Torontoist has never seen an Alejandro Jodorowsky film! Should we be ashamed to admit that? Possibly. We are, however, not ashamed to say we love that crazy guy anyway. Who couldn’t love a guy who killed three hundred rabbits with karate chops for a scene in his most well known work (and occasionally screened by Reg Hartt’s Cineforum) El Topo? Torontoist suspect we’ve lost everyone who likes rabbits. Okay then, how about his plan to......

Noël Mitrani is the director of Sur La Trace D’Igor Rizzi, which premiered in Canada at the Toronto International Film Festival in 2006, winning the CityTV Award for Best Canadian First Feature. The film, in which Jean-Marc Thomas (Laurent Lucas), a former European soccer player, wanders the streets Montreal before falling into petty crime while grieving his dead lover, was reviewed positively by Torontoist before the festival, and now plays as part of Canada’s Top......

Our title this week of course refers to Catch and Release, a film which has been so endlessly trailered on TV (and we don’t even watch that much) that Torontoist feels like we could recite the whole bloody film right now. “The man I was going to marry is dead! I’m sitting wearing my wedding dress and moping – it’s a girl thing! Kevin Smith is fat and talentless, but friends with Ben Affleck......

We already mentioned it in our news round-up but we thought we’d share with you this lovely picture of the assembled filmmakers and cast of Canada’s Top Ten films of 2006. Held at the Revival nightclub on College St. (as last year) By the Toronto International Film Festival Group, the event was hosted by Sylvie Moreau and, (yes!) Dave Foley, who were actually excellent hosts that seemed to have a good understanding of the......

Well, the festival is basically over so the award recipients have been announced. We can’t say we agree with many of them (perhaps just because we haven’t managed to see all of the films that have won awards) but we do at least agree with a couple of them. Better than nothing! Swarovski Cultural Innovation Award: selected by “an international industry jury of major visual artists” from the Visions programme, the award went to Takva......

And so yet another day passes without incident, because we didn’t go to any parties or anything! We think, um, there was a Latin America party (or something) but we didn’t go. There was also, apparently, the OMDC Sales Cocktail Party, presented by the Ontario Media Development Corporation. We had to miss that, though, as we’d booked some time in the video library. Ah well! Not much in the way of star spotting today then,......

Special Presentations 10:30am - The Last King of Scotland (Paramount 2) - See our day 4 round-up. 6:00pm – The Fountain (Visa Screening Room (Elgin)) Contemporary World Cinema 11:45am Offside (Paramount 1) Real to Reel 12:00pm – The Killer Within (ROM Theatre) Dialogues 2:30pm – La Haine (Al Green Theatre) Midnight Madness 4:45pm – Black Sheep (Paramount 1) Gala 6:30pm - Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing (Roy Thompson Hall) Mavericks 8:30pm – Vanguard Cinema:......

A sparse and lonely film, Sur La Trace D’Igor Rizzi concerns Jean-Marc Thomas, played by Laurent Lucas. A former European soccer player, he now, in an attempt to be closest to the spirit of his dead lover, wanders the streets of her hometown, the perpetually snowy Montreal. Of course, no longer a famous soccer player, not only has his physique gone but so has his cash, and he resorts to petty crime to pay the......