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Nov. 16 - Nov. 23, 2003 |
Outtakes
Central Asia visits Toronto
By Angela Baldassarre
Originally Published: 2003-11-09
If you're a patron of to the Toronto International Film Festival, or have attended any film festival around the world lately, you're aware that the most prolific and interesting cinema is coming from southeast Asia (Hong Kong, Taiwan, China). But what of Central Asia, countries like Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan? Even though little is seen in the west from these remote countries, there's little question that some of the movies coming from there are worthy of international recognition.
In an effort to introduce Toronto audiences to these films, Cinematheque Ontario is presenting Films From Along the Silk Road: Central Asian Cinema, from November 7 to December 6,
Among the movies featured is Darezhan Omirbaev's Kairat (Nov. 7), about a young man who experiences life to the fullest through simple occurrences; Ardak Amirkulov's The Fall of Otrar (Nov. 9), about Genghis Khan's destruction of the Otrar civilization; Aktan Abdikalikov's The Adopted Son (Nov. 11), about a young boy who grows up in a family that is not his own; and Nobi Ganiev's 1945 Takhir and Zukhra (Nov. 25), about childhood sweethearts torn apart when one of them is banished from the kingdom.
All screenings take place at AGO's Jackman Hall, 317 Dundas St. W. For more information call 416.968.FILM.
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I know, I know. Sketch comedy is all so 80s, but The Movie Network's new series Sketch Pad 2 proves that when the troupes are talented, there's nothing funnier. In the 30-minute screener I watched, I laughed so much that my husband had to come down to the den to see if I was taking drugs. Not for the kids, the routines featured are raw, original, outrageous and hilarious. Don't miss it. November 8 at 8 p.m.
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The second installment of the documentary series Doc Soup presents Carma Hinton, Geremie R. Barmé and Richard Gordon's Morning Sun at 7:00 p.m., November 12 at the Bloor Cinema (506 Bloor Street West). This involving and exceptional feature probes into the psychological history of Mao Zedong's cultural revolution (1964-76) featuring original footage, first-hand accounts and interviews with Wang Guangmei, the widow of China's President, and main target of the revolution, and former Red Guard, Song Binbin, who was a high school student at the time of the revolution.
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