This weekend in Toronto: un festival du film français, a vintage super-sale, an hour of energy-conserving darkness, an extended retro dance party, Drake hosts the Juno Awards, and the National Theatre of the World tackles Sam Shepard.

Juliette Binoche and Romain Duris in Paris, courtesy of V Kelly & Associates. FILM: Cinefranco opens with Stephane Gehami’s En Plaine Coeur, the first of thirty-three French-language features (including Paris, shown above) and numerous short films the festival will be screening. This year’s festival includes films from Canada, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Morocco, Lebanon, and Iran. [...]

As we may have mentioned before, here at Torontoist we’re terrified of zombies—terrified! But yet we still love zombie films enough to not run out of the theatre screaming (usually). However, we’re not sure we could deal with the the Rolling Stones in IMAX, as seen in Martin Scorsese’s concert film Shine a Light, released [...]

Well, there have been a lot of films made about the ongoing conflict in Iraq and its effect on soldiers, and here’s another one! Stop-Loss is probably the glossiest, most-Hollywood looking attempt so far (no mean feat, considering Paul Haggis has had a shot already) and it remains to be seen if anyone in America [...]