Category Archives: Film

TIFF: Sunshine, music and Liona Boyd at the CFC picnic

Posted on September 11, 2011 by admin

One of the treats at the Toronto International Film Festival is Norman Jewison’s annual picnic at the Canadian Film Centre and it was a pleasure there today to meet the London-born Canadian classical guitarist Liona Boyd. We have Notting Hill, … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: ‘Moneyball’ starring Brad Pitt

Posted on September 10, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – “Moneyball” is very much about baseball, a traditional sports yarn about trying to beat the odds, but it is much more about family, breaking with tradition and economics, and it allows Brad Pitt to show … Continue reading →

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TIFF FILM REVIEW: George Clooney’s ‘The Ides of March’

Posted on September 9, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett TORONTO – The title “The Ides of March” gives away what George Clooney thinks about politics: it’s a place where people will stab you in the front. As director, star and one of the writers, Clooney delivers … Continue reading →

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WSA Discovery of the Year nominees announced

Posted on September 7, 2011 by admin

The World Soundtrack Awards have named the five nominees for their Discovery of the Year Award for 2011, to be presented during the 11th annual celebration and concert to be held at the end of the Ghent Film Festival in … Continue reading →

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Titles set for 16 days of movies at London Film Festival

Posted on September 7, 2011 by admin

The BFI London Film Festival announced the full schedule for its 55th edition to run Oct. 12-27 with a total of 204 fiction and documentary features, including 13 World Premieres, 18 International Premieres and 22 European Premieres. There also will … Continue reading →

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FILM REVIEW: ‘Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy’

Posted on September 5, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – The pleasures of a John le Carré novel on top of the sublime writing come less from plot than from atmosphere and character and that is why his best spy novels make splendid miniseries, not … Continue reading →

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Davies’s ‘Deep Blue Sea’ to close London Film Festival

Posted on August 30, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett Rachel Weisz will open and close the 55th BFI London Film Festival as she stars in “The Deep Blue Sea”, Terence Davies’ film of the Terence Rattigan play, which will screen on the final night on Oct. … Continue reading →

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Meirelles’s ‘360’ to open 2011 BFI London Film Festival

Posted on August 24, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett Brazilian filmmaker Fernando Meirelles’ “360”, starring Rachel Weisz, Jude Law and Anthony Hopkins, will have its European premiere to open the 55th BFI London Film Festival on Wednesday Oct. 12. It has its world premiere at the Toronto … Continue reading →

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PREVIEW: Spies go back into the cold in ‘Tinker, Tailor’

Posted on August 22, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett When John Le Carré created his master spy George Smiley – who is about to be revisited in Optimum Releasing’s Working Title Pictures production of “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” – he made him a fat man. The … Continue reading →

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FILM REVIEW: ‘The Guard’ starring Brendan Gleeson

Posted on August 20, 2011 by admin

By Ray Bennett LONDON – There is a fish out of water in John Michael McDonagh’s entertaining Irish crime yarn “The Guard” but it’s not the black American FBI agent parachuted into Galway on the hunt for a gang of … Continue reading →

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