Though there are only three new films on release this week, it would be unfair to bemoan the shortage when one film, Persepolis, is of a high enough quality that it might as well be the only film released. During TIFF 2007 Christopher Bird handed it a 5/5 and called it "a masterwork in every way that matters." Much like in our praise of There Will Be Blood, we do have to hesitate with......

The Toronto International Film Festival have announced 73 films today, which is, er, a lot. Too many for us to even pretend to give them even coverage, so as usual we’re just going to pick and choose from today’s announcements, which are made of films from international filmmakers, and tell you about the ones that interest us personally. Gala Presentations gains Blood Brothers, the debut of director Alexi Tan. Produced by John Woo, it’s......

This weekend the Toronto Reference Library opens a graphic novel show with works by "leading graphic novelists such as Seth, Chester Brown, Art Spiegelman, Chris Ware, Julie Doucet, Marjane Satrapi, R. Crumb and many more." It'll be up at the TD Gallery Space until March 20, but there will be intermittent gallery talks as well, including a free one in February with Chester Brown, creator of the brilliant (and brilliantly stolen from TOist by an......