TIFF Picks: Tuesday, September 12
Oh, look, more movies! As seen in Metro and everything!
"Death of a President"
It was the most controversial title of the festival until its world-premiere screening Sunday night, whereupon people quickly realized ... hey, it’s only a movie. But it’s still a pretty good one: Gabriel Range’s fake documentary of the assassination of George W. Bush – in Chicago, on October 17, 2007 – has the fine texture of reality once removed, and serves nicely as an allegory for the current American political landscape, and the emotional turbulence that follows any major political event. And I’ve got two words for those idiots screeching that the film somehow advocates the events depicted within: “President Cheney”. Nobody wants that.
4:15 pm at the Paramount 3; repeats Friday, 7:45 pm at the Cumberland 3.
"The Session is Open"
Vincenzo Marra, who made his mark in Toronto with the minimalist drama Vento di Terra a couple of festivals back, returns with this nimble documentary about the Italian justice system, as viewed in microcosm through an appeal of a murder conviction in Naples. Barely 75 minutes long, "The Session is Open" nevertheless packs an epic amount of indignation into its brief running time – you’ll be shocked at the bureaucratic paralysis that runs through every level of the proceedings, and then appalled at the offhandedness with which a magistrate slanders everyone who isn’t white, male and Italian. And they say justice is blind.
7 pm at the Cumberland 3; repeats Thursday, 4:45 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre.
Also worthwhile:
"La Haine"
2:30 pm at the Al Green Theatre.
"Radiant City"
8:45 pm at the Cumberland 2.
"Thicker Than Water"
8:45 pm at the Varsity 3; repeats Thursday, 2:45 pm at the Cumberland 1, and Friday, 2:45 pm at the Varsity 5.
"Sur La Trace d’Igor Rizzi"
9 pm at the Cumberland 3; repeats Thursday, 10:15 am at the Paramount 3.
"Trapped Ashes"
Midnight at the Ryerson Theatre; repeats Thursday, 12:15 pm at the Paramount 4.
"Death of a President"
It was the most controversial title of the festival until its world-premiere screening Sunday night, whereupon people quickly realized ... hey, it’s only a movie. But it’s still a pretty good one: Gabriel Range’s fake documentary of the assassination of George W. Bush – in Chicago, on October 17, 2007 – has the fine texture of reality once removed, and serves nicely as an allegory for the current American political landscape, and the emotional turbulence that follows any major political event. And I’ve got two words for those idiots screeching that the film somehow advocates the events depicted within: “President Cheney”. Nobody wants that.
4:15 pm at the Paramount 3; repeats Friday, 7:45 pm at the Cumberland 3.
"The Session is Open"
Vincenzo Marra, who made his mark in Toronto with the minimalist drama Vento di Terra a couple of festivals back, returns with this nimble documentary about the Italian justice system, as viewed in microcosm through an appeal of a murder conviction in Naples. Barely 75 minutes long, "The Session is Open" nevertheless packs an epic amount of indignation into its brief running time – you’ll be shocked at the bureaucratic paralysis that runs through every level of the proceedings, and then appalled at the offhandedness with which a magistrate slanders everyone who isn’t white, male and Italian. And they say justice is blind.
7 pm at the Cumberland 3; repeats Thursday, 4:45 pm at the Isabel Bader Theatre.
Also worthwhile:
"La Haine"
2:30 pm at the Al Green Theatre.
"Radiant City"
8:45 pm at the Cumberland 2.
"Thicker Than Water"
8:45 pm at the Varsity 3; repeats Thursday, 2:45 pm at the Cumberland 1, and Friday, 2:45 pm at the Varsity 5.
"Sur La Trace d’Igor Rizzi"
9 pm at the Cumberland 3; repeats Thursday, 10:15 am at the Paramount 3.
"Trapped Ashes"
Midnight at the Ryerson Theatre; repeats Thursday, 12:15 pm at the Paramount 4.
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1 Comments:
thanks for the tip off - la haine is one of my favourite films of all time. we showed it at our political film club at university.
the french minister of the interior also showed it to the cabinet to brief them on the racial tension and general youth disconnect in the mid-90s.
Ed
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