarah Thomson. They weren’t invited by the official organizers but came anyway to rain on
Pantalone’s parade – and they did, hogging the press coverage. The silver lining for Pantalone is that Rossi’s and Thomson’s antics may be a clue that at least some of his opponents are taking his campaign seriously. The sight of Pantalone marching in front of 20,000 strong unionists should unnerve his competition, all of whom have been talking about bringing the city’s unions to heel and privatizing city services. The challenge for Pantalone, however, hasn’t been just getting heard by the masses, but also overcoming the “default candidate of the left” label he’s carried since the mayoral bid of the chosen one, Adam Giambrone,
went down in flames in February. The opposition has been both within and without. There’s a generation gap for Pantalone to overcome among his lefty constituency, too; the young activists in the enviro and labour movements so keen on Giambrone and important to David Miller’s mayoralty could defect to Smitherman if and when the time comes to head off Ford. They may want to reconsider now that Smitherman is following Ford’s lead and drifting incomprehensibly further to the right. “George Smitherman doesn’t know who he is,” Pantalone tells me . “All he knows is that he wants to be mayor. That’s not good enough.” On the policy front, Pantalone’s got his bases covered. After 30 years in municipal politics, you’d expect nothing less. Check his platform: he actually has one that doesn’t involve selling off assets holus-bolus or privatizing one aspect or another of the public service. Which is to say that unlike some of his opponents, Pantalone is looking to build on what he calls the “transformative” accomplishments of the last seven years and invest rather than cut spending and services. His emphasis has been on the positive – a novel approach given all the vitriol from his opponents about what’s supposedly wrong with the city. Listening to them, you’d think we lived in a bombed-out version of Buffalo, despite good evidence to the contrary: a UN rating as one of the top cities in the world, accolades for our green initiatives, a double-A rating from Moody’s. Trying to outrun the Miller legacy early in the race, Pantalone seems now to continued on page 16 œ miChael watier
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GEORGE SMITHERMAN Tongues are wagging about the Furious One after he told a Rocco Rossi volunteer to “screw off” outside Hart House’s youth jobs debate last week. Rossi volunteers contend Smitherman actually said, “Go fuck yourself.” Either way, the episode highlights once again why some people say the heir apparent lacks the self-control to be mayor. Move over, Rob Ford. With Smitherman, it goes deeper than his rep as a taskmaster, which he’s been spinning as a positive on the campaign trail, claiming to be someone who gets things done. So what if a few egos are bruised in the process, right? Reality is, the former health minister has cut off – and turned off – a lot of people on his way to the top, which won’t help at crunch time in two or three weeks, when Smitherman will need all the help he can get to stay in the game. The good news for his fans is that the Smitherman camp is finally starting to realize this and has gone into rehab overdrive. Act One in the candidate’s public penance played out at TVO’s mayoral debate Tuesday, September 7. A contrite and often introspective Smitherman acknowledged making mistakes, the first heartfelt comments on his “Furious” label in the campaign. Not even Ford’s suggestion that Smitherman couldn’t be trusted with the public purse strings because of the $1 billion boondoggle, aka the eHealth scandal, got his goat. But Ford may be getting a lawyer’s letter for that hint he left hanging in the air that palms were greased.
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have embraced it full on. He says those early mixed signals were to help distinguish him from the mayor, and he hints now at a possible endorsement from Miller. As his deputy for the past six-plus years, that would seem a given. No more soft-pedalling on Transit City either, the ambitious plan to build light rail transit across the city. The plan he seemed to distance himself from early in the race, invoking the spectre of St. Clair-style budget overruns, was a flashpoint. Unlike some of his opponents, he’s had no skeletons rattling around in the closet – no lost DUI convictions
Backroom Buzz There’s another theory about why Grit strategist Warren Kinsella is backing Rocco Rossi: he has a hateon for George Smitherman. Apparently the animus goes way back to an incident where Furious George wouldn’t shake Kinsella’s hand. Kinsella says his main target is Rob Ford. Makes sense – Kinsella’s the guy who’ll be calling the shots for the provincial Liberals in the upcoming 2011 campaign, and the last thing he’ll want is Ford at the helm in Toronto. But if Ford wins, it could help just as much as hurt the Grits’ provincial re-election efforts. With Ford in the mayor’s chair it won’t take long for Torontonians to remember what life was like in the mean old days of edm Mike Harris.
or assault charges, no “I didn’t inhale” stories or incidents involving telling rival campaign volunteers to go fuck themselves. Pantalone would seem a natural for a city looking for a steady hand on the tiller in tumultuous times, even if, as he acknowledged during the TVO debate, he’s not the kind of guy “that’s going to set the prairie grass on fire just by entering the room.” But no such luck so far, at least according to recent polls. Where does Pantalone fit in? It seems you can’t talk about politics without talking about aesthetics, as harsh as that may sound. In front of the cameras, he’s still very much finding his feet. “I’m getting better – that’s what people tell me,” he says. The diminutive Pantalone likes to joke about his height. That self-deprecation is mildly endearing, but I wish he’d stop it, because it can only diminish him in the eyes of some voters, and in politics looking the part is just as important as playing the part. During the TVO debate, Rossi made a crack about basketball being Pantalone’s weakness. So others must be, too, even if it’s only in fun. Another theme that gets Pantalone laughs on the campaign trail is the one about how he came from Italy at the age of 13 speaking only two words of English: “ya” and “no.” But his rags-to-deputy-mayor immigrant story is no joke. Unlike the other paisan in this race, Pantalone likes to say that he went to Harbord, not Harvard (actually Princeton in Rossi’s case). Pantalone also has a degree in geography from U of T). It’s too bad that inspiring narrative is getting lost in the political ether. For just as there may be questions for voters about Pantalone, there’s
also a question about Toronto voters: are they ready for a guy like Pantalone, an anti-candidate who doesn’t quite fit the mould? For some, it may be hard to get past the accented English. As articulate as Pantalone is, there’s no getting around the fact that he speaks a different language, literally as well as politically. His is the discursive style of philosophers. Sometimes the tangents are too many, which throws listeners off track and makes him a little hard to understand. But if Toronto’s ready for an openly gay mayor – albeit one with a name that doesn’t end in a vowel – then maybe we’re ready for Pantalone. He’s certainly seemed more in the game lately, getting that furrow in his brow and a little fire in his belly. “We’re in a fight for the soul of the city,” he says. No doubt a few among his lefty supporters wish he’d get a little angrier in debates, but that’s just not Pantalone. There’s a reason he’s managed to be a player at City Hall through the political thick and thin over three decades. Pantalone’s kept his friends close and perceived political enemies closer. During the Lastman regime, he alone among the lefties was able to snag key posts – and smooth the way for a young up-and-comer who’d be a future mayor, one David Miller, to land a seat on the TTC board. Who can lay more claim to the mayoralty? Neither Rossi nor Thomson has the experience. Smitherman is unclear on just what he stands for. And Ford, to put it mildly, is no consensus-builder. For Pantalone, there’s nowhere to go but up. 3
Ward Watch Trinity-Spadina (Ward 19) In Trinity-Spadina (Ward 19), whe re all e ye s are on Mike Layton (the son of the fe de ral NDP le ade r ope ne d his campaign office Se pte mbe r 8), rival Kare n Sun is the one making big move s, snagging two ke y e ndorse me nts this we e k. Long-time labour and community activists and NDPers Winnie Ng and Tam Goosse n are both getting behind Sun, executive director of the Chinese Canadian National Council (Toronto chapter). Layton announced the backing of Joe Pantalone, the former local councillor now running for mayor, earlier in the campaign.
But Sun’s got a leg up in social justice circles, where she’s got cred to burn as a founding member of the Good Jobs for All Coalition. The younger Layton has the NDP machine at his disposal, but others have here, too, and lost (Helen Kennedy against Adam Vaughan comes to mind). Make -or-bre ak may be the e thnic Chine se vote , where Sun should be a natural, but Layton has an ace in the hole in the shape of one Olivia Chow, the federal NDP member for the riding who also happens to be Jack Layton’s partner. edm
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In a turbulent time when the prospects of stormy weather and other game-changing mishaps are likelier than ever, the need for locally based plan Bs has become a primary element of any government’s due diligence. Resilience has become the watchword for 21st-century public responsibility. Since local food is central to urban survival (most cities are only three days’ food away from the breakdown of public order), fortifying the sector is a government imperative on a par with other public health preparedness measures such as prevention of infectious disease. For that reason, and this is really why Hurricane Earl changed my thinking, the essential public safety role of local food needs to be understood as beyond politics. The mark of social progress over the past 100 years has been the number of policies that have moved beyond politics: think of free speech, public safety (firefighting, for instance), public education, human rights codes, infectious disease prevention (it’s why we have government-run garbage collection, running water and sewage, for example) and public medical insurance, for example. There’s a consensus on all of these issues across the political spectrum. Local food systems now need to be added to that list. Therefore, I’ve decided to become a refusenik when it comes to fighting right-wing extremists who’ve recently decided to belittle the importance of local food. I am not going to play their game by conceding that the need for local agriculture should become an area for political contestation and cultural conflict. It is a public policy imperative that benefits everyone, and the primary debate needs to be about how to move in that direction. To give the big food companies credit, it’s unlikely they’ve retained a motley crew of poorly informed excontinued on page 20 œ
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Soc talk. 7:30 pm. Free. Leaside Library, 165 McRaae. 416-396-3835. Poetry As our seCond lAnguAge Drop-in workshop on traditional Filipino forms of poetry and other poetry styles. 6-8 pm. $10. Kapisanan Philippine Centre, 167 Augusta. 416-979-0600. rrosh hAshonAh Secular Jewish New Year celebration with music by David Wall, holiday readings, blowing of the shofar and more. 10:30 am. $50, stu $25, child $20. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. Preregister 416-789-5502. urBAn indulgenCe CluB Learn about the history, production and processing of coffee, tea, beer, wine, chocolate, cheese and more. 6:30-8:30. $40. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-9734093, harbourfrontcentre.com. witness in literAture Women’s Canadian Club talk by author Kim Echlin. 2 pm. $10. St Andrew’s United Church, 117 Bloor E. 416463-3405.
Friday, September 10 dAnCe For JustiCe (Amnesty Int’l) Hip-hop,
flamenco, Latin, classical, Indian and African dancers and aerial artists perform in support of human rights. 7-10 pm. $30. Fleck Theatre, 231 Queens Quay W. aito.ca/justice.
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festivals • expos • sports etc.
Festivals rAllende Arts FestivAl Latin American art, music, dance, poetry, banner-making and more. Free. George Brown College (230 Richmond E), Artscape Wychwood Barns (601 Christie). allendefestival.com. Sep 10 to 25 Brews Fest Beer sampling, demos, local foods, live music and more. 11 am-5 pm. Free w/ admission. Black Creek Pioneer Village, Jane and Steeles. 416-736-1733. Sep 11 and 12 rFestivAl in the squAre Music with Melanie Doan, Matt Dusk, Amy Sky and others, scavenger hunts, rock climbing, breakdancing and more. Free. Shops at Don Mills, 1090 Don Mills. shopsatdonmills.ca. Sep 10 to 12 MoBileinnovAtionweek Festival celebrating local and international mobile innovators. Various prices and venues. mobileinnovationweek.com. Sep 13 to 18 rroAld dAhl FestivAl A performance of The Srumpdiddlyumptious Storyteller Soiree, storytelling music, workshops, a dance party and more to celebrate the children’s author. $5-$20. Theatre Direct, Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie. smallprinttoronto.org. Sep 11 and 12
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toronto internAtionAl FilM FestivAl
rCABBAgetown FestivAl Fall harvest ac-
Screenings of more than 300 films from Canada and around the world plus director discussions, film-craft workshops and more. $20-$38, passes $139-$524 (stu discounts avail). Various venues. 416-9683456, tiff.net. Sep 9 to 19 toronto urBAn FilM FestivAl One-minute silent films screen on TTC subway platform screens across the city. Free w/ fare. am-noon. Free. Ryerson U Heaslip House, 297 Victoria. 416-979-5000 ext 6297. Ghostly tour and tales of the finance and entertainment districts. 6:30-9 pm. $25, srs/ stu $18, child $15. Old City Hall front steps, Queen and Bay. Pre-register 416-923-6813, torontowalksbikes.com. PlAyBoy’s good liFe PArty Historic Playboy Club images and video, live music, artists, Playmates, body painting and host Bridget Marquardt. 9 pm-4 am. $175. Muzik, 15 Sas-
Pears on the Avenue, 164 Avenue. rick@nkpr. net. giAnt Book & Furniture sAle (Zen Buddhist Temple) Fiction, non-fiction, art, lamps, furniture and more. Today 11 am-6 pm, tomorrow 11 am-6 pm. Free. 297 College. 416-6580137. kAroAke FundrAiser (World Accord/Daughters Cambodia) Evening of karaoke fun. 7 pm1:30 am. $20, stu pwyc. Mayday Malone’s Pub, 1078 Bathurst. worldaccord.org. roCk For hoPe (Aidindia.org) Concert with Indian Ocean. 8 pm. $35-$75. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. yehhailife.com.
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torontourbanfilmfestival.com. Sep 10 to 19
tivities, walking tours, a pub crawl, film and video festival, arts and crafts sale, theatre and more. Various prices, many events free. Riverdale Park and Parliament S of Wellesley. cabbagetownfestival.org. To Sep 12 rJunCtion Arts FestivAl Art, live music, performance art, dance, kids’ events and more with KlezFactor, Snjezana Isakovic, Laura Hubert, Jill Battson and others. katchewan. playboygoodlifetour.com. sAy Cheese! sAy Cheers! Late harvest beerand cheese-tasting event. 7-9 pm. $30. Black Creek Pioneer Village, 1000 Murray Ross. 416-667-6284. toronto swing dAnCe oPen house Demos and info on classes. 8 pm-midnight. $5. Lithuanian Hall, 1573 Bloor W. dancing.org/tsds. tut’s FinAl Journey Lecture on Tutankhamun’s burial chamber. 7 pm. Free. Earth Sciences Bldg, 5 Bancroft. 647-520-4339. vegetAriAn Food FAir Presentations, cook-
ing demos, workshops, vegetarian cuisine and more. Today 4-9 pm, tomorrow noon-9 pm, Sep 12 noon-7 pm. Free. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, veg.ca.
Astrid JAeger The voodoo expert discusses an exhibition of Haitian and Jamiacan art from the collection of Jonathan Demme. 1 pm. Free. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416531-4635. CAsA loMA Big BAnd dAnCe Dance to the sounds of the Toronto All-Star Big Band. 8 pm. $50. Casa Loma, 1 Austin Terrace. 416923-1171, casaloma.org. Flower show North York Garden Club show, competition, tea room and more. 2-5 pm. Free. Toronto Botanical Garden, 777 Lawrence E. northyorkgardenclub.ca. Flower show Scarborough Garden & Horticultural Soc show. 2-4 pm. Free. Scarborough Village Community Centre, 3600 Kingston. gardenontario.org. rgArden workshoP Kids learn how seeds grow into plants. Today and tomorrow 2 pm. Free w/ admission. Ontario Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. MArlBorough to suMMerhill Heritage Toronto walk. 1:30-3:30 pm. Free. Parkette on S corner of Avenue and MacPherson. heritagetoronto.org. the ruBAiyAt oF oMAr khAyyAM Humanist Assoc talk by David Calderisi. 1:30 pm. Free. OISE, rm 4-426, 252 Bloor W. humanist.toronto.on.ca. sF/AniMe FleA MArket Science fiction and anime merchandise. 10 am-4 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. friendsofmerril.org. toronto roller derBy Chicks Ahoy! vs Smoke City Betties. 6:30 pm. $18, adv $12. Downsview Park Hangar, 75 Carl Hall. torontorollerderby.com.
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Free. Dundas West from Indian Grove to St John’s Rd. junctionartsfest.com. To Sep 12 sound trAvels Festival of sound art with performances, installations, sound walks, talks, workshops and the Toronto Electroacoustic Symposium. NAISA Space, 601 Christie, studio 252, and other venues. naisa.ca. To Sep 25 t.o. indie FilM FestivAl Screenings of independent films. $8, pass $50, opening night free. Toronto Underground Cinema, 186 Spadina. film-fest.ca. To Sep 18
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Artists For PeACe And JustiCe FundrAiser
(Artists for Peace and Justice) An interactive red-carpet event with special guests including Paul Haggis and James Franco raises funds for children in Haiti. 9 pm. Donation.
55 km for a family-friendly bike trip. $45/day, kids under 12 free. Shuttle bus to starting point available ($15). Meet at MEC, 400 King W, at 7:30 am (rides begin at 10 am). Preregister tourdegreenbelt.ca.
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The earth quaked in Haiti nine months ago, but the damage still lingers, andfilmmaker Jonathan Demme knows it. He hits town Sunday (September 12), at 2 pm, to screen his 2003 documentary, The Agronomist, to benefit the Haitian Relief Fund. The film tracks radio journalist and human rights activist Jean Dominique, and Demme hangs around after the screening to field questions. It’s a rare opportunity to get face time with a major movie talent (Rachel Getting Married, Oscar winner The Silence Of The Lambs). Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen West. $20. 416531-4635.
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The race for mayor’s a sizzler, but which candidate scores when it comes to social fairness, strong services and decent public sector jobs? Who gets the equity prize for new strategies to close the grow-
ing divide between the city’s haves and have-nots. Check out the contenders at Building A Fair Toronto For All, a debate hosted by Equity Toronto and Good Jobs for All and moderated by John Tory. Tuesday (September 14), 7 pm, at Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. Free. equitytoronto.org.
WEATHERING THE FUTURE
After this super-hot summer, chill out at an evening dedicated to the global warming fight featuring climate scientist James Hansen, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. The expert, who famously hoped the Copenhagen summit would fail because its program couldn’t save the planet, speaks at the Climate Reality panel along with author Naomi Klein and Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environment Network. Wednesday (September 15), 5:30 pm. Free. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Park. 416-978-3606.
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LITERARY FESTIVAL
A day of author readings, workshops and storytelling Guests include GG winners Nino Ricci & Jacob Scheier
4th Annual Words Alive Literary Festival
Sharon Temple National Historic Site • 18974 Leslie St, Sharon
SAt., Sept. 18 - 10:30Am-5:30pm - $5/AduLt www.wordsalive.ca or 647.231.3103
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Sunday, September 12
Benefits
Feast OF Fields (Organic Advocates) Organic
delicacies created by southern Ontario chefs plus local craft beers and wines. 1 to 5 pm. $100. Cold Creek Conservation Area, 11th Concession, King. Reserve 905-859-3609, feastoffields.org. FilMs FOR HOPe iN ReCOVeRY Filmed lectures of speakers in the field of recovery and personal growth for those in 12-step programs. 4:30 pm. $3. St. Michael’s Hospital, Paul Mar-
shall Lecture Theatre, 30 Bond (Queen St entrance). 416-766-4016. JONatHaN deMMe (Haitian Relief Fund) Demme screens and discusses his documentary The Agronomist. 2 pm. $20. Gladstone, 1214 Queen W. 416-531-4635. PaRkiNsON suPeRwalk 2010 (Parkinson Soc of Canada) Walk to raise funds for research, education and support. 9:30 am. Pledges. Earl Bales Park, Bathurst and Sheppard. Pre-register parkinsonsuperwalk.ca. rRide FOR kaReN (Ride for Karen) Bike rides from 25-160 K, a kids’ ride and entertainment raise funds to send kids with cancer to camp. $100-$150 or pledges; kids’ ride free. St Joan of Arc High School, Maple. Pre-register rideforkaren.com. rtHese Paws aRe Made FOR walkiNg (Etobicoke Humane Soc) Fundraising dog walk-a-thon in the park. Noon. Pledges. West Deane Park,
Martingrove N of Rathburn. 416-249-6100. rwalk OF HOPe (Ovarian Cancer Canada) A 2.5K or 5K walk is followed by refreshments, kids activities and more. 9 am registration. Pledges. Olympic Island, Toronto Island. ovariancanada.org.
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Science Centre, 770 Don Mills. 416-696-1000. The Making Of MOdern MOTherhOOd Ulyssean Soc talk on ideologies and practices of the good mother from the 1800s to the present. 2 pm. Free. Hart House, 7 Hart House Circle. 416-410-1892. naked girls reading dr seuss Skin Tight Outta Sight burlesque performance. 7 pm. $15, cpl $25. Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. 647213-5239. Old TOwn Heritage Toronto walk. 10-11:30 am. Free. St James Park, King and Church. heritagetoronto.org. The PiPing PlOver PrOjecT Toronto Field Naturalists illustrated lecture. 2:30 pm. Free. Emmanuel College, 75 Queen’s Park. 416-5932656, torontofieldnaturalists.org. sunday scene Tour the current art exhibitions with Laura Paolini. 2 pm. Free. Power Plant, 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949. a TasTe Of Tsjcs Toronto Secular Jewish Community School open house. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Winchevsky Centre, 585 Cranbrooke. 416-7895502.
12 years Of injusTice – free The cuban five nOw! Toronto Forum on Cuba symposium
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with indigenous music and poetry, talks and more. 11 am. Free. OISE Auditorium, 252 Bloor W. torontoforumoncuba@rogers.com. yiMby (yes in My back yard!) Walking tour of backyard and front yard food gardens. 11 am-1 pm. Free. Pre-register 416-651-7867 ext 27, liz@thestop.org.
Monday, September 13
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The PrOducers (Actors’ Fund of Canada) Fundraising concert performance of Mel Brooks’s legendary musical starring theatre critics and arts personalities. 8 pm. $27-$150. Jane Mallett Theatre, St Lawrence Centre for the Arts, 27 Front E. stlc.com.
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TraMPOline hall Mini lectures hosted by Misha Glouberman. 7:30 pm. $7. Garrison, 1197 Dundas W. garrisontoronto.com.
Tuesday, September 14
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September 14 7pm September 15 5:30pm September 16 10pm September 17 7pm
Evening of comedy with Nile Seguin, Elaine Dandy, Jason Blanchard and others plus a silent auction. Doors 7:30 pm. $25, adv $20. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 647-588-4663.
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cancer cOaching Six-week program for active cancer patients. 6:30-9:30 pm. $60. York U, Kinsmen Bldg, 4700 Keele. Pre-register napcc.ca. rcOMMuniTy cenTre OPen hOuse Get info on fall programs for kids and adults. 2-7 pm. RW2010ad:Layout 1 9/3/10 Free. Central Eglinton Community Centre, 1609:35 AM Eglinton E. 416-392-0511 ext 225.
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Creating Your own website 101 Six-week
course for beginners. 6:30-8:30 pm. $225. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416-973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com. Doula speeD Dating Get to know multiple doulas at face-to-face interviews. 7 pm. Free. Urban Health Group, 18 Lola. Pre-register amanda@thenestingplace.ca. golDen age of DutCh art Talk on Rubens by Francis Broun. 6:30 pm. Free. Palmerston Library, 560 Palmerston. 416-393-7680. hiker initiation program Toronto Bruce Trail Club presents a lecture for new hikers today at 6:30 pm, a visit to MEC to learn about equipment on Sep 17 and a 10K hike at Scotsdale Farm on Oct 3. $5 bus fare for hike. YMCA 20 Grosvenor, room 2A/2B. 905-271-3889, john755@sympatico.ca.
the italian CommunitY at the Cooksville briCkYarD Talks by Michael Mascarin, Mat-
thew Wilkinson and Gay Peppin. 7 pm. Free. Mississauga Central Library, 301 Burnhamthorpe W. mississauga.ca/heritagefour. learn to flamenCo Six-week introductory course. 6:30-7:30 pm. $180. Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay W. Pre-register 416973-4093, harbourfrontcentre.com.
making the sCene in 1960s Yorkville
Presentation by historian/musician/journalist Stuart Henderson. 2 pm. Free. Yorkville Library, 22 Yorkville. 416-393-7660.
maYoral Debate – builDing a fair toronto for all Find out where candidates stand on
building a fair city, and ensuring that good public services and jobs are available to all, with moderator John Tory. 7-9 pm. Free. Innis Town Hall, 2 Sussex. equitytoronto.org. meet, plan, go! Learn how to fulfill your longterm travel dreams. 6-8:30 pm. Free. Duke of Westminster Pub, 77 Adelaide W. Pre-register meetplango.com. minDfulness meDitation Buddhist meditation and dharma talk. 7:15 pm. Donation. Spring Rain Sangha, 60 Lowther. springrainsangha.com.
priDe shoulD not reCeive government funDing Toronto Debating Soc meets. 7:30 pm. Free. Swansea Town Hall, 95 Lavinia. debating.ca.
Wednesday, September 15 ageing in the CitY Discussion with Glenn Murray of the Canadian Urban Instit and Jane Barratt of the Int’l Federation on Ageing. 7 pm. Free. Reference Library, 789 Yonge. 416-3955577. Climate realitY Presentation by climate scientist James Hansen, and discussion with author Naomi Klein and Clayton Thomas-Muller of the Indigenous Environmental Network. 5:30 pm. Free. MacMillan Theatre, 80 Queen’s Pk. 416-978-3606.
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Thursday, September 16 autumn splenDour Beauty tips from the pros, new products and more. Noon-8 pm. Free. The Bay Cosmetics Dept, Queen and Bay. 416-861-9111. health & sexualitY Young Women of Influence panel with Sex@11 host Rebecca Rosenblat, naturopathic doctor Selene Wilkinson and others. 6-8 pm. $40. Stratus Restaurant, 79 Wellington. youngwomenofinfluence.ca. JunCtion resiDents group Membership meeting. 7 pm. Free. West Toronto Baptist Church, 3049 Dundas W. junctionra.ca. planning for Your home Talk on creating zoning and flow in your space. 7-9 pm. Free. Urban Mode, 145 Tecumseth. Pre-register eventbrite.com/event/819538261. revisiting Chinese CanaDian Communities Conference on topics like the challenges of social integration for Chinese immigrants. 2-4:30 pm. Free. Robarts Library, 130 St George, 8th floor. Pre-register webapp.mcis. utoronto.ca.
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Talk by investment/retirement planning expert Gordon Pape. 6:30-8 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. Pre-register 416395-5613. tinkers The book club meets to discuss Paul Harding’s novel. 7-8:30 pm. Free. Type Books, 427 Spadina Rd. 416-487-8973. toronto triangle squares Gay and lesbian square dancing (no partner necessary). 7 pm. Free. 519 Church Community Centre. trianglesquares.com. what is opera? Canadian Opera Co talk on the history of opera, the key players and how to appreciate the music. 7 pm. Free. North York Central Library, 5120 Yonge. 416-3955535. 3
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TIFF eats
Where to chow down around film fest venues Compiled by STEVEN DAVEY
DAVID LAURENCE
Yorkville
Canteen chef Paul Brans (left) shows off the gnocchi and braised lamb and couscous salad with chicken; executive chef Jason Bangerter prepares the gnocchi and displays Parmesan fries (below).
Film lovers fill up Canteen Give it just a few tweaks and the Lightbox’s O&B Canteen could turn into a real winner By STEVEN DAVEY geeky army of servers suffer matching turquoise plaid shirts tucked into khaki Dockers with smiles. As a streetcar rattles by, floor-toceiling glass opens to a wraparound patio and a view of the picturesque sidewalk cafés across the way. Course, the folks across King get to look at what appears to be a monolithic block-long Sears store covered in black aluminum siding, with a generic 46-storey condo plopped on top and a restaurant on the first floor. Back there, early birds dig into breakfast butties stuffed with maplesmoked back bacon, sunny-side-up eggs and slices of gooey Canadian cheddar on either pain au lait hamburger buns ($4) or Thuet-calibre croissants ($6) spread with stellar house-made ketchup. But if Canteen’s soup du jour ($6) is not only “seasonal” but “chef-inspired” to boot, as the all-day menu claims, today’s pale beige parsnip purée suggests that executive chef Jason Bangerter of Auberge du Pommier dreams of wallpaper paste. We pass on Monday’s quiche special – halibut and potato ($15), we think not – for the Al Parma pizza ($16), a surprisingly simple pie upgraded with a cracker-style multigrain crust brushed with sauce and tossed with shaved Parmigiano, a few translucent
O&B CANTEEN (330 King West, at John, 647-288-4710, oliverbonacini.com) Complete lunches for $25 per person (breakfasts $20/dinners $40), including all taxes, tip and unlimited sparkling Q water. Average main $10/$18. Open Monday to Friday 7 am to 4 am, Friday and Saturday 8 am to 4 am from September 9 to 19. Licensed. Access: barrier-free. Rating: NNN ✺
surrounded by tourist traps, meat markets and donut franchises, the O&B Canteen on the ground floor of the new TIFF tower has a captive audience. Where else round these parts can you grab a quick between-flick sandwich of deli-sliced smoked beef brisket, sauerkraut and havarti – hold the mustard – on a buttery house-baked croissant for 7 bucks? Now in its fourth week, Canteen already plays to full houses. As one would expect from an Oliver & Bonacini operation – others include Jump, Biff’s and Canoe – this bright ’n’ buzzing 90-seat room is the model of efficiency, with low-slung brown leather banquettes, bare-topped tables equipped with both pepper and salt mills and an always busy open kitchen partially hidden behind a wall of colourful Le Creuset casseroles. A
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sheets of prosciutto and peppery fresh arugula. Gnocchi ($14) are just as straightforward, a dozen or so doughy pillows dressed with strands of braised local lamb and more sharp Reggiano. Our perfunctory steak frites ($21) goes back after we’ve eaten half of it, as it gets progressively rarer than we’ve ordered. No prob. The flank comes back correctly cooked, with a replenished pile of those terrific Parmesan frites, something the roasted half-chicken ordinaire ($18) and just about everything else on the card could use as a side ($5). And other than a Saturday special ($16 to $19), where’s the signature burger? Isn’t that mandatory these days? Trade out the carbs for Thai coleslaw ($6) made with “100k root vegetables” (translation: carrot and cabbage) in sweet nam prik vinaigrette or de rigueur heirloom beet salad ($7) finished with hazelnuts and snippets of tarragon. Avoid the temptation to make either a main with the addition of dreadful falafel-like chickpea fritters ($7). Until sampling Canteen’s version of the light, lemony custard, I’d always assumed posset ($6)
was a Dame Edna double entendre (“More posset, possum?”). Wash everything down with bottomless glasses of carbonated Q water, aka l’eau du Lac Ontario filtrée ($2.50 “per guest”). Low sodium, too! O&B has a long history of producing resto blockbusters, and knows better than most how to put bums in seats. Tighten up the script, bring a burger on board, give the cast a better wardrobe and Canteen could run for years. 3 stevend@nowtoronto.com
CAMROS ORGANIC EATERY 25 Hayden, #5, at Yonge, 416-960-0723, camroseatery. com. Persian-inspired vegan take-away known for its nutritious, mostly organic stews ’n’ salads and eco-conscious packaging. COFFEE MILL 99 Yorkville, at Bellair, 416920-2108, coffeemillrestaurant.com. Toronto’s version of the Brown Derby, this long-running Hungarian restaurant attracts an old-school show-biz crowd for goulash and paprikash. GINGER 695 Yonge, at Charles, 416-9662424, gingercuisine.ca. Dead-cheap but tasty Vietnamese and Thai noodles, soups and satays in extremely casual self-serve digs. Also: 212 Queen W, at Duncan, 416977-8778. KOREAN GRILL HOUSE 754 Yonge, at Hayden, 416-922-3328, koreangrillhouse. com. Decent DIY all-you-can-eat Koreanstyle barbecue plus pickled sides from $8.99 per person. Also: 369 Yonge, at Gerrard, 416-596-9206; 214 Queen W, at Duncan, 416-263-9850. MELA 7A Yorkville, at Yonge, 416-9160619. All of 10 seats, former Four Seasons chef Roberto Granata’s budget-minded all-vegetarian café combines southern Italian classics with contemporary healthconscious technique. OKONOMI HOUSE 23 Charles W, at St Nicholas, 416-925-6176. Kitty-korner from the Varsity, this Japanese fast food joint has been serving Hiroshima-style omelettes to cash-strapped fest-goers since the 70s. 7 WEST CAFÉ 7 Charles W, at Yonge, 416928-9041, 7westcafe.com. This rambling three-storey Victorian stays open 24/7 year round and features an extensive selection of pastas, pizzas and panini. WISH 3 Charles E, at Yonge, 416-9350240, wishintoronto.com. So you can’t afford the patio at the Hazelton Hotel’s ultra-chic One? Sister to nearby 7 West, this South Beach-style curbside terrace is just as glamorous and half the price. Don’t miss the pork chops with red-eye gravy!
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Fashion’s night in Canada
While Toronto TIFFs, Fashion Week hits New York City, and the second annual Fashion’s Night Out kicks things off there tomorrow evening (Friday, September 10). Shopping parties and designer appearances happen across NYC, but this year’s most coveted buy may be the Fashion’s Night Out T-shirts themselves. You don’t have to make a beeline to the Big Apple to grab yours. Holt Renfrew (50 Bloor West, 416-9222333, and others, holtrenfrew.com) is selling the Ts for $25 until September 20, with a portion of proceeds benefiting the Canadian Foundation for AIDS Research.
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All that glitters Subtlety will get you nowhere in the sea of bona fide stars and pseudo-celebs vying for photographer face time during TIFF. Go gold or go home.
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Speaking of New York Fashion Week, Montreal’s Rad Hourani streams his RAD show live September 13 at 3 pm at radhourani.com. The seasonless collection also debuts simultaneously on the designer’s web store, so you don’t have to wait six months to scoop up the line’s signature T-shirts and leggings.
Danier’s doing it too
Danier is also going digital to present its fall 2010 collection, with a virtual runway show live now on danier.com. Fashion Television’s Jeanne Beker and stylist George Antonopoulos host a preview of the retailer’s suede and leather looks, plus gloves, hats, scarves and other accessories.
Avant Garde cocktail ring ($79, Trove, 791 Bathurst, 416-516-1258, and 2264 Bloor West, 416-766-1258, trove.ca).
Badgley Mischka gold sequin clutch ($298, Holt Renfrew, 50 Bloor West, 416922-2333, and others, holtrenfrew.com).
Vintage scale belt ($22, I Miss You, 63 Ossington, 416-916-7021, imissyou.ca).
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What do you get when you mix Hello Kitty and Dr. Martens? Surprisingly, not as odd a fashion coupling as you’d expect. The two brands have partnered on a series of eighthole boots and Mary Janes printed with cartoon characters or accented with animation-style bows. The collection, priced between $160 and $205, is available now at Little Burgundy (Eaton Centre, 220 Yonge, 416-979-9045, and others, littleburgundyshoes.com).
Brocade strapless dress ($69.95, H&M, 1 Dundas West, 416-593-0064, and others, hm.com).
High-heeled sandals ($44.98 on sale, Aldo, Eaton Centre, 416-597-3809, and others, aldoshoes.com).
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Use fall to stop your unconscious from tripping you up By elizaBeth Bromstein i don’t know about you, but i’m always planning leaps and bounds – some of which actually happen. And strangely, my big ideas usually come in the fall. I’ve never really gotten over the
idea that the year starts in September. Some have suggested this is because I’m Jewish and it’s Rosh Hashanah, but it’ s probably more to do with the start of school (I’ve been in university on and off for almost 20 years, after
all) and the sudden shift in season. The end of summer signals rebooting time. How can you use the fading of the green to point yourself in some new directions?
What the experts say “The most important thing is to be present. Then you won’t be in the lower mind, the ego mind. Often, what keeps people away from their highest growth is fear of the worst-case scenario. I tell people to look at the worstcase scenario and come up with a solution, so when the fear comes up they can say, ‘Okay, I already thought of that; I have a solution.’ Instead of encouraging people to live as though it’s their last day, I say live as though it’s your only day; don’t waste one moment of it. If you live every day as though it’s your only day, regardless of what’s going on in your external world, there is a solution to everything.” JOHN TRAFICANTE, author, A Total Reboot From The Soul To The Surface, Miami
“Get away from your regular routine for at least 30 to 60 minutes, and write down the four or five things that matter the most to you. I chose spending time with my family, writing, reading and running. Figure out what life you want to lead, then start creating it. Free up the space to make room for those four or five important things. Clear the physical clutter as well. This creates peace of mind and is a good way to refresh your life. I recommend choosing one space at a time: a table, a countertop, etc. De-clutter, leaving only the few things that matter the most.” LEO BABAUTA, founder, Zen Habits, author, The Power Of Less, San Francisco “If you desire a certain outcome but
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Aries Mar 21 | Apr 19 My friend Alana
suffered from a mysterious ailment for months. Symptoms included vertigo, stomach pains and numbness in her legs. After being treated unsuccessfully by six health care practitioners, both mainstream and alternative, she went to see Dr. Ling, a Chinese herbalist recommended by a friend. Ling was a dour woman who made no eye contact. Her office was dingy, cramped and windowless. Alana felt a bit depressed by the visit. Yet when she took Dr. Ling’s herbs, she felt better. In three weeks she was cured. The moral of the story, Aries: The restorative agent you need may not come in the most inviting form.
African music, Santana, Jimi Hendrix and the Berber music of northern Algeria. I listen to them whenever I’m feeling wan and spiritually tired. Their infectious melodies and serpentine rhythms have a medicinal effect; they toughen me up, fuelling the rowdy love I need to keep fighting for truth and justice. They’re your featured artist of the week, Gemini. As you face down the dangers of apathy, you could use the shot of courage and audacity they might provide. Listen here: tinyurl.com/ToughSpirit1 and tinyurl. com/ToughSpirit2.
CAnCer Jun 21 | Jul 22 Afghanistan is a
TAurus Apr 20 | May 20 A spider spun gorgeous cobwebs on my car’s back window. Anchored on the window wiper, they’re artfully woven spiral tunnels decorated with white flower petals sent by the wind. This sculpture is so beguiling that it caught the attention of a stranger who was walking through a parking lot as I was getting in my car, and we struck up a conversation that led to him inviting me to a party where I had maximum fun. So kudos to me for not mindlessly sweeping away the cobwebs. My decision to honour the spider’s small masterpiece proved fortuitous. I encourage you to learn from my example in the coming week. Be alert for nature’s subtle gifts.
wasteland of desert and rocks, right? Well, no, actually. It harbours huge deposits of minerals that are critical to the industrialized world. There’s a complication, though. To succeed, the arduous business of mining such minerals needs lots of water and electricity as well as political stability and a good infrastructure – all of which are in short supply in Afghanistan. In offering this scenario for your consideration, Cancerian, I’m suggesting that you make a comparable reevaluation of a certain situation in your own life. According to my reading of the omens, someone or something you’ve considered barren may in fact harbour resources that are useful to you. Here’s the rub: are you in position to get access to them? If not, what would it take to do so?
GeMini May 21 | Jun 20 The band Tinari-
Leo Jul 23 | Aug 22 For years I’ve been in
wen is from the Sahara Desert. Its members describe themselves as “soul rebels.” Their influences include traditional West
love with a woman who is also in love with me. Hooray! But when I was younger, I sometimes got embroiled in obses-
are not making progress, that means a subconscious part of you doesn’t want what you consciously say you want – and it’s winning. The key is to get your subconscious mind to agree with your conscious mind. If your goal is to exercise for half an hour a day, I say do one sit-up. The problem is, we break our word regularly. So when you say you want to do something, your subconscious mind doesn’t believe you; it says ‘No, you didn’t do it last time.’ If you set a goal and actually do it, the unconscious will get into a pattern of believing you and helping you. I make my clients give themselves a reward for everything they do.” JOHN SEELEY, author, Get Unstuck! The Simple Guide To Restart Your Life
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sive adorations for unavailable women. One didn’t want me, another was already in a committed relationship, still another lived 6,000 miles away and a fourth was a lesbian. The pain of those impossible attractions eventually prodded me to retrain myself so as to not keep repeating the pattern. Can I convince you to learn from my hardship? According to my reading of the omens, the next few months should be a time when you put a strong emphasis on allies who are available, not on the other kind.
VirGo Aug 23 | sep 22 I’ve been playing
with a fun hypothesis lately: that absolutely everyone in the world has the power to heal someone else. At one end of the spectrum are the doctors and shamans and therapists who can summon the means to cure lots of people. At the other end are individuals with the power to improve the health or smooth out the distortions in just one other person. Wherever you fit in this range, Virgo, I’m happy to tell you that your healing mojo is now at a peak. Please invoke it in all of its intensity and point it in the direction of whomever can benefit.
LibrA sep 23 | oct 22 As I studied the astrological configurations for you, I realized I had to leave the bubble of my office. The omens suggested that you would benefit from escaping your usual frames of reference, and I felt I had to do the same if I wanted to get the best oracle. So I hiked out to my favourite boulder, where the creek forks into two streams. I sat down and addressed the spirits: what’s
“Gearing up can be hard, and this time of year can cause stress. If you’re not able to do an elimination diet, remove regular offending foods such as dairy, wheat or things hard on the liver like alcohol. Get nutrients – a multivitamin, a fish oil, which is important for the brain. I also recommend a product made from green tea such as a supplement or six cups of green tea a day. This increases focus and aids with extreme stress. You need a regular exercise routine to release stress and sleep better.” ZORANA ROSE, naturopath, Toronto
“It’s much easier and clearer to move toward something you want rather than away from something you don’t want. If a rocket wants to go to the moon, it’s going to head straight there and make adjustments to ensure it’s on course. If all you know is that you want to get off Earth, you’re going to get lost in space. Don’t think of getting out of a rut; think of getting what you want. If you set goals too high, you set yourself up for failure. If people set bite-sized goals, they have a pattern of success after success. That’s very motivating.” LUKE CHAO, director, Morpheus Clinic for Hypnosis, Toronto
the advice Libras need most? Soon, a dragonfly landed on my shoulder. For the next 10 minutes I asked it questions about how you should proceed. Here’s the gist of its telepathic message: “I gently shatter illusions. My power is graceful and lilting. I sew up the wounds of snakes. Nothing eludes my uninhibited vision. I don’t bite. I am a professional and primeval transformer.”
notion of what goes on in that sanctuary. How about embarking on a new playtime activity or introducing a pleasurable commotion you’ve never tried? At the very least, unleash your imagination while relaxing there. Give yourself permission to have bigger fantasies. Tell yourself more epic stories, develop a more active relationship with your secrets and welcome unfamiliar feelings.
sCorpio oct 23 | nov 21 Of all the noses
AquArius Jan 20 | Feb 18 Last May, riots
of all the famous actresses in the world, my favourite is Cate Blanchett’s. It’s strong and forceful, yet buoyant and irregular. It’s wider and fleshier than most noses that are considered “feminine,” but sensual and seductive. Best of all, it has so many different aspects and looks so varied from a variety of angles that it seems to shift its shape as you watch it. It’s gorgeous! Please take a cue from me as you evaluate the unacknowledged beauty in your own sphere, Scorpio. It’s crucial that you rebel against our culture’s absurdly generic standards.
sAGiTTArius nov 22 | Dec 21 “The best
guide in life is strength,” said Swami Vivekananda. “Discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.” In accordance with the astrological omens, Sagittarius, I’m making that your rallying cry. You not only have the right to align yourself with only the most potent, life-giving sources; you have an urgent need to do so. So be audaciously discerning as you evaluate each person and situation that comes before you. Ask, “Will this feed my vitality or will it not?”
CApriCorn Dec 22 | Jan 19 What happens in your bedroom, Capricorn? What stories swirl around in your mind while you’re there? What secrets simmer and ferment? What feelings do you gravitate toward? Judging from the astrological omens, I’d say it’s time to expand your
in Santa Cruz, California, trashed 18 buildings in the downtown area. But for one store owner, the mayhem brought unexpected blessings. She was able to tap into a city fund that not only paid for her broken front window, but also allowed her to make several improvements, like adding fresh paint, a new awning and better lighting. “I never would have thought when I got that call at 1 in the morning that this was going to turn into such a wonderful thing for us,” Diane Towns told the Santa Cruz Sentinel. I predict a similar progression for you, Aquarius. An event that seemed like bad luck at the time will ultimately lead to good luck.
pisCes Feb 19| Mar 20 French painter Paul
Cézanne (1839-1906) declared early in his career that he wanted to “conquer Paris with an apple.” He meant that he wanted to become a major force in the art world by revolutionizing the way that still life paintings were done. He must have been successful, because two prominent modern painters, Picasso and Matisse, referred to Cézanne as “the father of us all.” Your assignment in the coming months, Pisces, is to make a splash in your own chosen field with an innovation that’s as simple and basic as Cézanne’s reconfigured apple.
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Rating: NNNN Playing Toronto for the second straight night, Peelander-Z proved that their reputation for raucous shows isn’t empty hype. Dressed in their signature Power Rangers stage costumes, the Japanese cartoon punks posed, crowdsurfed, held up signs, went “human bowling” and made quips in broken English. They also played some songs, but it was hard to notice. Peelander’s three-chord bubblegum punk is nothing to write home about, but it’s simple enough to chant along to, which is key for a band that relies so heavily on crowd participation. In fact, the audience played nearly as much music as the band. Near the end, Peelander even handed off their instruments to a few observers in order to dedicate themselves completely to the spectacle, obviously their top priority. Local openers Chang-A-Lang mostly just played music, but their hookheavy power pop scratched an itch that kitsch couldn’t quite satisfy.
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Henry Grimes, Jane Bunnett, Andrew Cyrille
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fucked-up experimental downtempo electronic music like his usually has a tougher time filling a venue this size, let alone turning it into a full-on sweaty dance party. If you’re not familiar with his sound, imagine lurching, mangled hip-hop beats made from arcade game noises dubbed out beyond recognition. On a home stereo it comes across like ambient music on a crack binge, but over a club system the surprising danceability shines through. He might not be for everyone, but no one can accuse him of playing it safe. My only quibble was the short length of his set. Then again, it’s always better to leave the crowd wanting more than to overstay your welBENJAMIN BOLES come. KELE at Mod Club Rating: NNN When Kele Okereke walked onstage wearing a Pistons basketball jersey, his reason for naming his new solo album The Boxer became immediately clear. The Bloc Party frontman, who not so long ago looked the part of your typical undernourished indie rock star, has bulked up. It’s not Okereke’s only metamorphosis since his band went on sabbatical last year. The charismatic singer has come clean about his homosexuality and more thoroughly indulged his leanings toward the kind of electronic dance music sound Bloc Party was edging near on their second and third albums. While pensive and anguished-look-
ing on appearances in T.O. with Bloc Party, Okereke danced freely and smiled frequently during songs like Tenderoni, Meet In The Middle and beat-heavy reworkings of BP covers like Your Visits Are Getting Shorter. It looked like Okereke might be having too much fun at some points, knocking back highballs and mumbling into the mic, “It’s good to be here in Canadia… JASON KELLER or whatever you call it.”
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Rating: NNNN While he’s most associated with the soulful house scene, New Jersey DJ/producer Dennis Ferrer’s strength has always been his ability to sidestep dance music’s often strict subgenre divisions. Few other producers can crank out a stirring gospel house anthem one day while writing dark, atmospheric tracks the next that cross over easily into the techno scene. Fewer still can combine those tangents successfully as a DJ, which is one reason why he has no problem bringing out the e 46 dancers to an pag
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outdoor event on an unseasonably chilly evening. Despite the cold, Sunnyside Pavilion is an awesome place for a party. For ambience, how can you beat a historic walled-in garden lit by torches? Ferrer easily warmed up the crowd, and brilliantly showcased his trademark versatility. Using his more minimal electronic vibes as a starting point, he moved easily in and out of house classics, deep vocal cuts and even at one point a bit BB 3 of hip-hop.
Gallery 345 (345 Sorauren), Monday (September 13) See preview, page 49.
Chilly Gonzales
Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front West), Tuesday (September 14) See preview, page 42.
Jamie Lidell, Zeus
Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (September 14) See preview, page 45. BENJAMIN BOLES
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The Garrison (1197 Dundas West), Saturday (September 11) Teenage Twilight fanatics might be too young to get past the bouncer, but you can bet at least a few will try to get in to see actor Jackson Rathbone’s indie band, 100 Monkeys. Despite professing to play “funky rock ’n’ roll,” they’re actually closer to garage rock blues, and thankfully don’t appear to indulge in much Seinfeld-style slap bass.
David Morales
Peelander Z
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Ultra (314 Queen West), Tuesday (September 14) It’s not often that you get to hear a house music legend like David Morales spinning records at this intimate a venue. Not only will you be able to get up close and personal, but you’ll also be able to party until 5 am, thanks to an extended last call for TIFF. Just don’t blame us if you don’t make it into work on Wednesday. 3
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Stylish French-Finnish duo flirt with danger on next album By JASON RICHARDS THE DØ with ALLIE HUGHES at the Mod Club (722 College), Saturday (September 11). $15. PDR, RT, SS, TW.
When she’s feeling leisurely, the Dø lead singer Olivia Merilahti can be spotted wandering the woods of Paris, where her band is based. She hasn’t had as much time to commune with nature this year, though. She and bandmate Dan Levy have been in hardcore studio mode, cobbling together a follow-up to their 2008 album, A Mouthful (Wagram), released in North America in May. “We also haven’t been performing for a while,” Merilahti says from her place. “We’ve been rehearsing for the past two weeks. It’s exciting.” The Helsinki native is also jazzed to
live up to the cliché that the French are fashionable, name-checking a few designers whose clothes she’ll wear on tour: Vivienne Westwood, Tsumori Chisato and Manoush. “But I’ll probably only decide what I’ll put on a half-hour – no, 10 minutes – before each gig.” The Dø’s music is every bit as stylish. Substantial, too. A Mouthful’s wistful lyrics are coloured by a spectrum of instruments, styles and eras: the strings of 60s pop, thumping drums that sound transplanted from 90s indie rock, Cuban jazz claves. Then there are Merilahti’s idiosyncratic vocals, which belong to the pleasantly awkward vocal tradition of Björk, Joanna Newsom and Kate Bush. The album’s expert production and
adventurous musicality make sense, given how the classically trained composers first came to know each other in 2004. “We had to work on a soundtrack together, and we just didn’t stop after that,” she says. “In the beginning, we were just experimenting, trying out different genres in the studio. I had quite limited experience but was always willing to sing and write songs.” That willingness continues with the band’s second album, which Merilahti says is too early in the creative process to discuss at length. “It’s a different mood,” she hints. “It’s a bit more about danger.” 3 music@nowtoronto.com
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Is it Chilly in here? Irreverent pianist/producer/MC is jealous of dance music’s simplicity of purpose By Sarah Greene Chilly Gonzales at Glenn Gould Studio (250 Front West), Tuesday (September 14), 8 pm. $29.50. RTH.
Chilly Gonzales, born Jason Charles Beck, has no time for humility or authenticity. He left those trappings behind in the late 90s after a failed major-label attempt with alt-rock band Son led him to change his name and reinvent himself as Chilly Gonzales, an MC/modern pianist/super-producer in Europe. (He also holds the world’s record for longest solo concert.) On the phone heading for a gig at a Louis Vuitton store opening in scorching (38°C) Nagoya, Japan, the Montreal native insists the name change is legal, claiming he paid off a young MexicanCanadian boy for rights to the Google-
friendly moniker. “The name is ridiculous and poetic,” he says, “like everything else I do.” And like much of his work, it was inspired by hip-hop culture. “I do a lot of things because rappers do them,” he says. “They’re really my idols.” He cites his 2003 Pre-tirement tour (a retirement tour send-up) as an example. His current pan-continental tour is in support of his new album, Ivory Tower (Gentle Threat), and a feature film he produced and acted in, also called Ivory Tower (screening at Camera Bar, 1028 Queen West, Monday, September 13, 8 and 9:30 pm). The ambitious project (the film alone cost 100,000 euros to make) was financed by Gonzales’s successful career as a music producer. He works
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closely on an ongoing basis with Feist, Peaches, Tiga, Boys Noize and Jamie Lidell (see preview, page 45), to name a few. “I have a hard time saying no to my musical family. When you have chemistry, you can do everything with someone,” he says, joking that he’ll never get rid of them. Boys Noize returned the production favour on Ivory Tower, working long-distance from Germany to provide beats for Gonzales’s multitracked piano and vocals. The album includes danceable songs like I Am Europe and Never Stop (used in an iPad ad), though it’s ultimately a modern piano album in the vein of 2004’s Solo Piano. “Superstar DJs have told me it’s not club music, that it has far too much music and structure and melody. “I’m jealous of dance music – there’s a right or wrong answer. They dance or they don’t.” music@nowtoronto.com
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THE PAINTED LADY Dirty Maria (funk/Latin/
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PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Strung Out, Rufio, Mute, We Are the Union doors 7 pm, all ages.
RANCHO RELAXO Foxes in Fiction, DC Mini, Rodrigo Wild.
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Thursday, September 9 POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. BOVINE SEX CLUB Strung-Out After-Party The
Roman Line, Orphan Choir, Blacklist Royals early eve, TIFF After Screenings Party late eve.
CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA CABARET & LOUNGE Betty Moon CD Listening Party. CLINTON’S Piece of Maiden Canada (Iron
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BLUE MOON Open Jam Saxman Lou 9 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN Scott McCord 10 pm. DOMINION ON QUEEN John T Davis (organist) 5:30 pm.
GATE 403 Emily Macleod: The Blues Caller 5
pm, Kevin Laliberte Jazz & Flamenco Band 9 pm. HARD LUCK BAR Ragtime Thursday. HUGH’S ROOM Greg Brown 6:30 pm. LOU DAWG’S Don Campbell 6:30 pm, Mike Constantini 10:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Pasty Cline Birthday Show Russell DeCarle, Kathryn Rose, Paul Reddick, HOTCHA!, Alex Pangman, Caitlin Hanford and others doors 8:30 pm. MONARCHS PUB Jerome Godboo, Robin Banks, Christian Dozzler, Pat Rush, Alec Fraser, Danny Lockwood 9 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Houndstooth (bluegrass/old-time) 7:30 pm. TRANZAC MAIN HALL CD release Ron Leary, Great Aunt Ida 8 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Thursdays With John Sherwood John Sherwood (solo piano) 7:30 pm. TORONTO MUSIC GARDEN Summer Music In The Garden – Tales Of Love, Murder And (Other) Nonsense Marta Herman (mezzo-soprano) 7 pm.
TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Muskox (progressive/acoustic/experimental) 10 pm. ñ UNIT BAR John Kameel Farah 9 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
AME Ame’s One-Year Anniversary DJs Jojo Flores, Mark Foreman (harajuku meets house) doors 10 pm. CLOAK & DAGGER PUB DJ Shannon (rock/ dance) 10 pm. COBRA LOUNGE Essential Thursdays Oscar G, Manzone & Strong, Addy. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call Slugabed, Illum Sphere, Blue Daisy doors midnight. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE TIFF Open Call DJ Fathom, Alixander III doors 10 pm. ETON HOUSE All Request DJ Phil (top 40) 9 pm. GOODHANDY’S Wall To Wall T-Girls DJ Blackcat doors 8 pm.5 LEVACK BLOCK Walmer Thursdays DJs the Dirty Frenchman & Plan B (hip-hop/electro/ dancehall/B-more/bass). PARTS & LABOUR THE SHOP Singles DJ Michelle Williams (hits of the 90s) 10 pm. RASPUTIN VODKA BAR Lemonade Miss Nina. RIVOLI POOL LOUNGE deejayscoots (roots/ rock/reggae/hip-hop/R&B/disco/electro) 10 pm. SPICE SAFAR DJ Jude Kelly (global lounge/nu jazz) 9 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR MAIN ROOM Tattoo Thursdays DJ Millhouse Brown (new rock/alternative) doors 10 pm. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR BASEMENT Tattoo Thursdays Bangs & Blush (Motown/Britpop). ULTRA Apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) (DJ set) doors 10 pm.
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ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. ASPETTA CAFFE Tres & Brendon, Ilana New-
man, Bryn McCauley, Jonathan Wu (acoustic/ indie) 7 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Teenage X, Voodoo Bunny, Mass Assembly early eve, TIFF After Screenings Party. CLINTON’S The Family, the Body Electric, Arjun and David (One Flew West). DC MUSIC THEATRE Indie Night Inner City Elegance, Counter Point, Daisy Chain, City Weeds, Sound Glyphics and others all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call Dreamface, Lisa Scinta, Crash Parallel doors 8 pm. THE GARRISON B.A. Johnston, Wax Mannequin, Horses, Raccoon Wedding 9 pm.
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GRAFFITI’S SickKids benefit Paul Martin (classic covers) 5 pm, Steve York eve. HARLEM Joni NehRita 7:30 pm. HORSESHOE CD release These Electric Lives, Nightbox, Huddle, Olympic Island 9:30 pm. IMPERIAL PUB Tanya Philipovich, Normal for Once (rock/folk). KOOL HAUS Slash (rock) 9 pm, all ages.
CROOKED CUE MISSISSAUGA MAIN FLOOR
Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival SRV Experience 9:30 pm. CROOKED CUE MISSISSAUGA UPSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Fathead 9:30 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN The Shovels. GATE 403 Gypsy Rebels (world) 5 pm. THE HARP PUB Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Paul Reddick (blues) 9:30 pm. HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Dylan Wickens and the Little Naturals (blues) 8 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Greg Brown 6:30 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 2 Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Jerome Godboo, Pat Rush, Alec Fraser, Al Cross 8:15 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 1 Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Frank Cosentino Band 7:30 pm. LAMBADINA Intimate & Interactive Open Mic Reema Major vs A Game Live 10 pm, all ages. LAMBTON HOUSE The Broadbelly Band (country rock/R&R) 7:30 pm. LOU DAWG’S Paige Armstrong (rockin’ blues) 9 pm. LULA LOUNGE CD release Lyndon John X (reggae) 10 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Lisa Marie Kruchak, Caitlin Burgess (folk rock). NAPOCA RESTAURANT Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Sean Pinchin 7 pm. PORT CREDIT LEGION DOWNSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Little Peter and the Elegants 9:30 pm. PORT CREDIT LEGION UPSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival The Johnny Max Band 10 pm. PORT CREDIT MEMORIAL PARK Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Ronnie Hawkins & the Hawks, Raoul and the Big Time, Downchild. ROC N DOC’S Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Dave Murphy Band (R&B) 10 pm. TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Chris Smith 7 pm.
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Is..., the Envy 6:30 pm. OPERA HOUSE Fire & Sound, the Woods Are Burning, Last Outlaw Society, Riding Shotgun, Bear With Me, Robert Youngg, Edo & the Best doors 7 pm, all ages. RANCHO RELAXO The Birthday Cakes, Chic Gala, the Micronite Filters. RIVOLI Mobadass, Cody Allen Band, Dani Jean, Kim Churchill (reggae/rock) 9 pm. SHOPS AT DON MILLS Festival In The Square Melanie Doane 7:15 pm. SILVER DOLLAR The Treasures, the Ascot Royals, the Bensons, Brett Caswell & the Marquee Rose doors 9 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S The Wilderness. SOUND ACADEMY Pennywise, Riverboat Gamblers, Authority Zero, We Outspoken, Cease Fire doors 8 pm, all ages. STEAM WHISTLE BREWING Unsigned Indie Music Series: Benefit For Artists’ Health Centre Fdn Songs from a Room, Ketch Harbour Wolves, Five Star Trailer Park (indie rock) 8 pm. VILLAGE VAPOR LOUNGE Kim Jarrett (folk rock) 9 pm. WRONGBAR Bad Day fundraiser/TIFF Party Bad Tits, Trust 10 pm.
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AIELLI RISTORANTE Southside Shuffle Blues &
Jazz Festival Carol McCartney (jazz vocals) 8 pm. AQUILA Big Tobacco & the Pickers (outlaw country) 9:30 pm. BLUE GOOSE TAVERN Paul Storm. THE BROGUE Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival David Rotundo Band (blues) 9:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Lily Frost. C’EST WHAT Sheena Grobb 10 pm.
GLENN GOULD STUDIO The Leyland Gordon
Group 8 pm.
LULA LOUNGE Hilario Duran Trio (Latin jazz) 8 pm.
MUSIC GALLERY Jazz Avant Series Chicago Underground Duo 8 pm. ñ OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Fridays To Sing
About June Garber, Mark Kieswetter, Ross MacIntyre 7:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS The Foolish Things (jazz) 5 pm, the Rent (experimental jazz) 7:30 pm, the Woodshed Orchestra 10 pm. WATERFALLS Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 6:30 pm.
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ANNEX WRECKROOM Wreckroom Fridays
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AUGUSTA HOUSE Blue Collar Worker Mixtape
Release Party MC FUBB, DJ Bowza. BABALÚU DJ Julio Cesar 10 pm. THE CENTRAL Seven-Inch Samurai: An All-Vinyl Celebration Of 45s DJs Monitor, King Magic Sparky, Ginger Sting, Natto Rocker, Tako, Sumo Kai Sumo, Way of the Curl (mod/soul/ ska/garage/rnr/funk) 9 pm. CHEVAL Smash Fridays Johnny Kelvin, DJ Undercover. COBRA LOUNGE The Fix Fridays Alex Merrel, Hennie V.
DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call ñ Acid Girls, Gabe Knox, Johnny
Hockin, Dre-Bans doors midnight. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE TIFF Open Call Tom Wrecks doors 10 pm.
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TECHNO SOUL
The Beck boost
Jamie Lidell credits his new work ethic to the positive influence of the slacker rock icon By BENJAMIN BOLES JAMIE LIDELL with ZEUS at Lee’s Palace (529 Bloor West), Tuesday (September 14). $20. TM, RT.
British experimental soul singer Jamie Lidell’s newest album, Compass (Warp), finds him bringing his electronic roots to the Motown-inspired sound he’s since become known for. He claims the approach was less about shedding his soul revivalist tag and more about taking inspiration from the confessional subject matter. “After the last album, I had a lot more to say, considering everything in my life took a severe 180-degree turn,” Lidell explainsfrom his current home in Manhattan as he and his band prepare to hit the road. “My romantic life, my home, my business were all turned upside down. I had a lot on my mind, and while that’s a horrible thing in life, it’s great for an artist.” For those who’ve followed Lidell’s work since his techno days, it’s clear that Compass finally brings together the sonic extremes of his personality. It’s his
most personal album yet, but it’s the all-star cast that’s grabbing attention. Guests include Feist, Grizzly Bear, Wilco, James Gadson (who played the beat on Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On), Zeus, Chilly Gonzales (see preview, page 42), Nikka Costa and Beck, who kick-started the project by calling Lidell looking to help out. Despite the many players, Compass was completed in a fraction of the time Lidell’s previous records took. “In a way, the inertia was strong because of the initial push Beck gave the whole project. It was like jumping up to the top of a mountain and pushing a boulder off rather than having to climb the thing first.” That energy, combined with a new appreciation for not working a recording to death, resulted in a strange, raw album that straddles the line between smooth sex appeal and lurching freakiness. Its psychedelic elements, though, weren’t chemically inspired. “I’m very clean-living these days. I don’t drink or smoke. Coffee is my only vice. I need to fill the moment with action and activity, and I’m very happy about that.” 3 benjaminb@nowtoronto.com
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Yumi, aka Peelander Pink
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ETON HOUSE Singles Night DJ Phil (top 40) 9
pm. FLY Grapefruit DJs Shane Percy, Aural, Donnarama doors 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK We Love Techno POPOF, Greg Gow, Miki Mute, Evan G, Maziar & Kian doors 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Virgins Again DJs Craig Dominic, Sanfran, Nik Red 10 pm.5 THE GRAND HIVE East End Boyz Club 10 pm. HYDE In The Know DJs Mike Toast, Matt Karpf 10 pm. MARGRET Speakeasy Function In The Junction (soul/funk/disco/R&B) 10 pm.5 MIDPOINT Fondle Em Fridays DJ NV, DJ Standfast (hip-hop/funk/soul/rocksteady reggae) 9 pm. MUZIK Playboy Party. OUR HOUSE BAR Pure Film Fest John E, Myka & Peter Ivals. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Chocolate & Patrick Roots, Honey B Hind (reggae/ska) 10 pm. PEGASUS DJ David Christie 9 pm. RASPUTIN VODKA BAR Super Sonic Friday DJ Bob Sexton (house). SUPERMARKET Market Fresh DJ Class!ck, Yo Ev!. TATTOO ROCK PARLOUR Slash (host) (rock DJ cuts with rebellion) doors 10 pm. TERANGA Silent Shout DJs Digits, ARP 2600, Powers, Dinosaur Dinosaur (evil disco/electro/synth pop/post-punk) 9 pm. THIS IS LONDON Sharam (electronica/club/house) doors 10 pm. VIDA LOUNGE Purplelectricity Prince Party DJ Doctor Baggie (hi-NRG Prince) doors 10 pm.
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Saturday, September 11
hop) 9 pm, all ages.
POP/ROCK/HIP-HOP/SOUL
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
ALLEYCATZ Lady Kane. ASPETTA CAFFE Girls on Stilts, Oooh, Baby
Gimme Mores (rock/indie) 8:30 pm. BOVINE SEX CLUB Flash Lightnin’, the Caraways, Raccoons, the Blue Violet, Against Me! early eve, TIFF After Screenings Party late eve. BROADVIEW ESPRESSO Jenny Omnichord (indie rock/folk). CHEVAL Just Cheval Saturdays Mary Rose Obsession (dirty rock ’n’ roll). DC MUSIC THEATRE Punk Night Inner City Elegance, District 5 all ages. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call D-Sisive, Bishop Brigante (hip-hop) doors 8 pm.
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EDWARD JOHNSON BUILDING MACMILLAN THEATRE Rock For Hope concert to benefit
AidIndia.org Indian Ocean 7:30 pm. ETON HOUSE Who Stole the Cookies (classic boomer rock) 9 pm. THE GARRISON 100 Monkeys, the Rival Boys (rock) 9 pm. GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Mill St Country Saturdays Rae Billing 7 pm.
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Merauder (hardcore/ metal).
HARD LUCK BAR BUNKER Peeder, Honest I’s,
the Vive Quebec Libres (noise blues/psych blues/garage punk) 9 pm. HARLEM Gibbran (soul/ blues/funk/reggae/R&B) 7:30 pm. HORSESHOE The Most Serene Republic, Dinosaur Bones, the Order of Good Cheer doors 9 pm.
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Junction Arts Festival Elvyn. LEE’S PALACE Nachtmystium, Zoroaster, Atlas Moth, Dark Castle (metal psych rock) doors 9 pm. MITZI’S SISTER Hayley Stark, the Clearing, Angela Saini. MOD CLUB The Dø, Allie Hughes doors 6 pm. See preview, page 39. OPERA HOUSE All Heads Up, Seeker-Phi, Colin Response, Dave Featherstone, the Damn Truth, a Match for the Curious, the Change, This Is Victory doors 7 pm, all ages. RANCHO RELAXO Pkew Pkew Pkew, HotKid, History & Memory. RIVOLI EP release Holy Toledo, the Little Black Dress, FLQ. ROCKPILE Beneath the Massacre. SHOPS AT DON MILLS Festival In The Square Keshia Chante, Stereos, Bob Clegg Jazz Octet, Matt Dusk 2:3010 pm. SILVER DOLLAR Easy Boy, Vowls, the Auras, Alright Alright, Jessica Lanza doors 8:30 pm. SNEAKY DEE’S Skate 4 Cancer Fundraiser. SOUND ACADEMY Against Me!, the Flatliners, Young Livers doors 7 pm, all ages.
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AIELLI RISTORANTE Southside Shuffle Blues &
Jazz Festival Carol McCartney (jazz vocals) 8 pm. ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS Allende Arts Festival: Familia Saturday Cafe con Pan, Mulambo Groove noon-4 pm. AXIS GALLERY & GRILL Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) noon-3 pm. BLUE GOOSE TAVERN Paul Storm. THE BROGUE South Side Shuffle Festival Dave Murphy 2 pm, Jerome Godboo 9:30 pm. CAMERON HOUSE BACK ROOM Lily Frost. C’EST WHAT Hatchetman 10 pm.
CROOKED CUE MISSISSAUGA MAIN FLOOR
Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival SRV Experience 9:30 pm. CROOKED CUE MISSISSAUGA UPSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Fathead 9:30 pm. DAKOTA TAVERN The F-Holes (roots/gypsy jazz/blues). DOMINION ON QUEEN Paul Reddick (blues) 9:30 pm. ETON HOUSE Tribute To Johnny Cash Box Full of Cash (acoustic/blues/country) 4 pm. GRAFFITI’S John Borra Band (alt country) 4 pm. THE HARP PUB Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Danny Brooks 1:30 pm, Ronnie Douglas Blues Band, Roly Platt 2 pm, Bill Howl ‘n’ Madd Perry, Alphonso Sanders 6 pm, Robin Banks 9:30 pm. HIGHWAY 61 SOUTHERN BARBEQUE Kenny Brown 8 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Ron Nigrini 8:30 pm. KALIBARI TEMPLE Shri Rajendra Dixit (Marathi/Hindi devotional songs) 9 pm. KEW GARDENS Beach Celtic Festival Wild Geese Celtic Band, Don Graham, Linda Welby 10 am to 6 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 1 Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Pie Guys, Neil Chapman 2 pm, Cobra Kings 7 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 2 Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival LMT Connection (funk/R&B) 2:45 pm, Danny B, Pentti Whitey Glan, Bernie LaBarge 7:45 pm. LOU DAWG’S Jack Daniel’s Birthday Party Paige Armstrong Trio, the Brilliance. LULA LOUNGE Salsa Saturday Ricky Franco (salsa/R&B/timba/boleros) 10 pm. MUSIC GALLERY Dual CD release concert Eric Chenaux, Ryan Driver doors 8 pm. NAPOCA RESTAURANT Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Robin Banks, Christian Dozzler 2 pm, Michael Sheppard 6 pm, Julian Fauth, Bob Vespaziani 7:30 pm. PORT CREDIT LEGION DOWNSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival The Pie Guys, Sherman Lee Dillon 9:30 pm. PORT CREDIT LEGION UPSTAIRS Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival The Johnny Max Band 10 pm. PORT CREDIT MEMORIAL PARK Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Dr Hook, Watermelon Slim, Elvin Bishop. ROC N DOC’S Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Chris Chambers (blues) 4 pm, Sab and the Family Band (blues rock) 10 pm. ROCKPILE Cascabel Blues Band 12:30 pm. TAPS & TALES The Impossibles (pop) 10 pm. TEN RESTAURANT & WINE BAR Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival The Bluesers 2 pm, David Rotundo 2:30 pm, Chris Smith 7 pm. TIMOTHY’S PUB The Meteors (blues) 4:30 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Jamzac Open Jam 3 pm, Scott B Sympathy 6:30 pm, Electric Guitar 4tet, Picastro, junctQin 10 pm. VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Plakaso (flamenco) 2 to 5 pm.
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ASPETTA CAFFE Framework, Kate Sloan, Denielle Bassels Quartet (acoustic jazz) 2 pm.
BOCCONE SPIGA Greg Haddow Trio (jazz) 8
pm.
EMMET RAY BAR Harley Card Trio (modern jazz) 7 pm.
FOUR SEASONS CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS Solo Recital Ben Heppner 4:30 pm. GATE 403 Jazz Brunch Peter Eastmure noon,
Little Birdie 5 pm, Barb Gordon Jazz Band 9 pm. GLENN GOULD STUDIO Giulio Cesare In Egitto Aradia Ensemble 7:30 pm. OLD MILL INN HOME SMITH BAR Piano Masters Robert Scott Duo 7:30 pm. TEN FEET TALL Jazz Cabaret Ros Kindler 8 pm.
DANCE MUSIC/DJ/LOUNGE
ANNEX WRECKROOM West Coast Vibin’: Benefit For Adam (DJ A.Skillz) & Suzy Mills The Funk Hunters, Freedom Danish & the Root Sellers, Ill Gates, Big League Chu vs. Dave Saddler, Farbsie vs. Mickey D, Bingobob doors 9 pm. ANNEX WRECKROOM Longboarder After Party doors 8:30 pm. BABALÚU DJ Carlitos (salsa) 10 pm. CLINTON’S Shake A Tail (60s/70s retro dance night). COBRA LOUNGE The New Disco Saturdays Max Vangeli, DJ Aadil. DISGRACELAND Everyone’s A DJ DJ Matt Blair (16 novice and veteran DJs playing 20 min sets) 9 pm. DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call Skratch Bastid, Dougie Boom doors midnight. DRAKE HOTEL LOUNGE TIFF Open Call Skratch Bastid Simulcast, Dougie Boom doors 10 pm. EMMET RAY BAR Forget The Flowers DJs Tuff (of Tuff Meat), Ellis James (indie rock) 10 pm. FLY Viva Brazil! Brazilian Independence Week Celebration DJs Shawn Riker, Luiz Clarck, Cole Stanley doors 10 pm.5 FOOTWORK Jimpster, irGO, Matt Coleridge, Mike Gleeson doors 10 pm. GOODHANDY’S Mixed Sex Party DJ Sexy Pants (doors 10 pm).5 HYDE Hyde After Dark DJs M-Kutz, Mikeo (mashups) 10 pm. MARGRET Junction Arts Street Festival DJ Cozmic Cat 10 pm. MARO Red Carpet Saturdays DJ Undercover (house/hip-hop/club anthems). NEU+RAL 90s Party & Costume Contest Fawn BC, Caff (alt rock/pop/hip-hop) 10 pm. THE PAINTED LADY DJ Don Harris 10 pm. PARTS & LABOUR THE SHOP Religious Material DJ Scott Cudmore (soul/funk/R&B/rnr) 10 pm. RASPUTIN VODKA BAR Twilight Zone DJ Albert Assoon (vocal house). REVIVAL The Main Ingredient/Break! DJs Agile, Sean Sax, Mensa, Linx, Surreal Sound (soul/funk/jazz). RIVOLI Bump’n Hustle DJs Paul E Lopes, Mike Tull (soul/funk/house/disco/ lovers rock/Latin/hip hop/boogie). SNEAKY DEE’S DJ Rob Dyer. SUPERMARKET Do Right Saturdays! DJs Fase, John Kong, MC Abdominal 11:30 pm. SUTRA Triplet On The Decks DJ Triplet (old skool hip-hop). WRONGBAR Toddla T, Busy P, Sebastian, DJ Mehdi, Rynecologist, the Jackals doors 10 pm.
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CHERRY COLA’S ROCK N’ ROLLA CABARET & LOUNGE Johnny Favourite & the Troubadours 9 pm.
DRAKE HOTEL UNDERGROUND TIFF Open Call The Framework, Nights and Weekends, Stef Lang doors 8 pm. HORSESHOE The Beautiful Girls, Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad, Orgone doors 8:30 pm. HUGH’S ROOM Alfie Zappacosta 8:30 pm. LULA LOUNGE Tribute To Michael Jackson Al St Louis & the Soulmates (pop) 7 pm. PARTS & LABOUR THE SHOP Wheatus, Junior Battles 9 pm, all ages. PHOENIX CONCERT THEATRE Millencolin, the Saint Catherines, Mockingbird Wish Me Luck (Swedish pop punks) doors 7 pm, all ages. SHOPS AT DON MILLS Festival In The Square Bob DeAngelis, Mark Masri, Stephan Moccio & Friends (Alan Frew, Amy Sky, Tara McLean) 1-5 pm. SOUTHSIDE JOHNNY’S Rock Jam Rebecca & Phoenix Band 9 pm.
FOLK/BLUES/COUNTRY/WORLD
DAKOTA TAVERN The F-Holes (roots/gypsy jazz/blues).
DISTILLERY DISTRICT TRINITY SQUARE Mark Stafford, Darran Poole (blues) 1 pm.
DOMINION ON QUEEN Rockabilly Brunch 11 am.
GLADSTONE HOTEL MELODY BAR Mill St Blue-
grass Sundays White Squirrel Sinnerz 6 pm. GRAFFITI’S Michael Brennan 4 pm. GROSSMAN’S Blues Jam Brian Cober 9:30 pm. THE HARP PUB Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Pat Carey’s Jazz Navigators, Sophia Perlman 2 pm, the Nomads, Jack DeKeyzer 7 pm. KEW GARDENS Beach Celtic Festival Wild Geese Celtic Band, Don Graham, Linda Welby 10 am to 6 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 1 The Meteors (blues) 5:45 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR STAGE 1 Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Sean Cotton 1 pm. LAKE AFFECT PATIO BAR Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival The Homeless Band 1:45 pm, Fiddlestix 6:30 pm. MAPLE LEAF HOUSE Homeless Band (blues) 4:30 pm. MULLIGAN’S Mulligan’s Stew (blues) 5 pm. NAPOCA RESTAURANT Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Julian Fauth, Bob Vespaziani, Jake Chisholm, James Thompson noon. PORT CREDIT MEMORIAL PARK Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Johnny Winter, Junior Jam, Monkey Junk, Mark Hummel’s Blues Harmonica Blowout. ROC N DOC’S Southside Shuffle Blues & Jazz Festival Johnny V (blues) 4 pm, David Rotundo (blues) 9 pm. SARAH’S CAFE Acoustic Afternoon Dan McLean Jr 3 to 6 pm. SUPERMARKET Freefall Sundays Open Mic 8 pm. TRANZAC SOUTHERN CROSS Toast N Jam Family Kitchen Party 2:30 pm, Dallas Sutherland (solo acoustic guitar) 7:30 pm. TRANZAC MAIN HALL The Finest Kind 7 pm. VILLAGE OF YORKVILLE PARK Summer Music In The Park Silhouettes Duo 2 to 5 pm.
JAZZ/CLASSICAL/EXPERIMENTAL
ASPETTA CAFFE Kevin Myles, Chris Ritchie, Denielle Bassels Quartet 2:30 pm.
THE CENTRAL Sunday Social Adjemian/Gen-
naro, Ghost Eye (experimental/ambient/electronic) 3 pm. COMMENSAL Gerry Justin, Dan Eisen (jazz) 11 am. GATE 403 Jazz Brunch Jay Sinclair (jazz vocals) noon, Jan Koel Jazz Band 5 pm, Kathleen Gorman Jazz Band 9 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Naked Girls Reading Dr Seuss Skin Tight Outta Sight doors 7 pm. THE PAINTED LADY Safety in Numbers (Django meets tango jazz) 6 pm. TEN FEET TALL Jazz Matinee Melissa Lauren 3:30 pm.
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Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Bovine sex cluB TIFF: Locarno Intl Film Festival Party DJs Barbie, Vania 10 pm.
cheval She’s With Us Sundays Kim Fai, DJ Jedi
(house).
GraFFiTi’s Black Metal Brunch. hyde Factory Sundays DJs Joe Mazone, Man-
olo, Mikel Curcio, Goldfinger, Addy (anthems) 10 pm.
Ten FeeT Tall Jazz Matinee Richard Underhill
Monday, September 13
ToronTo Music Garden Summer Music In
PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL
3:30 pm.
The Garden – Mozart Un-Locked The Rosetta Trio 4 pm. Tranzac souThern cross Lina Allemano 4 (jazz) 10 pm.
Bovine sex cluB TIFF: Amazon Falls Festival Party Mamabolo 10 pm. ñ drake hoTel underGround Elvis Monday Volcano Playground, Wendy Leung Band,
Expo, Reykjavictim, R.A.P.E. Tazer doors 8 pm. harleM Open Jam Night CarolynT (R&B/soul/ jazz/pop/funk) 8 pm. horseshoe Mystery Jets, PS I Love You (Britpop) doors 8:30 pm. lee’s Palace Rock & Roll Chip Stop, Bootknives. oPera house Katatonia, Orphaned Land, Swallow the Sun, Twilight Child doors 7 pm, all ages. roc n doc’s Phil Naro & John Rogers (rock) 9 pm. silver dollar Garotas Suecas, Revolvers, Tropicalia doors 8:45 pm. TriniTy sT Paul’s church The Airborne Toxic Event, the Calder Quartet doors 7:30 pm, all ages.
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FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD
caMeron house FronT rooM Betty Stew 6
to 8 pm.
cloak & daGGer PuB Steve Gleason (folk) 9 pm. hiGhway 61 souThern BarBeque Steve Grisbrook, Steve Goldberger (blues) 7 pm.
huGh’s rooM Charlie A’Court, Chris Kirby, Treasa Levasseur.
MiTzi’s sisTer The Gord Zubrecki Band. The PainTed lady Open Mic Mondays 9 pm. Ten FeeT Tall Toronto Fingerstyle Guitar As-
sociation East End Open Stage 8 pm. Tranzac souThern cross Open Mic 10 pm. Tranzac Tiki rooM Nancy Dutra 8 pm.
Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL
doMinion on queen George Grosman’s Jazz
an evening with
ryuichi
sakamoto
Sunday october 24 queen elizabeth theatre
an evening with
ryuichi
sakamoto
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FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD
c’esT whaT CD release Fred Magie (roots/folk)
10 pm.
Free TiMes caFé Dallas Sutherland, Skye Wallace, Blind Horses 8 pm.
GraFFiTi’s Kitgut Oldtime Stringband 7 pm. GrossMan’s Rockin’ Blues Jam Ernest Lee & Cotton Traffic 9 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
(jazz) 9 pm.
cenTury rooM TIFF Edition Riva Starr, Jedi,
Red Wire Archangel 10 pm. whisTler’s Grille Steve Grisbrook (blues) 7 pm.
Dance Music/DJ/Lounge
Golden Gloves, Bangers n’ Mash doors 10 pm.
Goodhandy’s T-Girls Go Wild! DJ Cesar doors
Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL
doMinion on queen Eastend Ukulele Circle
nine doors 10 pm. Goodhandy’s T-Girls Go Wild! DJ Cesar doors 8 pm.5 rockwood Mashup Mondays DJs Crunch, Tilt doors 10 pm, doors 10 pm.
Tuesday, September 14 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL
Bovine sex cluB Blind Cats, Money Pie early eve, TIFF After Screenings Party late eve.
Sunday october 24
queen elizabeth theatre
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The wilson 96 The Monday Night Specials alleycaTz Salsa Night DJ Frank Bischun 8 pm. drake hoTel lounGe 86’D DJ Johnny Strych-
queen elizabeth theatre
axis Gallery & Grill The Junction Jam Derek Downham (folk) 9:30 pm. BookcluB-in-a-Box Semmy Stahlhammer, Isabel Stahlhammer (klezmer) 8 pm. cloak & daGGer PuB Gord Light (pop/folk) 10 pm. GaTe 403 Blues Night Julian Fauth (barrelhouse) 9 pm. hiGhway 61 souThern BarBeque Open Mic Campfire Brian Blain (blues/folk/country) 7 pm. huGh’s rooM Yvette Tollar, Sheila Jordan 8:30 pm. MiTzi’s sisTer Sean Pinchin, James Clarke (blues/folk/roots). slack’s Tuesday Night Jam Kim Jarrett, Mike Costantino (folk rock) 9 pm. Tranzac souThern cross Freeman Dre’s Kitchen Party 7:30 pm, Lowell Whitty’s Notes & Noodles 10 pm.
Tranzac souThern cross This Is Awesome 7
pm.
Sunday october 24
FoLk/BLues/countRy/WoRLD
huGh’s rooM CD release Lynn Hanson. silver dollar High Lonesome Wednesday:
GaTe 403 Sarah Begin Jazz Duo ,5 pm, runs September 9, 16 & Sean 23. Bellaviti Jazz Band 9 pm.
Buy tickets at
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Wayne Nakamura (jazz) 8:30 pm. GaTe 403 Byung-gul Jung Jazz Band 5 pm. GraFFiTi’s Grim Preachers Jazzy Band 9 pm. suPerMarkeT The Ambient Ping: In Technocolour Heiki, Ben John Robertson, Noise Level doors 8 pm.
nett, Andrew Cyrille (jazz) 8 pm. See ñ preview, page 49.
sakamoto
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GladsTone hoTel Melody Bar Granny Boots Like a Virgo! 7:30 pm.5 horseshoe Jesse Malin, Moneybrother, the St Marks Social (punk rock power pop) doors 8:30 pm. iMPerial PuB Kilowatt (funk/R&B jam) 9:30 pm. lou dawG’s Lisa Michelle (acoustic pop soul) 8 pm. lula lounGe Lady Daisey, Jessica Kaya, Larra Skye, DJ ?uesquecest, Batsauce (soul/jazz/ downtempo hip-hop) 8 pm. MiTzi’s sisTer The K-Tel Kids. Mod cluB School of Seven Bells, Active Child, Bishop Morocco doors 10 pm. oPera house Dirty Projectors, Happy Birthday doors 8 pm. The PainTed lady Dancer Dancer, Dylan Goodhue (R&R/funk/rock) 9:30 pm. rancho relaxo The Single Sheets, Cursed Arrows, Kings Common. suPerMarkeT Wednesdays Go Pop Mookie and the Loyalists, Take Me to the Pilot, Nico doors 9 pm. TaTToo rock Parlour LMFAO doors 10 pm.
hiGhway 61 souThern BarBeque Dr Nick,
eMMeT ray Bar Pat Reid (jazz) 9 pm. Gallery 345 Henry Grimes, Jane Bun-
ryuichi
Milow, Matt Morris doors 7:30 pm. Glenn Gould sTudio Chilly Gonzales (pop) 8 pm. See preview, page 42. horseshoe Dave Bookman’s Nu Music Nites A Friend in London, Terra Lightfoot Band 9 pm. lee’s Palace Jamie Lidell, Zeus doors 8 pm. See preview, page 45 rancho relaxo Toonie Tuesday. TaTToo rock Parlour Kiss Me, I’m A Rock Star! Gene Simmons, the Envy doors 10 pm.
Jazz/cLassicaL/exPeRiMentaL
Goes Pop 7 pm.
an evening with
drake hoTel underGround TIFF Open Call
Buy tickets at
doMinion on queen Corktown’s Django Jam
8 pm.5 MoTel DJ Craig (indie/classic rock) 9 pm. ulTra David Morales (house/electronica) doors 10 pm.
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Wednesday, September 15 PoP/Rock/HiP-HoP/souL
The cenTral Rooftop Serenade Emma Hill, Luke Nares.
drake hoTel underGround TIFF Open Call
The City Streets, RatTail, Mathemagic, Foxes in Fiction doors 8 pm.
Pete Schmidt 7 pm.
Big City Bluegrass Crazy Strings 9:30 pm.
Touché Latin Night Jam (nueva trova/rock Latino/Latin jazz/boleros) 8 pm.
Tranzac souThern cross CJ Boyd 7:30 pm,
(jazz) 8 pm.
eMMeT ray Bar Dan Easti Trio (trad jazz) 9 pm. GaTe 403 Scott McGovern Jazz Band 5 pm,
Vincent Bertucci Jazz Band 9 pm. la MaqueTTe Peter Mathers (classical guitar) 6:30 pm. MezzeTTa Ted Quinlan, Mike Downes (jazz) 9 pm. nawlins Jazz Bar Jim Heineman Jazz Trio 7 pm. reservoir lounGe Beverly Taft & Her Swell Fellas 7 pm.
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Jazz
Back to basses Reports of jazz bassist Henry Grimes’s demise were greatly exaggerated By NILAN PERERA henry grimes with Jane Bunnett and andrew Cyrille at Gallery 345 (345 Sorauren), Monday (September 13), 8 pm. $25, stu $10. 416-822-9781.
Philadelphia-born bassist Henry Grimes has a thought or two about
how the jazz scene’s changed over the last few decades. “The different races of musicians who take part all seem to be coming together and starting to get along,” observes Grimes over the phone from a tour stop in Chicago. He’s got plenty of first-hand experi-
ence to back that up. After all, in the 50s and 60s Grimes built himself a career most musicians would envy, playing and recording alongside Thelonious Monk, Anita O’Day, Benny Goodman and Sonny Rollins, and, later, burning brightly with free-jazz giants Cecil Taylor, Albert Ayler, Don Cherry and countless others. But then his story gets weird. In the late 60s, he mysteriously disappeared, as if the earth had swallowed him whole. For 35 years, nothing was heard from him, and many assumed he had died. In 2002, social worker and jazz fan Marshall Marrotte found a nearly destitute Grimes in L.A. living in a tiny apartment and doing odd jobs to stay alive. The bass hadn’t been part of his life for decades; he’d channelled his creativity into poetry and drawing. With help, Grimes re-emerged, and when word spread, master bassist William Parker gave him a new bass, colleagues and fans from all over the world began calling, and offers to play rolled in. Since then, Grimes hasn’t wasted a minute. At 75, he finds himself playing, recording and touring in Europe, North America and Japan. Now living in New York, he’s also a recently published poet, and his amazing story has been documented in the New York Times and on NPR. “It’s been fantastic. Joyfully fun,” Grimes says of his return to music. “I can just delve into myself and the bass, and what’s released is something new. “It feels like I never left.” 3
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416-598-0720
jamie fRiday sepTember 17 phoenix conceRt theatRe
w/ russian fuTurisTs
all -ages
friday october 1 Mod Club | early sHOw
lidell with
september 27
friday september 24 Opera House | $19.50 advance
Mod Club | $20.00 advance
mod club
tickets $ 35.50 advance ticketmaster, Horseshoe rotate this & soundscapes
menomena nick tuesday
september 28 @ Mod Club
Portland Or - $15.00 advance
lowe first full Band show in 20 years!
all-ages - 6:30 doors
all-ages - early show 6:30pm
Opera House | $18.50 advance
comeback
sick of
with madball &
nyc h-core
wednesday thursday october 14 september 29 koolhAus All-Ages • 29.50 AdvAnce +ff $
massey hall
tHursday october 14
the
we came as
lee’s Palace | $17.50 advance
new york city ska
Mod Club | all-ages - $ 14.50 advance
slackers romans
october 5 the phoenix
in fear and faith
advance
friday october 15 @ Phoenix | union / stomp - $17.50 adv + ff
mon october 25 the mod club
friday october 22
ska
$20.00 advance
New York CitY
All-Ages
the creepshow cd release mustard plug
$45.00 premium advance $ 39.00 - $25.00 Balcony
with real estate
wednesday october 13 Horseshoe | $ 24.50 advance sCOtland 90’s indie rOCk
with
dum dum girls
so cal punk
Bouncing souls + off with their heads
tuesday $21.50
swinging utters
suckers
new york • $18.50 advance
deerhunter
sat september 18
Opera House | $20.00 advance
30 th anniversary tour
with
phoenix concert theatre
tuesday october 19 @ Opera House
tHurs september 23
a wilhelm scream
sat october 9
with aa bondy
all ages • $ 22.00 advance +ff
kid it all
sept 29
Mod Club | $ 34.50 advance
rufio + mute + we are the union
the phoenix
wednesday
wed october 13
w/
thursday september 9
tuesdAy september 14 lee’s pAlAce $20.00 advance MOnday
lOs angeles vagrant 90s alt rOCk
zeus
so cal punk rock
wed october 20 Mod Club | $18.50 advance
four
w/ blackheart procession
tues october 26 the phoenix | 19+
with
tet
aLL- aGes
jenny & johnny
(Jenny lewis of Rilo kiley)
besnard lakes
and
Thurs OCTOBER 21 • koolhaus
all-ages
Friday November 26 thurs october 28 trinity st. pauls
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with the harbourcoats $ 22.50 advance • all ages / dry show
souNd academy sub pop • montreal
sunday october 31 @ the Phoenix
collective concerts friDay sePTeMBer 24 + SaturDay sePTeMBer 25 horseshoe tavern | $20.00 advance - 90s alternative rock Legends original live muSic @ 8:30 WeekdayS & 9:00 WeekendS fronT bar 12:00pm to 2:00am thurS sePTeMBer 9 | $ 5.00
silver creek people in grey liTTlE JackiE wrighT SaturDay sePTeMBer 11
friDay sePTeMBer 10 | $ 7.00
these electric lives nightbox huddle olympic iSlanD cd release
SunDay sePTeMBer 12 | $ 17.50 adv
dinoSaur boneS
order of good cheer $10.50
advance
beautiful
girls Giant Panda Guerilla dub Squad + orGone
ThE waTchmEn MonDay sePTeMBer 27 Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance
MonDay sePTeMBer 27
horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance
boxer
rebellion thurSDay sePTeMBer 30
$ 3.00
SunDay sePTeMBer 26 Lee’s Palace |
$16.50
advance
10:00pm to Midnight
alTernaTive rock dance 10:00pm to 2:30am
2nd floor of lee’s Palace $ 7.00 / free with sTudenT i.d. friday
Thursday • no cover
60’s Mod
PoP bif BriT dj bang Trevor pow with
(chk chk chk)
wED sePTeMBer 29
with
saTurday
Monday • no cover
reTro 70’s & 80’s
Lee’s Palace | $15.00 advance
liars
Sun ocToBer 3 @ Lee’s Palace | Kill rock Stars - $15.50 advance
library dEErhoof xiu xiu voiceS chapterhouSe horseshoe tavern | $12.50 advance
Drink
Specials
with
dj
Mr. PeTe
with dj shannon
concerTS aT: 8:00pm (Sun - Wed) 8:30pm (ThurSday) 9:00pm (friday & SaT)
with
wED ocToBer 6 @ Lee’s Palace | 90s Shoegazers - $20.50 advance
friDay ocToBer 8 horseshoe | $12.50 advance
d.o.a.
Sat ocToBer 9 @ Lee’s Palace | Kill rock Stars - $15.00 advance
thErmals
with cymbalS eat guitarS
thurS sePTeMBer 9 | $ 10.00
MonDay sePTeMBer 13
tnd • juice rock & roll fat as fuck chip Stop w/ your new friends bootknives
Mon sePTeMBer 13
tuESDay sePTeMBer 14
london rough trade brit pop
dungen subhumans justin a vi rocky jesse townEs earl buffalo votolato nachtmystium malin
private tiff party invite only
wED sePTeMBer 15 |
$ 13.50 adv
springsteen meets replacements meets gaslight anthem
pS i love you thurS sePTeMBer 16 | $7.00
Sunbear greg keelor Eiyn sof
cd release
horseshoe tavern
friDay sePTeMBer 10 | Van, BC - Punk - $13.50 advance
$
friDay ocToBer 15
MonDay ocToBer 18
horseshoe tavern | $14.50 advance
17.50 advance
horseshoe | $13.50 advance
MonDay ocToBer 18 the Drake | Seattle - $14.50 advance
SaturDay sePTeMBer 11 | Metal Psych rock - $12.00 advance
w/ moneybrother clothes make the man
Simone felice
( ex Felice brothers ) friday - duStin bentall saturday - bidini band
beauties
SunDay sePTeMBer 26 | $13.50 advance
murDEr By DEaTh with samantha
ocToBer 10
h-core b.c. punk legends
dElinquints + unbEliEvErs + skullians
fri sePTeMBer 17 + Sat sePTeMBer 18 | $12.00 adv
the
SunDay
crain + schombErg fair
wEDnESDay ocToBer 20 Lee’s Palace | $18.50 advance
teenage fanclub wed: rick of the skins thurs: elephant stone artist bookings: craig@horseshoetavern.com or 416-598-0720
Lee’s Palace | $17.50 advance
mark lanegan Ex-Belle & Sebastian Screaming Trees ‘Duo’ &
friDay
noveMBer 5 Lee’s Palace w/ jose GonZales
wEDnESDay
pussy
civet
junip clinic
wED sePTeMBer 9 @ El Mocambo
with
sharon van etten
horseshoe tavern | $13.50 advance
ray
fri noveMBer 12 @ horseshoe | $10.00
winTEr glovES
with zoroastEr & atlas moth & dark castlE
tuESDay sePTeMBer 14 | $20.00 advance - with zEus
jamie lidell
thurS sePTeMBer 16 Montreal - $15.00 advance
tuES noveMBer 16 @ El Mocambo | $11.50 adv
with
the fresh and only’s
noveMBer 10 Lee’s Palace
with
Sat ocToBer 2 @ Sneaky Dee’s | $13.50 adv
fang island w/ delicate Steve
SaturDay sePTeMBer 18
david bazan
MonDay ocToBer 4
mice parade envy film zola jesus scout niblett school perfume genius coBra SkullS first adam haworth aid kit cotton jones stephens blood red shoes mt desolation ThE TallEST bEst coast with touche amore
El Mocambo |
$10.00
aka pedro the lion
advance
$ 12.50
brit pop legendS
with depreciation guild
thurS ocT 7 @ the Drake | $11.00 adv
thurS ocT 14 @ Sneaky Dee’s | $10.00 adv
advance
friDay sePTeMBer 17 | $32.50 advance
Sat ocToBer 2 @ the Garrison | $12.50 adv
fri ocToBer 15 @ El Mocambo Sweden - $13.50 advance
Sat ocToBer 9 @ the Drake | $10.50 adv
Mon ocToBer 25 @ the Drake | $10.50 adv
wEDnESDay ocToBer 27 @ horseshoe tavern | Brit Pop - $11.50 adv
thurS ocToBer 28 @ the Drake | $18.50 adv
with members of keane
horseshoetavern.com joy formidable 370 Queen St. WeSt / Spadina 416-598-4226 • 1947 to 2010
wEDnESDay noveMBer 10
isobel campbell nashville azurE
thurS sePT 30 @ the Garrison | $12.50 adv
scotland wEDnESDay sePTeMBer 22 90’scover! indie no $25.00 adv rock legends & thurS sePTeMBer 23
thurSDay ocToBer 21
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her swagger is in full effect on the rumbling, Diplo-backed club jam Criminal Intent and U Should Know Better, a frenzied, lyrical tête-à-tête with Snoop Dogg. The orchestral ballad Indestructible rounds out the album. In other hands, the genre variation might sound jarring. Robyn’s sincerity and confidence make it work. Top track: In My Eyes Robyn hits Sound Academy November 12. KEVIN RITCHIE
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Wilderness Heart (Jagjaguwar) Rating: NNNN Canada’s best psych rock band, Black Mountain, took a number of risks with their new album, and they’ve largely paid off. The Vancouver fivepiece forwent self-production in favour of outside assistance from not one but two producers, L.A.’s D. Sardy (Nine Inch Nails, Spoon, LCD Soundsystem) and Seattle’s Randall Dunn (Sunn O))), Earth). The L.A. songs float and swirl, evoking Pink Floyd, Big Star and kaleidoscopic folk. The Seattle ones are heavier, darker and sometimes thrust toward metal. (The almost cheesy Let Spirits Ride could be a lost Judas Priest track.) That Black Mountain can seamlessly
marry such opposite genres and recording sessions is proof of their mastery and inimitability. The producers have also curbed self-indulgent tendencies – these tunes are concise, efficient and burst with energy. Amber Webber’s wobbly falsetto sidles sweetly against Steve McBean’s raw croon, the lyrics are obliquely eerie, the riffs satisfyingly thunderous. And, oh, those synth lines! Some might lament the increased accessibility and decreased experimentation, but it doesn’t take long to realize that these tracks do as much in four minutes as the 18-minute epics in Black Mountain’s past. Top track: Rollercoaster Black Mountain play the Phoenix October 31. CARLA GILLIS
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JENNY OMNICHORD All Our Little Bones (Label Fantastic!) Rating: NNN No one plays the omnichord like Guelph/ London indie darling Jenny Mitchell (aka Jenny Omnichord), but that’s beside the point on her third solo album. Recorded at the House of Miracles by Justin Nace (Two Minute Miracles), it also features J.J. Ipsen, Michael Brushey and Tristan O’Malley (the Barmitzvah Brothers), who had never been in the same room before, never mind playing together. The omnichord still occupies a prime spot – lingering over and riffing around the melodies – but the band helps to highlight Mitchell’s diverse songs, which range from the soulful Mending Nibbled Wires to the fast, fuzzy Lifeline. Her gravely, occasionally cracking voice is more expressive than ever on these songs about pregnancy, getting older, love and after-life polyamory. Pain Of Maybes and Thinking Of You are particularly magical. The first release from Label Fantastic!, the vinyl version comes with a board game played on a hand-quilted map of Canada. Top track: Pain Of Maybes Jenny Omnichord throws herself a pretour party Saturday (September 11) at Broadview Espresso. SARAH GREENE
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Mean Old Man (Universal) Rating: NNNN The entire space allotted to this review could be spent listing the jaw-dropping all-star talents who appear on this Jerry Lee Lewis career revival gambit. Kristofferson, Jagger, Richards, Clapton, Fogerty, Staples, Starr, just to name a few. But do too many cooks spoil this classic rock ’n’ roll concoction? Hell, no. The Killer convinces Jagger to sing backup on Dead Flowers and gets Keef to strap on a Telecaster for a soulful version of Sweet Virginia. Fogerty aids on a righteous take of Bad Moon Rising, John Mayer worms his way onto a Ringo-assisted Roll Over Beethoven, and Willie Nelson duets on a harmony-happy redo of Whiskey River. The only dud is Kid Rock’s distracting yelp on Rockin’ My Life Away. But if you pick up the 18-track deluxe edition (the standard edition has 10 cuts), such a minor blemish is quickly forgotten amid the immense talent. Top track: Dead Flowers JASON KELLER
GOO GOO DOLLS Something For The Rest
Of Us (Warner) Rating: NN If you remember the Goo Goo Dolls as that unfashionable Buffalo-born trio wearing jammer shorts and bursting onto the mid-90s rock scene with a highoctane, undeniably catchy power pop sound, you might take some solace in their new album’s hard-driving opening track, Sweetest Lie. But from there it’s right back to the kind of borderline adult contemporary schmaltz (Notbroken, As I Am) the band embraced post-Dizzy Up The Girl, which included their super-smash ballad, Iris. Dizzy’s producer, Rob Cavallo (Green Day), as well as 90s big cheese Butch Vig, were enlisted to work on Something after a finished version with producer Tim Palmer was in the bag. Maybe the label was hoping to get back some of the Goo Goos’ 90s magic, but that doesn’t happen. Top track: Sweetest Lie JK
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Serotonin (Rough Trade) Rating: The backstory of Mystery Jets suggests a much stranger band than they are. They hail from a tiny place called Eel Pie Island (population 120), were founded by a prepubescent Blaine Harrison and his father, Henry, who started playing music together to provide a hobby for Blaine that wouldn’t conflict with his physical disability. (He has spina bifida and walks with crutches.) Their early work owed as much to prog and psych as it did to pop, and many mused that their third album would see them returning to the stranger side of the spectrum. However, instead of catering to the music nerd crowd, they’ve set their sights on the stadiums, and it suits them well. Every track sounds like a potential single, and the production is huge and glossy – in a good way. You can hear the entire history of British guitar pop music summed up, sometimes in one song. What’s really impressive, though, is how all the nods to glam rock, shoegazer, new wave and 80s indie rock blend together to produce a sound that’s maddeningly familiar but completely unique. Top track: Flash A Hungry Smile Mystery Jets play the Horseshoe Monday (September 13). BENJAMIN BOLES
Body Talk Pt. 2 (Konichiwa) Rating: The second of three albums Swedish pop star Robyn plans to release this year, Body Talk Pt. 2 is another concise, eight-song collection that clocks more time on the dance floor than its predecessor. On the first three tracks, she tackles enduring pop-music themes like love, loneliness and friendship with the kind of unsentimental yet empathetic songwriting fans of the Pet Shop Boys might admire. Midway, her worldly confidence morphs into outright cockiness and the beats grow aggressive. Robyn isn’t afraid to rap, and
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his excellent Baby Eagle project, it can’t be all bad. Recorded over a summer with the all-star backing band of Attack in Black’s Daniel Romano, Shotgun Jimmie, David Trenaman and Colleen Collins, Lambke’s third Baby Eagle record is a messy garagefolk gem, as indebted to Neil Young as to Pavement. His wheezy drawl will be the dealbreaker for some, but it perfectly fits the unpolished, world-weary nature of the album. The band’s fuzzed-out guitar-heavy arrangements mostly serve as a backdrop to Lambke’s homey, melancholic rural narratives in all their ragged glory. Laid-back and raw, it’s the perfect soundtrack to a last-call whiskey on a hot summer’s night. Top track: The Day Of Our Departing Baby Eagle play the Dakota September 23. RICHARD TRAPUNSKI
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Dog Weather (You’ve Changed) Rating: NNNN The possible breakup of the Constantines is definitely a bummer, but if it gives guitarist Steve Lambke more time to focus on
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Warm Weather With Ryan Driver (Constellation) Rating: Eric Chenaux has laid down his Gibson electric in favour of a nylon-string guitar on his third solo recording for Constellation. His numerous Toronto collaborations warrant footnotes in his biography (recent projects include the Reveries, Drumheller and the Guayaberas), though this one earns Ryan Driver a place in the title since he and Chenaux play most of the instruments. Chenaux’s drifting guitar parts wrap around the bones of the songs, while Driver adds subtle, jazzy piano and sustained synth and organ. Jennifer Castle and Michelle McAdorey both lend their voices, but Chenaux’s low, quiet voice is perhaps most haunting alone on Lavallière #2. These are love songs, and they’re awfully sad without ever sounding precious. Chenaux lightens up on Mynah Bird, Ronnie-Mary and Cool Down, but this is by and large heart-wrenching music. It’s also as fluid and mysterious as the changing weather. Top track: Lavallière #2 Eric Chenaux launches Warm Weather at the Music Gallery Saturday (September 11). SG
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Rating: NN Aging British electro duo Underworld – who blew everyone’s mind with Born Slippy .NUXX back in 1996 – are still at it and now on album eight. This time Karl Hyde and Rick Smith team up with a revolving cast of dance producers (Appleblim, Al Tourettes, High Contrast), hoping one of the many approaches to rock-meetstechno will again produce a bankable hit. Surprise! That doesn’t happen. Instead, lead singles Scribble and Always Loved A Film come off as trying-too-hard, obvious grasps at anthem-making. Scribble’s marketing-jingle-inspired hook bores into your skull, while the rest is popified Squarepusher reimagined for male strip clubs. Somewhat better is the dubstepinspired Hamburg Hotel, mercifully more Modeselektor than Pet Shop Boys. Top track: Hamburg Hotel JORDAN BIMM 3
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TRIGGER SP D: Bruce McDonald w/ Tracy ñ Wright, Molly Parker. Canada. 78 min. Sep 12, 5:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 18, 12:45 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNNN
McDonald’s latest is ostensibly a two-hander for Wright and Parker as old bandmates reunited after a decade for one very eventful Toronto night, but it’s really intended as a swan song for Wright, who’d been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a few months before the start of production. Daniel MacIvor’s script feels like a reconceived stage piece, but the actors make it work, shaking the material to life and refusing to let go. Wright couldn’t have asked for a better tribute, really. Trigger surrounds her with friends and loved ones and lets her rock out one last time. The sadness only kicks in NW when the buzz wears off.
Molly Parker (right) and the late, great Tracy Wright pull the Trigger.
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MAST D: Jean-Luc Godard w/ Alain Badiou, Jean Marc Stehlé. Switzerland/France. 97 min. Sep 9, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 11, 3:45 pm AMC 5; Sep 19, 9:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNN
This Cassandra-like shot across the bow of Western civilization is a film essay filled with – as Godard might say – (in)decipherable visual and verbal puns, proclamations and pointed geopolitical references. It’s not a mainstream movie, and its density can barely be plumbed in one sitting, yet there are rewards for the
diligent viewer who is not put off by the skewed subtitling and lack of narrative structure. Still, it’s a no-brainer for Godard watchers and Patti Smith completists. Smith is a passenger on the Mediterranean cruise ship that serves as the director’s metaphorical stand-in for PE the modern world.
FUBAR II MM D: Michael Dowse w/ David Lawrence, Paul J. Spence. Canada. 85 min. Sep 9, 11:59 pm Ryerson; Sep 11, noon Varsity 8 Rating: NNN
Fubar II picks up five years after the original as our two beer-addled headbangers – wildman Dean
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(Spence) and his marginally less wasted best buddy, Terry (Lawrence) – leave Calgary for Fort McMurray and big bucks in the tar sands. Dean fakes an injury, hoping to get workers’ comp, while Terry falls for a local girl, putting a strain on the friendship. Funnier and livelier than the first one, Fubar II delivers lots of nihilistic low comedy until the final third, when warm-hearted uplift rears its ugly head. The laughs ebb but don’t vanish altogether. That worked in the first one, when Dean’s testicular cancer was central to the story. Here, the warm fuzzies feel AD shoehorned in.
INSIDE JOB RTR D: Charles Ferguson. U.S. 108 min. ñ Sep 9, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 11, 1 pm AMC 6 Rating: NNNN
Why should financial engineers be paid so much more than real engineers? Ferguson’s scathing indictment is a lively primer on how the global economic crisis of 2008 happened and the naked greed that fuelled it. It also looks at the criminality of the investment banks that corrupted the institutions meant to oversee them. The director deftly unfurls his argument with mounting evidence of the slick collaboration and interconnectivity between academics,
government and investment banks. even more interesting than the cooperative witnesses who illuminate the case and the figures who refuse to be filmed are those who realize mid-interview that they’ve just put their foot in their PE mouth.
SCORE: A HOCKEY MUSICAL GALA D: Michael McGowan w/ Noah Reid, Allie MacDonald. Canada. 92 min. Sep 9, 6:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 9, 8 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 12, 12:30 pm Varsity 8 Rating: NNN
It’s totally hokey, the songs all sound the same, and the ending is ridiculous. So why was I smiling all the way through this silly festival opener? McGowan (one Week) loves the Canuck icons, the film has an anti-violence message and its two leads are very engaging. Home-schooled Farley (Reid) is a hockey prodigy who’s never played an organized game in his life. When he joins the Brampton Blades and becomes a star, he loses his sense of self and his friendship with the girl next door (a winning MacDonald). Don’t know who’s gonna go for this. Hockey nuts will hate the message, while musical lovers aren’t necessarily sports fans and the film snobs will doubtless scoff. But Score is pretty fun, especially if SGC you’re Canadian. continued on page 58
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SP D: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden w/ ñ Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis. U.S. 101 min. Sep 11, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 17, 9 am Varsity 8 Rating: NNNN
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FRIDAY, SEPT 10 BAD FAITH (OND TRO) CWC D: Kristian Petri w/ Sonja Richter, Jonas Karlsson. Sweden. 106 min. Sep 10, 3 pm Varsity 7; Sep 11, 12:30 pm Varsity 7; Sep 18, 6:30 pm AMC 3 Rating: NN
This rudimentary genre exercise about obsessive Europeans and their alienated existence is as predictable as it is slow. Richter stars as the socially gauche Mona, who compulsively seeks out a serial killer after a chance meeting with one of his victims, putting her own sanity at risk. Petri’s compositions are elegant, and he gets fine performances from his cast. Unfortunately, his thriller is thin, with little in the way of a sensible plot. Instead of being on the edge of our seats, we’re borderline drowsy, even with a persistent soundtrack that keeps banging on those ominous sounds. Dummmm, dummmm… RS snore.
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(HIMLEN ÄR OSKYLDIGT BLÅ) CWC D: Hannes Holm w/ Peter Dalle, Bill Skarsgård. Sweden. 111 min. Sep 10, 6:30 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 11, 9:15 am AMC 4; Sep 17, 5:30 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NNN
Holm’s period piece begins as an affectionate, vibrant and hilarious coming-of-age story, with spirited
With this oddball dramedy about a suicidal teen (Gilchrist) who has himself committed and lands in the adult ward of a New York mental hospital, directors Boden and Fleck move out of the dramatic comfort zone they established with Half-Nelson and Sugar and edge into intriguing new territory. Gilchrist (The United States Of Tara) is terrific as the confused young hero, and Galifianakis finds new depths in his dull-eyed teddy bear persona as his would-be mentor. But the real thrill is watching the directors refuse to give in to the conventions of the snake-pit drama; there isn’t a Nurse Ratched or a Billy Bibbit character NW to be found. Just people.
characters and subtle class tensions boiling beneath the surface. Teenage Martin (Skarsgård) gets to escape his crummy life for a summer, landing a job on a vacation island. He makes cute with a female co-worker before falling under the thumb of a local drug lord. Yep, before we know it, we’re watching a crime movie. The film’s based on actual events, so maybe the shift isn’t that radical, but it certainly squanders the momentum of the first half by growing slightly clichéd and monotonous. Reality can be such a RS bummer.
BIUTIFUL SP D: Alejandro González Iñárritu w/ Javier Bardem, Maricel Alvarez. Spain/ Mexico. 148 min. Sep 10, 8 pm Winter Garden; Sep 11, 9:30 am AMC 6 Rating: NNNN
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This harrowing new work from the gifted Mexican director forgoes his multi-narrative approach for a single and disturbing story. Uxbal (Bardem) is trying to maintain his myriad shady businesses while caring for his two children and the mother of his ex-wife (Alvarez), who’s bi-polar and now turning tricks. And he’s dying. Uxbal’s a fascinating character: sensitive yet unscrupulous, a loving father capable of exploitation. Bardem is spectacular as a tortured
soul trying to do right when everything’s going all wrong. This isn’t for everyone – if you can’t stand the heat, stay away. But if you want to experience a terrific filmmaker and a superb actor at the height of their powers, don’t miss it. SGC
DAYDREAM NATION CF D: Mike Goldbach w/ Kat Dennings, Josh Lucas. Canada. 96 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 11, noon AMC 3 Rating: NNN
Goldbach’s fine debut deserves to be seen just for the risks it takes. Caroline (Dennings) has just moved with her dad to a sleepy small town after her mother’s death. She’s smarter than everybody else at her high school and can’t connect with anybody but her history teacher (Lucas). Writer/director Goldbach creates a strong sense of alienation as the kids do whatever drugs they can find – or invent, and a serial killer on the loose sets up a backdrop of growing terror. Though some threads are left dangling, the narrative careens to a powerful climax. The big story here is rising star Dennings (Defendor, Nick And Nora’s Infinite Playlist), who’s completely compelling as the teenager trying to take control of her life and the men around her. Cool Canuck indie tunes, too, especially the closing track by Metric. SGC
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EASY MONEY (SNABBA CASH) VAN D: Daniel Espinosa w/ Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela. Sweden. 120 min. Sep 10, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 12, 9:15 am AMC 3 Rating: NN
We don’t see a lot of Swedish gangster pictures round these parts, and with movies like this, we’re not likely to see many more. Espinosa’s facile thriller charts the fates of three
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characters working their way through Sweden’s cocaine underworld: a humble Stockholm university student (Kinnaman) with dreams of upward mobility, an escaped convict (Varela) with an estranged family, and a Serbian heavy (Dragomir Mrsic) who gains a new perspective on things when he’s forced to take custody of his young daughter. It’s an ambitious set-up, but the demands of the gangster picture take over in the laboured second hour, with shootings, beatings and betrayals squeezing out the thoughtful character development and NW insight.
40 CTC D: Emre Sahin w/ Ali Atay, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine. Turkey/U.S. 87 min. Sep 10, 7 pm AMC 2; Sep 13, noon Varsity 7 Rating: NNN
A fast-paced, entertaining tale of crime and coincidence, 40 offers the bonus of a look at life on the overcrowded streets of Istanbul and among the city’s illegal immigrants. Sahin’s fluid camera and staging of key events in public paints a vivid portrait of a city where everyone’s elbowing just to survive. Cabbie and low-level crook Metin bungles a cash delivery for the local Mob boss. Godwill, a Nigerian illegal, could use the money to further his attempts to get to Paris and the woman he loves, but the same money could get nurse Sevda out of a bad marriage. Funny and weirdly plausible coincidences AD give them all a shot at the loot.
THE KING’S SPEECH GALA D: Tom Hooper w/ Colin Firth, ñ Geoffrey Rush. UK/Australia. 111 min. Sep 10, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 11, noon Ryerson Rating: NNNN
The relationship between the stammering prince who would become George VI (Firth) and his
expat Australian speech trainer (Rush) serves as the locus of this charming little period piece. The production assembles the tried-and-tested Oscar-baiting elements of big stars, crippling personal issues and regal pomp, as previously seen in Mrs. Brown and The Queen – with the added bonus of a war with Hitler looming in the background. But director Hooper’s inventive staging and surprising visual choices goose the straightforward material in much the same way as he did with last year’s The Damned United, and bring out the best in Firth, Rush and co-star Helena Bonham Carter. This is a fine NW picture all around.
THE LIGHT THIEF (SVET-AKE) CWC D: Aktan Arym Kubat w/ Kubat, Askat Sulaimanov. Kyrgyzstan/Germany/France/ Netherlands. 80 min. Sep 10, 6 pm AMC 4; Sep 11, 9:30 am AMC 3 Rating: NNN
In a remote Kyrgyzstani village, an amateur electrician known as Mr. Light (writer/director Kubat) spends his days tweaking the townsfolks’ meters to keep energy costs down and building windmills to get his neighbours off the grid. It’s your basic scruffy-dreamer set-up, presented with unaffected realism, and Kubat is a pleasant enough screen presence as the cheerful hero. But the movie’s allegory gets uncomfortably strident once Mr. Light falls in with a local fixer (Sulaimanov) who’s buying up land around town with the hopes of flipping it to foreign investors, and the last reel stretches the premise a little further than it NW wants to go.
MANDOO DISC D: Ebrahim Saeedi w/ Rojan Mahamad, Shahab Fazili. Iraq. 90 min. Sep 10, 2:30 pm AMC 3; Sep 13, 2:45 pm AMC 5; Sep 17, 5:45 pm AMC 3 Rating: N
A film whose intentions are far better than its execution, Mandoo follows a family of Kurds travelling from an Iraqi camp to their home in Iran to lay their ailing patriarch to rest. They have run-ins with border police and get into shootouts with terrorists that they somehow keep surviving. (Canadian Forces should take notes.) Along the way, we’re subjected to heavy-handed monologues while being restricted to the POV of a near-comatose old man. Gimmicky RS and earnest.
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(NORBERTO APENAS TARDE) DISC D: Daniel Hendler w/ Fernando Amaral. Uruguay/Argentina. 89 min. Sep 10, 5 pm AMC 5; Sep 11, 9:30 am Varsity 7; Sep 17, 8:30 pm Varsity 7 Rating: NNN
In the slight but sly Norberto’s Deadline, a real estate agent loses interest in everything else when he discovers his passion for acting. Amaral delivers a nuanced performance as the title character, who sleepwalks through his job and marriage until a chance visit to the theatre awakens his spirit. Hendler’s
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N O W TO R O N TO.C O M / T I F F Robert De Niro (left) and Edward Norton leave us Stone cold (see review, this page).
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POETRY (SHI) MAST D: Lee Chang-dong w/ Yun ñ Junghee, Lee David. South Korea. 139 min. Sep 10, 6 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 11, 9 am Isabel Bader; Sep 17, 9 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1 Rating: NNNN
This crackling multi-layered policier gains most of its power from an unsentimental performance by the divine Yun as a dutiful grandmother still vibrant in her 60s who takes up writing poetry to fend off the early stages of dementia. She’s more than capable of finding true beauty in everyday life, but it’s only as she comes to understand her grandson’s connection to a young woman’s mysterious suicide that poetic inspiration touches her. Director Lee cleverly plays up the character study while keeping the criminal case in the background. Good and evil deeds share the screen with lofty dialogue and cinematic imagery. It’s uncommonly effective PE and subtly executed.
ROUTE 132 CWC D: Louis Bélanger w/ François ñ Papineau, Alexis Martin. Canada. 113 min. Sep 10, 9:15 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 12,
STONE SP D: John Curran w/ Robert De Niro, Edward Norton. U.S. 105 min. Sep 10, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 11, 2:30 pm Varsity 8; Sep 18, 6 pm Ryerson Rating: N
In a plot no one on earth has ever imagined before, a hard-case Detroit parole officer (De Niro) on the verge of retirement finds himself flummoxed by his latest applicant (Norton), who claims to be in the middle of a spiritual rebirth, and the applicant’s alluring wife (Milla Jovovich), whose idea of “personal outreach” is a little more specific than most. It’s hard to say which element of this risible drama is sillier – Angus MacLachlan’s portentous screenplay, cobbled together from half a dozen of Jim Thompson’s lesser potboilers, or Norton’s sustained impression of Bubbles from The Wire. Of course, there’s really no need to pick one over the other – there’s enough terrible stuff in this movie to go around. NW continued on page 62
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Writer-director Bélanger’s seriocomic road movie follows a bereaved Montreal father (Papineau) coping – or rather, not coping – with his inconsolable grief by getting drunk and joining an old pal (Martin) on a
trip into the countryside to rob a bank. Or an ATM. Or whatever they can find, really. The juxtaposition of powerful emotions in banal surroundings may recall Bernard Emond’s starchy philosophy lessons in Summit Circle or La Donation, but Bélanger (Post Mortem, Gaz Bar Blues) brings an aching humanist perspective to the action, and Papineau’s terrific performance sells the script’s complex emotional proposition. NW Remember, it’s okay to laugh.
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film festival guide The talented Chloë Grace Moretz and Kodi SmitMcPhee let us in on their characters’ problems.
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LET ME IN SP D: Matt Reeves w/ Chloë Grace ñ Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee. UK/U.S. 115 min. Sep 13, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 14, 3 pm Ryerson Rating: NNNN
given that Tomas Alfredson’s 2008 chiller let The Right one In was so distinctly Swedish, it’s amazing how well the material withstands the transfer to a New Mexico setting. The story is exactly the same, with a bullied teen (The Road’s Smit-McPhee) and an enigmatic neighbour (Kick-Ass’s Moretz) bonding as a series of murders sweep their apartment complex. There’s blood and screaming aplenty, but the real horror lies in the story’s long-term implications, as embodied by Richard Jenkins as Moretz’s guardian. Writer/director Reeves trades Cloverfield’s shaky camcorder aesthetic for an austere widescreen elegance that honours Alfredson’s original from the very first frames. NW
Rcontinued from page 59 WASTED ON THE YOUNG DISC D: Ben C. Lucas w/ Oliver Ackland, Adelaide Clemens. Australia. 97 min. Sep 10, 7 pm Varsity 8; Sep 11, 9 am Varsity 8; Sep 18, 9 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NN
Here’s an example of a movie that shows tons of technical skill and absolutely no soul, in a story that should have lots of it. Rich guy Zack (Alex Russell) is the big cahuna at his private school, and he runs it with an iron fist. When the girl he likes rejects him for his computer geek stepbrother (Ackland), he takes his revenge at one of the epic drug-fuelled parties he throws at his parents’ mansion. With adults totally absent and technology ever-present, this could have been a smart statement on corrupt kids. But since we know nothing of the characters’ backstories, and all the students are stupidly passive, it winds up being just a beautiful piece of reactionary SGC nihilism.
Saturday, Sept 11 AMAZON FALLS CF D: Katrin Bowen w/ April Telek, Anna Mae Routledge. Canada. 80 min. Sep 11, 5 pm AMC 10; Sep 13, 3 pm AMC 9; Sep 18, 9:15 pm AMC 9 Rating: NN
Amateurishly shot and with a laughable screenplay, Bowen’s debut feels like a product of the B-movie industry it depicts, maybe purposefully so. Jana (Telek) is a 40-year-old washed-up actor who shimmies to auditions, works nights at a club, tutors a wannabe starlet and beds a coke-sniffing DJ. All the while, she kids herself and those around her that she’s about to get her next big break. Telek’s performance is alternately
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brave, over the top, endearing and hammy. She’s certainly someone to watch, and it will be interesting to see she how she fares in a better film. RS
ARMADILLO RTR D: Janus Metz. Denmark. 100 ñ min. Sep 11, 5:45 pm AMC 3; Sep 13, 2:30 pm AMC 6; Sep 17, 8:15 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NNNN
After Restrepo and The Tillman Story, there wouldn’t seem to be many new angles from which to consider the war in Afghanistan, but Metz’s searing look at a Danish company’s six-month tour of duty breaks new ground for immediacy and visceral impact. (Some of that is literal; Metz doesn’t shy away from images of the dead or wounded.) Named for the Danish army’s forward base of operations, Armadillo shows us things we haven’t seen before: the awkwardness of negotiating a “fair” price for a farmer’s destroyed poppy fields, the inadequacy of translators in conveying the devastation and grief of the locals, the intensity and confusion of a firefight with Taliban insurgents. And if the opening shot of backlit helicopters quotes the hallucinatory futility of Apocalypse Now, the final sequence of Armadillo – delving into the confusion and chaos of battle NW – earns that comparison.
BOXING GYM RTR D: Frederick Wiseman. U.S. 91 min. Sep 11, 3:30 pm AMC 7; Sep 12, 3:15 pm AMC 7; Sep 18, 2:30 pm AMC 2 Rating: NNN
Wiseman’s 38th film looks at a ritualized form of violence, a subject the famous documentarian has investigated in several previous movies. It’s a no-nonsense portrait of a small Austin, Texas, establishment where the fancy footwork includes kicking a medicine ball while lying on your back as it is tossed to you. The gym’s varied clientele reflects the American melting pot. Characteristically, the director places the viewer right in the middle of the action, limited as it is. And in a nod to his personal love of the sport, he includes brief footage of his own swift arm PE action.
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(FeN SHou SHuo AI NI) CWC D: Barbara Wong w/ Jaycee Chan, Fiona Sit. Hong Kong. 115 min. Sep 11, 10 pm AMC 6; Sep 12, 5 pm AMC 4; Sep 18, 4:45 pm AMC 5 Rating: NN
After Joe’s (Chan) girlfriend, Flora (Sit), breaks up with him, he stumbles across a website that promises she’ll come back if he enters the names of another couple, who will then break up. He does and she returns, but he keeps quitting his part-time jobs and she’s a hard worker, so they break up again.
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All this is framed by a movie Joe is working on, so the first half is shot like amateur video and features much low-comedy yelling. The second half looks a bit better and features much pathos. In both, every scene drags on far beyond its worth as either comedy AD or reflection on love.
CRYING OUT
(À l’oRIgINe D’uN CRI) CWC D: Robin Aubert w/ Jean Lapointe, Michel Barrette. Canada. 115 min. Sep 11, 9 pm AMC 3; Sep 12, 11 am AMC 4 Rating: NN
A man, his father and grandfather are out on the road with a whole lot of hate, heartache, booze and even a corpse. Crying out is a melodrama that strives for shock value at the expense of conviction. Aubert takes every opportunity to show lurid sex, child abuse, a grown man breastfeeding and many, many violent outbursts. It may be difficult to watch, but it’s very easy to forget, since the manipulative film barely persuades us to care about the characters or their redemption. Nonetheless, Aubert salvages some touching visuals – like one of a man lovingly bathing his dead wife – from RS this sensational mess.
DARK CLOUD (BAHTI KARA) CTC D: Theron Patterson w/ Reha Ozcan, Haktan Pak. Turkey. 92 min. Sep 11, 7:15 pm AMC 6; Sep 15, 3 pm Varsity 7; Sep 17, 8 pm AMC 4 Rating: NNN
In a well-shot Istanbul of back alleys and small apartments, career sad sack Adnan bungles every low-level job he gets. even his simple gestures of frustration lash back at him. With his alibis, apologies and puppy-dog eyes, Adnan is a comic figure, but there’s real pain under the comedy, and it gets stronger as matters progress.
Adnan’s teenage son is a screw-up, too, but unlike his father, he’s malicious and remorseless. The story assigns a specific cause to Adnan’s blundering, but the movie is so full of hopeless hectoring by the competent and mute resentment from the hectored that one suspects director Patterson is taking a satiric swipe at AD Turkish society in general.
EASY A SP D: Will Gluck w/ Emma Stone, Penn ñ Badgley. U.S. 93 min. Sep 11, 9:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 12, 9:30 am Isabel Bader; Sep 17, 6 pm Ryerson Rating: NNNN
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FORCE OF NATURE: THE DAVID SUZUKI MOVIE SP D: Sturla Gunnarsson. Canada. 93 ñ min. Sep 11, 3 pm Ryerson; Sep 12, 3:45 pm AMC 3 Rating: NNNN
As its title implies, Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie is a flattering portrait of the veteran scientist, environmentalist and broadcaster. Thankfully, director gunnarsson’s subject is smart, fascinating and articulate, even without dissenting opinions. Structured around a lecture the 75-year-old Suzuki delivers at uBC, the place where he did his pioneering research into fruit flies and genetics, the film chronicles the events that shaped him, from the internment of his Japanese-Canadian family after the bombing of Pearl Harbor to his fascination with swamps and his kinship with indigenous populations. A great synthesizer and communicator, Suzuki is compelling about everything, including the economic downturn and the meaning of a single breath. There are gaps in his personal story, but there are plenty of touching moments, especially involving his GS father.
HOW TO START YOUR OWN COUNTRY RTR D: Jody Shapiro. Canada. 72 min. Sep 11, 5:15 pm AMC 2; Sep 12, 2:45 pm AMC 10; Sep 15, 2:30 pm AMC 10 Rating: NNN
Imagine starting a Facebook group and then declaring your little online conglomeration a nation. You’d fit right in among some of the off-kilter talking heads in Shapiro’s clever but thinly stretched doc. Among them is the President of Molossia, which is basically an acre in Nevada populated by its head of state and his dogs, and artist gregory green, who is still shopping for territory for his New Free State of Caroline. Interviewing uN officials, academics and those self-declared governments, Shapiro probes what constitutes a country and ponders the philosophical and sociological ramifications of burgeoning micro-nations. This satire on the blurred definition of nation is all the more significant when you consider RS what’s at stake, like Palestine.
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SP D: Ryan Fleck, Anna Boden w/ Keir Gilchrist, Zach Galifianakis. U.S. 101 min. Sep 11, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 17, 9 am Varsity 8 Rating: NNNN
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JUCY CWC D: Louise Alston w/ Cindy Nelson, Francesca Gasteen. Australia. 81 min. Sep 11, 7:45 pm AMC 2; Sep 13, 8:45 pm AMC 9; Sep 18, 12:15 pm AMC 10 Rating: NNN
Aussie video store workers Jackie (Nelson) and Lucy (Gasteen) are so close that people call them Jucy. When Lucy scores the lead in a community theatre production of Jane Eyre, then loses it to Jackie when Lucy gets too involved in marketing the show, their friendship threatens to derail both their lives. Both Jucy’s stars are charming, effectively walking the line between whiny and winning. But there are some missteps – especially their cruel behaviour to the guy crushed out on Lucy. It’s not quite Muriel’s Wedding, as it’s being billed, but Jucy has its small SGC pleasures.
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BURIED
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SP D: Rodrigo Cortés w/ Ryan ñ Reynolds. Spain/U.S. 94 min. Sep 14, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 15, 12:30 pm Varsity 8 Rating: NNNN
cortés’s minimalist thriller takes place entirely within the confines of a coffin in which a man (Reynolds) has found himself buried with little more than a lighter, a flask and a cellphone. Who he is and what’s going on hardly matter; the movie focuses entirely on the issue at hand, which is how our protagonist is going to survive as the minutes tick away and his oxygen supply dwindles. Reynolds is riveting, and it’s possible to appreciate cortés’s bravura cinematic accomplishment… but that’ll come much later, NW after you catch your breath.
Rcontinued from page 63 MY JOY (SchaStye Moye) CWC D: Sergei Loznitsa w/ Viktor Nemets, Vlad Ivanov. Germany/Ukraine/Netherlands. 127 min. Sep 11, 6:15 pm Varsity 7; Sep 13, 2:15 pm AMC 4; Sep 19, 8 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NNN
NEVER LET ME GO SP D: Mark Romanek w/ Carey ñ Mulligan, Andrew Garfield. UK. 103 min. Sep 11, 6 pm Ryerson; Sep 13, 11 am Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 18, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin) Rating: NNNN
Romanek’s chilly adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel traces the lives of
three english children from their young days in the 1970s to adulthood in the 1990s. a science-fiction story with virtually no science-fiction elements, it’s instead a subdued drama about people trying to figure out the purpose of their lives and come to terms with their limited time – which, of course, means it’s about everyone. Mulligan is terrific as Kathy h., our de facto guide to this world; Garfield and Keira Knightley are the friends she spends her life losing. Romanek’s austere direction never looks away from the tragic truths at the story’s NW core.
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Stylishly shot, this is a bleakly surreal picture about a society gone awry; the title is bitterly ironic. a truck driver (Nemets) is brutally mistreated after a wrong turn leads him to a remote village where the uncertainties of the present are intensified by disturbing memories of the past. expertly linking multiple stories like a modern chaucer, Loznitsa makes a
humanist statement about the lack of dignity and self-respect in Russia today. the unsettling mood – many scenes have a documentary verisimilitude that heightens the threat of random violence – keeps us PE off-balance but riveted.
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MAST D: Manoel de Oliveira w/ Ricardo Trêpa, Pilar López de Ayala. Portugal/Spain/ France/Brazil. 95 min. Sep 11, 6 pm AMC 4; Sep 18, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 19, 12:15 pm Scotiabank 11 Rating: NN
oliveira’s film is a mysterious meditation on art, love and the passage of time. Intense young photographer Isaac (trêpa, the 101-year-old director’s grandson) is hired by a wealthy family to photograph the dead body of a beautiful woman (ayala), who then haunts his dreams. his increasingly odd behaviour worries his landlady and the other residents of his rooming house, whose conversation ranges from quantum physics to a very symbolic caged bird. the film is beautifully shot, and Maria João Pires’s chopinplaying gives a lyrical undertow to the imagery. But the script and performances feel stiff, and the film – like a dream – vanishes without making a strong GS impression.
THE TOWN GALA D: Ben Affleck w/ Ben Affleck, Rebecca Hall. U.S. 130 min. Sep 11, 9:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 12, 11 am Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 18, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin) Rating: NNN
In this slicker follow-up to Gone Baby Gone, affleck directs himself as the brains behind a crew of Boston bank robbers who’s caught between the life and the heat when he falls for a hostage (hall) from his last job. affleck is similarly struggling to reconcile his own interests (character portraits, Boston neighbourhood details) with the demands of the heist genre. It’d be a lot more satisfying if he’d allowed himself to stretch out for three hours, as Michael Mann did in heat. Instead, the result is an impeccably crafted but tonally
wobbly studio picture that’s at war with itself from one scene to the next. Jeremy Renner and Jon hamm do some fine work filling out their standard crazy-guy and FBI-guy NW parts, though.
Sunday, Sept 12 ANPO RTR D: Linda Hoaglund. Japan/U.S. 89 ñ min. Sep 12, 5:15 pm AMC 10; Sep 14, 12:15 pm AMC 10; Sep 17, 5 pm AMC 2 Rating: NNNN
aNPo is acronym for the U.S.-Japan Mutual Security pact of 1951. Under its auspices, the U.S. operates military bases in Japan to this day, which fills the Japanese people with rage and shame. hoaglund uses Japanese art and documentary film from the 1960s to the present and artist interviews to explore the history, politics and complex emotions surrounding aNPo. the paintings are harsh and expressive, the artists forthcoming, and hoaglund moves fluidly through AD the story.
THE CALL (La LLaMada) DISC D: Stefano Pasetto w/ Sandra Ceccarelli, Francesca Inaudi. Italy/ Argentina. 93 min. Sep 12, 8:15 pm AMC 4; Sep 16, 3:30 pm Varsity 7; Sep 17, 8:45 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNN
Lucia (ceccarelli) is a weary middle-aged flight attendant, and Lea (Inaudi) is a spritely factory worker who refuses to be pinned down. the two form an unlikely bond before setting off to a faraway beach town together, leaving their men behind. ceccarelli and Inaudi are magnetic, and the film’s appeal is rooted in watching the unique ways they deal with life’s routines. however, when they get together to find liberation, the call ambles and flatlines, not knowing where to go next. that’s kind of the point, but there must have been a more interesting, less clichéd RS way to deliver it.
GIRLFRIEND DISC D: Justin Lerner w/ Evan Sneider, Shannon Woodward. U.S. 94 min. Sep 12, 7:45 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 13, 7:15 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 19, 12:30 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NNN
Boy meets girl. Boy has down Syndrome and a wad of cash. Girl is a single mom who can’t afford rent. It’s a remarkable and fascinating relationship because it’s based on mutual desperation and exploitation. Lerner handles his touchy material with sensitivity and for the most part maturity, which must have been a challenge considering his star actually has down Syndrome. Unfortunately, he gives in to overwrought dramatic turns near the end that cheapen what up to that point was a spare, courageous and RS honest film.
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THE HOUSEMAID (Hanyo) GALA D: Im Sang-soo w/ Jeon ñ Do-youn, Lee Jung-jae. South Korea. 107 min. Sep 12, 9:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 14, 4:30 pm Winter Garden; Sep 19, 6 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNNN
Im reworks a 1960 Korean classic film about middle-class mores into a high-octane melodramatic spectacle that promises to be one of TIFF’s guilty pleasures. Seduced by her master (Lee) and manipulated by the bitter household manager (youn yuh-jung), an innocent servant girl (Jeon) seemingly takes it all in stride until the unexpected ending. The director’s scathing critique of upper-class entitlement frames the power struggle between graphically etched contrasting women. The master’s shrewd, tyrannical mother (Park Ji-young) drips evil as she parries with the housekeeper and housemaid. His wife (Seo Woo), a total material girl, is content to simply PE witness the lurid goings-on.
THE ILLUSIONIST (L’ILLuSIonnISTe)
SP D: Sylvain Chomet w/ Jean-Claude ñ Donda, Eilidh Rankin. UK. 80 min. Sep 12, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 19, 6:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NNNN
Working from an unproduced script by Jacques Tati, animator Chomet has crafted a marvellously dry, rewardingly subtle comedy about an aging French stage magician who befriends a Scottish village girl and takes her with him to a performance in the big city. as in Chomet’s debut, The Triplets of Belleville, dialogue is minimal; the characters’ exquisite faces do most of the storytelling. (The magician’s rabbit is a tiny marvel of anthropomorphism.) and like Triplets, what appears to be a modest little entertainment ends on a piercing note of emotional honesty – though in this case at least some of the credit NW must go to Tati.
JACK GOES BOATING SP D: Philip Seymour Hoffman w/ Hoffman, Amy Ryan. U.S. 91 min. Sep 12, 1 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 19, 9 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNN
Hoffman’s directorial debut takes a while to find its footing, but there’s a fantastic payoff at the end. Hoffman plays Jack, a socially awkward limo driver who’s set up on a date with the nervous Connie (Ryan), who works
with Lucy (Daphne Rubin-Vega), the persistently unfaithful girlfriend of Jack’s co-worker pal Clyde (John ortiz). Bob Glaudini’s adaptation of his off-Broadway play (which starred Hoffman) has a strange tone, and Hoffman holds many scenes too long – as if he doesn’t trust the audience to get a point. Still, the movie has a cumulative power. The theatre-trained leads are all wonderful, especially the underrated ortiz, who’s finally given a chance to show his range on film.GS
MAMMA GÓGÓ CWC D: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson w/ Hilmir Snær Gu nason, Kristbjörg Kjeld. Iceland. 87 min. Sep 12, 8 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 13, 9 am Varsity 7; Sep 19, 12:30 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NN
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here, but they just don’t come together. a filmmaker (Gu nason) who believes he’s made a masterpiece about aging is going bankrupt, while his mother, Gógó (Kjeld), is losing her mind to alzheimer’s. Fridriksson comes close to
grasping the delusions of aspiring artists, but he loses control of the tone. He’s looking for irony, but that’s hard to sustain when half the story is tragic. Icelandic legend Kjeld is wonderful (Fridriksson uses stock footage from films she made in the continued on page 66
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FAM D: Charlotte Sachs Bostrup w/ Elena Arndt-Jensen, Joshua Marc Berman. Denmark. 82 min. Sep 12, 3:30 pm AMC 5; Sep 18, 12:30 pm Scotiabank 11; Sep 19, 4:30 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNN
This kids’ pic goes down like a cup of warm, sweetened milk. Karla is a hormonal preteen with a crush on Jonas, an orphan eager to be with his birth mother. The two set off, unbeknownst to parents and guardians, on a rather hazardous road trip to find the woman who gave Jonas up for adoption. arndt-Jensen and Berman deliver remarkably mature performances, but they are probably the only thing that’s realistic about this delightful but fantastical adventure. The complex dilemmas Karla and Jonas face are given band-aid solutions, which is peachy, but also kind of a RS cheat.
LIFE, ABOVE ALL CWC D: Oliver Schmitz w/ Khmotso Manyaka, Lerato Mvelase. South Africa/ Germany. 106 min. Sep 12, 3 pm Varsity 8; Sep 14, 6:15 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNN
This realistic look at a young girl’s struggle against HIV discrimination is driven by 13-year-old Manyaka’s remarkable acting debut. Her courage in the face of her mother’s illness and her determination to overcome obstacles and the prejudices of her neighbours propel the narrative. That we believe in her completely is a tribute to her talent and the director’s skill. Schmitz’s empathy for his characters and for the South african townsfolk is clear and raises the narrative above of the realm of soap opera. Toronto writer allan Stratton’s bestseller, Chanda’s Secrets, makes it to the big screen with its soul intact. PE
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SMALL TOWN MURDER SONGS CWC D: Ed Gass-Donnelly w/ Peter Stormare, Aaron Poole. Canada. 75 min. Sep 12, 7 pm AMC 6; Sep 14, 12:30 pm Varsity 7; Sep 17, 9:30 pm AMC 6 Rating: NN
(LUNG BOONMEE RALUEK CHAT) MAST D: Apichatpong Weerañ sethakul w/ Thanapat Saisaymar, Jenjira Pongpas. UK/Thailand/France/ Germany/Spain. 113 min. Sep 16, 10:30 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 18, 9:15 am AMC 5 Rating: NNNNN
Weerasethakul’s Cannes sensation – which took this year’s Palme d’Or over more illustrious competition – is sure to garner even more praise during its TIFF engagement. It’s a lovely magic-realist study of a man (Saisaymar) who welcomes visits from friends and relatives both living and spectral as his own death looms. The movie crafts a delicate, enveloping spell, creating a world where the intrusion of the supernatural is almost commonplace. (Offered a chance to move from the city to a rural farm, a character balks: “How can you expect me to live here, with all the ghosts and migrant workers?”) There’s a generosity and warmth here that practically radiate off the screen; you can’t help but be pulled along as Weerasethakul takes his odd, wonderful journey. If you’ve seen Syndromes And A Century or Tropical Malady, you know the director’s distinctive tone. If you haven’t, you’ll pick it up quickly NW enough.
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MOTHERS (MAJKI) SP D: Milcho Manchevski w/ Ana Stojanovska, Vladimir Jacev. Macedonia/ France/Bulgaria. 123 min. Sep 12, 8:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 13, 9:15 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 18, 3:15 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NN
The three episodes in Macedonian filmmaker Manchevski’s medley have almost nothing to do with each other. There’s the charming vignette where two adorable girls visit police to report a pervert they never saw. Then there’s the sluggish segment where filmmakers visit a peasant woman to learn about old customs. Finally, there’s the horrific documentary about a serial killer in a small town
who preyed on elderly cleaning women. Each chapter has its moments, but taken together they make for a baffling experience. If Manchevski set out to mock mosaic movies with weak thematic links – in this case truth vs. RS fiction – he’s succeeded.
OUTSIDE THE LAW (HORS-LA-LOI)
SP D: Rachid Bouchareb w/ Jamel Debbouze, Roschdy Zem. France/Algeria/ Tunisia/Italy/Belgium. 137 min. Sep 12, 10 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 13, noon Varsity 8; Sep 18, 3:45 pm AMC 6 Rating: NN
Bouchareb’s follow-up to Days Of Glory, his emotionally resonant tale of Algerian heroism in World War II, is a mere cardboard character portrait of that victory’s aftermath. Three brothers take the loss of their Algerian home quite differently. One (Debbouze)
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parlays his life as a Parisian hustler into managing a small nightclub; another (Sami Bouajila) invests his intellectual prowess in the revolutionary struggle for an independent Algeria; the third (Zem) first fights for the French in Indochina and then joins the FLN to fight against them. The film’s ambitious historical scope is dampened by stereotypical family conflict and diminished by cliché-ridden set pieces that offer little more than fitiful bursts of energy. PE
PINOY SUNDAY DISC D: Ho Wi Ding w/ Epy Quizon, Bayani Agbayani. Taiwan. 84 min. Sep 12, 6 pm AMC 5; Sep 16, 10 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 18, 3:30 pm AMC 4 Rating: NNN
Manuel and Dado are Filipinos working in a factory in Taiwan so they can send money back home to their families. Happening upon a discarded couch, they decide to lug it across town to their dormitory. Although this slapstick road trip frequently resorts to silly, time-wasting banter, it’s ultimately a winning comedy that benefits from charming leads and a thoughtful look at the visiting worker experience. And what better metaphor for the immigrant experience is there than two guys hauling ass just so they can have a RS cushy place to sit.
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Stormare sports a constant frown as Walter, a perpetually anguished cop and born-again Christian from a small Mennonite town. What’s weighing Walter down is a past misdeed, a recent homicide in his jurisdiction and the fact that his old flame is shacking up with the prime murder suspect. It’s enough to make him pound his fist – many times. The audience might do the same in a movie that interrupts moments of minimalist beauty with overzealous religious gimmicks and loud, bombastic musical montages that would be more at home on Much. RS
SOUL OF SAND (PAIRON TALLE)
DISC D: Sidharth Srinivasan w/ Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Saba Joshi. India. 98 min. Sep 12, 9 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 14, 3 pm Varsity 7; Sep 19, 3:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NN
At first glance, Srinivasan seems like a promising director in India’s struggling art cinema. Soul Of Sand’s first half-hour, about a watchman who guards a deserted mine, is a strikingly photographed portrait of people forgotten by India’s economic boom, who are still oppressed by the caste and feudal systems. But that’s just the prologue. Once the story kicks in, all that promise gets funnelled down an Indian squat toilet. The watchman tries to protect the eloping daughter of his evil feudal master, who hires a monstrous bounty hunter to go after, well, everybody. It’s a cheap slasher flick that got left out of Midnight Madness, probably because somebody presumed it was something more. RS
TAMARA DREWE SP D: Stephen Frears w/ Gemma Arterton, Roger Allam. UK. 111 min. Sep 12, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 13, 3:30 pm AMC 7 Rating: NNN
An adaptation of Posy Simmonds’s graphic novel, which is itself an adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s Far From The Madding Crowd, Tamara Drewe plops us down at a pastoral writers’ colony disrupted by the return of a young woman to her family home. (Only now the former ugly duckling looks like the stunning Arterton.) Frears pitches it as a classic British drawing-room comedy, with various characters cheating on one another and information travelling back and forth in whispers – someone even overhears a conversation whilst trapped in the loo. It’s pleasant enough, and the performances are sprightly, but aside from Tamsin Greig’s devastating turn as a deceived
wife slowly crumbling under the strain of keeping up appearances for her narcissistic bastard of a husband (Allam), it doesn’t amount to much. NW
TRIGGER SP D: Bruce McDonald w/ Tracy ñ Wright, Molly Parker. Canada. 78 min. Sep 12, 5:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 18, 12:45 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNNN
See review, page 55.
WEST IS WEST GALA D: Andy De Emmony w/ Om ñ Puri, Aqib Khan. UK. 102 min. Sep 12, 1:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 14, 12:30 pm Winter Garden; Sep 18, 6:15 pm Scotiabank 2 Rating: NNNN
It may pull at the heartstrings a little too manipulatively, but West Is West is made with skill and tons of heart. In East Is East, Pakistani George Khan (Puri) and family adjust to life in Salford, Manchester. Here, George forces his son Sajid (Khan) – who’s being taunted at his Salford school and loathes his roots – to join him on a vacation to Pakistan. In his country of origin, George finds out it’s he who needs to learn a lesson. Director De Emmony and lensman Peter Robertson create a spectacular collision of dreary, grey Salford and vibrant Pakistan. And Puri is brilliant. You don’t need to have seen the earlier film to appreciate this. They don’t call it a crowd-pleaser for SGC nothing.
!WOMEN ART REVOLUTION – A SECRET HISTORY RTR D: Lynn Hershman Leeson. U.S. ñ 83 min. Sep 12, 12:15 pm AMC 2; Sep 14, 7:45 pm AMC 10; Sep 19, 3:45 pm AMC 7 Rating: NNNN
This documentary traces women’s art from the 60s to the present. It’s all about the Americans, something Leeson tries to downplay at the end of the film, and her voice-over is a little too laden with artspeak. But the works – over 1,000 of them – are spectacular, and because Leeson began documenting the movement in the 70s (including work by Yvonne Rainer and Carolee Schneeman), interviewing artists though the 80s and 90s, she has a treasure trove of ideas to work with. Feminism galvanized artists to take up rebellious performance art and develop a movement that changed the artistic landscape. In the 60s, minimalism was everything, and political content was discouraged. Women couldn’t even get exhibited, so they set up their own galleries to get that confrontational art out there. Too bad Leeson couldn’t do more on the developing antagonisms inside the feminist art movement. Trust me, Judy Chicago, whose Dinner Part Congress tried to ban, SGC was a piece of work. continued on page 68
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Isabelle Blais and Zach Braff experience The High Cost Of Living (see review, page 71).
CARANCHO CWC D: Pablo Trapero w/ Ricardo ñ Darin, Martina Gusman. Argentina/ South Korea/France/Chile. 107 min. Sep 13, 8 pm AMC 6; Sep 14, 3:30 pm Varsity 8; Sep 19, 3:30 pm Isabel Bader Rating: NNNN
Rcontinued from page 66 YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER SP D: Woody Allen w/ Naomi Watts, ñ Antonio Banderas. UK/U.S./Spain. 98 min. Sep 12, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 19, noon AMC 6 Rating: NNNN
Allen may have personal flaws, but they seem to fuel his best work. Nobody knows human motivation like he does. “Be careful what you wish for” is the message in his latest sly entry, which tracks the desires and anxieties of people who go the distance – and a bit too far – to chase their dreams. When Helena (Gemma Jones) gets dumped by Alfie (Anthony Hopkins), her daughter Sally (Watts) sends her to a seer she knows is a charlatan. Sally, in the meantime, starts working for hot gallery owner Greg (Banderas) to help pay the bills, because hubbie failing writer Roy (Josh Brolin) – who’s busy spying on the girl next door (Freida Pinto) – can’t. Allen’s ensemble cast is terrific, especially Hopkins as the pathetic
Viagra addict and Lucy Punch as a gold-digging hooker. But it’s Watts who shows real emotional depth. SGC
MONDAY, SEPT 13 ANOTHER YEAR SP D: Mike Leigh w/ Jim Broadbent, ñ Ruth Sheen. UK. 129 min. Sep 13, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 14, 2:30 pm AMC 4 Rating: NNNN
The kind of film that makes you want to go out and hug old people, Leigh’s latest is melancholic and affectionate. Tom and Gerri (Broadbent and Sheen) are that rare happy couple in their twilight years who routinely have less fortunate friends and family over for dinner, tea and occasionally a lot of wine. If the film feels unhurried, plotless and schematic, well, that’s kind of the point. During these naturalistic and rudimentary proceedings, there are dramatic details where minor discomforts and awkwardness threaten Tom and Gerri’s strictly
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Intense performances drive this compelling noirish melodrama set amid the corruption and social injustice of contemporary Buenos Aires. An ambulance chaser (The Secret In Their Eyes’ Darin) falls for a doctor (Gusman, the director’s wife and production company partner) who works the emergency ward. The title is the Argentine word for “vulture,” and this film is replete with many of the human variety. Trapero goes behind the headlines trumpeting Argentina’s soaring traffic accident statistics to find ambition, love and all sorts of co-dependency where no one would think to look. Most of all, he makes his characters and their milieu so realistic, we feel all PE their joy and pain.
THE HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER (SHLICHUTO SHEL
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CWC D: Eran Riklis w/ Mark Ivanir, Guri Alfi. Israel/Germany/France/ Romania. 103 min. Sep 13, 10:30 pm Scotiabank 2; Sep 15, noon Varsity 7; Sep 19, 5:30 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NNNN
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This touching tragicomedy gives credence to the idea that you’re nobody until somebody kills you. An HR manager at a Jerusalem bread factory has to deliver an immigrant employee’s corpse to her family in Romania. The transnational road trip veers in hilarious directions without ever losing its sense of mourning for the loss of identity and place. If the movie feels a little sappy at the end, well, it deserves to be, given how smart, humane and politically RS engaged it’s been prior to that.
INCENDIES SP D: Denis Villeneuve w/ Lubna Azabal, Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin. Canada/France. 130 min. Sep 13, 6 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 14, 2 pm AMC 3 Rating: NNNN
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Wajdi Mouawad’s Scorched is one of the most powerful plays of recent years, and director Villeneuve’s (Polytechnique) adaptation does the story justice, even if it inevitably loses something in the translation. Sometimes the suggestion of an event onstage – especially something violent – can haunt your imagination more than seeing it played out realistically. The multi-layered mystery is set both in Canada and somewhere in the Middle East. At the reading of their mother, Nawal’s, will, twins Simon (Maxim Gaudette) and Jeanne (Désormeaux-Poulin) are asked to find a brother they didn’t know they had and a father they have long believed dead. Their individual journeys are interwoven with flashbacks to Nawal’s (Azabal) harrowing experiences as a student activist, prisoner and survivor. Villeneuve’s control over the material, André Turpin’s vivid cinematography, and committed performances make this modern-day GS Greek tragedy feel timeless.
LET ME IN SP D: Matt Reeves w/ Chloë Grace ñ Moretz, Kodi Smit-McPhee. UK/U.S. 115 min. Sep 13, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 14, 3 pm Ryerson Rating: NNNN
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nephew Joel Thomas Hynes as counterweight. The man’s honesty is part of his charm. And his personal history is the usual legendary checklist of fame and self-destruction. The director is going for the portrait of an artist, and he uncovers several nuggets about Hynes’s creative process. While we may not get the whole picture, this far surpasses any VH-1 special or bonus PE DVD.
NOSTALGIA FOR THE LIGHT (NOSTALGIA DE LA LUZ)
MAST D: Patricio Guzmán. France/ ñ Germany/Chile. 90 min. Sep 13, 7 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 16, 9 pm AMC 5; Sep 18, 3 pm Scotiabank 11 Rating: NNNN
Guzmán’s extraordinary doc contemplates recent and ancient history by focusing on the Atacama desert in northern Chile. The only place on earth without humidity is the site of one of the largest telescopes on the planet but supports no animal or insect life. Yet the footprints of the people who passed through the desert decades ago are visible and intact, telling the chilling story of a 19th-century mining encampment that was turned tinto a concentration camp after the 1973 coup. Scientists study the luminous sky, thick with celestial objects, for clues to our origins while women sift the sand for the remains of their loved ones, victims of the Pinochet regime. The point of this gorgeous-looking film is as crystal clear as the desert air: the past is the source of everything. PE
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RTR D: William D. MacGillivray. Canada. 90 min. Sep 13, 5:45 pm AMC 9; Sep 14, 3 pm AMC 9; Sep 18, 5:45 pm AMC 10 Rating: NNN
CWC D: Xavier Beauvois w/ Lambert ñ Wilson, Michael Lonsdale. France. 120 min. Sep 13, 9:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3;
Ron Hynes is a soft-spoken balladeer from Newfoundland who just might be a Canadian version of Crazy Heart’s Bad Blake. Musically, he’s more John Prine. MacGillivray lets him speak for himself in a series of artful close-ups and, equally important, perform, with only his novelist
The Cannes Grand Jury Prize winner tells the doomed tale of seven Trappist monks slain near their monastery in the hills south of Algiers in 1996. Beauvois concentrates on the monks’ life, their involvement with their neighbours in the nearby village, their production and sale of honey
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major for Page and his increasingly less accommodating wife (Molly Parker). Redford treats the delicate material with so much gravity that he crushes it with reverence. He’s also apparently instructed his cast to deliver every line of dialogue as though it provides the most important moment in the whole picture. They’re all so much better than this movie would have NW you believe.
Incendies, based on the play Scorched, makes harrowing viewing (see review, page 68).
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(GLüCkLICHe FüGuNG) and the rituals and discussions that reflect their deep religious faith. The director manages the considerable feat of conveying both their Christian mysticism and practical earthly concerns, while deftly intertwining themes of religion and colonialism. Though the monks provide the only medical care to the villagers and advise them on moral questions (their knowledge of Islam is considerable), their presence is resented by state authorities. Gorgeous images and sublime acting (particularly by Wilson and Lonsdale) help make Of Gods And Men one of PE the films of the year.
CWC D: Isabelle Stever w/ Annika Kuhl, Stefan Rudolf. Germany. 91 min. Sep 14, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 15, 2:45 pm AMC 3; Sep 19, 8:30 pm Scotiabank 11 Rating: N
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Simone (kuhl) gets pregnant via a one-night stand with Hannes (Rudolf) and, when the two move in together she becomes more and more distanced from the sensitive father-to-be. This super-earnest variation on knocked up unfolds at a snail’s pace – purposely so, according to director Stever – so that we can experience Simone’s alienation. From what? And why? We never find out. Stever’s so busy creating “dissonant settings,” as she calls them in her artist’s state-
Toronto director Redford adapts Rachel Ingalls’s short story Veterans into a turgid, obvious melodrama about two men whose lives have taken very different paths on their return from combat. Seven years ago, Page (Logue) rescued the wounded Oliver (Dillahunt) from certain death on the battlefield. Now the brain-damaged Oliver has turned up on his doorstep, causing problems both minor and
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Susanne Bier w/ Mikael Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm. Denmark/Sweden. 113 ñSPmin.D:Sep 14, 7:30 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 16, 2:45 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNNN
Mikael Persbrandt’s doctor faces a crisis In A Better World.
Rcontinued from page 69 ment, that the characters never talk to each other and their motivations remain mysterious. SGC A bore.
BURIED SP D: Rodrigo Cortés w/ Ryan Reynolds. Spain/U.S. 94 min. Sep 14, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 15, 12:30 pm Varsity 8 Rating: NNNN
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dilemma, but it doesn’t surface till way late, so the film is not nearly as weighty as it wants to be. It’s really just a thriller with superb performances, especially by Mirren as the agent whose daughter has written a book about the case and Wilkinson as the spymaster who fears for his SGC reputation.
THE FOURTH PORTRAIT (DI SI ZhANg huA)
THE DEBT GALA D: John Madden w/ Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson. UK. 104 min. Sep 14, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 15, 11 am Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 19, 10 am AMC 7 Rating: NNN
It has plot holes all over the place – no one notices spies smuggling a body into an apartment, for example – but The Debt is an effective nail-biter. Three Israeli Mossad agents return home as heroes after they’ve tracked down and killed a Nazi war criminal. Or have they? The Debt does feature a moral
CWC D: Chung Mong-Hong w/ Bi Xiao-Hai, Leon Dai. Taiwan. 102 min. Sep 14, 10 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 3; Sep 16, 6 pm AMC 5; Sep 17, 2:45 pm AMC 3 Rating: NNN
The festival catalogue claims The Fourth Portrait is about domestic violence and family problems that stem from marriages of convenience, but 10-year-old Xiang (Bi) suffers more from neglect than violence, and there’s nothing in his situation that couldn’t befall any poor child from a broken home. When his father dies, social services reunites Xiang with his long-absent mother and her new
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man. They don’t want him and aren’t comfortable with each other, troubled by the years-earlier mysterious disappearance of Xiang’s older brother. Bi gives a completely natural performance. his grief-stricken face never descends to complete blankness and retains a trace of sorrow even in his rare moments of joy. his small figure walking through the beautifully shot forest is a poignant image of lonely childhood. AD
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SP D: Jacob Tierney w/ Jay Baruchel, Emily Hampshire. Canada. 98 min. Sep 14, 9:30 pm Varsity 8; Sep 18, 12:45 pm AMC 6 Rating: NNN
The characters in Tierney’s follow-up to The Trotsky are hard to swallow, impossible to like, but still amusing to watch. hampshire stars as Louise, a standoffish cat-lover who’s obsessed with a local serial killer. She frequently has dinner with Spencer (Scott Speedman), a wheelchair-bound smartass with a sinister grin. Their routine is disrupted by Victor (Baruchel), the desperate and nice new guy in the building who falls hard for Louise. The awkward yet irresistible chemistry between the three carries the movie past its flaws and has far more appeal than the murder mystery itself. But the film’s best moment is a cameo by Xavier Dolan, who graciously
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Two families cope with issues of morality and vengeance in another intense entry from Bier (Brothers, After The Wedding). christian, full of fury after his mother dies, turns to revenge as a means of getting control over his life. he begins a friendship with elias, whose dad (Persbrandt) is off practising medicine in Africa – gorgeous sequences there – and who is the school bully’s prime target. After he takes care of elias’s nemesis, christian looks for bigger fish to fry. Persbrandt is superb as the good doctor trying to resist violence, and Bier expertly ramps up the tension in this intelligent meditation on masculinity, family and accountability. SGC
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(LeS AMOurS IMAgINAIreS) SP D: Xavier Dolan w/ Dolan, Monia Chokri. Canada. 102 min. Sep 14, 6:45 pm Varsity 8; Sep 15, 3:15 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNN
A year after wowing the festival circuit with I Killed My Mother, Dolan returns for a second round of ersatz godardian preening with this tale of two Montreal pals (Dolan and Anna Karina ringer chokri) who enter into ferocious passive-aggressive competition for the same dreamboat (Niels Schneider). I actually enjoyed this one a little more than Dolan’s debut – the romantic-farce plot is nicely structured, the characters are written more sharply, and Stéphanie Weber-Biron’s glossy images are a pleasure to behold. But it’s still a hollow production that tells us nothing about its creator beyond the fact that he loves 2 Or 3 Things I Know About her and will never miss an opportunity to shoot himself shirtless. I knew that NW stuff from his last picture.
I AM SLAVE CWC D: Gabriel Range w/ Wunmi Mosaku, Isaach de Bankolé. UK. 80 min. Sep 14, 5:30 pm AMC 6; Sep 15, 6:30 pm Varsity 8; Sep 19, 12:15 pm Varsity 8 Rating: NN
Despite being based on the controversial true story of Mende Nazer, this made-for-television drama feels awfully laboured and manipulative.
No surprise, since it’s made by the director behind the sensationalist Death of A President. Malia (Mosaku) is abducted at 12 from her Sudanese tribe and sold to an abusive Arab family as a domestic slave. I Am Slave has a striking similarity to Ousmane Sembene’s 1966 film Black girl, but range’s film is nowhere near as artistic and far more concerned with heightened emotions and unnecessary thrills. his simplistic depiction of the Arab family as monsters only makes the true story RS that much harder to accept.
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SP D: Susanne Bier w/ Mikael ñ Persbrandt, Trine Dyrholm. Denmark/ Sweden. 113 min. Sep 14, 7:30 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 16, 2:45 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNNN
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MOTHER OF ROCK: LILLIAN ROXON RTR D: Paul Clarke. Australia. 74 min. ñ Sep 14, 5:15 pm AMC 2; Sep 15, 8:30 pm AMC 9; Sep 18, noon AMC 2 Rating: NNNN
charismatic Aussie journalist Lillian roxon had an ear for music, a nose for news and some fascinating best friends – including Linda eastman and germaine greer. roxon also taped her daily phone calls with best friend elektra records A&r guy Danny Fields. A definite gold mine. clicking into Andy Warhol’s
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n o W to r o n to.c o m / t i f f outrageous art scene when she arrived in New York in 1959 as a correspondent for the Sydney Herald, Roxon held court in the back room at Max’s Kansas City (look for great archival footage of Iggy Pop, Warhol and Alice Cooper), creating the basis for her groundbreaking Rock Encyclopedia. But she had an immense ego, dropped those best friends when they became famous and, though she was always surrounded by people, died young and alone. An excellent record of a problematic but important rockin’ feminist SGC pioneer.
PINK SARIS RTR D: Kim Longinotto. UK. 96 min. Sep 14, 6 pm AMC 9; Sep 15, 2:15 pm AMC 9; Sep 18, 9:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2 Rating: NN
This new doc by the great Longinotto (Shinjuko Boys, Rough Aunties) has a terrific subject, but the film itself doesn’t quite come together. In the northern Indian province of Uttar Pradesh, Sampat Pal, leader of the Gulabi Gang, aka the Pink Gang, fights very publicly to protect untouchable caste women from domestic abuse. Pal is a fascinating and complex figure, devoted to the cause, often tyrannical, who frequently plays to the camera and enjoys the attentions of the stream of gawkers who follow her. But the title is misleading – Longinotto doesn’t talk to any other members of the gang from whom she could have gained more insight. And when the narrative finally moves to Pal’s own personal history, it fails to deliver that knockout emotional SGC punch.
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SP D: Jeanne Labrune w/ Isabelle Huppert, Bouli Lanners. France/Luxembourg/ Belgium. 95 min. Sep 14, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 18, 9 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 1; Sep 19, 6:45 pm Scotiabank 4 Rating: NN
Huppert stars as a high-class prostitute who specializes in role-playing. She crosses paths with Lanners’s psychoanalyst, who has just as much disdain for his clients as she has for hers. In the comical opening moments, both are seen to be weary of their professions; they seem to be in it just to acquire more furniture. It’s a clever parallel, but save for a few amusing moments, this feature leisurely and aimlessly drags on with little regard for its audience. It’s as if the filmmakers have as much contempt for their clientele as the RS characters.
Wednesday, sept 15 THE BANG BANG CLUB GALA D: Steven Silver w/ Ryan Phillippe, Malin Ackerman. Canada/South Africa. 107 min. Sep 15, 9:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 16, 9 am Varsity 8 Rating: NNN
Should a photojournalist try to stop something horrible from happening or just get that great shot? What are the implications of white shooters making hay from black struggles? And what emotional price do photographers in war zones pay? These are some of the questions driving Silver’s hyperkinetic, tension-filled film about the titular group of journalists shooting the hostilities in 1994 South Africa for Johannesburg’s The Star. It’s extremely well done, with a great cast – Ryan Phillipe keeps doing great work and check out the breakout performance of riveting Taylor Kitsch – but the politics unfold in confusing ways. Stay for the archival photos from the Club that run alongside the final SGC credits.
THE HIGH COST OF LIVING CF D: Deborah Chow w/ Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais. Canada. 92 min. Sep 15, 9 pm Scotiabank 3; Sep 17, 9:30 am TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 18, 8 pm AMC 5 Rating: NNN
A Montreal drug peddler (Braff) befriends a pregnant woman (Blais) still carrying her dead fetus after a hit and run – without telling her he was the guy driving the car – in this stilted and increasingly scoff-worthy exercise in hand-wringing manipulation from writer/director Chow. The movie plays like a linear version of one of Guillermo Arriaga’s misery-porn scripts, with characters making illogical decisions for no other reason than to keep the plot moving in ever-gloomier directions. Blais and Braff both try to give real performances, but the
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(HAI SHANG CHUAN qI) MAST D: Jia Zhangke. China/ ñ Netherlands. 138 min. Sep 15, 9:45 pm Scotiabank 4; Sep 17, 5 pm Jackman Hall (AGO) Rating: NNNN
Jia’s singular exploration of Shanghai artfully distills the reminiscences of 18 fascinating people, giving us a sense of their complex lives in just a few poetic minutes of screen time. Their personal testimony vividly evokes the waves of history that washed over this mythic city in the 20th century. The artistic vibrancy of China’s largest city comes through in a famous actor’s recollections of her father, a gang member forced to
move to Hong Kong in 1949, and another remembers going to the opera with Chairman Mao in the mid-50s. Also apparent are the capitalist roots that have turned this metropolis of movie stars and entrepreneurs into a world financial PE centre.
JALOUX CF D: Patrick Demers w/ Sophie ñ Cadieux, Benoît Gouin. Canada. 94 min. Sep 15, 7 pm Jackman Hall (AGO); Sep 17, 12:15 pm Varsity 7 Rating: NNNN
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RYERSON FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 3:00PM After twenty years of exile, a husband returns to his hometown in Herzegovina to settle some scores with his ex-wife, armed with a new Mercedes, a sexy new girlfriend and a mangy black cat.
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VARSITY 8 FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 10, 7:00PM When a high school party goes dangerously off the rails, one teenager finds that revenge is just a computer click away.
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ominous stranger who invades their intimacy. It’s a suspenseful thirdwheel scenario because of the palpable sexual tension between the characters, never mind the fact that there maybe a murderer among them. Demers ratchets up the suspense with efficient and confident storytelling that peels away the layers from his characters as they peel away RS each other’s clothes.
KABOOM VAN D: Gregg Araki w/ Thomas Dekker, Haley Bennett. U.S./France. 86 min. Sep 15, 9:15 pm Ryerson; Sep 18, 12:15 pm AMC 3 Rating: NNN
This richly entertaining sci-fi paranoid wet dream is a hilarious mix of surfer dudes, lesbian witches and sexually adventurous co-eds. Our hero (the dreamy Dekker) beds them all. Araki rediscovers the youthful vigour of his early films in his conflated Twin Peaks fantasy of cults, drugs and animalmask-wearing killers revolving around freshman college life. Both Xavier Dolan’s more believable erotic adventure, Heartbeats, and Kaboom feature MMF three-way sex, undoubtedly a record of sorts in TIFF’s long history. PE
MODRA CWC D: Ingrid Veninger w/ Hallie ñ Switzer, Alexander Gammal. Canada. 80 min. Sep 15, 8:30 pm AMC 3; Sep 17, 2:15 pm AMC 2; Sep 18, 5:15 pm AMC 2 Rating: NNNN
Veninger’s solo debut is of a piece with her 2008 collaboration with Simon Reynolds, Only, an intimately scaled and emotionally vivid study of two young people forging a connection. In this one, they’re teenagers – a Toronto girl (Veninger’s real-life daughter, Switzer) visiting family in Slovakia and a schoolmate (Gammal) who’s tagged along on a whim. Stuck together, with everyone assuming they’re a couple, they embark on an awkward vacation while trying to negotiate the terms of their evolving relationship. Switzer and Gammal are naturals, investing their vulnerable characters with totally believable mood swings and insecurities, and Veninger’s deceptively relaxed style captures every glance, outburst and hesitation. One day they’ll look back at this week and realize it helped make them who they are. But they’re not there yet. NW
MAST D: Ken Loach w/ Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe. UK/France/Belgium/Italy/ Spain. 110 min. Sep 15, 9 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 18, 3 pm Ryerson Rating: NNN
In Loach’s first proper thriller in two decades, a hardened security contractor (Womack) in Liverpool investigates the suspicious circumstances of his best friend’s death in Iraq. The procedural aspects are solid, Womack’s furious performance conveys his character’s own psychological unravelling as he picks apart the official story, and Lowe provides interesting complications as the dead man’s conflicted wife. But Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty indulge their penchant for didactic moralizing in the third act, abandoning a provocative political drama to deliver a hectoring lesson about war making monsters of us all. NW
A SCREAMING MAN (Un HOMMe qUI cRI)
SP D: Mahamat-Saleh Haroun w/ ñ Youssouf Djaoro, Diouc Koma. France/ Belgium/Chad. 92 min. Sep 15, 6:15 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 16, 4:45 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 19, 6 pm AMC 6 Rating: NNNN
This starkly moving cannes Jury Prize winner is a moral tragedy of Biblical proportions. During chad’s debilitating decades-long civil war, a father (Djaoro) sacrifices his son (Koma) for his own ego. The father, a former swimming champion, manages the pool at an upscale hotel with his son. Transferred to the mundane job of hotel gatekeeper, the father loses his moral compass and sends his son off to fight with the government troops so that he can get his old job back. Haroun’s sophisticated storytelling subtly depicts the insidious warfare that provides the context for one man’s gut-wrenching guilt. Personal conduct becomes profoundly PE political.
YOU ARE HERE CF D: Daniel Cockburn w/ Tracy ñ Wright, R.D. Reid. Canada. 78 min. Sep 15, 5 pm AMC 10; Sep 17, 7:45 pm AMC 2; Sep 19, 4:15 pm AMC 10 Rating: NNNN
experimental video artist cockburn graduates to features with this playful but intensely cerebral look at identity, individualism and social dynamics. A lecturer (Reid) explains the importance of resisting distraction – including his own lecture. An archivist (Wright, in one of her final perform-
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N O W TO R O N TO.C O M / T I F F ances) collects artifacts around Toronto, including a videotape of the lecturer. A crowd ponders its daily routine. It all comes together – sort of – but that’s not really the point. Cockburn is inviting us into his head, to think about the things he never stops thinking about. It’s kind of nice in NW there.
MONSTERS
Sad Bear makes its mark amidst TIFF’s Canadian shorts slate.
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MAST D: Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 113 min. Sep 16, 10:30 pm Isabel Bader; Sep 18, 9:15 am AMC 5 Rating: NNNNN
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VIS D: Andrei Ujica. Romania. 187 min. ñ Sep 16, 5:30 pm AMC 10; Sep 17, 5 pm AMC 9 Rating: NNNN
Has propaganda ever been so artfully and ironically assembled? Ujica turns a treasure trove of thousands of hours of official news footage into a one-of-a-kind biopic about the notorious Romanian dictator. State visits to Mao’s China and Universal Studios and official guests De Gaulle, Dubcek and Nixon serve as vivid reminders of a bygone era. Footage of ordinary citizens and hand-clapping Communist Party suits make this the real-life companion piece to last year’s hilarious Tales From The Golden Age. If you’ve ever wondered what leaders of the
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tiring, but the diverse and charming contestants, typically loners, keep things interesting by making magic RS their social outlet.
VAN D: Gareth Edwards w/ Whitney Able, Scoot McNairy. UK. 97 min. Sep 16, 9 pm Ryerson; Sep 17, 8:30 pm Scotiabank 1; Sep 19, 3 pm Scotiabank 3 Rating: NN
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See a roundup of TIFF’s Canadian shorts at nowtoronto.com/tiff. Warsaw Pact talked about on the tarmac, it was the weather. Essential viewing that contextualizes Romania’s thriving present-day film culture. PE
CASINO JACK GALA D: George Hickenlooper w/ Kevin Spacey, Barry Pepper. Canada. 108 min. Sep 16, 6:30 pm Roy Thomson Hall; Sep 17, 2:30 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin) Rating: NNN
Once you get past the clichés, the unfortunate screenplay with its dependence on expository dialogue and even some of the lesser
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performances, Casino Jack is pretty fun. The film sticks close to the facts to recount how Washington power lobbyist Jack Abramoff bribed politicians, scammed native Americans and finally got caught with millions of other people’s money. Although it’s no Thank You For Smoking (a better take on lobbying), Hickenlooper’s film does an adequate job of detailing the way currency moves in Washington. But, really, we’re just here to watch Spacey overact and throw some of his finest tantrums since American Beauty. RS
FAM D: J. Clay Tweel. U.S. 90 min. Sep 17, 6:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 18, 12:30 pm TIFF Bell Lightbox 2; Sep 19, noon AMC 2 Rating: NN
Teenage magicians from around the world who aspire to be the next Lance Burton compete in a Vegas World Championship. These proceedings are captured in a competition doc that’s about as routine as a magician pulling a rabbit out of a hat. You get the quick bios of each contestant, some practice and prep footage, and then the tournament. All the while, professional talking heads pat themselves on the back and talk about magic as a metaphor for life. The redundant card tricks get
LAST NIGHT GALA D: Massy Tadjedin w/ Keira Knightley, Sam Worthington. U.S./France. 90 min. Sep 18, 6 pm Visa Screening Room (Elgin); Sep 18, 8 pm Roy Thomson Hall Rating: NN
Writer/director Tadjedin’s debut feature follows a New York couple (Worthington and Knightley) contemplating separate infidelities after a fight. He thinks about boffing a flirtatious colleague (Eva Mendes) on an overnight trip to Philadelphia, while she spends the day in the company of an ex-lover (Guillaume Canet). It’s very nicely shot and everyone wears lovely clothes, but there’s not a lot going on emotionally – neither of the leads is developed enough to bother caring about, and Tadjedin’s elliptical approach to their crises just diffuses the emotional content even further. Canet is quietly excellent as a man who knows he’s lost out on the love of his life, but Tadjedin is only interested in his character as he relates to Knightley’s. Perhaps the movie should NW 3 have told his story instead.
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THIS WEEK IN THE MUSEUMS AGO Drama And Desire, to Sep 26 ($14.50POWER PLANT Adaptation, to Sep 12. $25.50). Celebration for fall shows, 6:30TIFF Future Projections: Otolith III, to Sep ñ ñ 8:30 pm Sep 15. Will Munro, to Sep 26 (free). 19. 231 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4949.
Shary Boyle, Sep 15-Dec 5. Julian Schnabel, to Jan 2, 2011. $10-$18, free Wed 6-8:30 pm. 317 Dundas W. 416-979-6648. DESIGN EXCHANGE Canadian Industrial Design, to Oct 10. New Work: Will Alsop, to Oct 18 (free). $8-$10. 234 Bay. 416-363-6121. JUSTINA M. BARNICKE Traffic: Conceptual Art In Canada 1965-1980, reception 6:30 pm Sep 10, Sep 11-Nov 28. 7 Hart House. 416-978-8398. MOCCA TIFF Future Projections: Chris Chong Chan Fui and Yasuhiro Morinaga, Sep 10-19. Installation: David Hoffos, Sep 10-Dec 31, reception 7-10 Sep 10. 952 Queen W. 416-395-0067.
GRAPHIC ARTS
Fab film posters
Plakat offers superb Polish design By FRAN SCHECHTER PLAKAT: WORLD CINEMA THROUGH THE EYES OF POLISH GRAPHIC ART-
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art fans looking to decorate their walls with film posters soon realize that most have little aesthetic appeal. The search for posters that are both a memento of a favourite flick and an artistic statement leads to an unexpected place: Poland. Factors contributing to the extraordinary flowering of the graphic arts in the Eastern Bloc nation after the Second World War include an absence of marketing pressures and the presence on commissioning Communist committees of members with avantgarde aspirations. People loved the colour the posters added to the drab, grey streets. Artists applied to film
publicity the skills they’d honed making propaganda, using metaphor to slyly criticize the powers that be. The prestige of Polish graphic design led a Warsaw poster biennial and the founding of the Poster Museum at Wilanów, which has lent items from its 55,000-work collection for Plakat (“poster”). They range in date from Jan Lenica’s 1956 Wages Of Fear, a blue and brown painting of a terrified face, to Leszek Zebrowski’s 2009 expressionist interpretation of One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. Instead of pushing movie stars, they offer amazing graphics. Mieczyslaw Wasilewski represents Dirty Dancing with a pair of legs, while Wiktor Górka’s Cabaret poster takes the leg thing further with a swastika made of dancing legs that has Liza Minnelli’s face in the centre. Waldemar Swierzy presents Midnight Cowboy as a blue-blackish Stetson-wearing head, featureless except
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Risky Room ROOM by Emma Donoghue
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you can see why emma donoghue’s Room scored a spot on this
year’s Booker short list. It’s powerful, tension-filled and takes a big risk. Jack and Ma live in one room. She’s a kidnap victim, and Jack was born there five years earlier, the result of rape by her tormentor. He’s furnished them with a TV and some books, and delivers groceries via a visit that’s usually followed by a sexual assault.
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Leszek Zebrowski’s poster for One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest joins Plakat.
for a pair of startling red lips. In Bronislaw Zelek’s poster for Hitchcock’s The Birds, a winged skull descends from a fragmented mass of black typography. These graphic masterworks deserve a better presentation than hanging them from a chain so they don’t lie flat against the wall, but that can’t detract from their vitality. For more about Polish graphic art, see the documentary The Other Side Of The Poster at the Ekran Polish Film Festival at the Revue Cinema, November 19 to 21. 3 art@nowtoronto.com
Sound hard to take? It is, but Donoghue does two things to make it bearable. First, she creates a fascinating mother-son relationship. Ma homeschools the boy, so his vocabulary is rich and his days filled with play, and he has no sense of the real world, so he doesn’t feel deprived. Second (and just in time), there’s a shift in the narrative so the two do experience Outside. It’s here where Room
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ROM TIFF Future Projections: Kevin McCoy and Jennifer McCoy, Sep 9-19 (free). The Warrior Emperor And China’s Terracotta Army, to Jan 2, 2011 ($19.50-$31). $19-$22, stu/srs; half price Fri 4:30-9:30 pm; free Wed 4:305:30 pm. 100 Queen’s Park. 416-586-8000. TEXTILE MUSEUM Stephen Schofield, Lia Cook and David R Harper, to Oct 17. Molas From Kuna Yala, to Feb 13, 2011. $12, srs $8, stu $6; pwyc Wed 5-8 pm. 55 Centre. 416-599-5321.
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DRAKE HOTEL Murals: Balint Zsako and Micah Lexier, to Sep 30. Video (TIFF ñ Future Projections): Perry Bard, Sep 9-18.
ANGELL Painting/sculpture: Alex McLeod and Jakub Dolejs, to Sep 25. 12 Ossington. 416-530-0444. ARTSCAPE WYCHWOOD BARNS Allende Arts Festival: performance/installation: Mariana Medellin-Meinke noon and 3 pm and Sandra Alland 2-4 pm Sep 11. 601 Christie. 416-392-7834, allendefestival. com. BEIT ZATOUN Hyphen Islam-Christianity, Sep 11-Oct 3, reception 7:30-9 pm Sep 11. 612 Markham. 647-726-9500. CAMERA Film (TIFF Future Projections): Stan Douglas, Sep 9-19. 1028 Queen W. 416-530-0011. CONTACT GALLERY Film (TIFF Future Projections): Harun Farocki, Sep 9-Oct 9. 80 Spadina #310. 416-539-9595. DIAZ CONTEMPORARY Sculpture/painting: Ricardo Rendón and Nick Ostoff, to Oct 16. 100 Niagara. 416-361-2972.
Harrington, Sep 9-26, reception 6-9 pm Sep 9. 1082 Queen W. 416-993-6510. MERCER UNION Installation: Fennel Plunger Corporation, Sep 10-Oct 16, reception 7 pm Sep 10. 1286 Bloor W. 416-536-1519. MILES NADAL JCC Photos: Debra Friedman, to Oct 7. 750 Spadina. 416-924-6211. MKG127 Sculpture: Risa Horowitz, Sep 11Oct 9, reception 2-5 pm Sep 11. 127 Ossington. 647-435-7682. OLGA KORPER Installation: Christine Davis, Sep 11-Oct 16, reception 2-5 pm Sep 11. 17 Morrow. 416-538-8220. TIFF BELL LIGHTBOX Essential Cinema (Future Projections): Douglas Gordon, Ming Wong, Martin Arnold, Michael Nyman and Michael Snow, Sep 12-Oct 23. 350 King W. tiff.net. URBAN SPACE Installation photos: Philip Beesley, to Oct 30, artist’s talk 6:30 pm Sep 13. 401 Richmond W #117. 416-595-5900.
really takes off. Ma is freaked. The tabloids hover as the two recover in the local psychiatric facility, and her father can’t even look at Jack, the spawn of a monster. Freedom sounds good to us but is traumatizing for Jack. Imagine everything, every experience – fresh air, for example – every connection being new and hard to fathom after five years of having had only one relationship. And he’s not at all happy about having to share Ma. Though occasionally Jack seems more precocious than possible, Donoghue succeeds in making him a believable character. And his mother’s devotion is a beautiful thing. Highly SUSAN G.COLE recommended. Room launches at Dora Keogh on Wednesday (September 15). See Readings, this page. Write Books at susanc@nowtoronto.com
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Friday, September 10 BAD DAY The arts and culture magazine launches its new issue wth music by Bad Tits and more. 10 pm-4 am. $10. Wrongbar, 1279 Queen W. baddaymagazine.com.
Monday, September 13 VIKKI VANSICKLE 7 pm. Free. Supermarket, 268 Augusta. 416-840-0501.
Tuesday, September 14 EZRA LEVANT 7 pm. Free. Indigo Manulife, 55 Bloor W. chapters.indigo.ca. SEMMY STAHLHAMMER 8 pm. Free. Bookclubin-a-Box, 875 Eglinton W. 416-784-9436. MARK SUTHERLAND/NOBUO KUBOTA/BILL KENNEDY Poetry. 8 pm. Free. Clinton’s, 693 Bloor W. artbar.org.
Wednesday, September 15 EMMA DONOGHUE Launching her novel Room with a reading. 7-9 pm. Free. Dora ñ Keogh, 141 Danforth. 416-361-0032. 3
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more online nowtoronto.com/stage Audio clips from interview with THROUGH THE LEAVES’ MARIA VACRATSIS • and more Fully searchable listings with venue maps nowtoronto.com/stage/listings
Maria Vacratsis gets visceral in Through The Leaves.
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A real meaty role Actor gets her hands dirty as a butcher in kitchen-sink drama By JON KAPLAN THROUGH THE LEAVES by Franz Xaver Kroetz, directed by Philip Riccio, with Nicholas Campbell and Maria Vacratsis (Company Theatre). At the Tarragon Extra Space (30 Bridgman). Previews begin Friday (September 10), opens Tuesday (September 14) and runs to October 3, Tuesday-Saturday 8 pm, matinee Sunday 2:30 pm. $20-$40, some $10 rush Friday night and Sunday matinee, stu/srs discounts. 416-531-1827.
maria vacratsis is doing some offal work these days. One of two performers in Franz Xaver Kroetz’s brutally honest Through The Leaves, Vacratsis plays Martha, a female butcher desperate for affection who gets involved with Otto
(Nicholas Campbell), a less than loving factory worker. “She’s not the kind of everyday butcher you’d go to for your ground round,” says the actor, who spent some time working with her organic butcher to get a feel for the craft, “but someone who deals with intestines, tripe and other internal organs usually intended for animal food. “Martha’s a strong woman, but she puts up with some pretty abusive behaviour from Otto.” A play like Through The Leaves is more or less the definition of kitchensink drama – a 70s script full of sliceof-life scenes between the pair, though each of the 11 episodes ends with a diary entry by Martha that offers another take on their relationship.
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“When I first read the play, it seemed both obvious and odd to me,” recalls Vacratsis, an energetic and adept stage and TV performer who recently appeared in Judith Thompson’s Such Creatures. “As an actor, I’m in a real place when I play the scenes, but the diary entries break the naturalism; suddenly the fourth wall comes down and I’m reading what Martha has written, punctuation and all.” She also found some of the dialogue peculiar, as when Otto insists that Martha’s too intimate with her dog or demands that they have sex in the butcher shop. “But the more I explored the episodes, the more the oddness disappeared. Now I realize I’ve had converand more celebrate art as a force for social change. Opens Sep 10 and runs to Sep 25, see website for details. Free (closing party $15). Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie, and other venues. allendefestival.com.
THE HIGH FLYING ADVENTURES OF PETER PAN
(Cabbagetown Theatre Company). This allages, panto-style comedy is inspired by the fairy tale. Sep 10-12, Fri 7:30 pm, Sat-Sun noon, 1, 2, 3 and 4 pm. $5. Necropolis Chapel, 200 Winchester. cabbagetownfestival.com. THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST by Oscar Wilde (Mississauga Players). Victorian manners and morals are exposed in this comedy. Opens Sep 9 and runs to Sep 18, Thu-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $20, $17 srs, $5 stu. Clarke Memorial Hall, 161 Lakeshore W, Mississauga. 905-823-7100, mississaugaplayers. com. RICHARD III by William Shakespeare (Hart House Theatre). A ruthless Duke marries and murders his way to the top. Opens Sep 15 and runs to Oct 2, Wed-Sat 8 pm, mat Oct 2 at 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $10-$15. 7 Hart House
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sations like these and seen these things happen; we’ve all experienced so much of this. Now I get what the scenes are about.” While some people would find Martha weak for putting up with how Otto treats her, Vacratsis doesn’t think so. “From the first read, I never saw her as mousy but as a combination of independent and needy. From the outside, people can ask why she keeps Otto in her life, but we all live that kind of dichotomy, where both people in a relationship have to give up something to stay together. In the case of a woman, it’s often about juggling being a nurturer and keeping her independence. “The question, of course, is how much to give up – how much is too much. We come into a relationship with all this baggage, and we sometimes don’t realize how much of it is excess.” Vacratsis maintains that Otto isn’t “a brute or an asshole” but someone who’s asked to give up a lot to a woman “who’s needy and naive in some ways.” Yet throughout the play, he’s often a mystery, not letting on where or how he lives or whether he’s seeing other women when he’s not with Martha. “She knows he’s vulnerable, stubborn, a little obsessive and can’t give over control – all his bad qualities,” laughs the actor. She’s happy to be sharing the stage with Campbell (Da Vinci’s Inquest, Haven), with whom she’s worked in the past, because the material requires that the two characters communicate a believable intimacy. “It’s so private and personal at times that we feel like we’ve invited others into our stage bedroom. With [director] Philip [Riccio], we’re still discovering how to create a realistic familiarity when 100 people are watching us. That’s an incredible challenge.” 3 jonkap@nowtoronto.com
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Circle. 416-978-8849, uofttix.ca. RISING BELOW THE SUN (Cecelia McHugh). A lifelong friendship is strained by competition and jealousy in this solo show. Sep 9-11, Thu-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $18. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, risingbelowthesun.com.
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(Shawn Hitchins). Hitchins performs his comedic musical cabaret. Opens Sep 9 and runs to Sep 18, Thu-Sat 8 pm. $10-$15. Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, 12 Alexander. 416-975-8555, shawnhitchins.com. SUBTEXT MULTI-ARTS FESTIVAL (The Bridging Project/Scarborough Arts Council). This outdoor arts event features music, dance and more. Sep 11-12, Sat 11 am-5 pm, Sun 11 am-4 pm. Free. Lawrence E and Orton Park. thebridgingproject.blogspot.com. THROUGH THE LEAVES by Franz Xaver Kroetz (Company Theatre). This drama looks at the relationship between a female butcher and her abusive companion (see
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Witty Wilde AN IDEAL HUSBAND by Oscar Wilde, directed by Jackie Maxwell (Shaw). At the Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Runs in rep to October 31. $23-$105. 1-800-511-7429. Rating: NNN Several blackmail plots, questions of marital fidelity and some prime witticisms buoy Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband, given a high-gloss production by director Jackie Maxwell. Years before the play opens, Sir Robert Chiltern (Patrick Galligan), currently a prominent politician, took part in insider trading and made a fortune. Now he’s being coerced into another devious plot by Mrs. Cheveley (Moya O’Connell), who has incriminating evidence against him. Chiltern’s wife, Lady Gertrude (Catherine McGregor), expects only the best behaviour from her husband and is horrified to learn about his past; family friend Viscount Goring (Steven Sutcliffe), the play’s epigrammatically inclined Wildean figure, must reconcile the couple. The Shaw Festival production, strikingly designed by Judith Bowden and Kevin Lamotte, is slow to start but grips by the second act when Chiltern, recounting his past, becomes a more sympathetic figure. The final half of the play, with its plots and counterplots, has some surprising narrative convolutions. The best scenes involve Sutcliffe, who reveals both the wit and the heart of “the idlest man in London,” and the confrontations between Lady Gertrude and Mrs. Cheveley. McGregor gives warmth to a character who could be portrayed as inflexibly prudish, while O’Connell switches from charming to implacably icy when she connives to serves her own ends. In the large cast, two others stand out: Anthony Bekenn as Goring’s sarcastic butler and Lorne Kennedy as his demanding father, Lord Caversham, whose verbal sparring with Sutcliffe is full of cleverness and bon mots.
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Besides the opening bit, the other political sketches include Dale Boyer as a smugly sincere bureaucrat fielding questions about the environment (painfully funny because it hits so close to home) and a no-they-didn’t scene about two friends (Baker and Cawley) who debate the Israel/Palestine situation. I’m still amazed that the cast made it work: thoughtful, serious yet funny as hell. Music director Matthew Reid’s work enhances each scene, most nota-
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tradictory statements to sniff out possible subversives. The scene’s payoff defines the term comic relief. For sheer fun, there’s no beating two terrific sketches in the first act, one about two Facebook friends (Caitlin Howden and Adam Cawley) who accidentally and awkwardly meet up in person, the other involving an annoying iPhone user (Cawley) on his way to a business conference. Both deal with technology, but Earle and the cast make sure we get a feel for the characters and the setting. Two other sketches show just how much the digital landscape has changed our lives. Kris Siddiqi plays a The Second City son still mourning the death of his sextet gives us Something to father, whose funeral was hampered celebrate. by a tragic mishap. When his friends (Cawley and Rob Baker) visit and tell him that a video of the accident was comedy review caught on YouTube, it’s a classic case of comedy being tragedy plus time. When the scene is revisited near the end of the second act, it’s even funnier. There’s a terrific sense of physicalSecond city show is funniest in years By GLENN SUMI ity throughout the show, with the cast funny Second City show in years. members making use of every inch of SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME Great cast. Sharp writing. Impeccable Camellia Koo’s set. In a clever seTHIS WAY COMES… written and direction. It’s no surprise that writer/ quence set in space, a Canadian asperformed by Rob Baker, Dale Boyer, director/actor Chris Earle is at the tronaut (Siddiqi) literally gets his Adam Cawley, Caitlin Howden, Inessa helm. He’s got a theatrical eye, edgy American and Russian colleagues Frantowski and Kris Siddiqi (Second City, sense of humour and knows which high. And one of the best scenes in51 Mercer). Indefinite run. $24-$29. 416topical references will capture the volves newcomer Inessa Frantowski 343-0011. See Comedy Listings, page 81. zeitgeist yet also remain classic. and Baker playing ex-lovers who meet Rating: NNNNN The show begins by putting us on awkwardly in a café, trying to conour guard – literally – as the six-mem- vince themselves that they’re not at23678_NextStepsNOWhalfAd:Layout 3:41 Page something wicked awesome this ber 2 cast,9/3/10 outfitted like G20PM police offi- 1 tracted to each other. This could play Way Comes... is the most consistently cers, surround tables and grunt con- in any language and be just as funny.
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Outta Sight). Members of the burlesque troupe perform. Sep 12, doors 7 pm. $15-$25. The Painted Lady, 218 Ossington. skintightouttasightngrdrseuss.eventbrite.com. the produCerS by Mel Brooks (Talk Is Free Theatre). Theatre critics and arts personalities perform a concert version of the musical to benefit the Actors’ Fund of Canada. Sep 13 at 8 pm. $27-$125. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416-366-7723, stlc.com. urBanmoon: CaBaret (Limehouse Theatre). Film clips are brought to life by Jamie Arfin, Jeni Walls, Andrew Moyes and Amanda de Souza. Sep 12 at 7:30 pm. $35 (includes dinner). The Urban Yard, 265 Pape, around back. limehousetheatretoronto.weebly.com.
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story, page 76). Previews Sep 10-11. Opens Sep 14 and runs to Oct 3, Tue-Sat 8 pm, Sun 2:30 pm. $20-$40. Tarragon Theatre, 30 Bridgman, Extra Space. 416-531-1827, companytheatre.ca. Vienna Gold Gala ConCert (Toronto Operetta Theatre). This gala benefit for TOT features works by Johann Strauss, Franz Lehár and others. Sep 11-12, Sat 8 pm, Sun 2 pm. $35. Jane Mallett Theatre, 27 Front E. 416366-7723, torontooperetta.com.
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Previewing Banana Shpeel by David Shiner (Cirque du
Soleil). This show combines slapstick comedy, dance, circus acts, acrobatics and music. Previews Sep 14-18. Opens Sep 19 and runs to Oct 10, Tue-Sat 7:30 pm, Sun 6:30 pm, mats Sat-Sun 1:30 pm. $25-$110. Canon Theatre, 244 Victoria. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. the CloCkmaker by Stephen Massicotte (Tarragon Theatre). A man is intrigued by a married woman who brings a broken clock to his shop. Previews Sep 14-21. Opens Sep 22 and runs to Oct 24, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2:30 pm. $23-$39, Fri & Sun rush $10. 30 Bridgman. 416-531-1827, tarragontheatre.com. the Shadow of a Boy by Gary Owen (Royal Porcupine Productions). An orphaned boy living with his grandmother turns to a comic book hero for support. Previews Sep 15. Opens Sep 16 and runs to Sep 26, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Sun (and Sep 18) 2:30 pm. $20-$30, preview/mats $15. Lower Ossington Theatre, 100A Ossington. 416-915-6747, royalporcupineproductions.com. thiS iS the thinG by Jeff Jones (Charcoal Sketch Productions). Songs and stories evoke memories for a man standing at the edge. Previews Sep 15. Opens Sep 16, Wed-Sat 7:30 pm, mat Sat 2:30 pm. $20, stu $15. Theatre Passe Muraille, 16 Ryerson, Backspace. 416504-7529, charcoalsketchproductions.com.
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Catfight alert by Alisa Palmer (Shaw). At the Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. Runs in rep to October 9. $30-$105. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Rating: nnn
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the Codfather (Murder Mystery Toronto). Mobsters seek a murderer in this interactive dinner-theatre comedy. Limited run, Sat 7 pm. $65. Forget About It!, 325 King W. 416855-3306, murdermysterytoronto.com. doC by Sharon Pollock (Soulpepper). A family portrait drawn in vivid colours and deeply etched emotions, Doc looks at a respected physician who puts his practice ahead of his wife and daughter, with tragic consequences. Director Diana Leblanc’s production explores the nuanced relationships – we see the daughter as both a child and an adult – with strong performances all around, notably by R.H. Thomson as the doctor and Jane Spidell as his sad, angry, alcoholic wife. Runs to Sep 18, Mon-Sat 8 pm (see website for mats). $32-$76. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnnn (JK) dr. Jekyll, there’S nowhere to hyde (Mysteriously Yours... Dinner Theatre). A dead body turns up at a criminology conference in
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(Art Gallery of Ontario). CanStage Dream in High Park actors and Atelier Ballet dancers perform alongside an exhibit of Stratford Festival props, stage machines and interactive content. Runs to Sep 26, performances on select Saturdays and Sundays. Free w/ admission. 317 Dundas W. ago.net. JunCtion artS feStiVal (Junction Forum for Art and Culture). The street festival features music, dance, comedy, spoken word, performance art and more by Istvan Kantor, Quinn C Martin, Random Acts of Dance, Robert Priest and others. Runs to Sep 12, see website for details. Free/pwyc. Dundas W between Indian Grove and St Johns Rd. junctionartsfest.com. loVe, loSS, and what i wore by Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron (Michael Rubinoff/ Daryl Roth). The Ephron sisters use Ilene Beckerman’s picture-filled book of autobiographical reminiscences about clothing as a springboard for dozens of stories connecting fashion and women’s lives. The pieces are a mixed bag, ranging from a beautifully written monologue about a shirt (with a subtext about the end of a relationship) to an awkward anecdote about boots and rape. The Canadian premiere of the New York stage hit has been cast with some of our biggest talents, who are mostly fine (the cast changes again Sep 10) Runs to Oct 2, Tue-Sat 8 pm, mats Wed and Sat 2 pm (plus Sep 12 at 2 and 7 pm). $35-$65. Panasonic Theatre, 651 Yonge. 416-872-1212, lovelossonstage.ca. nnn (GS) paint your waGon by Frederick Loewe and Alan J Lerner (Civic Light Opera Company). This musical is set in a mining town in California during the Gold Rush era. Runs to Sep 25, Wed 7 pm, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sun (and Sep 25) 2
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this interactive comedy. Runs to Oct 30, FriSat 8 pm. $40-$45. 2026 Yonge. 416-4867469, mysteriouslyyours.com.
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If you’ve seen and enjoyed the classic 1939 MGM film The Women – don’t bother with the awful 2008 remake – you’ll want to check out the original stage play, which has even more bitchy, brittle fun dissecting the male/ female divide. Director Alisa Palmer captures the period feel of the story – with the help of William Schmuck’s dozens of smart costumes – while adding a nod to the politics of our own day, or at least lightly underlining the fact that some things haven’t changed in 80 years. Mary Haines (Jenny Young) is the play’s innocent, a well-off wife whose husband is cheating on her with the conniving Crystal Allen (Moya O’Con nell); Mary’s friend Sylvia Fowler (Deborah Hay) cattily enlightens Mary
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and helps bring about a divorce and lots of scrapping. Luce’s ingenious device has the dozens of women in the show talking about the men in their lives, but she never allows a man onstage. It works nicely in this stage version, which pulls fewer punches than the censored film script. Young’s Mary is warm and believable, never begging for the audience’s pity, while O’Connell is sexy and sharpedged; this is her year for playing femme fatales at Shaw. Hay delivers her gleeful gossip with wide-eyed seeming concern for those she’s trashing, Jenny L. Wright is hysterical as an always-pregnant friend, and Wendy Thatcher gets lots of laughs as the love-seeking Countess de Lage. Palmer nicely highlights the social gap between the well-to-do and the working class in a strong scene where Mary’s two servants (Patty Jamieson and Melanie Phillipson) discuss their comfortable employer’s problems with men and in the process subtly acknowledge that their own woes will never Jon kaplan be so glamorous.
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pm. $25. Fairview Library Theatre, 35 Fairview Mall. civiclightoperacompany.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 19, Sat-Sun 1 pm. $29.50. Al Green Theatre, 750 Spadina. 416-642-8973, vitaltheatre.ca. Rock of ages by Chris D’Arienzo (Mirvish). Mashed together from the 80s glam rock catalogue, this critic-proof jukebox musical is essentially a glorified version of rock week at American Idol. It’s well sung and played, but the story – about an aspiring actor (Elicia MacKenzie) and musician (Yvan Pedneault) in L.A. – is silly without being witty. A narrator (Aaron Walpole) keeps popping in to remind us that we’re watching a cheesy musical. Mamma Mia! and We Will Rock You have affection for the genre, but RoA mocks it, which leaves a nasty aftertaste. Runs to Oct 31, TueSat 8 pm, Sun 7 pm, mats Sat-Sun 2 pm. $28$99. Royal Alexandra Theatre, 260 King W. 416-872-1212, mirvish.com. nn (GS) sheaR Madness by Paul Portner (Stage West). Salon staff and customers get caught up in a murder in this comedic whodunit. Runs to Sep 18, Tue-Sun 6:30 pm, mats Wed and Sun 11 am. $46-$80 (includes buffet). 5400 Dixie, Mississauga. 905-238-0042, stagewest.com. WhaT The BuTleR saW by Joe Orton (Soulpepper). Orton’s 1967 play about a doctor’s ill-conceived attempted seduction of a comely young secretarial candidate is viciously witty, but Jim Warren’s direction keeps the actors playing it straight, if not serious. This is British farce with a polite Canadian wash. The cast is strong but not especially provocative, except Oliver Dennis, whose twit policeman gets some big laughs. Runs to Sep 18, Mon-Sat 7:30 pm (see website for mats). $32$76. Young Centre for the Performing Arts, 55 Mill. 416-866-8666, soulpepper.ca. nnn (Naomi Skwarna)
as You like iT by William Shakespeare (Strat-
ford Festival). Love flourishes among exiles in the Forest of Arden in this romantic comedy. Runs in rep to Oct 31. $50-$95, stu/srs $25$55. Festival Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The cheRRY oRchaRd by Anton Chekhov (Shaw Festival). Chekhov’s play is adapted with an Irish twist. Runs in rep to Oct 2. $23$105. Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-theLake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. dangeRous liaisons by Christopher Hampton (Stratford Festival). Two aristocrats amuse themselves by compromising women of virtue in pre-Revolutionary France. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $50-$95, stu/srs $25$55. Festival Theatre. stratfordfestival.ca. do noT go genTle by Leon Pownall (Stratford Festival). Poet Dylan Thomas looks back on his life in this solo play. Runs in rep to Sep 11. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Studio Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. The docToR’s dileMMa by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). A doctor with a limited supply of medicine must decide who gets treatment. Runs in rep to Oct 30. $23-$105. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. eviTa by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber (Stratford Festival). Eva Duarte rises from poverty in this musical. Runs in rep to Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $29-$65. Avon Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. foR The PleasuRe of seeing heR again by Michel Tremblay (Stratford Festival). Tremblay’s tribute to his mother looks at the bond between a woman and her son. Runs in rep to Oct 2. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Tom Patterson Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. half an houR by JM Barrie (Shaw Festival). A woman sneaks back into her life when plans to leave her husband go awry. Runs in rep to Oct 9. $30. Royal George Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. haRveY by Mary Chase (Shaw Festival). A man with an imaginary friend vexes his society-conscious sister in this comedy. Runs in rep to Nov 14. $23-$105. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. an ideal husBand by Oscar Wilde (Shaw Festival). A politician is caught between private shame and public scandal in this comedy (see
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Out of Town age of aRousal by Linda Griffiths (Shaw Festival). An ex-suffragette runs ñ a secretarial school in 1885 England. Runs in
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Vital Verona The TWo genTleMen of veRona by William Shakespeare, directed by Dean Gabourie (Stratford). At the Studio Theatre, Stratford. Runs in rep to September 19. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. Rating: nnn I’ll never be convinced that The Two Gentlemen Of Verona is first-rate review, page 76). Runs in rep to Oct 31. $23$105. Festival Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. nnn (JK)
Jacques BRel is alive and Well and living in PaRis by Eric Blau and Mort Shuman (Stratford Festival). Brel’s highly theatrical songs get a mixed staging, with Brent Carver and Mike Nadajewski selling the drama along with the music. Too bad Jewelle Blackman and Nathalie Nadon don’t do the same. Runs
Shakespeare, but Dean Gabourie’s effervescent production makes a persuasive argument for its entertaining theatricality. Gabourie staged an outdoor version in 2004 for Shakespeare in the Rough, but the piece actually succeeds better in a real theatre, because its trappings are specifically theatrical: many of the characters are 1920s vaudeville performers we see on and off stage. The show has a clever design by Lorenzo Savoini and in rep to Oct 3. $50-$106, stu/srs $29-$65. Tom Patterson Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnn (Susan G Cole) John Bull’s oTheR island by Bernard Shaw (Shaw Festival). Shaw’s look at Anglo-Irish relations is sometimes dated, but the discussion about the development and exploitation of colonial lands still resonates. Director Christopher Newton’s production combines cogent arguments with warmth and humour.
Tamara Marie Kucheran, with music composed by Jonathan Monro. Best friends Proteus (Gareth Potter) and Valentine (Dion Johnstone), a performing song-and-dance duo, split up when Valentine leaves Verona to pursue his career in Milan; he meets and falls for Silvia (Claire Lautier), a diva-inclined leading lady and daughter of the impresario-like Duke of Milan (John Vickery). When Proteus later travels to Milan, he also falls for Silvia and plots to win her himself, in the process rejecting his lover, Julia (Sophia Walker); disguising herself as a boy in typical Bard heroine fashion, Julia comes looking for Proteus. Gabourie gives the production charm, though Walker’s not as strong as the other central figures. In Bruce Dow and Robert Persichini, the director has a pair of fine clowns to portray the two gents’ servants; in their spotlit turns, they play winningly to the audience, Persichini with the help of a woebegone dog. Trish Lindström has some good moments as Julia’s practical servant, and Timothy D. Stickney shines as a popinjay of a leading man, determined to win Silvia Jon kaPlan as his wife. Runs in rep to Oct 9. $23-$105. Court House Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. shawfest.com. nnn (JK) king of Thieves by George F Walker (Stratford Festival). Con men working with the FBI plan a double-cross in 1920s New York. Runs in rep to Sep 18. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Studio Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. continued on page 80 œ
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From the producers of
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by Franz Xaver Kroe y Vivis
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Nicholas Campbell Maria Vacratsis directed by
Philip Riccio
Sept 10 - Oct 3. 2010
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30 Bridgman Av Toronto, ON
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Kiss Me, Kate by Cole Porter, Sam Spewack
and Bella Spewack (Stratford Festival). Bickering co-stars and gangsters threaten a play’s opening night show. Runs in rep to Nov 6. $50-$106, stu/srs $29-$65. Festival Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. One tOuch Of Venus by Ogden Nash, SJ Perelman and Kurt Weill (Shaw Festival). The ancient goddess of love visits Manhattan in this musical. Runs in rep to Oct 10. $23-$105. Royal George Theatre, Niagara-on-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. Peter Pan by JM Barrie (Stratford Festival). In director Tim Carroll’s adaptation of the children’s story, the world of author JM Barrie intersects with the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up. Michael Therriault makes a terrific Peter – amoral, self-centred, never able to keep still – and Tom McCamus doubles as the fastidious Barrie and the gleefully villainous Captain Hook. Runs in rep to Oct 31. $50$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Avon Theatre. 1-800567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) seriOus MOney by Caryl Churchill (Shaw Festival). Churchill’s rhymed-verse, big, gloriously explosive look at world trading markets has as much relevance today as when it was written in the 80s. Eda Holmes’s cleverly choreographed production shows off the skilful ensemble in a production that’s smart, brittle and appropriately icy. Runs in
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rep to Sep 12. $49. Studio Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. nnnn (JK) the teMPest by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Director Des McAnuff uses all the stage magic of the Festival Theatre to proper effect in Shakespeare’s last play, a story of forgiveness and grace. Christopher Plummer’s Prospero is strong without pushing the other actors to the sidelines, and his relationships with Trish Lindstrom’s Ariel and Julyana Soelistyo’s Ariel are warm and believable. Runs in rep to Sep 13. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Festival Theatre. 1-800-5671600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) the twO GentleMen Of VerOna by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). Friends fall for the same woman in this classic comedy (see review, page 79). Runs in rep to Sep 19. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Studio Theatre. 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca. nnn (JK) the winter’s tale by William Shakespeare (Stratford Festival). A jealous king puts his wife on trial in this romantic comedy (see review, this page). Runs in rep to Sep 29. $50-$95, stu/srs $25-$55. Tom Patterson Theatre. 1-800-511-7429, stratfordfestival.ca. nnnn (JK) the wOMen by Clare Boothe Luce (Shaw Festival). Manhattan socialites deal with cheating husbands, exes and toxic gossip in this comedy (see review, page 78). Runs in rep to Oct 9. $23-$105. Festival Theatre, Niagaraon-the-Lake. 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com. nnn (JK) 3
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Like The Tempest, also at Stratford this season, The Winter’s Tale is a multigenerational play that inclines toward dark tragedy at its start but concludes in happiness and reconciliation. Sicilian king Leontes (Ben Carlson), wrongly jealous of the relationship between his wife, Hermione (Yanna McIntosh), and best friend, Polixenes (Dan Chameroy), king of Bohemia, causes a rift in his private and public worlds and loses both Hermione and Polixenes. Sixteen years later, their children are the means of the reunion
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Yanna McIntosh and Ben Carlson add warmth to Winter.
of partners and friends. Director Marti Maraden’s clear production, beautifully designed by John Pennoyer and Louise Guinand with a sombre look for Sicily and bright colours for Bohemia, catches most of the play’s intensity and comedy. This is one production where the final scene’s magic succeeds. Carlson’s Leontes is guarded and off-centre from the start, properly agonized when his life turns disastrous, while McIntosh offers a range of deep emotions in Hermione’s sur-
prisingly few appearances. Seana McKenna is magisterial, almost Amazonian, as Hermione’s supporter Paulina. In the Bohemian scenes, Cara Ricketts and Ian Lake are perfectly cast as Perdita and Florizel, the innocent children of the rulers. Mike Shara reveals the heart and humour of the young shepherd, Perdita’s foster brother, and Tom Rooney provides every possible laugh as Autolycus, the chameleon-like thief who unwittingly helps bring the story to a positive, JOn KaPlan satisfying conclusion.
Produced by Chartier Danse & Arraymusic in association with Harbourfront Centre, Toronto Outstanding works & performances including three premieres by some of Canada’s stellar artists including Peggy Baker, Serge
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Thursday, September 9 ABSOLUTE COMEDY presents Moody Mc-
Carthy, Steve Scholtz and host Matt ñ Davis. To Sep 12, Thu 8:30 pm, Fri 9 pm, Sat-
Sun 8 pm (and Sat 10:45 pm). $10-$15. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Next Big Thing, new and veteran improvisers perform scenes. 8 pm. The Jam, an open improv jam session. 9:15 pm. $5. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. COMEDY ABOVE THE PUB McVeigh’s Irish Pub presents Bev Ellis, Chris Brazeau, Julie Kim, Marc Hallworth, Ruby, Suzanne Paquin and host Dave Paterson. 9 pm. $5. 124 Church. 416-364-9698. THE FRESH PRINCE SHOW Comedy Bar presents scenes performed by Punch Drysdale, the Boom, the Sketchersons, Cheap Smokes, Poetic Justiz and host Ladystache. 10 pm. $8. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. GAME PLAYA THURSDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents longform improv by Rob Norman’s Game Of The Scene class players. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. THE GOOD IDEA Comedy Bar presents stand-up w/ Stacey McGunnigle, Georgea Brooks-Hancock, Eric Andrews and host Dom Pare. 8 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca.
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SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES Second City presents its 66th ñ sketch comedy revue about how everyone
(and everything) is awesome (see review, page 77). Tue-Sat 8 pm (plus Sat 10:30 pm), Sun 2 pm. $24-$29, stu $15. 51 Mercer. 416-3430011, secondcity.com. NNNNN (GS)
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Poor John’s Café presents all-girl standup w/ Judy Croon, Julia Hladkowicz, Marilla Wex, Muniza Rauf, Daniela Saioni and others. 8 pm. Pwyc. 1610 Queen W. 647-435-2688. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Angelo Tsarouchas. To Sep 12, Thu-Sun 8 pm (and Fri-Sat 10:30 pm). $12-$20. 224 Richmond W. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Friday, September 10 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 9. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Hairy Patter &
The Improviser’s Stone, improv parody of the first movie/book. 8 pm. $10-$12. That Friday Show, a play by BDT students. 8:30 pm (in Studio #2). Pwyc. Macro Neato, improv variety including games and plays. 10 pm. $10-$12. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. THE BENCH John Candy Box Theatre presents upcoming improvisers picked by the Second City. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. COMEDY ON THE DANFORTH Timothy’s World News Café presents improv with Better Than Nothing (David Boyce/Angela Brown). 9 pm. Pwyc. 320 Danforth. 416-461-2668, comedyonthedanforth.com. JAMMIN’ ON THE ONE Stevie J, Damon Lum and Ad Lib present an improv jam. 7:30 pm. Free. Arts & Letters Club, 14 Elm. 416-569-1316.
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JO KOY Live Nation presents the standup comic in an all-ages show. 8 pm. $30. Queen Elizabeth Theatre, 190 Princes’ Blvd. 416-870-8000. NAKED FRIDAYS John Candy Box Theatre presents music, improv, sketch and more. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
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presents stand-up w/ Jillian Thomas, Fraser Young, host Xerxes Cortez and others. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 27 Wellesley E. 416-580-4153, texascomedymassacre2.com. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 9. YUK YUK’S VAUGHAN presents Ian Sirota. To Sep 11, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 70 Interchange Way. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com. YUK YUK’S WEST presents Gavin Stephens. To Sep 11, Fri-Sat 9 pm. $20. 5165 Dixie, Mississauga. 416-967-6425, yukyuks.com.
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Saturday, September 11 ABSOLUTE COMEDY See Thu 9. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Theatresports,
competitive improv. 8 pm. Welcome To Town, an improvised documentary about two small towns. 10 pm. $10-$12 each. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. LAST STOP COMEDY NIGHT Fitzgerald’s Pub presents weekly Pro/Ams w/ hosts Jordan Foisy and Matt Shury. 8:30 pm. Pwyc. 2298 Queen E. 416-698-8588.
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BODY OF KNOWLEDGE Allende Arts Festival presents an interdisciplinary performance with dance by Olga Barrios, plus visual and video art. Sep 14 at 7 pm. Free. Wychwood Theatre, 601 Christie. allendefestival.com. THE BRUTES DanceWorks CoWorks presents a theatrical dance creation by
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w/ Adam Christie, Kathleen Phillips, Alana Johnston & Inessa Frantowski, Aaron Eves, Tim Polley, Mack Lawrenz, host James Hartnett and others. Doors 8:30 pm. $5. Rivoli, 332 Queen W. laughsabbath.com.
SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 9. STAND UP SUNDAYS Second City presents the
Mercer Street Comedy Cabaret. 7 pm. $15. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SUDDENLY SUNDAY Pantages Martini Bar presents any open mic w/ host Melissa Story. 8:30 pm. Free. 200 Victoria. 416-362-1777. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN See Thu 9.
Monday, September 13 IMPERIAL COMEDY Imperial Pub presents
weekly Pro/Am comics w/ host Eric Bud. 9:30 pm. Pwyc. 54 Dundas E. imperialcomedy.com. PRESS CLUB 7 presents female comedy w/ Lisa Brooke, Becky Bays, Sara Hennessey, Martha O’Neil, Deborah Etta Robinson, Miriam Ver-
Kate Hilliard featuring Robert Abubo, Jasmine Inns and others. Sep 9-11, Thu-Sat 8 pm, mat Sat 2 pm. $25, stu/srs $20. Theatre Centre, 1087 Queen W. 416-538-0988, theatrecentre.org. DANCE FOR JUSTICE Amnesty International presents a multicultural showcase and fundraiser, with performances by Menaka Thakkar Dance Company,
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“Art toBoot” Get down with Blundstone and Sketch - working arts for street-involved and homeless youth, for our 7th Annual “Art to Boot” fundraiser for Sketch. Live and silent auctions for 25 pairs of boots, painted, decorated,or otherwise artistically enhanced by renowned artists, personalities and celebrities. All proceeds go to SKETCH. www.sketch.ca
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Thursday, September 23, 2010 7pm til late NEW LOCATION - Gladstone Hotel, 1214 Queen St. West Tickets available at all Australian Boot Company stores. $15 in advance, $20 at door, 16 and under get in free.
House presents Steve Patterson, Claire ñ Brosseau, Eric Bud, Cal Post, Tim Golden,
Bruce Wrighte, Dave Kemp and host Jo-Anna Downey. 9 pm. Free. 710 Danforth. 416-4666161. TUESDAYS IN THE JUNCTION Hole in the Wall presents weekly comedy and people talking loudly w/ host Matt Shury. 9 pm. Free. 2867A Dundas W. 416-760-7041. YUK YUK’S DOWNTOWN presents Amateur Night, w/ the Humber College Comedy Cavalcade, followed by stand-up amateurs. 7:30 and 9:30 pm. $3. 224 Richmond W. 416-9676425, yukyuks.com.
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ly comedy and fun. Doors 7:30 pm. Pwyc. The Central, 603 Markham. 416-913-4586. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents The Incubator, a showcase of up and coming improv teams. 8 pm. Harold Night, the improv form created by Del Close. 9:30 pm. $5 each. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. 416-238-7337, impatient.ca. IMPROV NIGHT IN CANADA John Candy Box Theatre presents the ultimate improv faceoff. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. A JEST CAUSE Scarborough Women’s Centre presents a comedy fundraiser w/ Nile Seguin, Martha O’Neill, Becky Bays, Danny Freedman, Marilla Wex, Elaine Dandy and host Jason Blanchard. Doors 7:30 pm. $20-$25. Absolute Comedy, 2335 Yonge. 647-588-4663, ajestcause.com. MATT DAVIS Absolute Comedy presents the comic in a live show. 8:30 pm. $10. 2335 Yonge. 416-486-7700, absolutecomedy.ca. SKETCHCOMEDYLOUNGE Rivoli presents Lonely Cake, Smells Like the 80s, Rose & Crotch, the Newsdesk with Ron Sparks, MC Ryan Maglunob and others. 9 pm. Pwyc. 332 Queen W. sketchcomedylounge.com.
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berg and host Veronika Swartz. 9 pm. Pwyc. Press Club, 850 Dundas W. 416-364-7183. SECOND CITY presents Live In 3D, sketch comedy featuring scenes and songs from SC history, plus new material. 8 pm. $12. 51 Mercer. 416-343-0011, secondcity.com. SKETCH WARS Comedy Bar presents 4 troupes, 3 topics and 2 judges w/ Plum Thunder, Sick Cat, Haircut, host Craig Brown and others. 9 pm. $5. 945 Bloor W. comedybar.ca. WHEEL OF IMPROV John Candy Box Theatre presents competitive improv. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270.
Matt Davis, Dr Ron, Felipe Dimas, Jill Knight, Jamie O’Connor, Dwayne Hill and host Nile Seguin. 8:30 pm. $6. 2335 Yonge. 416-4867700, absolutecomedy.ca. BAD DOG THEATRE presents Mortal Ymprov, four improvisers compete for supremacy. 8 pm. $10. 138 Danforth. 416-491-3115, baddogtheatre.com. THE DOOR PRIZE SHOW Zelda’s Living Well presents a weekly talent contest w/ host Vicki Licks. 8 pm. Pwyc. 692 Yonge, upstairs. 416922-2526, zeldas.ca. IMPATIENT THEATRE CO presents free improv from 7 pm. House Party, scenes by ITC teams. 8 pm. Munchausen, rapid-fire improv. 10 pm. $5. Comedy Bar, 945 Bloor W. impatient.ca.
SOMETHING WICKED AWESOME THIS WAY COMES See Thu 9. SPIRITS OPEN MIC presents Cal Post,
Shannon McDonough, Ted Hambly, ñ Molly Davis, Tim McAfee, Steve Patterson,
Stephan Sharpe and Kristian Reimer. 9 pm. Free. Spirits Bar & Grill, 642 Church. 416967-0001. STUDENTS ROCK THE NITE John Candy Box Theatre presents improv and sketch by Second City Training Centre students. 9 pm. Pwyc. 70 Peter. 416-340-7270. 3 Esmeralda Enrique Company, AYA Dance Collective, Femmes du Feu and others. Sep 10 at 7:30 pm. $30-$50. Fleck Dance Theatre, 207 Queens Quay W. 416-973-4000, aito.ca/justice. FIGURE OF SPEECH Majlis Multidisciplinary Arts presents music, art and dance with Nova Bhattacharya and others. Sep 10-11 at 8 pm. $15. 163 Walnut. majlisarts.com. A NIGHT WITH LESLIE Labspace Studio presents installation and dance inspired by the Leslie Spit, with Laura Mendes, John Loerchner and Jane Danielson. Sep 10-12, opens Fri 7 pm, performances 9-10 pm. Free. 2A Pape. 416-836-1516, labspacestudio.com. 3
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THE AMERICAN (Anton Corbijn) may
bourne gangster drama whose most intense exchanges take place in the Ma Barker-style family’s living room. Ticking time bomb Pope (Ben Mendelsohn) and his bank-robbing brothers are tough enough to war with police, but they’re still boys at home. Mama Cody, aka Smurf (a brilliant Jacki Weaver), is a nasty figure who’d just as soon fit one of her own for a toe tag as fix them some pancakes. Rookie director Michôd handles high drama and sudden shootouts like a pro, but whenever his plot runs thin, he gives in to tacky grandiosity. His excessive use of slow motion tries to give gravity to scenes that have little weight. 112 min. NN (RS) Carlton Cinema
AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION (James Cameron) is a special edition of Cameron’s sci-fi adventure blockbuster, with nine extra minutes. 171 min. Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre
not be the best thing ever, but it’s a mostly competent spin on the standard one-last-job thriller, with a solid performance by George Clooney as CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY the resolutely closedGALORE (Brad Peyoff lead. Corbijn ton) is a sequel that makes The American, EXPANDED REVIEWS only infrequently his second feature nowtoronto.com sets its sights on (following 2007’s spy-movie spoofery, stark Ian Curtis biopic, preferring instead a Control), a gorgeous affair; there’s string of dopey puns and low-impact more Italian location porn here than animal chases. The action is indifferin Eat Pray Love. You can sink into the ent and the jokes unfunny. 85 min. NN movie’s visuals without ever quite (NW) connecting to the story – which is the Coliseum Scarborough, Eglinton Town reason The American never snaps into Centre, Kingsway Theatre, Queensway focus for its final movement. It’s pretty, but its heart never beats as COCO & IGOR (Jan Kounen) is half fast as it needs to. Some subtitles. great. When the subject is the passion 104 min. NNN (NW) beween fashion icon Coco Chanel 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, (Anna Mouglalis) and groundbreaking Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Modernist composer Igor Stravinsky Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Cen(Mads Mikkelsen), the film is all overtre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, wrought melodrama. But when it Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, comes to the creative process – ChaRainbow Market Square, Rainbow nel inventing her perfume, Stravinsky Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, composing – it’s sublime. Subtitled. SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Missis120 min. NNN (SGC) sauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Regent Theatre Yorkdale, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 DESPICABLE ME (Chris Renaud, Pierre ANIMAL KINGDOM (David Michôd) is Coffin) stars Steve Carell as the voice an engaging but inconsistent Melof a sneering schemer who adopts
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(D: Paul W.S. Anderson, 97 min) You’ve gotta be pretty brazen to open the same weekend as the world’s biggest film festival. Milla Jovovich (pictured) and her Resident Evil zombie ass-kicker Alice are tough enough to do the trick. She’s back in another instalment – 3-D, natch – also starring Ali Larter, who proved in Heroes that she can handle action. Let’s see how much box office the two can muster when all eyes are on TIFF’s red-carpet premieres. Opens Friday (September 10). No press screening – see review September 13 at nowtoronto.com/movies.
three girls as part of an elaborate scheme to steal the moon. That subplot provides the movie with its most engaging and entertaining moments; the other stuff, with Gru’s tube-shaped minions jumping around at us in 3-D, is a lot less interesting. 95 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Em-
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DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (Jay Roach) stars Paul Rudd as a would-be corporate player tasked with bringing an idiot to his bossy’s dinner party, and
Steve Carell as his dangerously literalminded guest. It’s disappointing to see Rudd stuck in a conventional straight-man role, but Carell gets every opportunity to explore his character’s demented innocence. Could be much funnier – and shorter. NNN (NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Colossus, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga
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Eat Pray LovE (Ryan Murphy) offers audiences the chance to vicariously accompany Julia Roberts as she retraces author Elizabeth Gilbert’s bestselling odyssey of self-embiggenment, travelling from one impossibly photogenic, sun-drenched location to another in a profoundly monotonous travelogue. 139 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity Exit through thE gift ShoP
(Banksy) is the story of Thierry ñ Guetta, who told everyone he was
working on an epic documentary about street art but never got around to doing anything with the raw footage, leading the artist who calls himself Banksy to take over the project – while Guetta chose to reinvent himself as a street artist. Enormous fun. 87 min. NNNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
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out and the villains are creepy, but some plot devices are super-cheesy. See The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, now on DVD, first or you’ll be lost. Subtitled. 129 min. NNN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre
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tattoo (Niels Arden Oplev) is a ñ superb adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s
mega-seller about disgraced journalist Mikael Blomkvist, who’s working with punk computer hacker Lisbeth Salander (Noomi Rapace) to find the niece of
corporate magnate Henrik Vanger (Sven-Bertil Taube), lost over four decades ago. Great tension and superb performances, especially by Rapace as the pansexual girl with the tattoo. Subtitled. 152 min. NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema
stein) pairs real-life couple Drew Barrymore and Justin Long as a couple who refuse to end a summertime romance in New York and try to keep things going after she moves back to San Francisco. Documentary filmmaker Burstein brings a refreshing frankness to the goings-on – you don’t see many rom-coms where people do bong hits on their first date, and aren’t punished for it – and the leads are awfully winning. But the charming elements grind up against some raunchier stuff – most of it provided by Charlie Day and Jason Sudeikis as Long’s buddies. They’re funny, but those scenes feel dropped in from another, less ambitious movie, working against the sweetness of the principal storyline. 104 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Carlton Cinema, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
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thE ExPENdabLES (Sylvester Stallone)
is a deliberate throwback to cheesy 80s actioners like Commando and Cobra, with director/co-writer/star Stallone and a cast of tough guys mowing down (or blowing up) scores of anonymous extras in a Latin American banana republic. People who liked that sort of thing in 1986 will get the warm fuzzies; everyone else will find themselves trying to digest a big ol’ slab of cheese. 103 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale
gEt Low (Aaron Schneider) is a
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Tennessee hermit who decides to throw himself a funeral party, and Bill Murray and Lucas Black lightening the mood as his perplexed enablers at a struggling funeral parlour. And as their stories unfold, Get Low works its way under your skin. 106 min. NNNN (NW) Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Kingsway Theatre, Varsity
Eight artists encounter Ontario’s Greenbelt
June 19, 2010 – June 2011 Free A photographic journey through one of the world’s environmental giants.
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fLiPPEd (Rob Reiner) is a 1960s coming-of-age romance about two Michigan kids who spend years misunderstanding each other to a soundtrack of jukebox hits. It’s also a Hail Mary pass designed to remind us that director, producer and co-screenwriter Reiner is the guy who made Stand By Me, not the guy who’s spent the last decade knocking out irrelevant studio junk like Rumor Has It and The Bucket List. Reiner’s creative atrophy is most evident in the movie’s unsteady tone, which swings clumsily from bittersweet nostalgia to feel-good pap within the space of a single line of dialogue, usually from John Mahoney as a widowed grandpa. Remember the days when Reiner could make Corey Feldman affecting? Yeah, I miss them, too. 90 min. NN (NW) Carlton Cinema, Varsity
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I Am Love (Luca Guadagnino)
ñstars Tilda Swinton as a woman who finds passion outside the fortress
of the upper-class Milanese family she’s married into. Guadagnino’s operatic approach is gorgeous to watch, and Swinton brings an intelligence and openness worthy of the literary heroines that inspired the script. 119 min. NNNN (GS) Kingsway Theatre, Varsity
INceptIoN (Christopher Nolan) is
a complex thriller/heist flick with ñ Leonardo DiCaprio as the leader of an
industrial-espionage team who extract valuable information by inserting themselves into dreams. Tremendous, full-throttle filmmaking. 146 min. NNNNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Varsity
the INfIdeL (Josh Appignanesi) puts a multicultural spin on the classic British identity farce: a mostly assimilated London Muslim (Omid Djalili) is rocked by the revelation that his birth parents were Jewish on the eve of his son’s engagement to the stepdaughter of a fiery fundamentalist imam, and must hide his identity from his confused family while exploring it with the help of a cranky American pal (Richard Schiff). David Baddiel’s script offers an equally broad vision of all ethnicities, setting up a series of caricatured confrontations that don’t exactly surprise, but provoke consistent chuckles. The big finale falls awfully flat, though. 105 min. NNN (NW) Cumberland 4, Grande - Yonge JoAN RIveRs: A pIece of WoRk
ñ(Ricki Stern, Annie Sundberg) shows us a revealing, jam-packed year
in the life of Rivers, who’s tireless, tenacious and hilarious even in her mid70s. Directors Stern and Sundberg leave some areas of her personal life unexplored, along with some of her meaner routines. But you get the sense that Rivers’s life is her work, and she’s as hard on herself as she is on anyone else. 84 min. NNNN (GS) Kennedy Commons 20, Varsity
the kIds ARe ALL RIght (Lisa Cholodenko) is a feeble comedy about lesbian couple Nic (Annette Bening) and Jules (Julianne Moore), whose two children want to meet their sperm donor. Enter Paul (Mark Ruffalo), who’s attracted to Jules. The plot is ridiculous. Bening, however, is terrific. 104 min. NN (SGC) Canada Square, Carlton Cinema, Mt Pleasant
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the LAst exoRcIsm (Daniel Stamm) skips horror movie clichés and predictable shocks to deliver some solid chills through believable characters caught in a compelling story. A Baton Rouge minister intent on getting out of the fake exorcism business performs his final ritual on a teenage farm girl in rural Louisiana. All goes well until the night turns nasty. There isn’t a redneck cliché in sight. Both script and cast present the minister (Patrick Fabian), the farmer (Louis Herthum) and his daughter (Ashley Bell) as complex, believable people. We see the action through the lens of a documentary crew following the minister, which adds realism without resorting to Blair Witch shakycam and provides some humour. 87 min. NNN (AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Mississauga, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
about love, sexual abuse and forgiveness. Trish (Allison Janney), still trying to get over her pedophile ex Bill (Ciarán Hinds), desperately wants a normal guy like Harvey (Michael Lerner). She still hasn’t figured out how to talk to her kids, especially 12-year-old Timmy (Dylan Riley Snyder). Her sisters are a mess, Joy (Shirley Henderson) attracted to pervs, TV writer Helen (a wired-up Ally Sheedy) crazed by her success. Solondz is back in Happiness territory, although this doesn’t really qualify as a sequel. The dialogue is brilliant, believable even as characters say completely inappropriate things, and the performances are spectacular. No one knows how to combine irony and emotion like Solondz – or humour and desperation, for that matter. Think a film about perversion can’t be funny? Go ahead, try not to laugh. 96 min. NNNNN (SGC) Cumberland 4
NANNy mcphee RetuRNs (Susanna White) plops Emma Thompson’s magical British governess down at Maggie Gyllenhaal’s rundown farm to help five cousins learn to work together, respect one another and appreciate the delights of digitally enhanced farm animals. Small children will enjoy the parade of CG critters – including the most adorable baby elephant since Dumbo – and their parents can be amused by the parade of famous faces. Maggie Smith and a Harry Potter co-star who shall not be named turn up in cameos, Bill Bailey appears as a chipper farmer, and Rhys Ifans makes a play for Tim Curry’s fussyvillain career as Gyllenhaal’s duplicitous brother-in-law. It may be disposable entertainment, but it’s still entertaining. 109 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24 No heARt feeLINgs (Sarah Lazarovic,
401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
LebANoN ñ (Samuel Maoz) is a
remarkable cinematic accomplishment – an experimental war movie that explores the chaos, terror and moral confusion experienced by the soldiers on the ground, leaving the politics out of it. It’s a foxhole picture; Sam Fuller would have loved it. Set on the first day of the war in June 1982 and taking place entirely within the confines of an Israeli tank, Lebanon presents a surreal vision of war, trapping us with the four bickering soldiers. They can’t really be sure of their location, other than it’s somewhere in Lebanon. All they know is what they hear on the radio and what they see through the tank’s scope. We see through it, too, catching glimpses of a nightmarish landscape of destruction, underscored with explosions and screams. I don’t doubt that this is exactly what writer/ director Maoz experienced as a tank gunner in 82. I’m thus doubly impressed that he managed to turn it into the stuff of this unique and gripping thriller. Subtitled. 94 min. NNNN (NW) Cumberland 4
to be – a tongue-in-cheek send-up of (and tribute to) the pulpy shoot-’emups of a bygone era. In this case, it’s the grindhouse actioners of the 1970s, which Rodriguez and Maniquis clearly worship. The formidable Danny Trejo is the title character, an ex-Federale chosen as a patsy by a corrupt politico (Jeff Fahey) and forced to kill a whole bunch of people before he can clear his name. Rodriguez and Maniquis keep the slashings, shootouts and chases coming fast and furious, reverseengineering an entire movie from the fake trailer that played in front of Rodriguez’s Grindhouse feature Planet Terror, while weaving in a surprisingly savvy indictment of American isolationism and anti-immigrant sentiment. Also surprising: Lindsay Lohan, who turns up as Fahey’s rebellious daughter, is kind of good. 105 min. NNNN (NW)
great affection for its characters. Expect to come out hungry. Subtitled. 75 min. NNNN (NW) Mt Pleasant
mAo’s LAst dANceR (Bruce Beresford) is a lead-footed, melodramatic biopic about Chinese dancer Li Cunxin, who visits America as Communism’s ballet prodigy but then refuses to return home, to the dismay of the Chinese Consulate. Beresford touches too briefly on some of the story’s ambiguities. At least there’s some fancy dancing. Some subtitles. 117 min. NN (RS) Canada Square
LotteRy tIcket (Erik White) stars Bow Wow as a nice young kid from the projects who wins the lottery but can’t cash the ticket until the end of a long weekend. Music-video director and cowriter White makes sure there’s plenty of running, shouting, pretty girls and product placement for Foot Locker and Coca-Cola. 99 min. NN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Scarborough, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Yorkdale
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mesRINe: kILLeR INstINct (Jean-François Richet) features an intriguingly opaque performance by Vincent Cassel as French outlaw Jacques Mesrine, with director Richet moving assuredly through the first decade or so of his criminal career. As one half of a fourhour project, though, the movie doesn’t so much end as stop. Subtitled. 113 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema mId-August LuNch (Gianni Di
ñ
Gregorio) takes place over the Ferragosto holiday weekend, in a small Italian apartment where middle-aged Gianni (writer/director Di Gregorio) lives with his aged mother (Valeria De Franciscis) and ends up taking care of three other elderly women. The movie tells its simple story lightly and with
Geoff Morrison, Ryan Noth) is a tiny little picture that follows the romantic ups and downs of Toronto 20-somethings over the course of a summer. Very little happens, but that’s sort of okay. This is a talking movie, rather than a doing movie, and its scruffy DIY sensibility suits the subject matter. The actors aren’t pros – Rebecca Kohler is a stand-up comic and Dustin Parkes a sports journalist who writes for the Drunk Jays Fans website – but they’re appealing and natural, and their largely improvised dialogue is always appropriate for their characters. No one’s talking Rohmer here, but it’s a pleasant way to wrap up the season. 80 min. NNN (NW) Carlton Cinema
the otheR guys (Adam McKay) is a
buddy-cop comedy starring Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg as a pair of mismatched New York detectives who stumble onto a massive corporate fraud case. As quasi-satirical action movies go, it’s no Hot Fuzz, but it’s a damn sight better than Cop Out. 107 min. NNN (NW) 401 & Morningside, Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Yonge & Dundas 24
pIRANhA 3d (Alexandre Aja) yo-yos
happily between its school of footlong fanged furies and bevies of busty, bikini-clad or bare-all babes to provide featherweight fun for undemanding 12-year-old boys. Until the former chow down on the latter at a lakeside resort during spring break, we’re kept amused by the pleasures and perils of a porno crew and their local teen continued on page 86 œ
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l ocationscoutonayacht.Thisallows directorAjatomakealastingcontributiontocinemabystagingtheworld’s first3-Dunderwatergirl-on-girlsoft pornballet.The3-Disgenerallyeffectiveandfun.85min.NNN(AD) 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Canada Square, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview
RamoNa aNd Beezus(Elizabeth
Allen)doesn’tjusthonourthe ñ worldofBeverlyCleary’sbooks;it
evelopsthatworldintoasmart, d winningandengagingmoviethatwill appealasmuchtoparentsastothekids who’vedraggedthemtothemegaplex. 104min.NNNN(NW) Kingsway Theatre
ResideNt evil: afteRlife(Paul W.S. Anderson)97min.SeeAlsoOpening,page 82. Opens Sep 10 at 401 & Morningside, Beach Cinemas, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Docks Lakeview Drive-In, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande - Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Rainbow Promenade, Rainbow Woodbine, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale. salt(Phillip Noyce)starsAngelina
J olieasCIAagentEvelynSalt,accused byaRussiandefectorofbeingasleeperspy.Itunfoldsinamonotoneof explosionsandcarchases,andthe plotholesareludicrous.Ifyou’regonnamakeanactionerwithAngelina Joliethatisn’tsexyorfunny,canyou atleastmakeitsmart?100min.NN
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scott PilgRim vs. the WoRld
(Edgar Wright)issheerpopdelirñ iumfromthefirstframetothelast,
asdirectorandco-writerWrightturns BryanLeeO’Malley’ssix-partgraphic novelintoahyper-stylized,vividly cinematicfeatofgenrefusion.It’sa lovestory,akung-fumovie,anepic adventureandarollickingslacker comedy,packedfullofendearingperformancesandimaginativefight scenes.112min.NNNN(NW) Carlton Cinema, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Market Square, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yonge
the secRet iN theiR eyes(Juan
ñJose Campanella)travelsback andforththroughtime,trackingre-
Real-life couple Justin Long and Drew Barrymore keep Going The Distance.
tiredBuenosAirespoliceinvestigator Esposito(sad-eyedRicardoDarín), whocan’tletgoofa20-year-oldcase ofrapeandmurder.Asuperblycomplexmeditationonmemory,passion andregret.Subtitled.129min.NNNN (SGC) Carlton Cinema, Regent Theatre
steP uP 3d(Jon Chu)isastepback-
wardsforthefranchise.Thechoreographedsequencesareenergetic, eye-poppingandrangewidelyinstyle, andthe3-Daddstextureandisonly occasionallygimmicky.Thestory aboutanupcomingdancebattle, however,issimplymind-numbingly bad.104min.NN(GS) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande - Yonge, Queensway, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
the soRceReR’s aPPReNtice(Jon Turteltaub)isasillyeffectscomedy withNicolasCagemakingwizard handsoppositeasquirmingJayBaruchel.Thebigeffectssequencesare realizedwellenough,butthereal entertainmentvalueisintheperformances.108min.NNN(NW) Kennedy Commons 20, Yonge & Dundas 24
the sWitch(Josh Gordon, Will Speck) issupposedtobeacomedyabout unexpectedfatherhood,butitnever findsanacceptabletone.JasonBatemangoesforbroadlaughs,while JenniferAnistondonsthatsameflinty maskshesportedinTheBreak-Upand TheBountyHunter.Noone’sideaofa goodtime.101min.NN(NW) Canada Square, Colossus, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Grande Steeles, Grande - Yonge, Kennedy Commons 20, Queensway, SilverCity Mississauga, Varsity, Yonge & Dundas 24 takeRs(John Luessenhop)isamoder-
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atelyentertainingcaperflickabouta gangofprofessionalthieveswhose armoured-carjobgoeswrongwhile thecoponthecaseslowlyclosesin. Thejob,thefootchasethatfollowsit and,later,ahotelroomshootout providesomelivelymoments,though you’veseenitdonebetterinthe BournetrilogyandJohnWoomovies. Ontheotherhand,thesoft-focus, backlit,slo-modeathoftwoofthe gangbroughthowlsoflaughterfroma previewaudience.Thecharactersare paper-thin,andtheactingamongthe thieves–ChrisBrown,HaydenChristensen,MichaelEaly,Tip“T.I’.”Harris andIdrisElba–amatteroflookinglike GQmodelsinupper-management suits.115min.NNN(AD) 401 & Morningside, Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Courtney Park 16, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Grande Steeles, Queensway, Rainbow Woodbine, SilverCity Fairview, SilverCity Yonge, SilverCity Yorkdale, Yonge & Dundas 24
the tillmaN stoRy(Amir Bar-Lev) tracksmilitarymalfeasance,butthe realmessageistotheU.S.Army:be carefulwhoyoumesswith.PatTillman leftprofootballtoenlist.Whenhedied inAfghanistanin2004,Armybrasssuppressedthathe’dbeenkilledbyfriendly fire,andevenencouragedBush&companytousehisdeathasapropaganda tooltobuildsupportfortheIraqWar. Tillman’sfather,Patrick,andhismother, Dannie,spentyearslookingforthe
truth.DirectorBar-Levcreatesanew heroinDannieTillman,whotookher caserighttotheSenate,butheunveils theArmy’smachinationstooslowly andintoomuchdetail,leachingthe filmofitsprimaryemotions.Thismovie shouldbeinfuriating,butyou’llwalk awayfromitmoresadthanenraged. 94min.NNN(SGC) Cumberland 4
toy stoRy 3(Lee Unkrich)findsour
plasticheroesfacingtheendoftheir usefulnessastheirowner,Andy,preparestogoofftocollege.Themovie hasbeats,andevenentirescenes,that recallthegloriesoftheearlierchapters,butTS2happenedbecausePixar hadanotherstorytotell,whileTS3is herebecausesomeonethoughtitwas asurefirehit.97min.NNN(NW) Coliseum Mississauga, Coliseum Scarborough, Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Yonge & Dundas 24
the tWilight saga: ecliPse(David
Slade)offerssomewelcomebackstory, acoupleoftwistsandawell-filmed climacticbattletotheoverlongseries, butmostlyit’sbrooding,barechests andbanaldialogue.Inthetiresome Bella-Edward-Jacobtriangle,onlyRobertPattinsonshowsanykindofinner lifebeneathEdward’s(sparkly)skin. AndDakotaFanning’salmostasmuch funasMichaelSheenwasasaVolturi baddie.121min.NN(GS) Colossus, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Kennedy Commons 20
vamPiRes suck(Jason Friedberg,
Aaron Seltzer)isamediocreTwilight parodywhoseoverworkedgagisthe slow-motionyearninglookbetween themopeyteenagedgirlandthevampireboyfriendwholoveshertoomuch tobiteher.Nowandthenthemovie eruptsintosillyfun,butliketheoriginal,VampiresSuckwastestoomuch timeonfun-freeexposition.80min. NN(AD) Coliseum Mississauga, Eglinton Town Centre, Empire Theatres at Empress Walk, Queensway, Rainbow Promenade, Scotiabank Theatre, SilverCity Mississauga 3
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ANIMAL KINGDOM (14A) Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:25, 6:40, 9:00 EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (14A) Thu 2:55, 4:50, 9:20 Fri-Wed 3:05, 4:55, 9:45 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) Thu 12:55, 3:05, 5:15, 7:30, 9:45 FLIPPED (PG) Fri-Wed 1:10, 3:10, 5:15, 7:15, 9:10 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A) 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:30 THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A) 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) 12:50, 3:00, 5:10, 7:20, 9:35 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (18A) Thu 12:45 7:10 Fri-Wed 12:40, 7:10 MESRINE: KILLER INSTINCT (18A) Thu 1:15, 3:45, 6:40, 9:00 Fri-Wed 12:45, 7:05 NO HEART FEELINGS Thu 1:00, 3:10, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 PICHÉ: ENTRE CIEL ET TERRE Fri-Wed 2:45, 5:00, 9:20 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) 1:20, 3:40, 7:00, 9:15 THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (14A) Thu 12:40 3:20 6:50 9:25 Fri-Wed 1:00, 3:45, 6:50, 9:25
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55 BLOOR ST W, 416-961-6304 THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 1:00 3:40 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 12:20 3:30 6:50 10:05 Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05 GET LOW (PG) Thu 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30 Fri 7:00, 9:40 Sat-Sun, Tue-Wed 1:10, 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 Mon 3:50, 7:00, 9:40 I AM LOVE (18A) Thu 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 9:20 Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 2:20 6:20 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:50, 6:20, 9:50 JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Fri, Sun, Tue-Wed 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 Sat, Mon 6:40, 9:00 SALT (PG) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 9:55 THE SWITCH (PG) Thu 12:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45
VIP SCREENINGS
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 1:05 4:05 6:35 9:05 Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 6:35, 9:05 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 6:55, 10:05 FLIPPED (PG) Thu 6:15, 8:45 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:25 3:25 6:45 9:55 Fri-Wed 12:35, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55 SALT (PG) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:55, 6:15, 9:25 THE SWITCH (PG) Fri 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Wed 1:35, 4:25, 7:05, 9:35
YONGE & DUNDAS 24 (AMC) 10 DUNDAS ST E, 416-335-5323
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 2:00 3:00 4:45 5:45 7:30 8:30 10:15 10:55 Fri-Wed 2:00, 3:00, 4:45, 5:45, 7:30, 8:30, 9:55, 10:55 Sat-Sun 11:20, 12:20 mat DABANGG 2:25, 5:20, 8:10, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:30 mat DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 3:50 6:50 9:35 Fri-Wed 3:50, 6:40, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) 2:20, 3:40, 4:40, 6:00, 7:00, 8:20, 9:15, 10:40 Sat-Sun 11:50, 1:00 mat MACHETE (18A) Thu 2:15 3:00 5:00 5:40 7:45 8:20 10:30 10:50 Fri-Wed 2:15, 3:00, 5:00, 5:40, 7:45, 8:20, 10:20, 10:50 Sat-Sun 11:35, 12:15 mat NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 SatSun 11:40 mat
THE OTHER GUYS (14A) 2:20, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10 Sat-Sun 11:25 mat THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) Thu 7:15, 10:10 STEP UP 3D (PG) Fri-Wed 10:45 THE SWITCH (PG) Thu-Fri, Mon-Tue 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sat 12:05, 2:50, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 Sun 12:05, 8:00, 10:40 Wed 2:50, 10:40 TAKERS (14A) 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00 Thu 2:45, 5:30 mat, 8:20, 10:55 late Sat-Sun 11:05 mat TOY STORY 3 (G) Thu 2:15, 4:45 TOY STORY 3 3D (G) 3:20, 5:45, 8:15 Thu 10:45 late Sat-Sun 12:40 mat WE ARE FAMILY (PG) 2:30, 5:15, 8:00, 10:45 Sat-Sun 11:25, 11:30 mat
Midtown CANADA SQUARE (CE) 2200 YONGE ST, 416-646-0444
DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu 4:30, 6:50 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:45, 7:00 Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:45, 7:00 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A) Thu 9:20 Fri-Sun 9:35 Mon-Wed 9:25 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (18A) Thu 4:55 7:30 10:00 FriWed 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Sat-Sun 2:30 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) 4:50, 7:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 2:40 mat MAO’S LAST DANCER (PG) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Fri, MonWed 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 Sat-Sun 1:30 mat THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 4:40 7:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat PIRANHA (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:20, 9:40 SALT (PG) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Sat 2:10, 4:30, 9:25 Sun 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:25 Mon-Wed 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 THE SWITCH (PG) Thu 4:50, 7:10, 9:30 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 Sat 2:00, 4:20, 6:45 Sun 2:00, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15
MT PLEASANT (I)
675 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-489-8484 THE KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT (18A) Fri-Sat 8:55 Sun 7:00 MID-AUGUST LUNCH (G) Thu-Sat, Tue-Wed 7:00 Sun 4:30
REGENT THEATRE (I) 551 MT PLEASANT RD, 416-480-9884
COCO & IGOR (18A) Fri-Sat 9:20 Sun 7:00 THE SECRET IN THEIR EYES (14A) Thu, Tue-Wed 7:00 FriSat 6:50 Sun 4:15
SILVERCITY YONGE (CE) 2300 YONGE ST, 416-544-1236
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:30, 9:20 Fri 1:30, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45 Sat 1:15, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45 Sun-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15 BBC LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2010 Sat 2:30 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:20 Fri 12:45, 3:50 Sat 12:50, 3:50 Sun-Wed 12:40, 3:30 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 10:00 Sun-Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45 Fri 1:45, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50 Sun-Wed 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:50 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu 1:40, 4:15, 6:45, 9:30 Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10 Sun, Tue 1:20, 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 Mon 1:20, 4:15, 6:50, 9:25 Wed 4:15, 7:00, 9:30 INCEPTION (PG) Thu-Fri 2:30, 6:20, 9:40 Sat 3:20, 6:20, 9:40 Sun, Tue 2:30, 6:20, 9:45 Mon, Wed 2:30, 6:30, 9:45 THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 2:45, 5:00, 7:45, 10:00 MACHETE (18A) Thu 2:15, 4:45, 7:30, 10:00 Fri 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sat 1:45, 4:45, 7:30, 10:10 Sun-Wed 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Fri 2:15, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Sun-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 9:10 Fri-Sat 6:30, 9:20 Sun-Wed 6:20, 9:00 TAKERS (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Fri 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:30 Sat 12:40, 6:50, 9:30 Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25 Mon 1:00, 4:00, 9:30 Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:25
Metro
THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:20, 9:25 FriWed 9:45 LOTTERY TICKET (PG) Thu 9:20 MACHETE (18A) 12:50, 3:55, 6:45, 9:35 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40 FriWed 12:30, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25 PIRANHA 3D (18A) 12:35, 3:45, 7:05, 9:10 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45 TAKERS (14A) 1:15, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30
KINGSWAY THEATRE (I)
East End
West End 3030 BLOOR ST W, 416-232-1939
CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) FriWed 1:30 DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) 9:30 GET LOW (PG) 5:15 THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A) 3:00 I AM LOVE (18A) 7:15 Thu 12:50 mat RAMONA AND BEEZUS (G) Thu 11:00 Fri-Wed 11:30
QUEENSWAY (CE)
1025 THE QUEENSWAY, QEW & ISLINGTON, 416-503-0424 THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 12:35, 3:20, 6:40, 9:50 Fri-Tue 12:35, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 Wed 3:40, 6:40, 10:00 AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION 3D (PG) Thu 3:10, 7:00, 10:45 BBC LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2010 Sat 2:30 CATS & DOGS: THE REVENGE OF KITTY GALORE (G) Thu 12:10, 2:40 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 12:55 3:35 6:35 9:15 Fri-Wed 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:45 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu 1:00 3:50 6:50 9:40 FriWed 1:20, 4:10, 6:50, 9:40 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:40, 7:25, 10:45 Fri, Sun-Wed 12:20, 3:40, 7:05, 10:35 Sat 12:20, 3:50, 7:15, 10:35 THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:30, 5:10, 7:40, 10:15 MACHETE (18A) Thu 1:30 4:40 7:45 10:35 Fri-Wed 1:25, 4:40, 7:45, 10:25 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Fri-Sun, Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55 Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:10 THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 12:25 3:25 6:25 9:30 Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:35, 6:25, 9:30 PIRANHA 3D (18A) Thu 2:00 4:50 7:30 10:10 Fri-Wed 2:15, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Wed 1:30, 2:00, 4:15, 5:00, 7:00, 7:50, 9:50, 10:30 SALT (PG) Thu 1:35, 4:45, 7:50, 10:30 Fri, Sun-Tue 12:25, 3:15, 6:10, 9:00 Sat 12:00, 6:10, 9:00 Wed 12:25, 3:15, 10:25 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 12:20, 3:15, 6:15, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:25, 6:15, 9:20 Mon-Tue 9:55 STEP UP 3D (PG) 9:35 Thu 6:45 late THE SWITCH (PG) Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 Fri-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 Wed 4:05, 6:55, 10:05 TAKERS (14A) Thu 1:15 4:15 7:35 10:20 Fri-Wed 1:45, 4:35, 7:35, 10:20 TOY STORY 3 3D (G) Thu 12:45, 3:45 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:45, 6:45 VAMPIRES SUCK (PG) Thu 5:20, 8:00, 10:25
RAINBOW WOODBINE (I)
WOODBINE CENTRE, 500 REXDALE BLVD, 416-213-1998 THE AMERICAN (14A) 12:55, 3:50, 6:50, 9:15 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) 1:05, 4:10, 6:55, 9:25 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 9:40
BEACH CINEMAS (AA) 1651 QUEEN ST E, 416-699-5971
THE AMERICAN (14A) 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:45 mat Sat-Sun 1:45, 4:45 mat EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) 6:50, 10:00 Fri 3:40 mat Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40 mat THE EXPENDABLES (18A) 7:00, 9:40 Fri 4:00 mat Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:00 mat INCEPTION (PG) Thu 6:40 10:10 Fri-Wed 6:40, 10:00 SatSun 2:45 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) 7:10, 9:30 Fri 4:15 mat Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:15 mat PIRANHA 3D (18A) Thu 7:20, 9:50 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) 7:20, 9:50 Fri 4:30 mat Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:30 mat
North York
EMPIRE THEATRES AT EMPRESS WALK (ET) 5095 YONGE ST, 416-223-9550
AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION 3D (PG) Thu 1:00, 4:40, 8:20 DESPICABLE ME (PG) Thu 1:40, 4:20, 6:50 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:20 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) 7:10, 9:40 Thu 1:50, 4:25 mat Fri-Sat 11:55 late INCEPTION (PG) 1:20, 4:30, 8:00 Fri-Sat 11:10 late MACHETE (18A) Thu 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50 Fri-Sat 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45, 11:59 Sun-Wed 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45 PIRANHA 3D (18A) Thu 3:00, 5:10, 7:30, 9:45 Fri-Sat 3:00, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50, 11:45 Sun-Mon, Wed 3:00, 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 Tue 5:10, 7:40, 9:50 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sat 11:59 late SALT (PG) Thu-Sat, Mon-Wed 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10 Sun 2:40, 5:05, 10:30 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 2:00 5:00 7:40 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20 TAKERS (14A) 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sat 11:50 late TOY STORY 3 3D (G) Thu 1:10, 4:00, 6:40, 9:05 Fri-Sat 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:05, 11:30 Sun-Wed 1:25, 4:00, 6:40, 9:05 THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG) Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35 VAMPIRES SUCK (PG) Thu 9:20
GRANDE - YONGE (CE) 4861 YONGE ST, 416-590-9974
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Fri 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10 Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Mon, Wed 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Tue 7:10, 9:45 BBC LAST NIGHT OF THE PROMS 2010 Sat 2:30 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:40 Fri 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05 GET LOW (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 3:45, 6:25, 9:25 Fri 3:45, 6:25, 9:45 Sat 6:25, 9:45 Sun 12:40, 3:45, 6:25, 9:25 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 Fri 4:20, 6:50, 9:50 Sat 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:50 Sun 1:20, 4:20, 6:50, 9:40 THE INFIDEL (14A) 3:50, 6:40, 9:20 Sat-Sun 1:00 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 Fri 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sat 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:20 Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) 3:40, 6:30, 9:30 Sat-Sun 12:30 mat THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu, Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 Fri 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Sat 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05 STEP UP 3D (PG) Thu 4:40 7:10 10:00 Fri-Wed 4:40, 7:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 1:50 mat THE SWITCH (PG) Thu 4:00, 6:55, 9:35 Fri 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sat 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 Sun 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35 Mon-Wed 4:00, 7:00, 9:35
RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) 4:00, 7:00, 9:40 FriSun 1:30 mat SALT (PG) Thu 4:15, 6:55, 9:30 Fri-Wed 9:45 SCOTT PILGRIM VS. THE WORLD (PG) Thu 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:25, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 STEP UP 3D (PG) Thu 9:40 Fri-Wed 9:15 THE SWITCH (PG) Thu 4:25, 7:10, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 Mon-Wed 3:50, 6:50, 9:30 TAKERS (14A) Thu 4:55, 7:40, 10:30 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 Mon-Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:35 VAMPIRES SUCK (PG) Thu 10:25
SILVERCITY FAIRVIEW (CE)
FAIRVIEW MALL, 1800 SHEPPARD AVE E, 416-644-7746 THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:20 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:40 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:20, 7:00 Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:20, 6:50 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:35 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) Thu 2:00, 4:30, 7:50, 10:20 Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:50, 7:40, 10:15 Mon-Wed 12:45, 4:50, 7:20, 9:55 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15 Mon-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:35, 9:10 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05 Fri-Sun 2:30, 6:30, 9:40 Mon-Wed 2:45, 6:30, 9:45 THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50 FriSun 2:45, 5:10, 7:50, 10:10 Mon-Wed 2:30, 4:45, 7:15, 9:35 MACHETE (18A) Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:40, 10:15 Fri-Wed 2:15, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00 PIRANHA 3D (18A) Thu-Sun 9:20 Mon-Wed 9:15 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Sun 1:45, 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 TAKERS (14A) Thu 1:15, 3:50, 7:20, 10:00 Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50
KENNEDY COMMONS 20 (AMC) KENNEDY RD & 401, 416-335-5323
THE AMERICAN (14A) 2:30, 4:15, 5:00, 6:45, 7:30, 9:15, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:15, 12:00, 1:45 mat AVATAR: SPECIAL EDITION 3D (PG) 2:35, 6:00, 9:20 SatSun 11:10 mat DABANGG 4:10, 7:00, 9:45 Sat-Sun 1:20 mat DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) 3:10, 5:20, 7:30, 9:40 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:00 mat DINNER FOR SCHMUCKS (14A) 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45 SatSun 11:20 mat EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) 2:45, 3:45, 5:45, 6:45, 8:45, 9:40 SatSun 11:45, 12:45 mat GET LOW (PG) 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Sun 12:05 mat THE GIRL WHO PLAYED WITH FIRE (18A) 3:50, 6:50, 9:45 Sat-Sun 12:50 mat GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) 2:30, 4:00, 5:00, 6:25, 7:25, 8:50, 9:50 Sat-Sun 11:00, 12:00, 1:30 mat JOAN RIVERS: A PIECE OF WORK (14A) 3:15, 5:20, 7:20, 9:30 Sat-Sun 11:00, 1:10 mat THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) 3:25, 5:35, 7:45, 9:55 Thu 2:40, 4:50 mat, 7:00, 9:10 late Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:15 mat NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30 SatSun 11:30 mat THE OTHER GUYS (14A) 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:55 mat PEEPLI LIVE (14A) Thu 2:10, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35 THE SORCERER’S APPRENTICE (PG) Thu 4:35, 9:55 Fri, Mon-Wed 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 Sat-Sun 11:35, 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:35 THE SWITCH (PG) 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 Sat-Sun 12:15 mat THE TWILIGHT SAGA: ECLIPSE (PG) Thu 7:10 Fri, Mon-Wed 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 Sat-Sun 11:05, 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:55 WE ARE FAMILY (PG) 2:15, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00 Sat-Sun 11:40 mat
SILVERCITY YORKDALE (CE) 3401 DUFFERIN ST, 416-787-4432
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:10 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:20, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Thu 1:10 Fri-Wed 12:45 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu-Sat, Tue 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 9:55 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) Thu 12:40, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:40 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00 Fri-Wed 12:55, 3:20, 6:30, 9:15 INCEPTION (PG) Thu 2:15 6:15 9:50 Fri-Wed 2:15, 6:15, 9:40 THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45 Fri-Wed 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00 LOTTERY TICKET (PG) Thu 12:45, 3:45, 6:40, 9:20 MACHETE (18A) Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:15 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 10:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Fri-Sat, Tue 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50 Sun-Mon, Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:45 STEP UP 3D (PG) Thu 3:50, 6:45, 9:40 Fri-Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:30 TAKERS (14A) Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15 Fri-Sat, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05 Sun-Mon, Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 9:50
Scarborough 401 & MORNINGSIDE (CE) 785 MILNER AVE, SCARBOROUGH, 416-281-2226
THE AMERICAN (14A) Thu 4:15, 7:30, 10:00 Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20 Mon-Wed 4:10, 6:40, 9:20 DESPICABLE ME 3D (PG) Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20 Mon-Wed 5:00 EAT PRAY LOVE (PG) Thu 6:10, 9:20 Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 Mon-Wed 5:30, 8:40 THE EXPENDABLES (18A) Thu 4:40, 7:20, 9:55 Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:50, 7:35, 10:15 Mon-Wed 4:50, 7:35, 10:00 GOING THE DISTANCE (14A) Thu 4:10, 6:40, 9:10 Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 9:10 Mon-Wed 4:15, 6:50, 9:10 INCEPTION (PG) Thu, Mon-Wed 5:20, 8:50 Fri-Sun 2:20, 6:20, 9:30 THE LAST EXORCISM (14A) Thu 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 Fri-Sun 5:00, 7:45, 10:10 Mon-Wed 5:10, 7:40, 9:55 LOTTERY TICKET (PG) Thu 6:20, 9:40 MACHETE (18A) Thu 4:30, 7:10, 9:45 Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:10, 10:05 Mon-Wed 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 NANNY MCPHEE RETURNS (G) Thu 3:55 Fri-Sun 2:10 THE OTHER GUYS (14A) Thu 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 PIRANHA 3D (18A) Thu 5:00, 7:15, 9:30 Fri-Sun 7:55, 10:20 Mon-Wed 7:30, 9:45 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE (18A) Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:50, 6:30, 9:00 Mon-Wed 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 RESIDENT EVIL: AFTERLIFE 3D (18A) Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00 Mon-Wed 4:40, 7:20, 9:50 TAKERS (14A) Thu 4:20, 7:00, 9:50 Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:50 Mon-Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:30
_MAB_AD_final_vec*.indd 1 indd 1
“You talkin’ to me? Hands up, muchacho, and go see Machete.”
GTA Regions Mississauga
COLISEUM SCARBOROUGH (CE)
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Harry Brown offers something more than the usual revenge-thriller power fantasy. It’s a good look at youth crime and violence in London. Harry (Michael Caine) is a newly widowed pensioner living in a council estate. The local teen gang kills his best friend, so ex-marine Harry starts killing them. The violence escalates, diligent cop Frampton (Emily Mortimer) closes in, and the story takes some surprising turns.
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The dialogue recalls The Firesign Theatre’s Further Adventures Of Nick Danger: long, complicated, nonsensical speeches and loony throwaways like “the clutching hand of hospitality.” Big fun. According to cast members on the The old dark house giddy commentary, that kind of genre was popular in gibberish is hard to do, and onscreen the 30s and 40s, typneaRly 2,000 RestauRants! crack-ups were a major problem on the ically featuring a group of people in an by rating, price,shoot. Search genre, EXTRAS Commentary, making-of isolated mansion, often for the reading neighbourhood, review & more! doc, bloopers. Widescreen, b&w, of a will. Murders always ensued. English audio. No subtitles. Dark And Stormy Night embraces these conventions and a whole lot Micmacs (eOne, 2009) D: Jean-Pierre more: a psychic, a hooded phantom, a Jeunet, w/ Dany Boon, clutching hand, a gorilla, a helpless ingenue, an upper-class twit, secret pasJulie Ferrier. Rating: sages, a hidden lair, a madwoman in NNN; DVD package: N the attic and, as heroes, a pair of wiseIt only takes a slight cracking reporters, 8 O’Clock Farraday miscalculation for and Billy Tuesday. whimsy to turn to cloyAs Farraday and Tuesday, Daniel ing goop. Micmacs Roebuck and Jennifer Blaire have the makes that mistake, 30s acting style and rapid-fire rhythms but only briefly in the first half-hour, down pat, as does everyone else, partiwhen our hero, Bazil (Dany Boon), cularly Brian Howe as the unbelievably meets the little gang of outsiders who odious Burling Famish Jr. tory, 2009) D: Larry Blamire, w/ Daniel Roebuck, Jennifer Blaire. Rating: NNN; DVD package: NNN
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will become his surrogate family: a human cannonball, a veteran thief, a girl with a mind like a calculator, a genius tinker and a contortionist with a beautiful smile (Julie Ferrier). The gang’s talents are perfect for Bazil’s scheme to take down the arms manufacturers who ruined his life, and their tricky manoeuvres provide exactly the same kind of pleasures as the Ocean’s 11 movies, but without the annoyance of watching movie stars try too hard to be cool. Nicolas Marié does a splendid villain – polished charmer one minute, primitive tantrum-chucker the next – and Ferrier is genuinely charming. Is that really her or some kind of special effect doing all that amazing body work? I hope for the former, but it’s impossible to tell these days. Sadly, director JeanPierre Jeunet says not a word about it in his brief, otherwise informative interview. EXTRAS Director interview. Widescreen. French audio. English, French subtitles.
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You can click for a colour version, but the black-and-white looks better and is perfectly in period, except for the constantly moving camera that keeps the film from succumbing to the staginess that plagued the genre.
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As one-minute MacGyver parodies on Saturday Night Live, MacGruber was moderately funny. At 91 minutes (94 for the extended unrated cut), not so much. Director Jorma Taccone and star/cowriter Will Forte have the bad TV series writing and acting down cold, but they don’t do much with it. Their parodic exposition sounds just like the real thing, and their plot, a secret agent dragged out of retirement to battle the mastermind who murdered his bride, offers nothing in the way of wackedout variations. As MacGruber, Forte has a funny moment featuring a celery stalk up his ass, and another having sex with a ghost, but Kristen Wiig, the love interest, gets more laughs with much less
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Thu 9-Sep 18 – The European Film Festival
presents a festival of independent films from around the globe and Canadian talent. $8/ evening, festival pass $50. Thu 9 – Dive! D: Jeremy Seifert. 6 pm. Shorts Block: A Dark Radius D: Gia Milani, My Mom Smokes Weed D: Clay Liford, and Beware Of The Bear D: Vicky Vellopoulou. 7:15 pm. Earthling D: Clay Liford. 9 pm. Fri 10 – Open D: Jake Yuzna. 6 pm. Shorts Block: The Story Of Uxbridge Station D: Mark Magro, Take My Wife D: Brett Carlson, and The Lift D: Robert Kohr. 7:45 pm. Immigration Tango D: David Burton Morris. 9 pm. SaT 11 – The Antarctica Challenge D: Mark
Terry. 6 pm. Shorts Block: Family Jewels D: Martin Stitt, Breaking News Breaking Down D: Mike Walter, and others. 7:30 pm. Tales From The Catholic Church Of Elvis! D: Mercy Malick. 9 pm. Sun 12 – The Mountain Music Project D: Jacob Penchansky. 6 pm. Shorts Block: Lens & Pens: Art In An Unexpected Place D: Deborah J Schull, Animal Drill D: Patrick Murphy, and My Father, Joe D: Nikila Cole. 7:20 pm. Santorini Blue D: Matthew D Panepinto. 9 pm. Mon 13 – Death Of The Virgin D: Joseph Tito. 6 pm. Shorts Block: The Freshwater Plague D: Jake Chirico, A Drop In The Bucket D: Lauren Shaw, and others. 8 pm. Trippin D: Devi Snively. 9:15 pm. Tue 14 – Anne Perry – Interiors D: Dana Lin kiewicz. 6 pm. Shorts Block: In The Dominican D: Adam Macdonald, New Media D: JJ Adler, and Claiming The Title: Gay Olympics On Trial D: Jonathan Joiner and Robert Martin. 7:45 pm. Burlesque Fairytales D: Susan Luciani. 9:15 pm. Wed 15 – Four Roses D: Kris De Meester. 6 pm. Shorts Block: Bedfellows D: Pierre Stefanos, LIMINAL D: Stephen Keep Mills, and others. 7:40 pm. Beyond The Pole D: David L Williams. 9:15 pm.
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SaT 11 – Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade
Thomas & Friends: Misty Island Rescue (2010). 10 & 11:30 am. Ramona And Beezus (2010) D: Elizabeth Allen. 2 pm. Cyrus. 4 & 9 pm. Salt. 7 pm. Sun 12 – Ramona And Beezus. 2 pm. Salt. 4 & 7 pm. Cyrus. 9 pm. Mon 13-Tue 14 – Cyrus. 7 pm. Salt. 9 pm. Wed 15 – Salt. 1:30 pm. Solitary Man (2009) D: Brian Koppelman. 7 pm. Mao’s Last Dancer (2009) D: Bruce Beresford. 9 pm.
(1989) D: Steven Spielberg. 4:15 pm. The Other Guys. 7 pm. The Kids Are All Right. 9:15 pm. Sun 12 – Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. 2 pm. Get Low (2010) D: Aaron Schneider. 4:45 pm. The Kids Are All Right.7 pm. The Other Guys. 9:15 pm. Mon 13 – The Kids Are All Right. 4:30 pm. Get Low. 7 pm. Salt (2010) D: Phillip Noyce. 9:05 pm. Tue 14 – Get Low.4:30 pm. The Other Guys. 7 pm. The Kids Are All Right. 9:15 pm. Wed 15 – Mid-August Lunch (2008) D: Gianni Di Gregorio. 4 pm. MP Olivia Chow presents The End Of The Line (2009) D: Ruper Murray, about the consequences of overfishing. Discussion w/ Olivia Chow to follow. 6 pm. Free (space limited, reserve @ 4165332710, chowo1c@parl.gc.ca). Salt. 9:30 pm.
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4 bdrm., family rm., den, a/c, 5 appl., 2 car gar., clean. 416-949-9996
PICKERING Det. 3 bdrm. home., finished bsmt., single gar., newly reno. avail. immed.,$1750 plus util. Call 416-409-1523
Dupont/Lansdowne One Bedroom - $950. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-5161166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com
Rogers/Keele 1 bdrm. bsmt. apt. $775/mo. util. includ.Call 416-939-9559
for rent - 2 bdrm ANNEX Large 2 bedroom basement apt. high, dry and bright in central Annex location. Call Teresa at 416-944-1837
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4 brand new 2 bdrm, never lived in custom built 1100 sq. ft. units in triplex avail. for rent. Each unit has individually controlled heat and A/C. Hrdwd. throughout. Security system and security entrance per suite. Prkng. and lndry facilities avail. No-smoke/pets. $ 2400 + util. call 416-420-3662
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Daily, weekly, monthly (from $600) Pkg lndry SRs disc 416-921-2141
King / Jameson 87, 90, 91, 140 & 146 Jameson Bachelor $709, 1 Bdrm $799 416-536-7805 www.metcap.com
King/ Dufferin 90 Tyndall Ave. 1 bdrm med $839, 1 bdrm large $939. 416-536-3158. www.metcap.com
Queensway & Parklawn 4 Hill Heights Rd, Newly Renovated suites, Bachelor $650., 2 Bedroom $900. Clean quiet building. Please call 416-236-9617
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Dupont/Lansdowne Two Bedroom - $1,275. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, undgrd, prkg, air. 416-516 -1166 Rental Office Hours: MonThurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com
Studio Space, Adelaide & John 800-1000 sq.ft.immed. $1525-$2300 Inclus., 12 ft ceiling hdw, kit,bath, lrg windows, post & beam please call 416-630-2051
416-588-8652
1 Bexley Cres 1 bdrm., prkg., utils. incl. $820 clean, TTC, school., Avail. immed. 416-302-7246
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1 bedroom above store. $750, Call 647-219-5319. No Saturday calls.
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Queen / Lansdowne Bach pad above store, 15ftx40ft, roof patio, clean, quiet, hrdwd, bbq, storage, a/c. Sept15th. $700inl.+lndry, no pets. 416-419-7704/416-532-7701
Upper level 3 bdrm. bungalow for rent located on quiet street. Close to schools, shopping, TTC & Subway. $1500/mo. + util., Call Domenic 416-720-0743
studio for rent Bathurst/Bloor Open space for Studio, 850 sq. ft. central air, $1200/mo. 416-658-6411
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+chores. UofT Prof. shares home near Lake, TTC. Nsmkr 416-694-7436
Studios and Workrooms $900. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-516-1166 Rental Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 standardlofts.com
Dupont/Symington Commercial studio loft space from 800 to 4000 sq ft, high ceilings, 2 pc bathroom, bright, hrdwd flrs, combine units, office, photo, computer, internet design from $800 a month. 416-654-2915 or 416-630-2116
FRONT/SHERBOURNE Private artist friendly studios w/ high ceilings. Shared kitchen & bath. TTC Live-in from $650. Workshop/Office.
416-994-4728
Keele/Dundas West Artist's Studios, $900/mo & up, all incl. 416-767-6663/647-444-6662
Queen / Bathurst Studios for rent. 1250 - 1450 sq ft, bright, 12 ft ceilings, 3-piece washroom, fridge & stove incl. Avail Immed. $1850 $2200/month, gas & hydro extra. call 416-203-8959 or email Tom tomhillman.ghostfx@gmail.com
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Beaches 2nd flr furn rm in beautiful house, nonsmoker, parking, cable, i-net., hardwood floors, central air. $550. incl. call 416-669-6743.
Birchmount/Steele Furn. room avail., clean, quiet home., No pets/smoke,$500 includes utils., Call 416-754-2467
Bloor / Lansdowne Rm for rent, own bthrm, sh kitch, wlk to sbwy, prkg/cbl/internet Female only! Students OK Immed. 647-808-7788 or 416-535-6622
BURNHAMTHORPE /EASTMALL Female to share condo. Laundry, pool, security, min to 427. Amenities close, TTC at door. Avail. immed. or Oct. 1st., $700 per mo. incl., 1st. & last. 416-546-7009
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Gerrard/Greenwood 2 bdrm., 1 bath. 1500 sq. ft., balcony, laundry, prkg., incl. util., close to TTC, 1600/mo., Call: 416-778-7077
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Dufferin/Eglinton Furn. re-deco. bsmt. bach. apt. for one. Open concept, priv. 4 piece tiled bathroom, carpeted bdrm. & living room, TV set w/free cable, tiled kitch., microwave, share laundry, No smoke/pets. $680 incl. Call 416-785-6154
Dupont/Lansdowne Bachelors $835. 10'-14' ceilings. Fitness and recreation facilities, underground parking, air, 416-516-1166 Rental Office Hours: Mon-Thurs 8-7, Fri 8-5, Sat/Sun 12-4 www.standardlofts.com
Yonge/Eglinton 2 bdrm. furn. $1895. incl., hardwood, parking. Call 416-733-0111 www.uptownrentals.ca
King W./Dufferin 1 BDRM 2ND FLOOR IN VICTORIAN HOME, LRG ROOMS, HDWD FLRS, BRIGHT, CERAMICS, LNDRY *AVAIL SEPT. 1ST. PRKG. AVAIL. $765+
416-588-8652
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a few nIghts ago, I got drunk and
knocked on my roommate’s door and confessed my attraction to him while he was lying in bed in nothing more than his skivvies. (It was dark, and I stayed at the door, so I didn’t know that until after the fact.) And then I asked him if I could sleep in his room because our other roommate – whose bedroom is directly above mine – was having sex so loudly that I couldn’t sleep. Which was true, but it clearly didn’t make the bed of the roommate I was drunkenly confessing to the appropriate alternative, and it makes me an asshole to the roommate who actually has a sex life. Not being able to sleep on work nights is sometimes a real problem, but one to be addressed with her, not used as drunken fodder to get into someone else’s bed. I feel pathetic and embarrassed for having thrown myself at my roommate, and completely freaked out that I got wasted enough to do something I have daydreamed about but wouldn’t do sober. But much more importantly, I think my behaviour did not reflect active consent, trashed my roommate’s boundaries and was generally creepy – all characteristics of sexual assaulters. I am biologically female, and if the situation were reversed, I would commit a huge double standard because I would back any woman who did not feel safe continuing to live with a dude who did what I did. I feel like I should be held accountable and move out immediately, though my housemate has told me he doesn’t feel threatened and that I should stay. Help. I feel like a total piece of shit for having done this and can’t stop wondering… Am I A Sexual Predator? Calm the fuck down – and no more women’s studies classes for you, okay? I think you’ve had quite enough, and I’m cutting you off. Look, AIASP, you didn’t assault anyone, you’re not a predator, you shouldn’t have to move
out. You made a drunken, ill-advised-in-retrospect pass at a roommate. If that makes someone a “sexual predator,” AIASP, then we’d better build walls around our better universities and start calling lem all penitentiaries. As for that double standard: In light of your recent experience – you made a drunken pass at someone who wasn’t interested in you – you might want to revisit the assumptions you’ve made about men who make passes, drunken and otherwise, at women who aren’t interested in them. Making a pass is not grounds for eviction or conviction. It’s how a person makes a pass (did you pounce or did you ask?) and how a person reacts if the pass is rebuffed (did you graciously take no for an answer or were you a complete asshole about it?) that matters. Of course, men’s passes at women – roommates and otherwise – exist in a context of male sexual violence. So it’s understandable that a woman might feel uncomfortable living with a dude who did what you did. But if the dude wasn’t a creep about it and graciously took no for an answer (if the answer was no), perhaps he should be judged as an individual and not as someone who bears collective responsibility for the crimes committed by members of his sex throughout history. And even if you were an asshole about that no, AIASP, that still wouldn’t make you a sexual predator. You’re only a sexual predator – or guilty of sexual assault – if you refuse to take no for an answer and force yourself on someone. (Or if you go after people who are incapable of granting consent.) You didn’t force yourself on anyone. All you’re guilty of, AIASP, is asking someone whom you wanted to fuck if he wanted to fuck you. It’s a legit question, and no one gets fucked without asking it. And that simple question doesn’t magically become sexual assault or harassment when the answer is no.
my mIstress wants to deny me the
pleasure of regular food. We want to create a “slop” that I can eat four to five times daily that is highly nutritious but as bland-tasting as possible. Any ideas? Can you consult a nutritionist? Seeking Slave Food Are there any vegan restaurants in your area?
I’m a sIngle male In my mId-30s who
over the years developed an incapacitating fetish. I can only get fully aroused when smelling the odor of maple syrup. When I was younger, it was not a problem getting aroused without it, but as I got older, I took to placing it on napkins and while pleasuring myself would inhale the scent of it. Now I can’t perform without smelling it. I have tried to wean myself to no avail. What should I do, short of taking all my dates to the house of pancakes and “accidentally” spilling syrup on them? I don’t think it would be fair to require such a thing from anyone and would not expect it to be tolerated in a long-term relationship. Any advice? Like I said, I have tried to reprogram myself, but to no avail. I feel I have hard-wired myself over the years and am helpless. Odor Regretfully Generates A Sexual Malady Another food question – kind of a subtheme in this week’s column. Look, ORGASM, the human brain is an inscrutable bag of slop, and you aren’t the only person out there whose brain saddled him with a seemingly random sexual fetish. But you shouldn’t view your fetish – assuming you’re not making this up – as “incapacitating.” You could be into things that were much worse and/or more complicated and/or literally impossible to realize. Nor should you blame yourself for your growing reliance on your kink. As we age (men particularly), we tend to lean more on those things – fantasies, fetishes, scenarios – that help us get there and get off.
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So what do you do? Stop viewing your fetish as some sort of freakish ailment that disqualifies you from love and affection, ORGASM, and start viewing it for what it is: an endearing quirk and not too much to ask from a long-term partner. People in love and people in long-term relationships – two distinct groups with some significant overlap – like to say things like “I would walk through fire for him” or “I would take a bullet for her.” Well, all you’re asking for is a tiny bit of maple syrup dabbed behind the ears before sex. It’s not fire, it’s not a bullet, and it’s not too much to ask.
I am a heterosexual guy, marrIed. my
wife and I have lately been getting really interested in watching porn videos on my iPhone. I’m having a problem, however, finding sites with fresh, free stuff that will actually play streaming on the iPhone. Do you, the tech-savvy at-risk youth or any of your readers have any site recommendations? The more the merrier! Sent From The Savage Love App For iPhone I was under the impression – heard it from Steve Jobs himself – that the iPhone was designed to protect our wives from porn. And while I’m always coming to the defence of porn, I’m not a big consumer myself. (I only use my iPhone to make calls and play cribbage.) So I’m not aware of any iPhone-friendly straightporn sites, SFTSLAFI. Readers? Any tips? And speaking of porn: Sometimes it’s not enough to come to the defence of porn. Sometimes you have to sit down and make some porn yourself. And sometimes your homemade porn can win you large cash prizes. Info and details at humpseattle.com. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net
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