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Thursday, September 7
THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY (Ken Loach) Palme d’Or winner at the Cannes Film Festival, The Wind is the British director’s take on the Irish Troubles, featuring rising star Cillian Murphy . (6 pm, Ryerson)
Friday, September
VOLVER (Pedro Almodóvar) The film many people thought should’ve won the Palme d’Or at Cannes had to settle for best director and a collective best actress prize. (9:30 pm, Roy Thomson Hall)
Saturday, September 9
EMPz 4 LIFE (Allan King) A striking portrait of life in black Scarborough through the eyes of an activist involved with at-risk youth. (11:45 am, Varsity 8)
Sunday, September 10
RADIANT CITY (Gary Burns, Jim Brown) A return to form for Calgary auteur Burns (The Suburbanators), this is a strong documentary on suburban growth and its impact on families. 2:15 pm, Isabel Bader Theatre)
Monday, September 11
SLEEPING DOGS LIE (Bobcat Goldthwait) This comic look at the danger of being completely honest with the person you love has heroine Amy ( Melinda Page Hamilton ) reveal her darkest sexual secret to her fiancé. Very funny. (9:45 pm, Paramount 2)
Tuesday, September 12
INDIGENES (Rachid Bouchareb) Winner of a collective best actor prize at Cannes, Indigènes is at once a conventional war film and an examination of the debts incurred by French colonialism. (11:15 am, Paramount 4)
Wednesday, September 13
PAN’S LABYRINTH (Guillermo del Toro) The director of Mimic and Hellboy is very fond of subterranean spaces, and in Pan’s Labyrinth, the stepdaughter of a Spanish fascist finds a whole new world beneath the woods. (11:45 am, Varsity 8)
Thursday, September 14
COLOSSAL YOUTH (Pedro Costa) Some people love this portrait of an immigrant working-class neighbourhood in Lisbon. Some people think it’s two and a half hours long. Your call. (5:15 pm, Varsity 2)
Friday, September 15
SUBURBAN MAYHEM (Paul Goldman) If you like vain, possibly incestuous, definitely criminal bad girls who carry through on their attitude, Suburban Mayhem is the picture for you. (11:45 am, Varsity 6)
Saturday, September 16
ELECTION & ELECTION 2 (Johnnie To) Enough of the cinematic art. This is a double bill of intense Hong Kong crime drama to end the festival. (3:45 pm, Varsity 2)
