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Now in its 7th year, the ImagineNative Film and Media Arts Festival opens tonight at the Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor W.) with the international premiere of the Kanakan Balintagos drama, Tuli. “The directors show a solid command of composition, lighting and pace”, commented Andrew Dowler in his review in last week’s NOW magazine.

You'd have to be a curmudgeon not to like the Bicycles. It's hard to hate a band that opens a show with painted cardboard standups of various band members, sing Archies/Monkees inspired songs about girls from Montreal and visits to Australia, and fill their shows with handclaps, tambourines and harmonies that come straight from a 1970s bubblegum pop record.

The Last Mogul, the story of MGM's Lew Wasserman, or He Who Never Wrote Anything Down, opens today, and though the previews for this movie are absolutely horrendous (boring talking heads, worse music), we're inclined to say that we won't mind if it's a bit dry. Toast is a bit dry, and we eat it on a regular basis. But movie mogul machinations are something that we don't get to eat for breakfast every day.

The Al Green Theatre, a nice film space located in the Miles Nadal JCC (at Bloor and Spadina) will soon see greater usage as regular theatre. It's now going to be operated by Capri Releasing (or Capri Films), who say they will "program first-run, specialized films from leading distributors, and will also present special cinema programs with leading filmmakers and panels that feature experts on a wide range of cinematic subjects." The whole thing will see its launch with a week of free movies commencing July 8th with Canada-Israel-Germany co-production Metallic Blues. Why do we always refer to films as co-productions and not merely films? TOist cannot tell you, but free co-production movies are better than unfree co-production movies. This much we know.

Tired of the New Sins, and all that other hard to read PoMo Contact stuff? Then check out Yuri Dojc's simple and compelling portraits of Jewish War Vets. Portraits of Bravery opens tonight at the Miles Nadal JCC, where some of the soldiers will be on hand. They range in age from 70 to 100. Which explains why things start at 6. Dojc, who is a commercial photographer by day, began the project when he started hanging out at the Wingate branch of the Canadian Legion. Looks like he made some good friends.